Are you older than dirt?
Damn,I'm older than dirt !!
Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?'
'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up ??.
I informed him , 'All the food was slow.'
'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'
'It was a place called 'at home,' I explained.
'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table,& if I didn't like what she put on my plate,
I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'
By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.
Here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it :
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis , set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card.
My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow).
We didn't have a television in our house until I was 18. It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 11, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God. It came back on the air at about 6 a.m. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people...
I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk and bread was.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers -- my brother delivered an afternoon newspaper, six days a week. He had to get up at 6AM to deliver it on Sunday mornings.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.
If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
MEMORIES:
A man was cleaning out his mother's house and he brought his daughter an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it.. She knew immediately what it was, but her daughter didn't. Saying someone had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. But the mother knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because there were no steam irons. Man, I am old.
How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals..
Older Than Dirt Quiz :
Count all the ones that you remember ,, NOT the ones you were told about !!
Ratings at the bottom.
1. Candy cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephones
5. Newsreels before the movie
6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels ( if you were fortunate).
7. Peashooters
8. Howdy Doody
9. 45 RPM records
10.Hi-Fis
11. Metal ice trays with lever
12. Blue flashbulbs
13. Cork popguns
14. Studebakers
15. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young
If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older
If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age, &
If you remembered 11-15 = You're older than dirt !!! THAT'S ME !!!
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(I was 9) and they sold 19 cent hamburgers. Don't know what the place was called but it was on the corner of Sandy Blvd. and NE 33rd in Portland, Oregon!
Yeah, I remember all those things. I'm glad some of those things are long-gone, some others, not so much!
the maggots!
Being sort of a weird kid, I would open the cover a few times a day just to watch them.
for a while whether I would qualify as a "senior" (born in 1952), but I remember all of those things.
And the stuff above that list...all of it was true for me too, except that my parents did own their own home for a while, until I was ten.
But anyway, yeah. According to that list, I am also older than dirt.
