Thread: I Feel Old

I like watching old movies and TV shows that have been out of production for awhile. Lately I've been watching reruns of the first season of Magnum P.I. on Hulu. I have a patch cord so that I can watch shows from my computer on my big TV in the living room so the rest of my family winds up watching too. To me Magnum P.I. isn't a very old show but it's completely new to my kids. After a few episodes my 15-year-old son said, "This show isn't bad but wouldn't it have been easier if Magnum had just called the police on his cell phone? He wouldn't have had to chase so many people then." I had forgotten that Magnum P.I. was pre-cell phone. A few people that could afford them had car phones back then but they were expensive, they didn't work everywhere and they didn't work very well. I tried explaining that to my son but he just looked at me like he was waiting for me to tell stories of my old dinosaur hunting days so I gave up. A few weeks ago we were watching some old movie and someone pulled a video tape out of a big box. He asked me what that was and I told him that was a VCR. He looked at me like I was pulling his leg. I remember quite well that the original VCRs were the size of suitcases. I was in high school the first time I ever saw one. I watched Jeopardy with the kids when the computer competed against two human champions. My kids were amazed at a computer server that fills a room. I remember when computers had tubes and filled a whole building but still weren't as powerful as a modern pocket calculator. It's a very odd feeling getting reminded that I'm getting a little age on me. Mentally I don't feel old. I remember all this old stuff like it was yesterday. There are people old enough to vote, join the military and buy booze that have no memory of any of it not even from childhood. But when I look back I was born a little bit before man walked on the moon so I guess I predate a lot of stuff that people take for granted now.

Movies and TV shows like Magnum P.I. seem like they do everything the hard way now because they didn't call for back up on a cell phone or look up information on the internet. In my memory they make sense because that is what life was like and it's easy for me to drift back into the mindset of the time when you had to use a payphone or physically go somewhere to find information that you want. I'm not a cellphone junkie and I still get by well enough without one that I sometimes forget that I've got one. That might be old fashioned but when my cell phone battery dies I'm not left wondering what to do.

Lori

Lori, we are old.

As far as I'm concerned old will always be at least 5 years older than I happen to be at any given time.

So if I'm ninety, old is gonna be 95.

I never thought I would EVER be one of those old codgers that ran around talking about "the good ole days" but the fact is if you're a child of the 60's, 70's or 80's (and I am) you're living in an entirely different world than you grew up in.

My son said to me one day, "Dad, you're the only person I know that still wears a wristwatch." I replied, "Well Son, my Dad always told me that a good man always knows what time it is so, I've pretty much worn a watch every day of my life since I was old enough to tell time." To which he replied, "My generation knows what time it is, we just don't wear watches, we use cell phones instead." Now the list of things I absolutely REFUSE to do is pretty short but carry a cell phone is probably firmly entrenched somewhere between Eat Liver and shave with an electric razor. He was quite surprised when a week or two later I bought a pocket watch.

I got home from work this morning and had forgotten to get a loaf of bread. After feeding the cat, and cleaning up the kitchen a little I opened the fridge and saw some yeast packets left over from some yeast rolls I had made for a family dinner a while back, so I whipped up a loaf of wheat bread in no time.

As I cut off that first heel, still warm, and put some butter on it I thought about all the young people who aren't enjoying this... too bad for them!

A better air freshner was never made than bread baking. It just makes the whole house smell fantastic. I'm with you, Brother, nothing in the world beats fresh baked bread with butter melting on it. Which reminds me, it might just be time for me to bust some sourdough.

Originally Posted by 1OldGI

A better air freshner was never made than bread baking. It just makes the whole house smell fantastic. I'm with you, Brother, nothing in the world beats fresh baked bread with butter melting on it. Which reminds me, it might just be time for me to bust some sourdough.

Hooo, man... that sounds good.

I had forgotten to mention that my fridge went on the blink yesterday. Called the landlord, but nothing can be done until Tues, so.... since the freezer is still working and making ice in the automatic ice maker I'm keeping the perishables cold in the meat drawer and crispers with ice from the freezer. Kinda like that ice box that granny used.

Seems like covering many generations in this thread.

Originally Posted by 1OldGI

I never thought I would EVER be one of those old codgers that ran around talking about "the good ole days" but the fact is if you're a child of the 60's, 70's or 80's (and I am) you're living in an entirely different world than you grew up in.

My son said to me one day, "Dad, you're the only person I know that still wears a wristwatch." I replied, "Well Son, my Dad always told me that a good man always knows what time it is so, I've pretty much worn a watch every day of my life since I was old enough to tell time." To which he replied, "My generation knows what time it is, we just don't wear watches, we use cell phones instead." Now the list of things I absolutely REFUSE to do is pretty short but carry a cell phone is probably firmly entrenched somewhere between Eat Liver and shave with an electric razor. He was quite surprised when a week or two later I bought a pocket watch.

Tell your thoroughly modern son in the real old days folks wore a pocketwatch to tell time and those were pretty much dropped in the 1930s. Wearing a cell phone to tell time is nothing more than a throwback to a pocketwatch. You have to take the thing and put it in your hand and look at it just like with a pocketwatch.

My 28 year old son used to always make fun of me with the music I used to listen to when he was 14 or 15 and of course he felt very "with it" with his music. I told him back then you just wait. Now he knows cause kids around 15 or so make fun of him and ask him how he can listen to that old trash.

Old, whats Old, Hell I'm 52 and still don't no Old ! Don't want to either !