Figured I'd post this in here so we could all get a laugh at how old were getting.
Add one to the list.


Speed dialing was forcing the rotary back?

Changing the channel required you to get off your ass and do it manually?

Game controllers only had one button on them?

You saved "Green stamps".

The days that our grandparents said stuff like 'ta', 'toodle-do', 'in their heyday', 'Groovy' e.t.c......any more anybody can think about?

It took a dime to use the public restroom?

Your choices at the gas pump were Regular or Unleaded?

When they sold cigarettes out of vending machines , usually right out front of a store or bar- didn't even have to walk all the way in .

Or when cigarettes cost $5?

Or when the military used to strike down the telephone systems in a foreign country straight off to confuse and disrupt the enemy, instead of keeping them up in order to spread mayhem via fake Twitter feeds and to flush out social networks? Err.. or maybe when gas was under $1/gallon?

when they didnt have disposable baby diapers like pampers. And to make it worse all they had was ringer washing machines, that u had to feed the clothes thru a roller to squeeze the water out of them, before u hung them out.

There was a Public Phone on every corner? And it cost a dime.....

They had TV tube testing machines at the local market
Gas was 15 cents a gallon.
Gas stations has "gas wars" giving away free stuff with a fill up
When you could buy a magnifier to attach to your TV screen to make it look bigger
When no one ever locked their doors
When it was safe for kids to play anywhere they wanted to
There were no students bringing guns to school and killing other students
When a brand new car cost $2,500
A new house cost $5,000
Poodle skirts and angora sweaters were the fashion craze
8 track tape players
45 rpm and 78 rpm records
live television shows
when all movie theaters had a double feature and cartoons before the movies
Drive in theaters
Atomic bomb drills at school (duck and cover)
The Howdy Doody Show
Clamp on roller skates
Beta max
Air was clean and sex was dirty
Love ins

when there was no liquid tide.
when a computer was not\ a household word
when just the rich had color tv

ok

the TV dinner came out?

pay phones were not only everywhere but only cost a dime

the 5 n dime stores....where you could buy a big brown bag of candy for 50 cents...esp if you bought all the candy that only cost 1 penny

pong the computer game

black and white tv...rich ppl had color tv

and late at night the tv went to static until morning.

i love lucy

jerry lewis telathons

honeymooners< br>
8 track tapes

then there came Cassette players and cassettes

then the BOOM BOX

friendship pins

leg warmers

roller disco

woodstock

to name a few lol

When you could have the kids hop in the back of a pick up truck, not worry about being pulled over, and the kids thought of it as a thrill ride:)

Life before the microwave?

The Brick cellphone?

The bag cellphone?

I still have both of mine BTW

first video game pong i have my old on from the 70s

aweeeee i miss them days! wish my kids could experience that n not have to worry about all the laws of today. ugh

good one!

ugh i remember those days...step mom made ME wash out the little bro's cloth diaperes.......i HATED that!...that is one thing I dont miss ...so glad for pampers and huggies! hahaha

a kid could ride a bicycle without looking like a transformer?

legos, GI joes stretcharmstrong, easybake oven yo yos bugsbunny and so on will be missed