You know you're old when...

[dscabra]

Originally Posted by Esteban

Congratulations! That's gotta be one of the longest marriages here.

We got married in 1975 and just celebrated 49 years together last July.

I think 3798j or 3.0L may have the longest here (not sure, though).

I just Googled it and the average length of a marriage in the US is only 8 years! My wife and I aren't as far along as some of you, but will be celebrating our 39th this year.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by ezaircon4jc

I think this may have been mentioned before, but you're old when you had a party line (we did) and an exchange, instead of 7 numbers; ours was OXbow 62842. We also had a rotary until the wasn't a surcharge for the "tone phone" (can't remember the actual term).

Our phone had a party line too and our number started with DUnkirk, though I don't remember the rest. You know you're old when you don't remember your childhood phone number.

[3798j]

...because the subject was longterm marriages...

[3.0L]

When I was a kid, we didn't have any fancy body wash. We all had to use the same bar of soap our dad washed his ass with. And if we swore, we got our mouths washed out with the same bar of soap.

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by 3.0L

When I was a kid, we didn't have any fancy body wash. We all had to use the same bar of soap our dad washed his ass with. And if we swore, we got our mouths washed out with the same bar of soap.

Ivory Soap.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

Ivory Soap.

I still use a bar of soap for my whole body. Cetaphil. Works for me.

[Esteban]

^ Do use a shampoo for my hair, though.

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by Esteban

Our phone had a party line too and our number started with DUnkirk, though I don't remember the rest. You know you're old when you don't remember your childhood phone number.

I can remember my childhood number just fine. It's my current phone number I cannot remember.

[UncleWede]

I remember my childhood number because it STILL gets me a discount at Vons, where my mom registered it. Best thing: no spamming!!!!

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

I can remember my childhood number just fine. It's my current phone number I cannot remember.

My current number is the only number I DO remember. Everybody else I know... family, friends, etc are in my contacts in my phone; like the little phonebook you used to carry around with you. Would be lost without my phone because I, literally don't know/remember anybody else's number.

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

Ivory Soap.

...because it floats!

Originally Posted by Esteban

You know you're old when you don't remember your childhood phone number.

You know you're not quite as old when you can still remember your childhood phone number and tail number on your old man's 1960's airplane but not what you ate for breakfast this morning.....

[dscabra]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

Ivory Soap.

It was Irish Spring at my house.

[Buug959]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

....I got a perfect score on this list so I guess I'm old.

Wait, there's more!

What makes me really old is the fact that both of my children got a perfect score on this list too.

All but the MySpace account like a few others. I still do a few of these: listen to CDs, send postcards, use a paper map and still use a dictionary from time to time.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

You know you're not quite as old when you can still remember your childhood phone number and tail number on your old man's 1960's airplane but not what you ate for breakfast this morning.....

Short term memory loss.

[dradernh]

Originally Posted by Esteban

We got married in 1975 and just celebrated 49 years together last July.

Congratulations! In this day and age... Ours is similar; along with our birthdays, we celebrated our 45th last week.

Originally Posted by Esteban

Our phone had a party line too and our number started with DUnkirk, though I don't remember the rest. You know you're old when you don't remember your childhood phone number.

We had party lines in the early 50s. I was just a kid, but I think they worked because people didn't use phones all that much back then. As far as long distance went, the cost was so much that we only used it when necessary. Many probably don't know, but you could listen in on the conversations other households on the party line were engaged in, and no one knew. I think it was only some of us kids who did that!

I could remember my mid-50s phone number until a few years ago. My memory is beginning to go, so when I can no longer remember the one we had in San Francisco's Inner Richmond District in 1959, BAyview-13871, I'll know it's time for Plan B.

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

Ivory Soap.

This is still the only soap I use. For some crazy reason, it still works!

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by dradernh

Congratulations! In this day and age... Ours is similar; along with our birthdays, we celebrated our 45th last week.

Thanks, and congrats to you too!

[Llarry]

It's gone now, but for many, many years I could rattle off the rifle number of my M14 rifle from Marine OCS in 1966 but couldn't do the same for the different M14 I had in 1968. I've also forgotten my Marine Corps service number. I guess I've been thoroughly de-Corpsed.

As far as childhood phone numbers, those are all long gone from my memory; we moved so often that we had many numbers.

[wizardofOz]

Sorry I'm late to the party, but you know you're old when you pluck one grey hair out and two new ones spring up (i.e me)

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by 3.0L

When I was a kid, we didn't have any fancy body wash. We all had to use the same bar of soap our dad washed his ass with. And if we swore, we got our mouths washed out with the same bar of soap.

Thanks a lot. My mom used to wash our mouths out with soap when we said something naughty. (maybe happened once or twice) It never crossed my mind where that bar of soap had been until NOW. I am officially forever damaged.

[Lady Jane]

If you held up a BIC lighter at concerts instead of an iPhone.

(I learned something new today)

[3.0L]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

Thanks a lot. My mom used to wash our mouths out with soap when we said something naughty. (maybe happened once or twice) It never crossed my mind where that bar of soap had been until NOW. I am officially forever damaged.

Life is like that 🤣.

Consider this one: Being tired of surviving in C-Rations, I bought a sandwich
from a Vietnamese just outside our camp gate. It resembled a submarine
sandwich. Decades later I was stunned to learn that the Vietnamese used
dog meat and rat meat. 🤮

[kscarrol]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

If you held up a BIC lighter at concerts instead of an iPhone.

(I learned something new today)

Nice try making the font size so small that the old folks can't read it!