When you forgot you already posted in this topic.

Not only do I remember the milk truck dropping off bottles of milk, but there was still an ice truck in town that would drop off ice to a neighbor who still had no electricity, used kerosene to heat with and still had an "ice box" for refrigeration. This was in the early 50s and I was around five or six. On hot days the milkman would also give kids a large piece of ice to suck on. And no, he wasn't a pervert, stalker or molester. Things were different.

What's the topic? How do I get back to the start of this thread?
(I'll know I'm old when I get some bottle cages sized for Ensure)

Hey, my last house had a milk chute built into the side by the driveway. The milkman could drop off new bottles and pick up the empties. Like a pet door, though, it represented an unlocked entryway for neighborhood kids. We had it blocked and locked.

Or you don't care.

We had one too. Sounds exactly alike.

Your birth certificate says "expired."

You know yer old when threads like this begin to be entertaining and you just have to add a post

In that vein, you know you're getting old when you can relate to many of these posts, and the more that you relate to, likely the older you are.

When you call your child three different names before you get to the correct one.

Nah, it's when "Oldies" stop being the music your parents liked, and start being the music you liked! You're really old when they become the music your kids liked!

I'm only 35 and I love my prunes and other dried fruit. When I was in the hospital I learned that my daily dried fruit consumption was huge in comparison to most people. I had to request double or triple orders of prunes everyday, and they didn`t work. I once was given a pound of dried mangos that didn't last the day. It also had no impact on me. I have created a bad addiction for when I get old.

You know you're old (or an old man in a boys body) when you're 35 and you can relate to many of the previous postings. Since High School I have ben called an old man and most of my university friends joked that I was a 70 year old in a 20 year old body.

But these threads are always so enjoyable...

-You still have a slide rule, and you still know how to use it. (In my case, yes to both)

-You remember when the so-called "concierge medical practices" of today had another name: "Family doctor". And he made house calls.

-Driving into a gas station, hearing that "Ding-Ding" bell, and being served by a smartly uniformed attendant.

-Movie theaters changing the movies on Wednesday.

-Dos commands? How about Unix commands? rm -v /home/user/desktop/filename

-Howard Johnson's. You know what it was, and why it was so great.

-"Turn on the tv and let it warm up". How much current DID those big old tv sets draw?

-You know the correct response to "Say goodnight Dick".

Etc.

You know you're getting old when
...people you have held as babies now have gray hair.

Red alert , Red alert

I can recall most all stuff I've seen posted here. Horse and wagon iceman showed up every however often to refill the icebox when I was a kid. I remember the day the first Sputnik launched. I was a junior paperboy at the time. But...the other day I found myself explaining some computer stuff to my 51 year old software developer son. I do and enjoy long, about 13K at speed miles a year vacation road trips in my GT. My long time, 31 years younger, spouse approved (platonic) girlfriend a few years ago told someone I was harmless....hard stare and she quickly and rightly corrected herself to an I know better "non-threatening". At 73, "You know you're old when..." is still a foreign concept to me. And I hope it stays that way fer a long time to come.

You can remember running out to feed a carrot to the horse pulling the sidewalk snow cleaning rig....

... when you look at a Victoria Secret catalog with regret rather than hope.

(Borrowed from P.J. O'Roarke)

I suspect that one of the reasons we can have fun with the concept of getting old, is that we're not. That makes the small reminders nature throws our way from time to time, something we can kid about rather than fret over.

VW Squareback? I learned in a Chevy sedan with a "3-on-the-tree". The first car I owned was a used station wagon made by AMC (a-m-who?)

Now that's funny.....sorta. Kinda. Crap, guess it's not funny now that I think about it.

I can post a million of these, not sure what that says about me.
You know you're old When words you would never dare say, they say frequently on television.
Oh, and apparently you can't say on BF. My apologies to anyone I offended. It was something along the lines fellow Texan Willie Nelson once said. I guess I should have used a substitute word like everyone else does or maybe asterisks.

Hi everyone! Just want to say that I'd appreciate it if you guys kept it clean in here. An offensive post was deleted and we don't want to have to come in here and go over everything. Keep in mind that while being in jest, there ARE things that may not be so humorous if people are honestly having struggles with it. So... please think of others when posting.

Thanks.

Siu

You know you are old when: The weather report predicts the coldest, windiest and overall nastiest night of the winter, and instead of getting your camping gear out, you decide to go sit back down.

You know you're getting old when:

- you hit your target heart rate just getting into your spandex
- your first 10-speed drivetrain was 2x5
- Snap, Crackle, Pop has nothing to do with your breakfast cereal