You know you're getting old when...

[RichPB (richlife)]

The fact you know who Dick Clark is, is also a clue!

That one is easy. How about remembering a shy little kid just standing and staring into the camera after performing with his brothers -- not the same Michael Jackson the world came to know in later years!

 

[Mike - LA]

Also it was called Ben Franklin Five and Dime.

The Coke machines opened from the top like a chest and you put in your coin and then slid the bottle out of the tracks to a open gate and took the Coke out the top. Small 6 or 8 oz bottles .
It was sort of a Maze track to get the bottle out .

Sam Walton began his business as a Ben Franklin store before becoming Walmart. If you’ve never visited the Crystal Bridges Art Center it’s worth the trip, just saying.

 

[LMichaels]

 

[Joan]

Here's one for any age.
Two birds are sitting on a perch.
One bird says to the other, do you smell something?
The other bird says, I smell fish.

 

[LMichaels]

Here's one for any age.
Two birds are sitting on a perch.
One bird says to the other, do you smell something?
The other bird says, I smell fish.

I guess I am too old to get it

 

[JimK]

I guess I am too old to get it

"Sitting on a PERCH".

 

[LMichaels]

"Sitting on a PERCH".

Oh ok. Sorry didn't trip my trigger

 

[JimK]

Oh ok. Sorry didn't trip my trigger

I have to admit, it took me a minute (or two).

 

[Joan]

Thanks Jim!

 

[Timothy F. Lewis]

My dad told me that when I caught my first one! (Perch, that is)
I might have been 7-8 it was bad then, time has not helped the joke! Equal groan today!

 

[Joan]

Sorry Tim, first time for me. I thought it was funny. Sorry!

 

[Rich Dahl]

You know you're getting old when your eldest daughter will be retiring in less than a year.

Yep, and even when your oldest daughter retired 3 years ago...Yikes!

 

[Joan]

How to tell you're really old according to little kids:

Old people have melty faces, so they just pretty much stay home with their dogs. Sydney E, age 5

Old people are crabby, and snore when they sleep. Some old ladies just wear pajamas all day. But old grampas have to wear underwear and stay in the bedroom - they're not allowed in the living room - Jennifer, age 3

Did you know that old people can get even older than dogs and cats? That's probably why they scream when they look in the mirror - Lynn, age 4

I only know a little bit about old people. I know they have a yard sale and sell all their stuff, and then a dump truck comes and puts them in it and takes them to heaven. And that's it - Delaney W, age 3

Some old people go to heaven. All the other ones go to Canada - Matthew, age 4

Really old people look tired and like to visit graveyards. But they have to be careful because if they fall asleep there, they will get dead too - Michelle, age 5

Old people get bent, and then they die - Matt, age 4

All I know is old people get mad at you if you bite them - Mikey, age 3

Grown ups are old. So are mothers. They usually eat just dinner - and nothing else. They laugh and pretend they are funny like me, but they're not. To have fun they go play with their old people friends - like dinosaurs Sophia M, age 3

 

[LMichaels]

 

[BFletcher]

I had more than my fair share of these...

 

[Ed P]

I had more than my fair share of these...

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Me, too. That was quite the modern invention back in the day, long before microwave ovens came along. Both my parents worked so we always had a few of those in the freezer.

 

[John K BBQ]

I had more than my fair share of these...

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TV Dinners!!! So good ZZ Top made a song about them!!

 

[AndyK]

That was the Salisbury steak one too, much better than the turkey imo.

 

[Darren Lebner]

 

[LMichaels]

Yesterday had to get my scrips at Costco. Daughter asked me to get diapers for the middle kid. I got lots of funny looks due to that big box of diapers in my cart.