Old age memories

[marval]

The prayer of senility

God grant me the Senility
to forget the people
I never liked anyway,
the good fortune
to run into the ones I do,
and the eyesight
to tell the difference.


Margaret

[oliver]

That's a great prayer for us oldies!
Thanks, Margaret.

[marval]

You are welcome Oliver, I liked it.


Margaret

[wljmrbill]

Alittle old age quiz...

Older Than Dirt Quiz :
Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about.










Ratings at the bottom.










1.. Blackjack chewing gum
2.Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
6 . Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers7. Party lineson the telephone
8 Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11.. 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 were fortunate])
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody14. 45 RPM records
15.S&H greenstamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You' re older than dirt!











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

[JHC]

Well I only remember 13, I have not heard of some of them and HiFi's never died out but you now pay thousands for a good set up

[Corno Dolce]

Whoah nally!!! I remember 16 of them.......

[Dorsetmike]

I can manage 21, but I think the 4 I miss out on are only due to living outside the US, 2,9,10 &13, we had our own green stamps so I count that one. I also recall the days of zero TV channels, then a few years with only 1, by the time colour came along we were up to 3 channels.

By the way does NTSC (American TV standard) still stand for "Never Twice the Same COlour"??

[marval]

I made 8, so I am getting older.


Margaret

[Buchpteclare]

I'm older than dirt!

[JHC]

I made 8, so I am getting older.


Margaret

Or more forgetful

[marval]

Ah yes, perhaps you are right Colin, as long as it is not both.


Margaret

[Corno Dolce]

Oh heavens to betsy and cheez and' crakuhs - Now I know the meaning of Aarp - Ol' dog that I am........

[marval]

I like this quote by Friedrich Nietzsche


The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

[teddy]

I don't have senior moments, I suffer from C.R.A.F.T. Can't Remember A Fliping Thing

teddy

[methodistgirl]

I'm getting scatter brained myself. I don't know of the times I
locked the door and left the keys hanging outside in the lock
to discover them when I go outside. I own about three pairs
of reading glasses in case I need a pair. I went to church last
wednesday and left my phone at home. I had to go to the
church office to use their phone because I forgot my cell
phone. Completely forgot that I had a doctors appointment
last monday. The bus driver knocked at my door and I was
not ready for nothing. I told him to wait until friday.
Knuckle headed stuff like that. Believe it or not AARP keeps
sending me invitations to join them because I will be fifty
in July. I feel old enough without being with people old
enough to be my parents as my peers.
judy tooley