Funny Posts Of People Grasping The Reality That They’re Old Now
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I clearly remember television when we had only 4 channels, and when smoking was permitted in grocery stores, public transit and even movie theaters. I smoked in the classrooms in college. Yikes I'm old! I also remember when stereo was new, FM was for the wealthy, and school movies were 16mm. Or being asked, "Fill 'er up?" or "Leaded or Unleaded?" How about when buying a car, rear seatbelts were an upgrade? As well as backup lights? Or hot school lunches that cost $.35? Or even a keyboard that had a "cents" symbol? Or "Pong", which was in B&W, and didn't keep score? My favorite reflections are about respect. Do you remember when you called ALL of your parents' friends "Mr or Mrs?"
*Four* channels? We only had two, CBS and NBC. Lived in a small town.
My parents tossed us kids in the back of the station wagon - no option for seatbelts there!
Yes, you must be from my era. I remember us getting a colour tv for the first time. I also remember when Channel 4 first came out and how exciting it was to have a fourth option. It was a very different channel to the other three. There may have only been four channels, but that was quality tv most of the time in those days.
I remember that too. We had BBC1, BBC2, and ITV. was channel 4 the early 80s? Our first colour tv was about 1973 when I was 10.
Having a "party line" phone
It was better to be 20 in the 70's than 70 in the 20's.
That's where I was, and that's where I am, and I couldn't agree more!
*It's better to be 20 than 70.
FIFY.
Totally agree, the 1960s, and 1970s was much better, I had money to pay bills AND some left over to enjoy an evening out.
Minalkra That's exactly what I said!
"Without revealing your actual age, what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?" I delivered pizza for Domino's. Inside the store, we had a huge map of town that covered an entire wall. Before I left to deliver a pizza, I would find the delivery address on that map and do my best to memorize how to get there. I carried a paper map with me in the car, and if I had trouble finding the address, I would pull over and unfold the map to figure out where I had taken a wrong turn. I also carried a pocket full of quarters, and if the map was no help, I would find a pay phone and call the customer for directions.
It wasn't hard to find a pay phone. They were all over the place.
When I delivered for Pizza Hut I lived in LA. We ALL had the Thomas Guide. LA County alone was 200 pages, not that I drove that far, just one maybe 2 pages…
I remember sleeping on the little shelf by the read seat window of our car.
keeping in mind that this was the very same era in which your pizza was free if it took more than 30 minutes to deliver it.
@@MundaneGray That's only if the headset hadn't been smashed, and the phonebooth urinated in.
In my day, pay phones used dimes!!?
I’m VERY glad I can remember these things! It means that a) I’m still alive TO remember & b) my memory is still working. Many of my contemporaries aren’t so fortunate.
Hear, hear!
@Lovayn nah....not compared to say......an ancient redwood!
@Lovayn I have lived for over a half century! Looking at that way, yeah, I getting old.😆😉😇
@@christinerichardson6596 huh?
Yea!!! I’m still alive!
LMAO....yeah, I'm 60 so I remember when 'dialing a phone number' involved a physical dial when all of Los Angeles shared the same area code so you didn't need to use it....and when I was the remote for a tv with knobs to change channels and when Pong as "AMAZING!" Good times!
But when we were that young, there were only 3 channels, so channel surfing wasn’t much work.
I keep making references that are so far back in time that this 19 year old I work with says I don't speak in years, I speak in decades.
@@dwaynemontgomery2870 but you had to get up to change the channel
@@davidhutchinson7888 My wife's father used our son to change the channel. At five years old he loved it, and he worked for peanuts. Probably be child abuse today.
You're 60 but have an anime pfp? Sure...
Ah, but do you remember party lines?
Before dialing a phone, you first listened to make sure some strangers weren't already talking on your phone line.
Yup, and maybe even listen a moment if it sounded interesting...then be in big trouble.
And if they were, picking it up and checking every minute or so ... and again ... and again ... and again ... until they were finally off the line so you could use it before someone else got on. Lol
My HS girlfriend had one of those ... It was a huge pain in the @$$.....
Yes, I remember that. I used to think that kids who had phones in their rooms were so lucky because most homes had only one phone.
I remember when our phone number was two long and one short.
