Remember when...

[FinsnFur]

Starting a new thread to help all us old bastards feel a bit older.

Beginning with this.



Dont lie

[Okanagan]

You bet I owned a pair or three.  They were comfortable, kinda cool, and I liked them.  They would wear thin spots and holes in them a lot faster than heavy blue denim, and couldn't take much handling a bale of hay on my thighs before school!

[Hawks Feather]

Yep! Been there and done that. Like Okanagan said, they did wear quickly. But they were oh so COOL.

[Todd Rahm]

But were they bell bottoms? 

[FinsnFur]

But were they bell bottoms? 

Some of em were, yep.

[FinsnFur]

This was pretty much a staple in our house when I was growing up. 
For some reason we had a lot of traffic in the bathroom when us kids were bathing. AND the door had to be left open so we didnt drowned.
I remember using a LOT of Bubbles to conceal my wiener from the traffic. Someone would come in and I'd hunker down into the bubbles.

[Hawks Feather]

You were a lucky little boy. We didn't buy Mr. Bubble. ☹️

[nastygunz]

WTH

[Hawks Feather]

WTH

I know. My parents thought that a bar of ivory soap was all anyone would ever need.

[FinsnFur]

[Hawks Feather]

That was going to be the end of the world as we knew it. Computer systems would crash and burn, banks would not be able to transfer money or anyone make a withdrawal, electrical grids would cease. The only thing that would work would be the Y2K zippers.

[remrogers]

Yup. Near panic as the end was coming at the stroke of midnight 12/31/99. A lot of angst over not much of anything.

[FinsnFur]

[Hawks Feather]

Only after eating lots of Red Beets.

[FinsnFur]

God I hated those beets. Still do.
They must have been easy to obtain and inexpensive.

[FinsnFur]

[Hawks Feather]

I had the TV-Guide several years. I did like it since there was no other way to see more than one day at a time in the paper. But, I also only got it when they would run some really low priced special. At the end of the year they would offer me the 'full price' special to renew, which I would not do. Then after several months they would offer the low price and I would usually get it again. Old memories like these are fun to see.

[bigben]

im old enough to remember Y2k and that whole farce.  Dad had a tandy computer that he turned off because he didnt want it to fry. 

[msmith]

I remember collecting bicentennial quarters when they came out. The same year postage went up to 13 cents. I thought that it had to do with the original 13 colonies, but it was just a coincidence.

I also remember sitting in front of the tv watching the rocket launch when we put men on the moon. I feel old.

[bigben]

I collected several years of the state quarter's thinking the same thing.  I thought they were doing limited runs of em and wanted a couple of each state.  When I realized they were replacing the old quarters and they really were not rare i cashed em in and actually bought a e call.