You Know You Are Old When

[Sigarms]

You would think newspapers would want to broaden readership.

My father got me into reading the newspaper when I was young. Dang habit I could never kick no matter where I was living at when I was single and moving around.

Tried multiple subscriptions delivered to my house here in NC over the last 20 years, never got the paper on a set time EVER, and some days, never delivered. I finally gave up (after the 3rd time!). My wife thinks I'm stupid for paying $3 for a small newspaper as the gas station to read when I can get the news on my phone.

What I need to find is a paid online for free daily up to date comics
Winston Salem in a county population of 300K (next county over from me), and their newspaper is dying. I raved about the San Francisco paper when I picked a couple up last year in California, but they have a much broader base.

Point being, most newspapers know that the money isn't in ink and paper, but online. Smaller newspapers are just dying quicker than the larger ones IMO.

 

[ultrarunner]

My father got me into reading the newspaper when I was young. Dang habit I could never kick no matter where I was living at when I was single and moving around.

Tried multiple subscriptions delivered to my house here in NC over the last 20 years, never got the paper on a set time EVER, and some days, never delivered. I finally gave up (after the 3rd time!). My wife thinks I'm stupid for paying $3 for a small newspaper as the gas station to read when I can get the news on my phone.

What I need to find is a paid online for free daily up to date comics
Winston Salem in a county population of 300K (next county over from me), and their newspaper is dying. I raved about the San Francisco paper when I picked a couple up last year in California, but they have a much broader base.

Point being, most newspapers know that the money isn't in ink and paper, but online. Smaller newspapers are just dying quicker than the larger ones IMO.

$90 for the SF Chronicle…

Mom enjoyed it so I kept it but I think I’m the lady in the area and it’s always wet
if it rains…

 

[Sigarms]

$90 for the SF Chronicle…

$90 a year for a daily subscription or is that monthly??

Side note, not certain if this is only online or actually in the paper.

If in the paper, it's a pretty good price IMO.

You know you're getting old when you're comparing the obituary rates

I think local in my area is was starting off around $5 a word...

 

[Sigarms]

One of my better friends was hiking this past Saturday with some other guys. Had a couple EMT's in the group hiking. Remote area.

Guy with them collapsed. My friend was talking to him when he was on the ground. Guy passed out and they started working on him with CPR and apparently were in the worst area they could be from the trail head with cell phones. Guy passed away there on the ground. Guy was 48 years old and per my friend, in pretty good shape, wife and family.

Reality is none of us is promised tomorrow. I remember when I was in my early 20's living life like I knew I wouldn't live past 30. Those days have changed.

 

[CalG]

When you look at your hands, and say to yourself...

these are old man's hands.

 

[BravoXray]

$90 for the SF Chronicle…

Our local paper, published five days a week, no Tuesday or Sunday paper, is over $100 for six months. It's usually only 12 to 20 pages, four of which are usually dedicated to sports, depends on how many legal notices there are. I read most of the articles, especially city and county council meeting reports, police reports (amazing how many DUI and drug arrests there are), some national and international news, obits, and of course the comics and the daily crossword puzzle. I work the puzzle every morning during breakfast.
Plus, I get a daily digest of the top stories via email, and can view current and past issues online, included in the subscription price.

 

[logcabin]

Christmas was great but I got yet another reminder that I’m getting old.

We had a bunch of younger nieces and nephews over Christmas Eve. I had Dean Martin and Bing Crosby Christmas songs going as background music.

My 18 year old niece asked “who is singing”?

I said “Bing Crosby, maybe the best singer ever”. She looks at me and says “who is that”.

OMG in their language.

After much discussion and and a brief survey, turns out NONE of the kids 18 or under had any clue whatsoever about Bing Crosby, Dean Martin or Frank Sinatra. Not a clue.

I am getting old!!!

Well, we all are i guess. I am from Pittsburg NH and was in Montana recently seeing my daughter. While at the grocery store a total stranger, older gentleman, came up to me and said, totally out of the blue, "you know how I know I am getting old"? How is that I asked this man. He said, "after I go pee I forget to zip up my fly". I chuckled a bit, somewhere I had heard that and there was a second part to it which he didn't come back with. So I said to him, repeating what he just said, you know how I know I am getting old too? How is that he asked? When I go pee and after I am done I realized I forgot to unzip! That man laughed so hard, his false teeth came flying out and into an open cooler. OMG, now that made me laugh. I got down to the floor laughing so hard, I still see his teeth flying into the cooler. 100 percent true, I swear to god! You just can't make this up.

 

[MossRoad]

What I have seen is a one line obit in the newspaper with the name of the funeral home and the obit the home publishes. That one is free. The newspaper obviously won't publish a link so the reader has to type in the name of the funeral home on their own.

You would think newspapers would want to broaden readership.

I started working at a newspaper in 1987. Obits weren't free then at our paper. What was free was a Death Notice. Pretty much just name, city, date of death, and services pending.

 

[WinterDeere]

The thing I can't figure out are obits. You get multiple marriages on both sides, kids from multiple fathers, overlapping siblings and multiple grandparents. The obit is usually poorly written so it's difficult to figure out where everyone belongs.

Plus, people are no longer husbands and wives but life partners and other things that are too much for an obit.

Growing up, I was friends and classmates with four girls from two families, who's parents both got divorced, and then later separately each married each other. In other words, father 1 and mother 1 divorced, and then later married mother 2 and father 2. Then each new couple had more kids.

Those of us friends with this huge double-Brady Bunch mess of a family used to kid around about the double crossings and intersections in that family tree, some family genealogist 200 years from now is going to be very confused... and the obituaries probably won't help them at all.

The good thing was, as far as I can remember, they all got along. I think there must have been a total 8 or 9 siblings or half siblings in total, I only really knew the four oldest well.

 

[WinterDeere]

Been years since I've seen an obituary in a newspaper, I thought they were all posted direct to web from the funeral homes, now?

Come to think of it, I don't think I've even touched a newspaper in more than 20 years, or maybe longer. And I used to be a paper boy!