Friday, July 11, 2025

You Know You're Young if....

  You Know You're Young if....

You've never made a call from a telephone booth.


You've never heard of Ed Sullivan.


You have never “smoked” a candy cigarette.


You never owned a black-and-white TV set.


You never had to get out of your chair to change TV channels.


You do not remember when girls were not allowed to wear pants to school.


You do not know the words to several Elvis Presley songs.


You never watched the “Mickey Mouse Club” and owned a pair of mouse ears.


Your dad never owned a car that had neither air conditioning nor seat belts.


You cannot remember when America's children actually did well academically in school.


You never owned a hula hoop.


You never watched “Lassie” on Sunday evenings.


Your mom never prepared TV dinners.


None of your teachers owned and occasionally used large paddles.


You don't remember seeing cigarette commercials on TV.


You never lived in a house that had no cellphones or computers.


You can work hard all day and then play most of the night.


You don't need a nap in the middle of the day.


You haven't lived through most of the events described in a history book.


You're going out more than your back does.


You do not recall a time when Interstate highways did not exist.


You don't remember when TV stations shut down broadcasting at midnight.


You do not recall when most couples kept their marriages together. (for better or worse.)


You do not remember when college was affordable.


Your dad used “a time out” instead of his belt to enforce his rules.


You were not taught to call elders “Mr., Miss, and Mrs.” ( I still do this, but there aren't many of my elders left.)


You do not use the phrase, “Back in my day.” 

3 comments:

  1. This article proves that I'm older than dirt. LOL !

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  2. My son did not know what a telephone booth was.

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  3. I did most of these things "back in my day."

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