The radio station I listened to in the 80s as pop has changed format to oldies and is playing the same music.. (even has the same DJ)
a 'flash bulb' is always a good one to confuse the kiddies with...
I remember a time when people were civil with one another.
A time when students were expected to learn in school and teachers expected to teach.
Yeah, I remember that time also! As in fashion, it will return. Maybe even better!
It will never come back because it is America. America sucks big time.
I know one thing kids won't know about, The days when we had REAL FOOD. :-))))
@@user-ub4id6ip5m we are going through a transition right now. But don't count us out. We all go through transitions. Love $ peace, fellow human!
When you start realizing what you experienced is now in history books, you know you're on your way........out.
I watched the first astronauts walk on the moon as it was happening.
@@MundaneGray I watched them when the BBC repeated the whole several hours during the next day in primary school.
Captain Kirk flew into space today. I've been expecting this for 50 years.
😄
hey!!! we were around when Armstrong stepped on the surface of the moon and when Mt St Helens erupted...I think that is pretty cool!
Some of us were around when Yuri Gagarin went into space!
@@georgealderson4424 I was already at grammar (high) school when JFK was assassinated.
Me to0
@@georgealderson4424 Me too
@@TheAdwatson Seventh grade I believe
I watch a lot of videos about people who buy stuff at garage sales and resell it for a profit. I recently saw one of these where the guy in the video was thrilled about finding a certain "vintage" board game, and all I could think was that I bought that exact game when it was new. If stuff I had in my teens is now "vintage", I must be way older than I think!
My first bike, 3-speed with a banana seat (remember those?) cost $59., that same bike today goes for up to $5000.
@@huejanus5505 They were called 'Stingray', remember?
A few years ago a TV show was introduced as "vintage comedy", I was 5 or 6 when it was made. I was about 32 at the time and deeply offended 😋
On Etsy anything over 20 years old is considered vintage.😂
@@huejanus5505 Yep, I had a banana seat. 😂
At least we don't have to worry about dying young.
Yup, now all we can do is wish we had...
I walked into the library the other day, needing to have a page from a book copied and enlarged. When I asked the clerk if they had a Xerox, she said no. They have a copier, not a Xerox. Yes, I am that old that a copier was a Xerox.
Xerox was (I'm sure it still is) very fussy about its name being used as a noun or verb. It's supposed to be an adjective, like "Xerox copy", not "a xerox"(noun) or "Can you xerox this for me?" (verb). I remember when Xerox took out full-page magazine advertisements reminding us about that.
It's understandable, though. Under U.S. trademark law, if you don't protect your brand name, it can fall into the public domain and become a generic name and lose its legal protection as a brand name. This happened to "aspirin", "escalator", "dumpster", and many others. (Yes, "Escalator" was once a trademark of the Otis Elevator Company.)
@@Milesco like give me a "kleenex"
I'm old enough to remember when people were allowed to smoke on planes. Which was insane now that I think about it.
but remember, they use to recirculated outside air back in the day, so people didn't catch viruses and such when flying...today they recirculate the same air that hundreds of people have already breathed in and out before you boarded.
In the UK you were only allowed to smoke on the top deck of a double decker bus.It was like climbing into the clouds, toxic though.
Yes, it was crazy to think that we “smoked” on airplanes whether we wanted to or not. Shouldn’t fire, as a general rule, been disallowed.?
........enough to remember being able to buy cigarette packs from coin vending machine at the age of 12.
On an international flight for my honeymoon, the non-smoking section was the left side of the airplane!!
My husband owned that digital alarm clock from before we married. Had it throughout our 23 year marriage. When we divorced, he maintained custody.....
My grandfather was a tool and die maker.. when i was a kid he gave me a clock he had made parts for... I used to take it with me everywhere I needed an alarm clock. EVERYBODY that had to be is same room couldn't handle the Tick, tick , tick it made but they sure knew how to get up when the alarm went off .. ! i still have it .
@@csnide6702 How cool is that?!!!
The exact same "ancient artifact" clock radio in the picture is on my night stand. Same model and everything, I've had it since the 80's.
And it works just fine
@@Thomasnmi These days, that's the amazing thing...a version made only 5 years ago would probably already be broken.
I had it too, really liked it.
Ditto!
