SOG's Top 15 List of being a FOG (F'ing Old Guy)

[Super Ordinary Guy]

An old guy (not in the best of shape) was working out in the gym when he spotted a sweet young thing...

He asked the trainer that was nearby "What machine in here should I use to impress that sweet thing over there?"

The trainer looked him up and down and said;

"I would try the ATM in the lobby".......

[n11pilot]

That is only funny because its true!

[Eric Renderking Fisk]

I could go on with my own observations about being "too old."

I remember the time when people had to either go home to make and receive phone calls or would have to use a public pay phone. It was a big deal when phone calls jumped from a dime to a quarter...

[n11pilot]

I remember when Hersey bars went from a nickel to a dime. I think I was six at the time and it was my first lesson in inflation. It made me realize that the contents of my piggy bank had shrunk by half.

[Eric Renderking Fisk]

Does anyone here also remember when you could buy a can of soda out of a vending machine for less than a dollar?

[n11pilot]

Does anyone here also remember when you could buy a can of soda out of a vending machine for less than a dollar?

OK, this is guaranteed to reserve me a space in the Smithsonian Hall of Geezers, but I remember when you could get a can of Coke from a machine for a quarter. The price jumped to thirty five cents when I was in sixth grade.

Now, in the interest of maintaining my boyish charm and facade of youthful good looks, I am not answering any more of these questions.

[Doug Palumbo]

Does anyone here also remember when you could buy a can of soda out of a vending machine for less than a dollar?

Yes and I also remember when Can machines were rare and Glass Bottle machines were the ones you saw most often. I loved those, with the skinny glass door and built in bottle opener. I remember my childhood barber had one inside his shop. Get a coke, a real coke made with real sugar and in a glass bottle, as a treat for being good for during my haircut. Man, those were good times.

[Super Ordinary Guy]

Does anyone here also remember when you could buy a can of soda out of a vending machine for less than a dollar?

Yes and I also remember when Can machines were rare and Glass Bottle machines were the ones you saw most often. I loved those, with the skinny glass door and built in bottle opener. I remember my childhood barber had one inside his shop. Get a coke, a real coke made with real sugar and in a glass bottle, as a treat for being good for during my haircut. Man, those were good times.

Thank You for bringing that one out, I was going to but I didn't want a space in the Smithsonian Hall of Geezers reserved for me.

P S I can remember my mother sending me to the local grocery store ( we didn't have any big box grocery stores in my home town) and writing on the list " A ten cent lunch cake" meaning a Twinkie or Hostess cupcake etc etc..

Speaking of which, I saw Twinkies in the store the other day and bought one.. I couldn't wait to get home and bite into that great tasting cake filled with the icing cream....

BLEGH !!! that was the most horrible tasting thing I have had since WWII C Rations were found in a warehouse in Texas and and issued to us to eat in Nam.....

It tasted kind of like Plastic smells, YUCK !!

[n11pilot]

Thank You for bringing that one out, I was going to but I didn't want a space in the Smithsonian Hall of Geezers reserved for me.

What do you mean? There is already a statue of you out front.

[Super Ordinary Guy]

Thank You for bringing that one out, I was going to but I didn't want a space in the Smithsonian Hall of Geezers reserved for me.

What do you mean? There is already a statue of you out front.

OH NOOOOOOO I hope it wasn't the one with the cane !!!

Probably covered in Pigeon's too.....

[n11pilot]

Thank You for bringing that one out, I was going to but I didn't want a space in the Smithsonian Hall of Geezers reserved for me.

What do you mean? There is already a statue of you out front.

OH NOOOOOOO I hope it wasn't the one with the cane !!!

Probably covered in Pigeon's too.....

Actually SOG, its the one where you are doing your impression of Anthony Weiner. I know on the surface its embarrassing but look on the bright side; the pigeons have one more place to roost.

[Super Ordinary Guy]

Thank You for bringing that one out, I was going to but I didn't want a space in the Smithsonian Hall of Geezers reserved for me.

What do you mean? There is already a statue of you out front.

OH NOOOOOOO I hope it wasn't the one with the cane !!!

Probably covered in Pigeon's too.....

Actually SOG, its the one where you are doing your impression of Anthony Weiner. I know on the surface its embarrassing but look on the bright side; the pigeons have one more place to roost.

If that is the case,a WHOLE FLOCK OF PIGEONS have one more place to roost....

[Bazooka Goof]

I had to explain what a pager was to a 19 year old recently.

[Super Ordinary Guy]

I had to explain what a pager was to a 19 year old recently.

Next thing ya know he will about what is a 1.44mb floppy disk....

Youngsters ....

[Indy Parise]

Being 19, I'm hardly old but I remember when putting on music required fishing through a box for the right cardboard sleeve, pulling out a vinyl record, and balancing that needle just right. My dad only ever played Vinyls and I still love the sound of a record player over any cd or mp3. I also remember my dad having several pagers and watching my mom writing code to floppy disks. And when my parents finally got a cell phone it was one for the house to share and it was the size of a brick. And I still think that a car with carburetors and points beats the hell out of fuel injection and electronic ignition (at least you can fiddle with a carburetor and replace points with few wrenches and a screwdriver).

As an aside, they still sell glass bottle cokes with real sugar. They're imported from Mexico, but I know the local target had them recently and a few take-out places I've been to have had them. If memory serves, they don't cost any more (possibly less) then your standard plastic bottle domestic coke. They come in the taller glass bottles (355 ml?) and have the nutritional facts and whatnot applied on a sticker (apparently in Mexico they don't require it to be printed on so they pop the sticker on for import).