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How about adding: If you prefer paying your bills with US Mail, writting checks and putting stamps on the envelope, then you are an old fart.
Or how about, If your main source of info about your far away family and friends was via letters, you're an old fart.
If you remember when you could first dial your own long distance call without asking the operator for Person to Person or Station to Station you're an OF.
If you remember when long distance was too expensive so you either made a fast call or wrote a letter.
If you remember the gas station attendant filling your tank for you, washing the windshield and offering free glasses, all that and you could buy enough gas for half a tank with $2, then you are an OF.
Last edited by augiedogie; 09-16-2012 at 05:35 AM..
If you remember no-dial phones ("What number please?" operators), party lines and rotary dial phones you might be an old fart.
If you remember Saturday matinees at the local theater with six cartoons, a serial short and a full-length movie, all for a quarter or less, you might be an old fart.
I can remember standing in line 1/4 mile back to see 20 cartoons at the local movie house a once a year happening which the theater donated to my school in exchange for nightly parking on school property. or the annual school carnival
If you remember Saturday matinees at the local theater with six cartoons, a serial short and a full-length movie, all for a quarter or less, you might be an old fart.
And a 10 cent Coke in a bottle with a 5 cent candy bar was a rare treat.
Peanuts with money in the container and buying BB's for your gun.
Yikes - bad memories My mother would give me, as a child with thick hair with lots of natural body, these dang things all the time. AND always right before the school picture so all my pics of my youth there I am with this bad hair. She gave them to herself as well and looked equally as bad.
Don't have the Right Wing qualifications that Zomblog includes.
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My mother would give me, as a child with thick hair with lots of natural body, these dang things all the time. AND always right before the school picture so all my pics of my youth there I am with this bad hair. She gave them to herself as well and looked equally as bad.
