You know you're an old fart if - - -

It smelled like turpentine... or is THAT gone now too?

 

I guess glue is in the neighborhood of the smell. It was intoxicating.

 

Xerox made them obsolete.

 

Lighter than I expected but the quality and sharpness is higher than I expected too. How did the teacher create the original for these copies? The numbers on the math test look hand written rather than a font.

 

I think that still exist. I think it is just called paint thinner. I bought a jug when I used an oil based paint once.

 

Cuffs = one less thing for the sweat shop to do. Same with the scarcity of short sleeve pull over shirts with pockets.

 

When I was young at Christmas we had these old lights that were wired in series where if one went out the entire string died. I remember having to unscrew and replace a light bulb at a time to locate the broken bulb. Also the light bulbs back then were super hot. If you touched one when it was lit you could easily burn your fingers.

 

Memories. My dad had many meltdowns playing, "which bulb is it!"

Mostly how I learned to swear.

 

That is probably why my dad made the kids do it. Child labor...

 

The term I remember is hectograph.

 

You got my on that one, never heard of hectograph. Had to look it up. Thanks, I earned something today.

 

And if you got burnt you yelled, “Ouch!” Rather than “Lawyer!”

 

Not that this has happened to me, But, .......do you all get the feeling that maybe you expel much more flatus than when you were younger?

 

Bought an antique car, my first car, a 1940 Packard. Now my daily driver is older than that antique was when I aquired it.

 

In fact, some 25 or so years ago, I visited an antique shop in Vegas, and my kids toys were for sale as antiques and collectibles. I am amazed how how old some of the "new" movies I enjoy are now over twenty years old (LOTR?)

 

I remember walking in to the country store with $10 and walking out with 3 cartons of smokes (30 packs) an RC Cola and a moon pie. Individual packs of cigarettes were 35 cents.

 

In my little home town I walked to school every day K-12. Dogs ran free.

 

Still don't lock up the cars here. door is open during the day too. Of course , being Texan, we are all armed.. "an armed society is a polite society"