I'm 15 and it's been in my family for as long as I can remember
My husband still has that clock radio and uses it everyday to wake him up for work.
I still have a Heathkit digital alarm clock that I built in the 70s. I use it every day.
Sadly reliable. I say sadly because the noise they make gives me nightmares.
I still have one too!
Ditto
Me, too. If it ain't broke... 🙂
I really feel old when I remember that I was born in the middle of the last century.
Ouch Gary, Me too!
I really feel old when reading the obits and seeing most of the birth years are very close to mine.
I can so relate to that
Add me to that list! 1952.
@@TheAdwatson Me too
I still have the clock radio and the stereo system! I also have dishware from the 60's. They made stuff to last back then and we didn't run out to get the latest gadget. We only got new when what we had broke.
Haha. Yes. They NEED to get new stuff now because modern stuff is not made or even designed to last!
My house thermostat was made in the 40s, my kitchen timer in the 50s, some things just won't die.
I was surprised when it showed the clock radio because I didn't know it was that popular since I'm young
I wouldn't trade all of these things that I remember plus so much more of being outdoors playing with my friends, going on adventures, using our imaginations, the freedoms that we had in this era as children for a childhood today that basically seems to consist of having a cell phone
@@leia477 dear girl make friends hold them tight those are the things that matter most and that you will remember most when you become our age
@@leia477 does your mother not trust you I mean if men in general are a threat does she not trust you to recognize that and remove yourself from the problem?? You're very young worry not soon enough you'll be able to do what you want to do when you want to do it but there is care needed in navigating the world keep that in mind. There are a lot of terrible people out there but they're also a lot of wonderful, inspiring, loving people as well
@@leia477 you need to stop viewing things in that manner once you're 18 you can do what you want and trust me you have many wonderful things to look forward to period and ringing the bell and running is called ding dong ditch!! Just so you know
@@candaceking1518 lol, my mother doesn’t want me to walk around at night in my town of 1000, and I’m 48 and lived alone, not even a roommate, for 15 years.
A few years ago I had to get a loaner from the shop when my car was in for repairs. It was an older model. My son got in, pointed at the manual window crank and asked "what's that?"
And what’s really funny is that the universal signal to ask someone to roll down their window is to mimic using a hand crank
@@hippiecowgirl4231 : Or the universal symbol for "call me" -- a fist held up to one's face with thumb and pinky extended. 😁
@@Milesco Millennials probably think it's a quaint hold-over from flip phones, not a full phone receiver.
I actually LIKE manual windows and BRAKES... you KNOW the damn window would work and the brakes are easier to control on ice.
I remember when I was a kid and we got our first microwave oven. Talk about living the good life.
Yep. 650 watts. Try and find cooking directions for that on your microwave meal.
@@naesynaenae9385 😁😆👍
@@naesynaenae9385 And you had to stop cooking halfway through and manually rotate your food.
So your mom didn't believe it was a radioactive nuke that would give you brain cancer.
The Amana Microwave Oven
I remember when they used to swing a 🎳 BOWLING ball at the door!!! We were all worried about the radiation. Now we have a stupid stare ... watching the bag of popcorn exploding
I did some historical research and found that the date of Betty White's birth was closer to the Pony Express than to Internet-based email.
That's just mean, leave Ms. Betty alone.
@@d.d.g.6973 Au contraire, Betty White is fond of telling people that she's older than sliced bread. I think she'd like the comparison.
Oh shit... 😳😳😳
@@AmericanActionReport Sliced Bread was first marketed for sale in 1928, Betty White 1922. She is not lying.
Vale Betty White.
I still own (and still use) items that are certainly legacy by today's standards. My favourite item to freak out the "not so ancient" is my PIC 226 slide rule (the one I bought second-hand in 1971), which still works just fine (as it would). Most treasured mathematical tool will be by Grandfather's slide rule - War Department Issue (UK) dating back to 1912 - ivorine on boxwood, double-sided. I also have his pocket 6 inch slide rule - similar construction, no manufacturer's identification (though I think it may be an early British Thornton).
As a new engineering student in 1973 we learned the slide rule. Two years later hand held calculators were introduced and took over. I bought H-P not TI.
Wow, that rule sounds sweeet! I never learned to do more than basic multiplication/division but I still have a kid's plastic one, and a foot-long stainless steel one.
