You Know You're Getting Older When...

[Drac]

Girls could NOT wear slacks to school...

 

[Kacey]

Bell bottoms were cool

 

[Kacey]

Plaid was a high fashion statement

 

[Drac]

Plaid was a high fashion statement

Yes it was, for BOTH genders...

 

[Drac]

Remember the Neru shirt??? Really difficult to explain...

 

[bydand]

Remember the Neru shirt???

Do I really have to?

 

[Kacey]

Dogs and cats were allowed to roam free through the neighborhood, and neither were neutered.

 

[Ping898]

You could leave your kids in the car, crack a window and run into the grocery store for 20 minutes and not be arrested for child endangerment....

 

[Drac]

You could leave your house in the morning to run around the neighborhood and Mom didn't worry...

 

[Drac]

You could leave your kids in the car, crack a window and run into the grocery store for 20 minutes and not be arrested for child endangerment....

You could discipline your child in public and didn't have to worry about someone or them calling 696-KIDS....

 

[Brian R. VanCise]

You were allowed to roam around the neighborhood all morning and all day with the responsibility to make it back for lunch and dinner.

 

[Drac]

You never dreamed about talking back to a teacher or a cop...

 

[Don Roley]

Typewriters

 

[Kacey]

Manual transmission was the default, and automatics cost extra

 

[Drac]

Using clothspins and baseball cards fastened to your bike wheeles to make it sound like a motorcycle....

 

[bydand]

Using clothspins and baseball cards fastened to your bike wheeles to make it sound like a motorcycle....

I showed that to my kids and they loved it. Kind of started a mini-fad around the neighborhood last summer. Of course they turned it into a compitition to see who had the loadest "motor"

 

[Drac]

You Know You're Getting Older When...

The idea of this thread is to find something that in recalling you have to either explain to current High School Seniors what it is or means or they know what it is but have never used one - yet your generation did so almost daily..

10 CENTS for a phone call..

 

[Kacey]

Today's Dilbert cartoon:

 

[Drac]

Today's Dilbert cartoon:

:lfao: :lfao: :lfao:

 

[Brian R. VanCise]

Today's Dilbert cartoon:

Awesome! :rofl: