You might be close to my age if?
1: Have you ever used a rotary dial phone?
2: What year did you buy your first cell phone?
3: Have you ever driven a car built before seatbelts were standard equipment?
4: Did you wear "bellbottom pants?"
5: Do you remember when every item in the grocery store had a price stamped on it?
My Answers?
1: Have you ever used a rotary dial phone? Grew up with them, I was 8 when we first had a phone installed in the house.
2: What year did you buy your first cell phone? 1996 - I still have the same number.
3: Have you ever driven a car built before seatbelts were standard equipment? When I got my license at 16, my father tossed me the keys to a 1965 Ford F-100 pickup truck and said, "I trust you, please be careful!"
4: Did you wear "bellbottom pants?" Yes, I remember the low-rise jeans of the mid 1970's - the good old days.
5: Do you remember when every item in the grocery store had a price stamped on it? Yes, and the first experimental scanners in the late 60's early 70's.
Your answers in the comments,
1: my parents had a black one hardwired into the kitchen wall; it's still there
ReplyDelete2: don't own one
3: my grandfather's 1958 chevy belair
4: HELL YEAH!
5: yep; and cashiers had to make correct change in their head; and there were no plastic bags to take home your purchase
1. Rotary phone? Grew up with them! I remember my family "upgrading" to a Princess phone, still rotary. Loved the sound they made.
ReplyDelete2. I don't know. It was sometime after a pager was foisted on me. Waste of money, never used it. The cell was also foisted on me. I do remember my grown sons and their friends laughing and telling me to have Scotty beam them up. I think I have an isomethingorother now. Emergency use only because it takes me forever to figure out how to turn it on. So much for calling 9-1-1 to remove lawn kids.
3. Balder Half bought an old red Ford, or Chevy or Dodge (I never pay attention to details) truck with no seatbelts or power steering. At least it wasn't a stick. I managed.
4. Yep. Also hip huggers (tho possessing no hips), and micro minis with fishnet stockings held up with rubber bands to show off my this side of Twiggy legs.
5. Yes, and I wish they still did that. Cashiers had to count the change back to you verbally instead of just dumping it into your hand. It's a lost art. Penny candy was a penny. Candy bars, a nickel and they were bigger. Oh, lord, I've become my parents!
1. Of course.
ReplyDelete2. 1992
3. Yep.
4. Ha ha ha, oh yes.
5. I remember before that, when the cashiers had to know all the prices in their heads. Mind you, the list of items was VERY small, compared with today.
1: certainly I am 56
ReplyDelete2: I don't remember but it was a rather large clunky thing
3: I don't think I have
4: I've not heard of them; they sound disagreeable.
5: Come to mention it, I remember this!
1. Yes. I still have a nickel, dime, quarter pay phone. A cross cradle rotary dial wall phone and a oid rotary dial bar phone.
ReplyDelete2. Old flip phone, mid nineties?
3. 1956 English Anglia Panel
4. Probably did but would would never admit to it.
5. Yes, another old guy who still totals his change in his head.
I enjoy following your blog, best wishes from the Arizona Desert
1: Have you ever used a rotary dial phone? Born in the '50s, so, yes.
ReplyDelete2: What year did you buy your first cell phone? 2001... I held out as long as I could.
3: Have you ever driven a car built before seatbelts were standard equipment? No. And my father even installed seatbelts in all our cars throughout the 60s.
4: Did you wear "bellbottom pants?" Oh, yeah. I loved them.
5: Do you remember when every item in the grocery store had a price stamped on it? Yep.
6. DOES THIS MAKE ME OLD???
Yep! I seem to be doing my Gary Cooper impression a lot lately.
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