* You keep people's names, phone numbers, and addresses in a Rolodex
* You use a paper engagement calendar
* You still pay bills using checks
* You listen to music on a turntable (or a CD player)
* Your camera requires film
* Your phone has a cord, which curls
* You have used the phrases "Kids these days!" or "Back when I was a kid/growing up..." in the last 72 hours
* Drinking alcohol gives you an immediate headache
* You fall asleep before your kids
* You prefer your movies in 2D
* Your idea of "doing drugs" involves taking two Aleve (or antacids or heartburn medicine)
* You quote lines from The Flintstones and/or The Brady Bunch (or pick your 1960s or 1970s sitcom)
* Your email address contains the letters "aol"
* You still refer to Russia as The Soviet Union
* You own a leisure suit
* When it snows your first thought is "my back already hurts at thought of shoveling all that"
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When shopping for food, I choose which grocery line to fall into by avoiding lines containing oldsters because I know they'll maximize the delay by rummaging through their Samsonite-sized handbags for a check book, writing the check in slow-mo and then notating the amount in that antiquated little ledger thingie, etc. The other day, I was flummoxed by a 30-something woman who HAULED OUT A CHECKBOOK! It was like I fell through a wormhole to 1992 or something. Very disturbing.
What a depressing realization for myself!!
Hi, I'm J., and I am an old fart. (And there ain't no way I'm giving up my Rolodex or my weekly engagement calendar.)
Now you kids get off my lawn!
I failed!!! Yay!!!
@Alyssa, I'll let you know when I publish my post "You might be a cutting-edge astrophysicist if..." (Of course, it would be more amusing if you were a rocket scientist, but...)
That's okay. At least we old farts will know how to survive when the satellites go down--and all those paper records will come in *very* handy. ;-)
Yup. Ticked a few boxes there. :-/
Thanks for confirming what I have long suspected as the truth -- I am an indeed an old fart!
Yabba dabba do
No one is alone in this
We are all old farts
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