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

I'm so old I remember when carnivals still featured freak shows.

EDIT: I remember my parents got a "baby bonus" from the gov't of $8 per month for me in the 1950s !!

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NativePortlander1970 · 51-55

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.

Musicman · 61-69, M

@NativePortlander1970 I remember soda machines like that and the cigarette machines too.

NativePortlander1970 · 51-55

@Musicman Soda machines aren't fun anymore.

Musicman · 61-69, M

@NativePortlander1970 No they are not. ☹ Actually not much of anything is fun anymore. ☹

NativePortlander1970 · 51-55

@Musicman Even walmart took out all the arcade games and put vending machines in their places.

Musicman · 61-69, M

@NativePortlander1970 Yes they did.