Hi Everbody!! I just got this and I scored 25!! That makes me Older Than Dirt!! Thought that we could all use a laugh!!
You should ALL get a good laugh out of this one!!
Unfortunately I remember all the things in this message so I must be older than dirt. lol
Older ' n Dirt
"Hey Dad," one of my kids asked the other day, "What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?"
"We didn't have fast food when I was growing up," I informed him. "All the food was slow."
"C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?"
"It was a place called 'at home,'" I explained. "Grandma cooked every day and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it."
By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table. But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it:
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis , set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears AND Roebuck. Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.
My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow). We didn't have a television in our house until I was 11, but my grandparents had one before that. It was, of course, black and white, but they bought a piece of colored plastic to cover the screen. The top third was blue, like the sky, and the bottom third was green, like grass. The middle third was red. It was perfect for programs that had scenes of fire trucks riding across someone's lawn on a sunny day. Some people had a lens taped to the front of the TV to make the picture look larger.
I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called "pizza pie." When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.
We didn't have a car until I was 15. Before that, the only car in our family was my grandfather's Ford. He called it a "machine."
I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers. I delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I got to keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 4 AM every morning.. On Saturday, I had to collect the 42 cents from my customers. My favorite customers were the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change. My least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French kissing and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they did in French movies. French movies were dirty and we weren't allowed to see them.
If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren.. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
MEMORIES from a friend:
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to "sprinkle" clothes with water because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.
How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using ! hand signals for cars without turn signals.
Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about Ratings at the bottom.
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933)
12. Pea shooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16 Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19 Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
I might be older than dirt but those memories are the best part of my life.
Don't forget to pass this along!!
Especially to all your really OLD friends....
"Senility Prayer"...God grant me...
The senility to forget the people I never liked
The good fortune to run into the ones that I do
And the eyesight to tell the difference."
Have a great week!!!!!!
YAY! I was able to move my ticker today!!! 
Finally down 2 pounds!! 
I was beginning to think I was going to be stuck at 160 forever!! 
I guess it would be kind of tough to put Bear in a Sunggli!! Ginger, my red one weighs about 8 pounds and Sissy, the sable on weighs just about 6 pounds!! So together they don't make the weight of Bear! 
Is Angie still have to stand over you to make you do your miles!! 
I have this mental picture that is just too funny!!! 
was my semi-permanent residence. Dunno WHAT it was, but driving home from work with the sun just BLAZING through the windshield on me, and the AC off, I had goose-bumps and kept feeling chilled. Got home feeling like a limp rag, fell through the door into DH’s arms, and he said, “Oooooh! You’re so hot!” He unclasped the necklace I was wearing, and said….”Omigosh! Feel how HOT this is!” And yeah, it was REALLY HOT. So, we took my temp and it was 103, which made me immediately feel even worse than I already felt. No appetite. Omigawd. Since WHEN did THIS healthy eater have no appetite??? I mean, I’m definitely an all-occasion eater. Feeling sad? Eat! Feeling happy? Eat! Feeling sick? Eat! (You need to keep up your strength!) Feeling full? Eat! (It’ll push whatever’s making you feel so full right along and you’ll feel EVER so much better!) So for me to actually not want ANY food is abnormal in and of itself. So, I took four Ibuprophen & a glass of Arizona diet green tea and went in and laid myself down in the spare bedroom. Got up this morning after this long, hibernation-like sleep filled with strange foggy dreams and imaginings, and seem to be okay – except for some sneezing and some soreness in my throat. Nothing that you could outright say “My throat is sore”…it’s just on the EDGE of being sore, if you know what I mean. So, I’m at work this morning feeling befogged to some degree, but with deadlines on several articles that HAVE to get out today, or I would’ve stayed home & pampered myself. In my NEXT life, I want to be 
, Paula, Marylynn, Gayle, Meowee-Linda, LindaD, Trish, Peg, Deb
as well. I'm originally from Ontario but now in Nova Scotia. As well as becoming a regular here, I hope you'll find your way over to our "Crazy Canuks Cluck Club" once in a while, too.
Hi!!!!
off of the WW program last week. I still lost 0.8. 
to Mom
Thanks!
