You know you're old if:
1. You were allow as a child to go anywhere in the neighbor by yourself, just had to be home by the time the street lights came on
2. You were allowed to drink from a garden hose without worrying about diseases
3. There were no mini vans, just station wagons. Wood paneling on the sides was real wood.
4. If you got a paddling at school for misbehaving you'd get another when you got home. What's a paddling????
5. 8-tracks were the greatest thing since the invention of sliced bread.
6. A bottle of pop was 10 cents, 2 cent deposit on the bottle
7. penny candy was a penny
8. there we no seat belts must less air bags
9. The Who were a bunch of angry British kids that destroyed their instruments, not the writers of TV show theme songs
10. A video game was when you snuck out your parents 8mm movie camera to record you sandlot baseball game.
11. Premium gasoline was named Ethyl, and was $0.39 a gallon. And the station pumped your gas, checked all of your fluids and cleaned the windshield. And you got a free glass with a fill up.
12. Laundry soap (notice I didn't say detergent) came with a free towel inside the box.
13. If someone verbally or physically attacked a friend or acquaintance you stood up for them, not joined in the attack.
14. Anything with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was prime time coverage on all THREE tv networks.
15. Sesame Street was a dirt path.
16. AM radio ruled the air waves (FM was just this startup that no one listened to)
17. Lost in Space was everyone's favorite shown and it was set in the year 1997.
18. Mechanical pinballs machines were 10 cents for 5 balls, more if you had mad skilz. Rock it, but don't tilt it.
19. Your family getting a Color Console TV was a big deal!
20. The foulest thing ever said on a prime time TV show was when Mrs. Cleaver told Mr. Cleaver, "Hun, you were kinda hard on the Beaver tonight."
I myself will hit 60 on my next birthday.
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