You know you're getting old when...


 
LMichaels said:
Not that old. But, old enough to recall having 2 Holidays to celebrate ending WWII. VE day and VJ day. Now they're combined into one and I don't recall what which it is. If it's Memorial Day or Veterans Day.
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I brought my 97 year old mom to the grocery store this morning and she said “today is Pearl Harbor Day”.
Her older brother fought from D-Day through the battle of the bulge but I can’t remember him ever mentioning anything about it.

To add, my father remembered being at a New York Giants football game on December 7th when the announcement was made- still a teenager he enlisted.

He and almost all of my childhood friends dad’s were veterans.

So of course this day used to be more prominent - today not so much.
 
My dad was a Pearl Harbor Survivor, so I'll never forget. Illegal as it may be, some of his ashes were scattered from the USS Arizona Memorial by one of my nephews.
Not many of them around today but I met quite a few of his shipmates over the years. Some of the greatest men I've had the pleasure of knowing.
 
Bob Bailey said:
My dad was a Pearl Harbor Survivor, so I'll never forget. Illegal as it may be, some of his ashes were scattered from the USS Arizona Memorial by one of my nephews.
Not many of them around today but I met quite a few of his shipmates over the years. Some of the greatest men I've had the pleasure of knowing.
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Both my dad's brothers served in WWII in navy service. The oldest on a Guppy class sub and the middle one on an LST, both in the south pacific and both saw plenty of action on those islands and such. They were too young to get in at the start, but both served during the last 20 month or so of the war. My dad was classed 4f. :D No one would take him even though he tried enlisting he was rejected. Both uncles came home, but neither escaped the terror of war.
 
I thought Montgomery Wards was long gone.
There was a big one near us in Pleasant Hill that had a huge sign to had the time and temp on it.

Our town Sequim WA still has a Radio Shack and I hope it never closes its doors.
 
LMichaels said:
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So true!

Back when I was in Little League, the coach was picking up the team members in a station wagon. There were several of my teammates in the car and as I was walking out the door, my Mom yelled out for all to hear: "Did you take a big wee-wee?" I about died of embarrassment right there on the driveway. It's a running joke in our family now, asking each other before we go anywhere.
 
Chris Allingham said:
You know you're getting old when...you go to Staples to buy a new box of staples, and when you get to the register to pay you realize it will probably be the last box of staples you ever buy!

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And, just to go in the way back machine..... over the weekend, I watched someone buy a bottle of correction fluid. Okay, White-Out. Actually, he *DOES* have a good use case for it and is keeping a bottle at home and in the business (used at least quarterly.)
 
JKalchik said:
And, just to go in the way back machine..... over the weekend, I watched someone buy a bottle of correction fluid. Okay, White-Out. Actually, he *DOES* have a good use case for it and is keeping a bottle at home and in the business (used at least quarterly.)
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Remember correction tape? You had to slide a paper strip of white-out and hit the same keys as the misspelled letters.
 
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