You know you are getting old when:

[Trenchfriend]

When you finally like the warming character of white-cabbage stew in the foggy, rainy winterweather and even the smell is okay to you.

 

[2jakes]

Ah, what kids did before the Internet brought everything right to them.

Kids indeed!
Listening to the "snap,crackle & pop" on the Sky Champion,
I found myself on the Coast Guard cutter Itasca:

"KHAQQ to Itasca we are on the line 157 337 will repeat message,
we will repeat this on 6210 KCS " (Earhart)

My imagination had no limits!

 

[2jakes]

When you finally like the warming character of white-cabbage stew in the foggy, rainy winterweather and even the smell is okay to you.

Reminds me of my grandma whose roots in part can be traced to Deutschland.

 

[kaiser]

We had cabbage stew on Saturday, great stuff, my wife‘s mother makes a really mean pot of that stuff.

 

[2jakes]

This is what I remember!

Never knew it came in bottles until today.

 

[scottyrocks]

Growing up in NJ in the late '60s/'70s, I was excited when I picked up an Ohio or North Carolina station

I get an AM Philadelphia station during part of my drive to Brooklyn in the morning. I'm probably right at the edge of their range.

 

[green papaya]

when you have to tell kids to get off your lawn or stay off your property, and the same thing happens everytime, they keep coming back more just to show you, you cant tell them what to do, I stopped asking them to go away and just dont say anything now.

most people dont like being told to do anything, especially teens & twenties, they usually do the opposite to annoy you

a grown lady with her child even kept coming back and hanging out on my lawn / driveway trying to make me get into an argument, because they didnt like me telling them to stay off my property, she was probably going to tell the polce i tried to threaten them , but I just didnt say anything , and they came back at least 30 more times just to annoy me.

 

[tonyb]

When you find yourself yelling "slow down, young man!" at heavy-footed youngsters.

It was good luck as much as anything that got between me and serious injury to myself and innocent others when I was a young driver.

 

[Zombie_61]

when you have to tell kids to get off your lawn or stay off your property, and the same thing happens everytime, they keep coming back more just to show you, you cant tell them what to do, I stopped asking them to go away and just dont say anything now.

most people dont like being told to do anything, especially teens & twenties, they usually do the opposite to annoy you

a grown lady with her child even kept coming back and hanging out on my lawn / driveway trying to make me get into an argument, because they didnt like me telling them to stay off my property, she was probably going to tell the polce i tried to threaten them , but I just didnt say anything , and they came back at least 30 more times just to annoy me.

Don't say anything; just turn on the sprinklers.

 

[LizzieMaine]

When your yard is only twelve feet wide, and your street has no sidewalk, you just have to learn to live with it.

 

[tonyb]

When your yard is only twelve feet wide, and your street has no sidewalk, you just have to learn to live with it.

I've found it best to befriend the little bastards, or at least make the attempt. Having been a, um, sometimes difficult youngster myself, and therefore having some insight into the mindset, I can offer that kids who behave in antisocial ways are likely getting knocked around at home, when they aren't being neglected. They are left to think themselves unimportant at best.

As I've heard it said, the kids who need love the most ask for it in the most unlovable ways.

 

[scottyrocks]

I like the sprinkler comment.

Except in the summer. Then you'll have the whole neighborhood on your lawn.

Maybe smatterings of dog poo. That should keep them off.

 

[LizzieMaine]

My neighbors supply that. There's always a couple of canine cupcakes near the end of the driveway to capture the unwary.

 

[GHT]

My neighbors supply that. There's always a couple of canine cupcakes near the end of the driveway to capture the unwary.

In true perverse British humour, we Brits call it lucky if you inadvertently tread in doggy doos. Lucky? Hell's bells, who dreamt that one up? It gets right into the pattern on the soles of your shoes, it stinks to high heaven and it attracts some very suspicious looks. It wasn't me!
The French have a way of dealing with that.

 

[Zombie_61]

I like the sprinkler comment.

Except in the summer. Then you'll have the whole neighborhood on your lawn...

Yeah, I really didn't think that all the way through.

 

[2jakes]

The original way to 'text' in Class (1944).

 

[GHT]

Oh yes, sometimes folded up and sent via a rubber band, other times catapulted from the end of a ruler.
Is the Tic-Tac man at the race course doing some sort of text?

 

[tonyb]

You know you are getting old when you remember that this was the only way to
text.
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Is this from "The Last Picture Show"?

 

[2jakes]

Is this from "The Last Picture Show"?

LIFE Magazine
photo by Nina Leen
1944

 

[Fading Fast]

LIFE Magazine
photo by Nina Leen
1944

I assume that was a very staged picture, that or all the very good looking girls in the school had to sit in those few seats. Fun to see the saddle shoes.