You Know You Are Old When

[ultrarunner]

There is always the auto club for roadside assustance.

 

[WinterDeere]

There is always the auto club for roadside assustance.

And Uber. Not exacly a difficult app to use.

 

[LouNY]

There is always the auto club for roadside assustance.

In my area that may get you a response in a few hours, if your lucky.

 

[LouNY]

And Uber. Not exacly a difficult app to use.

Something else I've never done

 

[ultrarunner]

Something else I've never done

I have not either… twice I have taken a taxi…

 

[LouNY]

I have not either… twice I have taken a taxi…

Same here twice while I was in NYC with my brother when he was going to Sloan Kettering for his cancer. We were all glad when he got shut of that place. Boston was much better for him, at least for a few years. Drive in and out the same day.

 

[WinterDeere]

Something else I've never done

I could have claimed the same, until last summer. I'm always slow to adopt new "social tech", I even held out on getting a cell phone way past any of my friends and coworkers... and then did the same when smart phones came along.

But I took the train to DC last summer for work, and while trying to get around the city, realized Uber really was the best/easiest way. It's beyond simple, easier than ordering crap off Amazon, and a driver is usually picking you up within 5 minutes. Vastly cheaper, faster, and more reliable than ordering a Taxi.

I also ended up using the Lime electric scooters a lot while there, as the house I had rented was about six or seven blocks from where I was doing business, and you'd get mighty hot and sweaty hoofing that distance in business attire in the June heat wave we were under that week. Those scooters are left parked all over the city, usually you can find one within half a block of where you're staying, if not parked right out front. Hop on, scan the ID tag with your phone, and turn the throttle! It was a real nice quick, cool and breezy way to make shorter trips around the city, when you didn't want to bother with an Uber or taxi.

 

[Alan46]

I could have claimed the same, until last summer. I'm always slow to adopt new "social tech", I even held out on getting a cell phone way past any of my friends and coworkers... and then did the same when smart phones came along.

But I took the train to DC last summer for work, and while trying to get around the city, realized Uber really was the best/easiest way. It's beyond simple, easier than ordering crap off Amazon, and a driver is usually picking you up within 5 minutes. Vastly cheaper, faster, and more reliable than ordering a Taxi.

I also ended up using the Lime electric scooters a lot while there, as the house I had rented was about six or seven blocks from where I was doing business. Those scooters are left parked all over the city, usually you can find one within half a block of where you're staying, if not parked right out front. Hop on, scan the ID tag with your phone, and turn the throttle!

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YKYO, when the last scooter you rode was a vesper!

 

[RobertEH]

I tried to fill up my truck at Costco a while back. The pump would not read my member card-it was my original card and admittedly in pretty rough shape

I called over an attendant who looked at my card and said "your card is actually older than I am by 2 years..."

 

[MossRoad]

I tried to fill up my truck at Costco a while back. The pump would not read my member card-it was my original card and admittedly in pretty rough shape

I called over an attendant who looked at my card and said "your card is actually older than I am by 2 years..."

We get that at our grocery store... the card is a paper laminated card from 1985, the year we got married.

 

[MossRoad]

We took the family to Vegas a couple years ago. The kids would order an Uber and off we'd go. Works great!

 

[Alan46]

We were told we were royalty, when we scanned our new card and it shows your picture and how long we have been a member, 35 years.

 

[scootr]

Called BofA last week to reup a CD. Lady pulled up my account and was floored that I had been a customer for 25 yrs.
My insurance office used to treat me like royalty. Had been a customer for 30 yrs and taught rodeo drill team to office manager and agents kids.
Unfortunately he passed away and now they don't know who I am

 

[ultrarunner]

Family checks say Customer since 1948 at Bank of America…

Things were quite different back then is not an understatement.

At 12 I started getting a regular pay check and would go to Bank America to cash…

The branch President Walter Kendall said any man with a paycheck is welcome to open a checking in his branch and so I did…

First time anyone called me mister and I was not even 13.

 

[Sigarms]

There is always the auto club for roadside assustance.

I brought that up to my son as well as he was leaving out the door.

Apparently the kid in question has his own home movie theater in his home just for him though

 

[MossRoad]

I've been a valued member of the National Geographic Society since 1948.... I was born in 1961 and didn't start subscribing until 1985!

What happened was when my dad got cancer in 1995, we changed his mailing address to ours so that we'd get all of his mail. Somewhere in the next year or two, they combined his account with mine, I guess because we have the same last name. Anyhow.... it's kinda funny when I get solicitations from them.

 

[MossRoad]

...Apparently the kid in question has his own home movie theater in his home just for him though

Me too... it's my iPhone when I'm sitting in the bathroom.

 

[Sigarms]

Me too... it's my iPhone when I'm sitting in the bathroom.

With my hearing aids in I also get surround sound!

 

[Sigarms]

Don't ask me why, but when it comes to Bank of America, I want nothing to do with them. Perhaps I'm just worn out on Samual Jackson or their old anti gun policies. They just seem like the epitome of "Big banking" where they don't know you as a person but only as a number.

After our old bank got bought out and was being more "corporate" (letting all the employees go to boot), we finally found a local credit union we've come to like the more we deal with them.

 

[JasperFrank]

I realized today that old is subjective and even though someone may be older, they don't have to be old.

Case in point: I was waiting to check in for my eye doctor's appointed this AM for a typical extra long appt with field of vision, glaucoma tests, etc. It was taking forever because all these old duffers in front of me were aimlessly shuffling about, had no clue where any of their paperwork was, etc. Good grief.

Now, I know "there but for the grace of God go I" and I am not disrespectful in the least. I open doors for old people, tip my hat, let them in line in front of me, etc. But when they give their DOB to check in and I find out I am OLDER than them, sometimes by a lot, it is concerning.

You've got to put some spring in your step, wake up every morning with a vision of what is to be done and how to do it. You have to hug the dog, cut and chip brush, saw stumps, change oil and clean part of the barn. Let's turn that frown upside down and get crackin' in life.

When Clint Eastwood was asked how he remained so spry and accomplished in life, even at age 94 he said he simply "didn't let the old man in". And he doesn't. If I couldn't bite, scratch and kick below the belt, he could probably even whip me in a fight.

And we've all seen Clint's current wife.....