Can this be you

[Stormy]

This was sent to me as a joke, but to me and maybe a few of you, it's how we lived and it's certainly no joke!

 

Darn, I'm older than dirt!!       

Someone asked the other day,,,,,,,,,,,,,

'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up ?'      

'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,

 

I informed him, 'All the food was slow.'  

 

'C'mon, seriously.  Where did you eat?'      

'It was a place called 'at home,' I explained!

'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work,

We sat down together at the dining room table, & if I didn't like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'      

 

By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.

 

Here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it:

 

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, Never wore Levis, Never set foot on a golf course, Never traveled out of the country and Never had a credit card     .

 

My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow)  before that, I walked to and from.

 

We didn't have a television in our house until I was 10. It was, of course, black and white (and had about a 10" round screen), and the station went off the air at 11, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God. It came back on the air at about 6 a.m. And there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people     ...      

 

I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.      

 

Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk was & so was bread     .

 

All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers  --     my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. He had to get up at     5   AM    every morning, 7 days a week     .

 

Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies! There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive     .      

 

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust their gut laughing     .

 

Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it     ?

 

MEMORIES     :

 

My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old     .

 

How many do you remember     ?

Head lights dimmer switches on the floor   .     

Ignition switches on the dashboard     .     

Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards     .     

Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner   .     

Using hand signals for cars without turn signals     .     

 

Older Than Dirt Quiz     :     

Count all the ones that you remember     , NOT     the ones you were told about     !     

Ratings at the bottom     .      

 

1. Candy cigarettes     

2. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes

3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles     

4. Party lines on the telephones     

5. Newsreels before the movie

6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels!! If you had a TV!!

7. Pea-shooters     

8. Howdy Doody

9. 45 RPM records      

10. 78 rpm records     

11. Hi-fi records  33 1/3 rpm    

12. Metal ice trays with lever     

13. Blue flashbulb

14. Cork popguns

15. Studebakers

16. Wash tub wringers     

    

If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young     

If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older

If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age, & 

If you remembered 11-16     =     You're older than dirt   !!!     THAT'S ME     !!!           

 

I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life     .

 

Don't forget to pass this along     !!

 

Especially to all your really  OLD  friends 

Edited March 5, 2016 by Stormy
Grammatical corrections

[Casa]

I remember ...... 

But i'm ancient as a mummy lol

[Smiley]

I also remember console model radios which looked like either fine furniture or juke boxes depending on the style of your furniture.

Eggs and bread deliveries as well as milk in bottles.

Car starter buttons on the floor boards next to the headlight dimmer button (and sometimes under the clutch pedal)

Having to give telephone numbers to the operator who asked you very politely, "Number Please"

The pledge of alegiance before the words "under god" were added.

[Koach]

Sheesh, according to this (I got 15)

If you remembered 11-16     =     You're older than dirt   !!!     THAT'S ME     !!!

 

I am not only older than dirt but about to be taken to the funeral home lol

[TV_Tech]

I scored 100%   My grandfather would get up early and scoop the cream off the top of all the milk bottles   LOL!

[Nan]

The only thing I don't remember is Howdy Doody ... it must have been a character or "thing" specific to the USA.  

 

I still own a metal ice tray with a lever and only this morning I was looking at the test pattern on a tv (at the museum where the IT guy was setting it up with some new video footage) 

 

When we were in New Guinea our phone was not only a party line, but it was a radio phone with a little button on the handset so you could hold it in to talk, and release to listen to the person at the other end.  

[Koach]

Well, I am shocked, I thought Howdy Dooty was known throughout the world. I didn't know the US was the only place subjected to this torture:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONQ0gAE9jbY

[Smiley]

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