I also have three abaci, one of which I actually used regularly...until I learned Excel, that is.
@@asphodelale The nice thing about double sided is that the basic scales are matched, so you can "carry over" results from one side to the other. Makes for really fast calculation, and seeing as 14 inch rule will be accurate to around 4 sig. figures, these old tools are faster, and better than an y modern calculator. I have quite a collection, since should things get really bad, these still work!
Sounds weird but my father taught me math calculations using a framing square, the book is still available. I also have an abacus.
@@jakleo337 TI-84 here, I never quite got Reverse Polish Notation.
I'm 60 years old I could relate to everything
Not quite there were a few pics showing things that were new when I was already old.
Not yet 60 but yeah…
Could have added one other thing to the video. The old TVs that had tubes in the back and took 5 minutes to warm up. Then going outside or leaning out the window to turn the aerial antenna to focus one of the three channels available. Have mercy if there was a bad tube. LOL
I’m almost 70 and I remember all these. Had a few of them, too.
You are still a baby!
Long live Betty White.
The Breakfast Club one about the 80s being as far away now as the 40s were in the 80s literally made me weep a little. 🥲
Same. 😢
Same. And now I want to watch The Breakfast Club again!
That one got me too. What a time to be alive tho.
Yea, that one floored me…
I student taught in South Carolina in the early 80’s. My classroom opened up to the main hall with one door and to a smaller hall with the back door. The smaller hall was also the STUDENT smoking area. After lunch there was a gray haze of smoke in my classroom.
My highschool had a student smoking area, too, lol.
We had an unofficial smoking stairwell because the teachers never used it and never checked it.
80's girl, loved every one of these...lol 😂
I saw a kid being carried on their adult's shoulders today, and remembered seeing a kid being carried like it to school, every day on my way to college, then I realized he'll be 25/26 years old now.
I don't feel old enough for that to be right.
OMG I'm old. I had the tower stereo, the clock radio and also had the Commodore 64, had to connect it all through the tv and played space invaders for hours.
On channel 3! lol
Kiddo. I remember when the C64 came out. I'm hit by 1:09....
I taught class using an overhead projector, lol...
@@Carolmaizy Lol, I remember those. When I was in High School I used to help my teachers with copies.
We won the Cold War using overheads and black text on clear backgrounds:)
@@Thomasnmi LMAO!
I work overnight security at a high school and they're using large wall mounted TVs. The teachers leave them on overnight or over the weekend ALL THE TIME.
I was taught with old chalk boards and was learning Latin, no one does that anymore 😁😁
Yep. All of that and more.........holy crap, I'm old.
Amen! I'm 68 & remember the bend over desks. Got excited when the flip-tops came out
The alarm clock at 10:13...it is still on my dresser and still works great, not unlike me (I have creaks at times...usually followed by "what the heck was that?!"), but I can still rock out to ACDC..."You've been Thunder Struck"!!!!
...And then you realize it's the 'Oldies' station playing it. ;-)
At our age, we're on a Highway to Hell!
Thunderstruck was that " new" ACDC... I didn't like it - preferred the "let there be rock" era.......
It was many years before I got used to the idea that I could receive phone calls while on the internet.
You know your old when you realize that all the actors of your favorite sitcom you enjoyed growing up are deceased.
If you mean "Golden Girls," Betty White is still alive, and is almost 100. The rest of them died years ago at much younger ages.
Gilligan's Island (although Tina Louise is still alive). (But she's 87!)
And my favorite game show -- Match Game -- all dead now. :-(
(Okay, except the aforementioned Betty White, who is like the damn Energizer Bunny! [God bless her!] She'll be 100 in January 2022.)
@Dave 365.......You know YOU'RE old when.......you STILL don't know the difference between "your" and "you're"......dolt.....
@@Milesco She didn’t quite make it. About a month short.
@@samiam619 Yeah, so sad -- she died just 17 days before her 100th birthday! 😥
How old am I? I remember when koolaid had flavors like goofy grape loud mouth lime and rootin tootin raspverry
I remember those KoolAid commercials with the pitcher busting through the wall!
Just turned 70 and thought I was old. Harry, the 95 year old at the grocery says otherwise!
I can sum up my age in six words:
"Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate."
