You know you're old when ....

[Denali]

Explaining why you need a library and what you did there while in school
Had to tell the story of how you had to go there for information for essays and look at reference books and write everything down by hand.
Dont miss that at all....

We were watching Games of Thrones and Sam walked into the Citadel library and a lot of books were chained up and someone made a comment about the chains.

Me: Thats the reference section.
The over 40s laughed, the under 20s didnt get it.

 

[clazman]

When you hand over $10.70 for a item worth $9.70, so you get 1 coin back and give them 2

 

[drron]

When I hand over the exact amount at the checkout and the young this how did you know what to pay.I added it up in my head.They look bewildered.

 

[Archphoto]

When you hand over $10.70 for a item worth $9.70, so you get 1 coin back and give them 2

I'm amazed at how this actually confuses checkout operators these days! Seriously, how hard can it be, especially when they're using a b****y computer to boot??!!

 

[cove]

You remember petrol was under a dollar a gallon and your first car was £595.

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

You listen to a RADIO station in your car that only plays 60s and 70s music and you can sing along to every song

 

[whughes3]

You remember petrol was under a dollar a gallon and your first car was £595.

Under a dollar a gallon? Good grief, my first car had a 8 gallon (36 litre) tank and I could fill it up for around $3...

 

[cove]

Yes I didn't want to scare the young people reading this thread.
I can remember the fuel cost to Margaret River and back to Perth was $2 a passenger.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

............ you are on a train on the way home from footy at Docklands and you spend a couple minutes creating an SMS on your phone via your 1 forefinger typing prowess - then you look around and you see about 40 odd young whippersnappers tapping away with both thumbs on their phones clearly writing a new version of War and Peace!

 

[TheRealTMA]

When the girl on the Coles checkout asks if you stayed up till midnight on NYE...

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

When the girl on the Coles checkout asks if you stayed up till midnight on NYE...

AND the answer is ......... NO !!!!

 

[TheRealTMA]

AND the answer is ......... NO !!!!

Depends on whether there's a new series to binge watch I suggest.

 

[Hvr]

You had an Email fridge, not an email address!

Farewell to a factory: more than 70 years of manufacturing in Orange - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The factory changed names from Emmco to Email and then to Electrolux, and at its peak in the 1970s employed more than 2,000 people.

 

[GSP]

You remember petrol was under a dollar a gallon and your first car was £595.

I think you just nailed your coffin bringing up gallon (unless of course you are from USA).

 

[Denali]

My husband was converting old film to dvd and there is one where they pull into a service station and I hear my brother in law saying, "Fifty four cents per litre, what a rip off!"

 

[Deleted member]

When the girl on the Coles checkout asks if you stayed up till midnight on NYE...

I do...... on NZ time

 

[Happy Trails]

............ you are on a train on the way home from footy at Docklands and you spend a couple minutes creating an SMS on your phone via your 1 forefinger typing prowess - then you look around and you see about 40 odd young whippersnappers tapping away with both thumbs on their phones clearly writing a new version of War and Peace!

I'll sometimes faux-insult the young guys at work for 'typing like a girl'.
They don't get it.

 

[ALH]

...when viridiane asks if I have a seniors opal card for my visit to the Sydney wine lovers meet in July. .

Oh that’s just hilarious

 

[cove]

We carry two Opal cards each because half the time our Seniors Card does not scan properly. It half worked this week. We are too old to go in the queue to ask at the help desk as that loses half an hour or more of your life.

 

[Denali]

Discussing the Don Burke situation.

Me: Who next, Bert Newton?
Entire Customer Service & Supply team: Who?