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You're getting older if . . .

 

 

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1. Your potted plants stay alive.

2. Fooling around in a twin-sized bed is absurd.

3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge.

4. 6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to sleep.

5. You hear your favorite song on an elevator.

6. You carry an umbrella & You watch the Weather Channel.

7. Your friends marry and divorce instead of hookup and breakup.

8. You go from 130 days of vacation time to 7.

9. Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as 'dressed up'.

10. You're the one calling the police because those darn kids next door with the loud stereo.

11. Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.

12. You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.

13. Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.

14. You feed your dog Science Diet instead of McDonald's.

15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.

16. You no longer take naps from noon to 6 PM.

17. Dinner and a movie is the whole date instead of the beginning of one.

18. MTV News is no longer your primary source for information.

19. You go to the drugstore for Ibuprofen and antacids, not condoms and   pregnancy tests.

20. A $400 bottle of wine is no longer 'pretty good stuff,'

21. You actually eat breakfast foods at breakfast time.

22. Grocery lists are longer than macaroni & cheese, diet Pepsi & Ho-Ho's.

23. "I just can't drink the way I used to" replaces "I'm never going to drink that much again".

24. Over 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work

25. You don't drink at home to save money before going to a bar.


YOU'RE NOT OLD UNLESS YOU CAN REMEMBER . . .

What you do with the pointed end of a can opener

When there was no McDonalds, Gino's or Burger King

When you dressed up to fly on an airliner

When you could watch the engines start on an airliner

When candy bars cost a nickel

When comic books cost 10 cents (Then it went up to 12 cents, then 15 cents)

When you had to get up to change the channel on the TV

When there were only 3 channels to change to, 4 if you put aluminum foil on the rabbit ears antenna, adjusted them correctly and the weather was right

When a 10" Black & White television cost over $500 and was a piece of family furniture

When whole communities were mass vaccinated against polio

Exactly where you were when you heard JFK had been shot

When the Volkswagen Beetle broke the $2000 price barrier

When John Glenn went into space the first time

When you drank milk through a Flav-R-Straw

When you did calculations with a slide rule, an adding machine, or a table of sines, cosines, and logarithms

When this year's new cars looked different from last year's

When you could identify cars by year, make, and model

When car radios were AM only and operated with tubes

When paperback books were 25 cents

When you watched "Today on the Farm" on TV before going to school.
 

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