4:23 I heard my favourite music (mostly 80s) in a bus. Good times. And then the radio DJ called out the name of the station: "Oldie 95". Dang, I felt old!
6:18 "I had three TV channels to choose from." I told that to a group of kids years ago, and you could watch them look at me like I was an Alien.
9:10 Wow, I feel seen!
Can really relate to the 3 channels alien bit.
3 channels - damn RIGHT... Now tell them about the antenna rotor.......
I won’t say how old I am ... but I literally remember everything shown here ... LMAO 🤣🤣🤣
Same here.
Me too!
The one about the Saturday morning cartoons and the Sunday night Disney I remember it well and it made me a little Misty!! I loved my childhood growing up in the 70s was awesome!!
1:09. That sh*t was pure science fiction when I was growing up! Video games in your own home????? I was 17 when I saw my first "Space Invaders" game, it was in the pub down the road from my technical college/ It was black and white with coloured film stuck over it to make the characters change colour, and it was set into a table. Minds absolutely blown.....
This happened to me in a NAAFI bar while in the RAF: next year we had a console of Streetfighter (just Ken and Ryu side-scrolling ninjas and level-bosses), while the tabletop suddenly became Galaxion.
The shop off camp then got Defender, then Sinclair started the PC game craze with his ZX80.
It's all gone now: we pay Russians real money to update imaginary ships so we can fake blow ship up.
2:22 - 50's kids, too! we also had mighty mouse and rocket rabbit.
Jonny Quest!!
Loved Mighty Mouse. Every Saturday morning
4:20 I went to the Senior Rec Center yesterday. The were playing "Like a Rolling Stone" Bob Dylan singing.
I'm so old that most of this stuff still seems new to me.
👍
So much of this hurt. Oww, yeah. I'm just gonna limp away now.
Omgooodness ! Love these throwbacks. 😍😁
I still remember those water toys, I used to have one!
I'm crying ! I actually remember all these items. (I still have some , zx spectrum for example) but then at 74 l suppose l can start considering myself old.
Age is what you want when you're really young, what flies by in your twenties, what you fight when you turn forty, what you want again until you can retire, then you begin to believe you're only as old as you feel and then you realize you're feeling tired...wouldn't trade it for anything at 78 though. On that wheel of fortune thing, the numbers usually stop before my age comes up...it just says "over".
3:19 as soon as I read the caption about the scratch n sniff pickle sticker my brain instantly remembered that smell. I haven't smelled that sticker in probably 35+ years! 🤮
I still have that radio shown at 10:15. It functions mainly as a clock these days. Also, TV from the 70s? Please. I vividly remember TV from 1950 and watching silent, black and white cartoons the following year on it. You think you're old? Hah! Enjoy getting to know the idea of your own mortality, guys.
3:26 - I still own that pen, and it IS still cool. Don't care if that makes me old, lol. Always loved challenging myself to drawing and coloring with just what that single pen provided, just.. cuz. And now I must dig it out and try that once again! :D
I still buy and use the pens for business.
I had that stereo tower.
The late 1900's....I really felt that. 56 now, I have no problem with that number but I cannot longer ignore the side effects.
I remember when we were broke and sold our stereo for $400- back in the early 80's that was a ton of money!
OMG....I'm oooooold! If my bones would keep their mouth shut I actually used to feel pretty young...until I saw this video...
I took my daughter, now age 30, to nursery for her 1st day. In the room they had a computer that my peers and I had been using to help with our serious school work years previously. The children were using it to play kids games on. 👍👍👍👌👌👌😂😂😂
I was talking to my grandkids about a record player I use to have , they asked me , what is that and what does a record look like . Now that made me feel old and I'm only 59. They also didn't believe me when I said I use to buy candies for a penny. The small juice was 25 cents and a bag of potato chips was also 25 cents. They said grandma now you are crazy. LMAO
That is a little odd, considering the recent resurgance of vinyl. :-) Amusingly, they're even selling it in Walmarts again...
@@VulpisFoxfire yes they are . But my grandkids are into technology their faces on their phone, tablets and computers . They are 10 , 12, 14 , . They didn't know what it was . And they do sell it at Walmart you are right but they live in a small town in the mountains
The nearest Walmart is 2 hours away and to drive to the city is 6 hours away .
