Older Than Dirt

Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?'
'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him.
'All the food was slow.'

'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'
'It was a place called 'at home,'' I explained. !
'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'

By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.
But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it :
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis , set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card.
My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow).
We didn't have a television in our house until I was 19.
It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back on the air at about 6 a.m. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people...

I never had a telephone in my room.The only phone was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.

Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk was.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers --my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. He had to get up at 6AM every morning.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
MEMORIES from a friend :
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it.. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.
How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.

Older Than Dirt Quiz :
Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at the bottom.

1.Candy cigarettes
2.Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes
3.Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone
5.Newsreels before the movie
6.TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels [if you were fortunate])
7.Peashooters
8. Howdy Doody
9. 45 RPM records
10.Hi-fi's
11. Metal ice trays with lever
12. Blue flashbulb
13.Cork popguns
14. Studebakers
15. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young
If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older
If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 11-15 =You're older than dirt!

I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.

Don't forget to pass this along!!
Especially to all your really OLD friends....
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Yikes! I remember ALL of those things!

Got all 15, Older than dirt.

sure rub it in

KK wrote:

sure rub it in

I got everything except the wash ringers - don't remember those.

Giada wrote:

KK wrote:

sure rub it in

I got everything except the wash ringers - don't remember those.

you probably do. before there were dryers washing machines had like two rollers you cranked the clothes through to ring out the excess water. some were part of the machine others were attachments

KK wrote:

Giada wrote:

KK wrote:

sure rub it in

I got everything except the wash ringers - don't remember those.

you probably do. before there were dryers washing machines had like two rollers you cranked the clothes through to ring out the excess water. some were part of the machine others were attachments

I really don't remember those.

My grandmother had a washer like that an we use to help catch the clothes when they came throw. Then hang them on on a line in ths back of the house. I call that the good old days.

we had one when i was really young. we had a wash tub, not a washing machine

You could hand crank the one she had or hook it up to electric and try to run your hand through...OUCH!

the one on ours was electric

Wallstone wrote:

Giada wrote:

KK wrote:

Giada wrote:

KK wrote:

sure rub it in

I got everything except the wash ringers - don't remember those.

you probably do. before there were dryers washing machines had like two rollers you cranked the clothes through to ring out the excess water. some were part of the machine others were attachments

I really don't remember those.

Dont get your tit in a wringer

We use to always get our fingers pinched. But it was always fun to help my grand mother. Never a chore helping her. At home I had chores, while there I just had fun.

BMG wrote:

Wallstone wrote:

Giada wrote:

KK wrote:

Giada wrote:

KK wrote:

sure rub it in

I got everything except the wash ringers - don't remember those.

you probably do. before there were dryers washing machines had like two rollers you cranked the clothes through to ring out the excess water. some were part of the machine others were attachments

I really don't remember those.

Dont get your tit in a wringer

that's what we used to have. it was greatfor rolling playdoh

Great for making thin crust pizza too.

i think it's where they got the idea for the mamogram

KK wrote:

i think it's where they got the idea for the mamogram

I think there should be a penogram - let's see if you're then!

Giada wrote:

KK wrote:

i think it's where they got the idea for the mamogram

I think there should be a penogram - let's see if you're then!

KK wrote:

Giada wrote:

KK wrote:

i think it's where they got the idea for the mamogram

I think there should be a penogram - let's see if you're then!

I figured.

Giada wrote:

KK wrote:

Giada wrote:

KK wrote:

i think it's where they got the idea for the mamogram

I think there should be a penogram - let's see if you're then!

I figured.

it would be a ribbon

KK wrote:

Giada wrote:

KK wrote:

Giada wrote:

KK wrote:

i think it's where they got the idea for the mamogram

I think there should be a penogram - let's see if you're then!

I figured.

it would be a ribbon

when i peed it would flap around like one of those streamers

KK wrote:

when i peed it would flap around like one of those streamers

When a breast gets on the plate and they bring the machine down and flatten it, you swear it will never be normal again.

Giada wrote:

KK wrote:

when i peed it would flap around like one of those streamers

When a breast gets on the plate and they bring the machine down and flatten it, you swear it will never be normal again.

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