I'm getting old... I think

[RoyalTenenbaum]

The other day I am thinking I could use some bifocals to see up close. Then today I catch myself saying "I remember when you could get that gun for half that much" like my parents used to lament the 5 cent coke and 10 cent candy bar.

 

[Darral27]

I feel the same way sometimes. I catch myself saying "I can't do that I used to" about things at work all the time. My back ache's, my knee's ache. I even have one of those lower back cushions for the seat of my work van.

 

[RoyalTenenbaum]

I feel the same way sometimes. I catch myself saying "I can't do that I used to" about things at work all the time. My back ache's, my knee's ache. I even have one of those lower back cushions for the seat of my work van.

Amen brother.

 

[Tnichols00]

Im 25 and I feel that same way sometimes.

I remember when a AR15 was 800, I remember when .22 ammo really was cheaper than dirt. I remember was gas was $1.50 a gallon

 

[Classic]

Let me give you the good news about the bifocals. When I needed bifocals I thought I was getting old too. I bought the "no-line" or gradient bifocals and to my surprise my handgun shooting got way, way better. My ability to focus only on the front sight became simply a matter of tilting my head a little fore and aft until the front sight came into perfect focus and the rear sight and target blurred just the right amount. It made a very big difference instantly. Of course, I did trip up and down stairs a little at first but it has been well worth it.

 

[Kagnew]

Just wait until you have to get tri-focals!

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Here's another test: Do you lament to younger folk that you can remember when 'this was all corn fields'?

 

[Colt556]

I DO remember 2 cent candy, dime Cokes, dime Phone booths, turning in empty "Pop" bottles for 2-3 cents each and gas for 35 cents/gallon! I also wear cheap Costco reading glasses to see to type this. I AM old!!!

 

[BumpShadow]

Im 25 and I feel that same way sometimes.

I remember when a AR15 was 800, I remember when .22 ammo really was cheaper than dirt. I remember was gas was $1.50 a gallon

I can remember when gas was 99 cents! It feels like it was in another life.

 

[Colt556]

My first COLT AR15 was $300 and my first AK was a Polytech with 3 mags and folding bayonet for $278! I still have that AK!

 

[RoyalTenenbaum]

Here's another test: Do you lament to younger folk that you can remember when 'this was all corn fields'?

I grew up in a county that has suffered annual population decline, so I say something to the effect of "I remember when someone used to live in all of these houses."

 

[HeadlessRoland]

I can remember when gas was 99 cents! It feels like it was in another life.

It was in another life. This is America, 2.0. Scary to realize how different it is now from how it was then. Ancient Greece and modern Greece only share the same physical location. Not much else about them is the same. So too is the case with our Republic and the modern-day imitation of the same.

 

[KJQ6945]

Here's another test: Do you lament to younger folk that you can remember when 'this was all corn fields'?

Over the weekend! While driving down a four lane rd that I can remember when it was gravel! If my typing is bad it's because my readers are dirty.

 

[KJQ6945]

My first COLT AR15 was $300 and my first AK was a Polytech with 3 mags and folding bayonet for $278! I still have that AK!

My first Colt was almost $600, so you must be REALLY old!

Now I feel young again. Just point at the ones older than you.

 

[SkullDaddy.45]

I remember when phones were attached to walls, and TV sets were made in America and they were in cased in wood! And the remote was your 8yr old brother turning a knob! Geez, I gotta sit down.

 

[Colt556]

I remember having rotary phones, a B&W TV with 4 channels, cars with no seat belts, Ethyl gasoline and watching water boil in amazement when we got a new fangled invention called an Amana Radar Range with Microwave oven!!

 

[KJQ6945]

Ahhh.... The magical microwave....I've had hot food for lunch since 1977!

And I still have two rotary phones....... Texting is bit$& !

 

[churchmouse]

Im 25 and I feel that same way sometimes.

I remember when a AR15 was 800, I remember when .22 ammo really was cheaper than dirt. I remember was gas was $1.50 a gallon

I remember before AR's...........22 was all we shot and gas was 26.9 cents a gallon. I had just gotten my license. Oh, and white castles were 5 cents each.

 

[Darral27]

Wow. Some of you guys are ancient. When I started driving gas was between .70 and .80 cents a gallon. I had a 91 nissan sentra and could drive for a week on less than 8 bucks. I could buy 3 packs of Marlboro with 5 bucks and get some change back. Hell that was just under 20 years ago. Man, how things have changed.

 

[marv]

Ye know ye're old when yer kids are gittin' senior discount.