I'm so old I remember... (license, penny, name, girls)

[Nomadicus]

I'm so old I remember my dad's Chevy with a hand throttle so you could take your foot off the gas and rest it. And if you only turned the ignition switch a certain way you didn't need a car key to drive it. Unless it was raining no one bothered to lock or roll up their windows. Now reason to back then.

[Lindsey_Mcfarren]

In light of the Natasha Richardson tragedy, I remember when we went skiing, no one wore a helmet. In fact I haven't been skiing since I was 19, I am now 42, I have never seen anyone in a ski helmet. It certainly makes sense, you go alot faster and are in more danger then on a bicycle and they wear them on bikes as well. In fact I have never even worn a helmet on a bike either.

I remember spring skiing in short sleeves in Colorado with my school, we drove straight through, all sleeping on the floor and spread out on the seats of the various vans that the school took to transport us to Purgatory, yes, you heard me Purgatory. I always got a kick out of that one when people would ask me where I had been. I had friends who

[East Coast Wanderer]

I'm so old I forgot what I spent all day remembering so I could post it.

[Nomadicus]

I remember seeing the top half of Elvis on the Ed Sullivan Show.

[ptsum]

Originally Posted by Nomadicus

I remember seeing the top half of Elvis on the Ed Sullivan Show.

On a black-and-white TV....

[East Coast Wanderer]

I remember my uncle's '49 Hudson with a starter button.

[Nomadicus]

I remember the head on collision we had in my dad's 49 Ford. No none hurt with a metal dash board.

[wit-nit]

I remember Al Jolson singing "Mammy"...

[Nomadicus]

I remember my grandpa plowing with his mule whose corn I swiped and planted in my grandma's flowerbeds. She always could figure out who did it.

[Aylalou]

I remember grocers adding the tab with a pencil on the brown bag they were going to fill the groceries with.