The phones and tablets and laptops they have is because it is sent to them by me or their aunts . So no they did not know what a record player was .
all too true
Remember McDonald's advertising a meal for a dollar and getting change back?
@@sirclarkmarz EXACTLY ... ! & it was a real thing --- & in our lifetimes......
This was great!!!! ❤️⭐😊
Well-played, Memes Time. Even if 5:19 hurts a LOT. 😂
In fairness, though, it's a slight exaggeration. _The Breakfast Club_ came out in 1985 -- 36 years ago. (And the 1980s was as little as 32 years ago.)
36 years before _TBC_ was 1949, not 1945. Technically the 1940s, yes, but just barely, and not 40 years, as the meme implies.
Recently a movie that I ditched school to go see had it's 25th anniversary. I have the movie on VHS, dvd, Blu-ray and digital.
I’m curious… which movie? ☺️
@@fostermomjudy6962 Yep, me too, please, what was the flick ? 😊
Please say it was Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
@@AussieBenita Twister
@@melissawalker3874 So kind of you 😊 Thank you very much 🌻
I don't think "old" people are old but "young" people are now younger than we were when we were their age.
So true.
0:42 I remember when the back of the chair in front was the desk top for me. Every time I would write on paper, the pencil would rip a hole, because of the initials carved in the desk top. Also had an ink well at the top right. Let's see someone beat that!
3:03 The hot end of a car cigarette lighter.
5:19 I was born in the 40's
6:12 There used to be only 3 TV stations 3, 6 and 10
10:18 I always wondered what happened to my clock radio.
I remember having an old desk with an inkwell at primary school. I told my mother about it and she went off on a rant about boys who would sit behind her and dip the ends of her pigtails in their inkpots.
Can't beat you on the inkwell desks, but can match you, right down to the carved-on desktop. Made of oak and cast iron. Didn't have the desktop combined into the next set, it had a flip-up top.
I love, love burning CDs. Tape cassettes before that. Physically going to rent a video, never having the one I wanted because someone got there first. Buying vinyl records, again sold out because someone got there first. It was brilliant :-)
I still have a clock radio 😂 I don't use its alarm feature but it does work still.
I don't like it that these young punks are laughing at MY generation that made it possible for them to live long enough to destroy those of us who lived.
Typical Boomer. We are supposed to be grateful that they destroyed the planet, abandoned their children and blamed us for it.
Betamax and VHS... I recorded the initial days of Dragon Ball series... Including tv commercials. Sadly, they were all lost over the years.
Good having a pencil around as a cassette tape rewinder.
I had every episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Babylon 5 on VHS. (No, not from the Columbia Video Club. I recorded them myself.) Being able to watch any episode whenever I wanted was like a super power. Then streaming happened. Those tapes are in a landfill now.
Still have my Scholastic Stuck on Stickers book, and I had the pickle too! Cassettes? VHS tapes? Throwing yourself at the radio or remote to either hit record cause "that's my song" or pause the recording cause it saved on VHS tapes (recently found a VHS with 49ers quarterback Steve Young on Arsenio Hall--if that ain't 90's...). And no pagers? We would skip school and then my friend's mom would page her (pager/ beeper...feel free to Google that one) and we'd have to dash to the nearest pay phone (not just for Dr. Who people), scrounge up change, and call before we were found out.
I had lots of VHS tapes but it was my brother who bought into the real winner, Sony BETA. That went nowhere fast. And I had a pager in '87 when my wife was pregnant with our only child. Lost the thing daily but didn't need it when the time came.
This is hilarious and depressing at the same time.
Just shows how old we all are 😕😕🤔
Be glad we got to see a funner , simpler time.
Still remember the smell of those mimeographed quizzes?
damn right .... the ditto machine !
@@csnide6702 And they smelled so good! You could get high sniffing them!
Missed the 'Sea Monkeys',and the X-Ray glasses.
Oh man! I remember so much of that stuff and I still have those Harmon Kardon speakers!
Still work good, too
The pageboy from my wedding now has three grandchildren….
That is just due to the premature babies genes in the family!
about the school desk, I actually preferred the older version, with a square bottom as my books and papers didn't slide around. This one was designed to look sleeker without being more usable.
I had ones so old they had the shelf under. No lift-top.
