* You can't finish a conversation, because you don't remember what you were talking about.
* Your top three favorite pasttimes involve sleep.
* Most of your sentences begin with, "When I was your age..."
* You often repeat things... You often repeat things...You often repeat things...
* You remember having a rotary phone.
* You remember having to get off the couch to change the TV channel.
* You actually remember Mr. Bill.
* You remember the days when "safe sex" meant "my parents are going out of town".
* You remember when there was only "G", "PG", and "R".
* Your first musical purchase was on 8-track tape.
* Your joints are more accurate than the National Weather Service.
* You feel like the morning after when you haven't been anywhere the night before.
* People call at 9 PM and ask, "Did I wake you?"
* You talk about "good grass" and you're referring to someones lawn.
* You give up all your bad habits and you still don't feel good.
How many do you remember?
 | Candy cigarettes |
| | Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside |
| | Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles |
| | Hoola hoop contests |
| | Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes |
| | Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum |
| | Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with cardboard stoppers |
| | Party lines |
| | Newsreels before the movie |
| | P. F. Flyers |
| | Butch wax |
| | Telephone numbers with a word prefix .... (Drexel-5505 |
| | Peashooters |
| | Howdy Doody |
| | 45 RPM Records |
| | Green Stamps |
| | Hi-fi's |
| | Metal ice cube trays with levers |
| | Mimeograph paper |
| | Blue flash bulbs |
| | Beanie and Cecil |
| | Roller skate keys |
| | Cork pop guns |
| | Drive ins |
| | Studebakers |
| | Wash Tub wringers |
| | The Fuller Brush man |
| | Reel-to-reel tape recorders |
| | Phonographs |
| | The "twist", "mashed potatoes", and "funky-chicken" |
| | Tinkertoys |
| | The Erector Set |
| | The Fort Apache Playset |
| | Lincoln Logs |
| | 15 cent McDonald hamburgers & 10 cent fries |
| | 5 cent packs of baseball cards..... with that slab of pink bubblegum |
| | penny candy |
| | 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline |
| | When the first man walked on the moon |
| | When Elvis Presley first appeared on the Ed Sullivan show |
| | When the Beatles arrived |
| | When the Barbie doll hit the scene |
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!! Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown up" life....I double dog dare ya!!!
