You are getting old if your grandson asks if you voted for Lincoln.
You are really old if you answer “Yes.”
You are old if your first car had no air-conditioning.
You are really old if your first car started with a crank.
You are old if your childhood home had only one bathroom.
You are really old if your childhood bathroom was a small building behind the house.
You are old if, during childhood, you had no cell phone.
You are really old if you communicated with smoke signals.
You are old if your school performed “duck and cover” drills to be ready in case the enemy attacked with atomic bombs.
You are really old if your school practiced Indian raid drills.
You are old if your high school yearbook picture is in black and white.
You are really old if your high school picture is carved on a cave wall.
You are old if you paid a quarter to go to the movies.
You are really old if the movies were silent.
You are old if you remember when gas cost 50 cents a gallon.
You are really old if you bought hay for your horses instead of gasoline for a car.
You are old if you remember when teachers used the paddle.
You are really old if you were taught in a one-room schoolhouse.
You are old if you owned a hula-hoop.
You are really old if you owned a pet dinosaur.
You are old if you learned to write in cursive.
You are really old if you wrote in hieroglyphics.
You are old if you remember watching Looney Tunes.
You are really old if you remember reading “Mutt and Jeff.”
You are old if you used a slide rule in math.
You are really old if you used an abacus.
Sadly, I'm REALLY old, but it beats the alternative.
ReplyDeleteWe didn't have a pet dinosaur, but we had an outhouse!
ReplyDeleteI drove a Lincoln!
ReplyDeleteI still have my slide rule from high school, but I don't remember how to use it!
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