Same here. Then came out with the lift tops
I can remember when school desks had a circle cut into them to hold the inkwell and if you misbehaved the headmaster gave you the cane (6 of the best if you really mucked up).
that section..... my stomach dropped. feet got cold. I could hear the teacher asking me from a memory if I had my homework........
@@TheCort1971
"Umm, Ms. Johnson? My desk ate my homework...""
I remember smoking in Burger King as a teen. It had got to the point that the smoking area was by the entrance, but you could still do it. Smoking on buses had been banned, but on a double-decker if you sat upstairs towards the back and smoked no one would complain. (UK)
I remember those Mcdonalds ashtrays. Ashtrays were just everywhere in the 80's early 90's. Not the issue it is today.
Fizz Pop, But are you old enough to remember when McD served their hamburgers in Styrofoam? But I doubt anyone is old enough to remember when a McDonalds ice cream machine actually worked. LOL
@@samuelschick8813 I'm old enough to remember McDonald's Soft Sreve machines working, Because I worked in or at McDs over 19 years ago, & ours always worked, unless they were being cleaned or serviced. And I remember the Styrofoam containers. I'm probably a lot older than you.
@@jefftanner3803, 58
you use to be able to smoke in grocery stores, elevators, and doctor's offices!!
@Samuel Schick- Those containers were so convenient, one side for your burger and the other for your fries. A milkshake and hot cherry or apple pie and a good time was had by all.
Chalkboards in school were very practical. We should bring them back as eco friendly. And cigarette machines. Why not?
...do classrooms no longer have chalkboards?
And great for fingernail scratching...
@@haroldwilkes6608
I still shudder.
Because smoking STINKS!!
@@sandrafaith no, it's all computers now
Sigh. My office has decided to switch to Teams. I forking hate Teams. I am officially the angry old woman yelling about the kids these days.
What is 'Teams'?
@@jakleo337 Microsoft Teams. Annoying "integration software" which won't let me use all the keystroke shortcuts my 50-something brain & muscles know for Word, Excel, etc. It's shot my productivity to hell & screwed up my filing system.
@@aimee5259 It's a great tool for task tracking, though. I had to learn how to use it in my current job, but it's cut down tremendously on the amount of searching through e-mails I have to do in order to figure out the status of a project. I'm about to turn 62 years old. I will say, though, that for it to be this useful, my manager (who is younger than my children) had to set it up that way and show me how to use it.
I feel old whenever a kid says they were born in the year 20-- :P
I loved the one about grocery deliveries, I’ve been ordering for over a year, sometimes 2-3 times a month, in all that time I’ve had one delivery that had my whole order. It really is frustrating. I’ve been trying to order one pound of powered sugar for a couple of weeks, don’t have it yet.
I've been ordering online on and off for a long time. It can be great, because when you factor in your time, gas, wear on your car, and effort -- well, the small fee was insubstantial (especially, not having to lug dog food, kitty litter, etc.). It's so different during these times. One of the biggest problems I used to have was amusing. When you placed your order online, they wanted you to enter the number of some things and the weight for others (like produce). About ten years ago, on three separate occasions, the delivery person handed me a single banana. The third time it happened, I burst out laughing. No matter how I ordered, I was handed a lone banana. When I laughed, the man looked at the ground and cleared his throat. "You're the third person today I had to hand one banana to...."
@@julespumachu One banana, two banana, three banana, four;
Four bananas make a bunch and so do many more.... 🎵
@@Milesco 🎶 "Over hill and highway the banana buggies go
Coming on to bring you the banana splits show
Nah na nah, nah na na naahh
nah nah nah, na na na na naahhh...." 🎶
(How on Earth did that return through the mists of time and into my mind? Astonishing. I remember sitting on a carpet and eating Cheerios, one by one, from a little sandwich bag. I also remember HR Puff & Stuff -- almost, and more. Thank you for an unexpected gift. Respectfully, I believe you were not born yesterday.♡)😊
@@julespumachu LOL! Yes, I believe we are both showing our age! 😄
1:07 - still have my Atari & about 40 games. Someday I'll figure out how to connect it up to a modern tv LOL
Or just go and buy an old tv at a garage sale.
They're worth a fortune! I have offers in the mid- hundreds just for console and controllers. Don't yard sale them!
