How To Tell If You Are Young Or Old?

[pantannojack]

As far as mental acuity, and phys ed: 70 is the new 17.

 

[oldbrownhat]

I believe the only difference between the ages is the music they listen to.

Oh oh.... I listen mostly to classical, including "early" stuff going back into the Renaissance and late medieval
Does this make me "timeless"... or just seriously out of touch?

 

[dave1918a2]

My test has always been whether you remember the machine at the drug store for testing your TV tubes.

Yup. They were something like the spark plug cleaners at the auto parts store. Western Auto if memory serves Me.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Whe you poop yer pants and some nice lady cleans you up, says that it's OK and gives you a juice box and a hug..yer young.
When you poop yer pants and you hear two guys outside agruing about whose turn it is to clean you up....yer old

 

[Baggy Wrinkle]

The local ski area says I am old when they give me the "super senior" discount on my season pass. But, I don't feel so old when a 45-year old skier won't follow me down a black diamond run. So there!

 

[jem102]

I am pretty fit for 72 but I noticed a few years ago my doctors, their nurses and various store clerks started calling mister. At first i thought it was because they considered me distinguished and learned...I have since considered it their way of getting an old mans attention and making sure I hear them...

 

[RobertJ.]

You might be old if...

You can wake up injured...

Your doctor looks like Doogie Howser...

You see a good lookin' gal with gray hair, and realize you're old enough to be her dad!

 

[Grayfox]

You're old when lovely young ladies start calling you "Sir."
I'll never forget the first time that happened to me. I had a nice conversation with a lovely 30-ish lady. When it was over she said "Have a nice day, SIR!" Damn! That hurt!

 

[fiasconva]

Remember when you'd hear an old guy say, "I've got shoes older than you." Well, guess what?

 

[ACORN]

The other day at work (auto parts store) I'm in the back room when 2 of the guys up front start calling my name.
I go up front to find a customer holding a part and the 2 younger than me guys asking "what is it".
I glance down and say "It looks the a choke pull off".
The guys said they ever had a car with a carburetor.
Carbs were on the way out in the mid 80s so…….I guess I am a fossil.

 

[kraynky]

Old is when you drop something, and then study it for a minute to decide if you really need it to get through the rest of your day.

Here lately I just grunt and mourn the loss.........

 

[venomballistics]

My test has always been whether you remember the machine at the drug store for testing your TV tubes.

I have a very vague recollection of the device.
I recently found a few in an abandoned storage unit that I intend to modify for testing guitar amp tubes. I teeter on the edge of being an artifact.

 

[oldbrownhat]

Whe you poop yer pants and some nice lady cleans you up, says that it's OK and gives you a juice box and a hug..yer young.
When you poop yer pants and you hear two guys outside agruing about whose turn it is to clean you up....yer old

That's REALLY comforting, Caj "Thanks for sharing."
Not speaking from personal experience, I hope.

 

[Rustyt1953]

"How To Tell If You Are Young Or Old?"


Ask a middle schooler.

 

[chuckie]

You know you're old when you keep one of those "grabber" devices in every room.

 

[oldbrownhat]

..Carbs were on the way out in the mid 80s so…….I guess I am a fossil.

Lucky for all involved, I'd say. Did you go out to see the "fossil" the part came from?

I'm trying to remember which car we had with a manual choke. It might have been a Nash Metropolitan.

 

[Model52guy]

If you can shake exactly 7 pills out if a prescription container. You are old.

 

[rolomac]

When a young person drops something, they bend over and pick it up. When an older person drops something, they stare at it for a few moments and think, "Am I going to be needing that again?"

 

[moosedog]

If your doctors are old, then you are young. If all your doctors appear young, then you are now old.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

This year being the 125th Anniversary of the Spanish-American War, I marched in a couple of parades in my SA War impression. At one a spectator said to me:
"Thank you for your servive young man."
To which I replied:
"Thank you for calling me young when my war was 125 years ago."

 

[NFrameFred]

My test has always been whether you remember the machine at the drug store for testing your TV tubes.

Shucks . . . I remember when you went to the local fixit shop and had your set repaired instead of dumping it in a landfill and buying a new one . . . .

 

[Golddollar]

Remember when you'd hear an old guy say, "I've got shoes older than you."

I'd rather hear that than, "I've got underwear older than you."

 

[Golddollar]

When a young lady carried my range bag from my car to the range line at the last Harrisburg match.

 

[ACORN]

Lucky for all involved, I'd say. Did you go out to see the "fossil" the part came from?

I'm trying to remember which car we had with a manual choke. It might have been a Nash Metropolitan.

A funny story. A customer of mine told me he had an old friend whose wife had a Metropolitan when they met while she was in college.
His friend had bought a Metropolitan and had it restored to what his then girlfriends Metro looked.
My friend and his wife were invited to come to dinner with them and then to their house for the husband to surprise the wife with the car.
They went to the house, the husband opened the garage door.
The wife exclaimed "Oh, a Metropolitan! I had one in college. I hated that $&!@ car ".
So much for the surprise.

 

[SMSgt]

Well, Hip Hop is Oldies now....so there's that.

Robert

Nope, same old garbage it's always been.

You're old when someone says, "Okay, boomer."

 

[Goldstar225]

For me. The day I realized that the PARENTS of several officers on my shift had not yet been born when I first went into the military.

 

[meaneyedcatz]

Why is it we are still in our 30's or 40's in our mind but our body says "wish I could still do that".

 

[meaneyedcatz]

So a group of us at work met up at the electric go cart track in town. These things are fast at about 45mph with straights and hairpin turns.
Now I'm in my 60's with gray hair and knees that act weird nowadays. All these kids thought I was going to drive slow with my turn signal on and the seat belt bouncing off the pavement.
There were about ten of us. We had a practice race, two qualifying races and the final.
I came in third on the practice and qualifiers. The only reason I was fifth on the final is a youngster rear ended me.
They had a new respect for me on Monday morning.
OLD GUYS RULE

 

[Rustyt1953]

My bona fides.

 

[jeffrefrig]

If you can shake exactly 7 pills out if a prescription container. You are old.

Sometimes, my hands are shaking so bad the pills just jump out of the bottle by themselves.