1975: Long hair
2006: Longing for hair

1975: KEG
2006: EKG

1975: Acid rock
2006: Acid reflux

1975: Moving to California because it's cool
2006: Moving to Arizona because it's warm

1975: Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
2006: Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor

1975: Seeds and stems
2006: Roughage

1975: Hoping for a BMW
2006: Hoping for a BM

1975: Going to a new hip joint
2006: Receiving a new hip joint

1975: Rolling Stones
2006: Kidney Stones

1975: Being called into the principal's office
2006: Calling the principal's office

1975: Screw the system
2006: Upgrade the system

1975: Disco
2006: Costco

1975: Parents begging you to get your hair cut
2006: Children begging you to get their heads shaved

1975: Passing the drivers' test
2006: Passing the vision test

1975: Whatever
2006: Depends


The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were
born
in1987.
They are too young to remember the first space shuttle blowing up on
liftoff.
Their lifetime has always included AIDS.
Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.
The CD was introduced the year they were born.
They have always had an answering machine.
They have always had cable.
They cannot fathom not having a remote control.
Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.
Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.
They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.
They can't imagine what hard contact lenses are.
They don't know who Mork was or where he was from.
They never heard: "Where's the Beef?", "I'd walk a mile for a Camel",
or "de plane, Boss, de plane"..
They do not care who shot J. R. And have no idea who J. R. even is.
McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers.
They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.
Do you feel old yet?

 

Hmmm....

1971: I do.
2006: She don't

 

Only after I climb out of bed.

 

I don't get invited to funerals anymore as no one I know is still living. I was born the year Hank Williams died. What do ya mean he ain't dead. I'm talking about his Dad.

 

Heck, I was the remote control before remote controls came along. I'd have to get up out of my seat, walk over to the tv, and turn the **** to change the channel.

Growing up, we had a rotary phone for a while until there was a huge power outage, and then everything got upgraded. After that, there was no power outage for 20 years, and that was because some moron drove his car into a power pole. We got the touchtone phone when we put an addition on our house, and instead of the "normal" one phone in the house, we ended up with 3, and 8 outlets.

Now, we have 3 cordless phones, and 2 corded phones in the case of a power outage. BC Hydro hasn't figured out how to prevent them where I live now. The last major one melted all the ice in our freezer, and our ice dispenser leaked for a week.

Blah blah blah, I'm starting to ramble like an old guy, but I'm only 31.

 

i remember most of that stuff too but in 75 i was only 4.what makes me feel old is the lack finding a good truck at every corner remember the days when a 1/2 ton acted like a 3/4ton and a 3/4 ton could pull/haul just as much or more than todays (gas)ton and a halfs?and when a truck actaly road/loked like a truck? chevrolet has a good add on tv that shows the old to the new made me think what happend steel and iron to plastic and tin mabe im just stuck 20 years back.gezz if gramps knew a 3/4ton truck would runya 40grand he'd roll over in his box

 

Old? I remember when gas was $ 0.17 / gallon here in Texas. $ 0.14 / gal if there was a gas war.

 

When I was a kid I worked at the local gas station. I remember this guy pulling up on a motorcycle,flipping me a quarter and saying filler up. He got change back too!

Frank

 

Leaded gasoline!

 

yeah whens the last time ya pulled into a gas station and a guy come out and asked ya how much ya need or want me to wash the windows check the oil.back then theyd ask regular or unleaded some how nowdays ive noticed its regulerunleaded hmm funny how that went.im shure if johny carson was still around he'd even coment on this one

 

He'd be too old...

 

Hey, Hank, Sr. will live forever.

Real country music died in 1962, ya know. It had been in ill health for nine years.

 

What confuses me is how on one hand moern quality of life seems to be better, and yet in mahy areas we seem increasingly incapable of affording certian things.

Examples:

In my lifetime milk was delivered to your front door step every day by the milk-man. Now trhat's service! Who could afford the price that hand-delivered-to-your door milk would be today? On the other hand, there's no question the processing of milk today results in a more uniform reliable product.

The original floor boards in my century-old house are a full one inch thick solid maple boards. The two-by-four wall studs are actually 2"x4", the main floor beams are 12"x14" hardwood and the floor joists are a full 2" x 12". Noone can afford to build like that today. And yet, there's no argument that a modern home is less drafty than these old ones were originally.

It's certain that when you go to the hospital, they have miraculous machines that will save lives that would have been lost just 50 years ago. On the other hand, just try to get a full twenty minutes of attention from your family doctor on a regular appointment like you used to - impossible. He has to scurry off to the next patient after 5 or 10 minutes to keep his revenue up or he can't afford to operate his practice.

 

I remember laughing at the Bartles & James commercials, the Blues Bros., Cadyshack; and gettin' in trouble for stayin' up late to watch Stripes-it seems that boobies are EVERYTHING at that age . didn't feel to old till yesterday my old Snap-On drill of about 20yrs. started smellin' funny-guess its gettin' tired

 

I remeber rotary dial phones, tv's with dials on them to turn the station, "rabbit ears", leaded gasoline carbureted cars and trucks(you know where if it didn't run right it was one of 2 things, vaccum leak or adjust carburetor)



Jim