Subject: You're Not Old Unless...
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2000 - 08:38:22 EST
"On A Park Bench"
Two very elderly ladies were enjoying the sunshine
on a park bench in Miami. They had been meeting
that park every sunny day, for over 12 years...
chatting, and enjoying each others friendship.
One day, the younger of the two ladies, turns to
the other and says,...."Please don't be angry with
me, dear, but I am embarrassed, after all these
years...What is your name ? I am trying to
remember, but I just can't. "
The older friend glares at her at first. Then,
looking very distressed, says nothing for 2 full
minutes, and finally says, "How soon do you
have to know?"
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"You're Not Old Unless You Can Remember..."
What you do with the pointed end of a can
opener.
When there was no McDonalds.
When you dressed up to fly on an airliner.
When you could watch the engines start on
an airliner.
When candy bars cost a nickel.
When comic books cost 10 cents (and how
traumatic it was when the price went up to
12 cents, then 15 cents).
When you actually got up out of the couch
to change the channel on the TV.
When there were only four other channels to
change to, five if you adjusted the antenna.
When whole communities were mass
vaccinated against polio.
Where you were when you heard JFK had
been shot.
When VWs broke the $2000 barrier.
When John Glenn went into space the first time.
When you drank milk through a Flav-R-Straw.
When you did calculations with a slide rule,
an adding machine, and/or a table of sines,
cosines, and logarithms.
When this year's new cars looked different
from last year's, and when different makes
of cars looked different.
When car radios were AM only.
When paperback books were 25 cents.
When you watched "Today on the Farm"
on TV before going to school.
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