Share with us a personal "I'm so old" story.

Just about - seeing a few "Teddy Boys". (So my Mum said they were, though I was too young to understand!)

In that same era: seeing the Bill & Ben The Flowerpot Men, and Andy Pandy
, puppet shows for young children, on a friend's television-set..... while....

...... Our family not having a telvision, Listen With Mother on the wireless. It was some decades before I learnt firstly the theme-tune was from Gabriel Faure's Dolly Suite, and later that the "Dolly" here was the pet-name of a real woman in the composer's life.


Advance a few years....

- Also on the wireless: the Today current-affairs programme (presented by Jack de Manio), Down Your Way (an engaging round-Britain travelogue), The Archers (still running and now the world's oldest drama serial). Also Dad's Saturday-evening ritual of comparing his "Littlewoods" football-betting coupons with the results read in a special programme whose litany was nearly as poetic as The Shipping Forecast.


The introduction of ball-point pens, the original Biro indeed, by its make. That when I was in Primary School where our despairing teacher told us they would spoil our hand-writing he was trying to teach us, and called them "pig's grease". I was perfectly capable of spoiling my own hand-writing, irrespective of writing-instrument.



Using logarithms and the related slide-rule as multiplication and power calculation tools - before electronc calculators arrived in my last years or so at school. I still can use them.

Steam locomotives in regular use on the railways. (This ended in 1968.)

The Beatles bursting onto the pop-music scene and becoming the world's most famous and original pop band. They even played their own instruments - a band, not merely a singing troupe miming to synthetic back-tracks.

It being common for adults and children alike, to make or repair things like clothes, furniture, cycles and toys.

The introduction of the Transistor Radio. The previous portable wireless receivers used valves and bulky batteries.

The first "Computer Games" - bouncing a virtual ball around the TV screen, which acted as the display for the game unit itself, plugged into the aeriel socket.

I'm so old I remember our "outhouse" needed to be emptied of "nightsoil" 💩 weekly by a manual labourer 🫣

I remember the time when TV in Australia still lay in the future - and I listened to "serials" on the "wireless".

I’m so old I wore polyester pantsuits with MaryJane shoes to school.

I’m so old I walked myself to/from school in kindergarten

I’m so old that they didn’t even give out birth certificates where I was born! I didn’t get a birth certificate until I was in my mid twenties

I'm so old I remember my father eating tripe and having dripping on toast. 🤢

I remember a travelling carnival/side show that used to come to town every two years or so and set up in the mall parking lot. Amusement rides, a haunted house, and a "gorilla woman".

Used to be a small circus that would come every two or three years, set up a tent, have all the traditional acts plus elephant rides.

I'm so old I remember when alcohol could not be served in convenience stores on a Sunday (the off licence section had to be roped off).

I'm so old that calculators were banned in schools. And blue laws. And credit cards were run on a sliding device and account numbers were verified through a booklet.

I'm so old I remember when stores were closed in Sundays

I'm so old I remember I was always waist deep in snow during winter and snow shoveling was an actual job

I'm this old:

I'm so old that I can remember wearing woolen swimming trunks which sagged as soon as they hit the water. Awkward even for a 4yo. 🫣

This is one my youngest daughter didnt even know existed I was taught how to use a slide rule in physics class !

I am so old I remember the start of both Doctor Who and Coronation Street. IN BRITAIN. (In fact an early Dr Who episode was interrupted to announce JFK had been shot)😷

I'm so old when we did a report for highschool we had to go to the library and check out books

I’m so old I can’t remember what I had for breakfast

I'm so old I remember when smartphones didn't exist and I had to use dsl internet to chat on aol messenger.

I'm so old that I've bought the same album in four different formats.

I'm so old I am now routinely bringing up references that people under 30 -do not understand at all- and it keeps confusing me.

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The date on my birth certificate reads MCMLXV

Went to the prom with Abe Lincoln.

First concert was Mozart live.

I am so old my early travels plans were effected by the Suez Crisis..😷

I'm so old I remember drive in movies. Movie theaters that only had one screen. When if you were waiting for a phone call you had to stay home all day because cellphones weren't even a dream yet.

I'm so old I remember regularly taking up the slack on a music tape with a pencil after it had unwound it the tape player.

i was thinking back on my education and i realized, im so old, I pre-date Google!

I’m so old I remember when schools never planned sports or any other social events on Wednesday or Sunday, because of prayer meeting and church.

I remember dial up lol

I’m so old, I sometimes have to google what some of these TikTok challenges are.

im so old i know why its called 'dialing' a phone

I remember when America was not a joke around the world

I'm so old I remember people dying before they ever thought "I'm so old... ".

Im so old i remeber using rotary phones

I remember rotary telephones

Im so old i remember a dude driving down the street looking for little kids driving a child molester van with weird music selling ice cream

Milk man and cloth diapers

Rotary phones &
fat books.

TV station sign offs.

Full service gas stations.

Im so old that i was born in the 1900s. That one will be quite powerful once we're closing in on 2100s you see 😉

I’m so old I remember when women only had vaginas

When I could buy cigarettes for my grandmother with only a note, when there were cigarette machines at the bowling alleys by the restrooms, when old soda.machines sold 10 ounce glass bottles for a couple dimes and had a slim vertical door, or a top that opened like a cooler you had to slide the bottles through a maze of channels to pull it out.