I kept the old TV to go with the old video games. Found a backup TV in a trash heap. Works perfect it's just so old it doesn't even have a remote but it has that one nipple connect in the back 🖖🎮
@@MaBerryHomestead I wasn't talking about selling them, but about finding an old TV so she can hook the games up and play them.
CZcams can help you! It did for me!
I recently said something like "at the turn of the century...I mean, 1900..." ugh.
My parents mystified the kids in their neighborhood with a Polaroid.
My best friend is one day younger than I am! When we had turned 50, she expected an over-the-hill card. She was disappointed. She asked me if I ever planned on mailing her that card. I replied, no because the minute you are over the hill then I am.
I’m so old I remember rationbooks during WW 2. Flour sugar and gasoline were in short supply since they were needed for the soldiers. You got a book of stamps to use for those items. When they were used up you had to wait for a new book. Neighbors traded with us when they needed gas. We didn’t have a car.
I remember when my mom had to stir in yellow dye to margarine to make it look somewhat butterlike. I remember that we had to have a chicken so we could have eggs. Her name was Betty.... she was named for a movie star, but her legs weren't as nice.
The 4-color pen at 3:26. I still get them all the time.
Still love them!
Nurses used to use them.."back in the day"
But back then, they were new and unique and everyone wanted one. Lol
I can just remember a time (in the early 60s) when milk & coal were delivered to your home by a horse & cart & that was in London (U.K). I liked being allowed to go & pat the horse. An old rag & bone man also came around with his horse & cart but he was the first to stop appearing.
That $hit was long gone in states by the 60s.... But we DID have home milk delivery then. My grandfather rode on a Ice delivery wagon pulled by a horse as his first job. He said WINTER was the best time to do that job because the ice didn't drip .... true.
Great collection lol
The older I get the more I understand Ebanezzer Scrooge. I remember having a phone card you load with minutes and sitting at a table in a truck stop eating lunch and waiting for my dispatcher to call the phone at the table. Or standing in the rain at a pay phone doing the same.
And no Google maps. Just a phone # for directions.
I'm turning 55 in a few days and have started referring to it as my 'pre-senior' birthday, lol.
4:29 - how about the moment when you realize that "that moment" happened 25 years ago
A few days ago, I made a remark how it was the 50th anniversary of Led Zepplin IV. One of my coworkers said they'd never heard of Led Zepplin.
I was born in 1981 and I remember all of the stuff in this video. I will let that sink in. Damn I feel old.
Don't!! My KIDS were born In the 70s!!! Lol
Rubbish. I was born in the sixties. You're a spring chicken :)
@@felicitybywater8012 Uhhh ... You're not more than that spring chicken. 1948 here ... You're both babes in arms. Lol
hey .... JFK was President when I was born.... Let that $hit sink in.........
Born 1953. I miss the sanity, getting home from school and getting out as fast as we could, everyone getting called home for family dinner and then back out asap. Standing on my bike peddles, wind blowing in my hair, feeling free as a bird, exploring everywhere, excited to find toads, frogs and turtles, getting a nickle for candy after dinner and being able to buy more candy than five dollars can buy today. Having to get a bath when I came in from playing because my feet looked like I had black shoes on, sleeping in the army tent my father set up in the backyard with my friends. So sorry kids of today, life was sweet back then. You have been robbed.
I remember carrying a blanket, a vinyl covered box crammed with about 50 45 rpm records and a portable record player so a friend and I could listen to music in a “tent” made from two plastic ponchos,two sticks, and string, in the meadow about 1/2 mile from where I lived, overnight, without adult supervision.
Have you seen a childhood toy of yours in an antique shop?
I never go into antique shops. Too much risk of exactly that kind of thing.
@@MundaneGray I sell antique toys on EBAY and most of them were what my kids played with!
Like I didn't feel old enough when i woke up. Thanks. 😂😂😂
I STILL have that clock radio.
Ditto! And it still works perfectly!!
When I was 7, my parents bought a TV. Black and white only. On the rare occasions that the station broadcast a show in the new, color format, our screen turned into snow.
My 18yo cousin was utterly gob-smacked my mum remembered the excitement of the 66 world cup, it wasn't until then that I realized that event must seem like centuries ago to him!!