You know you are OLD when you can remember........

[jahan]

The old FJ, one of the best $40 paddock bombs going.
Horse riding $5 for the day,go where you want just be back by 6pm

 

[LizardLady]

Collecting (and replacing) skinks from Morialta Falls (near Rostrevor, Adelaide)... in 4-litre ice-cream containers (they were pretty rare then, not many people could 'afford' 4-litres ice-cream)...
I Dream Of Jeannie...
Spotlighting in an old Vanguard...
Collecting milk from the dairy after the cows have just been milked... WITH cream... yummm!...
Creating a game called "Do-Dad" (cross between baseball, cricket and softball, using the inner of a golf-ball)...

 

[mysnakesau]

I could never catch skinks, but on the odd occasion I did, I got scared of it when it moved in my hands. My collectible were caccoons and watching them hatch out to beautiful butterflies, then letting them go.

I remember seeing a red belly on my Uncle's property and went to run up to it only to be pulled back by my aunt, near choking me. The red belly was reared up, looked beautiful and I cried and kicked my dad for shooting it.

 

[dreamkiller]

I remember going to see E.T at the drive in theater when it first came out!!

 

[hashbean]

nothing nothing at all.
im that old i dont remember a thing past lunch time
im strugling to remember what im doing sitting here for what
who are u, what u doing in my space

 

[Darlyn]

nothing nothing at all.
im that old i dont remember a thing past lunch time
im strugling to remember what im doing sitting here for what
who are u, what u doing in my space

So what did you have for lunch?

 

[REPTILIAN-KMAN]

those of us that are old ( 34 ) WHY WOULD WE WANT TO REMEMBER anything in the past !

i hated the 80's its wiped from my memories born in the 70's cant remember the 80's lived and got up to heaps of trouble in the 90's and living life the way i want to now !

but i can remember mr squiggle and i was on ROMPER ROOM with mrs helena so not all was BAD !

 

[mysnakesau]

those of us that are old ( 34 ) ......!

Huh! Speak for yourself. I am 36 and am NOT old

 

[-Peter]

when you notice this thread for the first time except then you see you have already posted in it already...

 

[snakelvr]

those of us that are old ( 34 )

AHEM!!! I'm nearly that age and I am certainly NOT old. I will never be a day over 21 (every woman's right) & I continue to behave like a 2 year old.

Anyhow: Growing old is mandatory - growing up is optional

 

[bongie555]

when you can remember you would get change from $5 after filling up the car at the servo and it wasnt self serve..

 

[REPTILIAN-KMAN]

AHEM!!! I'm nearly that age and I am certainly NOT old. I will never be a day over 21 (every woman's right) & I continue to behave like a 2 year old.

Anyhow: Growing old is mandatory - growing up is optional

I LIKE UR STYLE SNAKELVR , but i used to think i will never grow up but the more i think about it , its to late 30 's the turning point and i find my self reliving my younger years as i get older ,

ur gunna wake up one take and see an older woman on ya face and say who are you and then relize it is you.

i agree 30 aint old but your on the way and that should scare us both

 

[chilli-mudcrab]

I can remember going on holidays and we wouldn't lock our house.Only in the country mind you. Now I need 2 pitch black german shepards to stop the bastards stealing the contents of my outdoor beer fridge even when i'm at home!

 

[Luvbuz]

Playing in the creek until dark, making cubbies in the back yard from mum's best sheets (and getting whalloped the next morning), no TV cos we were too poor, pineapples 6 for 2 bob, no phone cos we were too poor, big black public phones (5c a call) with "A" button and "B" button, tramlines on Brisbane suburban streets that your push bike wheel would get caught in, collecting soft drink bottles at the local footy match, cashing them in for 5c a bottle and buying a packet of escort or black and white smokes for 15c, a box of matches for 2c and PK chewing gum for 2c (so mum wouldn't smell the smokes) with 1c left over for 10 cobber lollies! Hot wheel racing cars, dragster bikes with T bar gear changer on the cross bar, wow bringing back some memories now - how much more carefree were we back then?

 

[anntay]

When the shops wernt open on sunday

ha when i first moved up to brisbane i had to get used to the NO shopping on sundays annoyed the hell out of me

 

[babba007]

OMG I loved those shows.

 

[jahan]

......when you can remember going to the pub on fri/sat night and watching the Angels or AC DC, Jimmy barnes,Sunbury.... oh the lost years.

 

[anntay]

getting up and taking off on your bike not returning home till dinner time, playing the atari space invaders, riding our skateboards on the road, making our own bmx track with help from our dads, playing in the creek, walking the 1/2 hour to and from school while stopping at the corner shop for hot chips, lollies that were a hole big bag for 20 cents (1 cent each), sitting down with the hole family watching hayhay it's saturday on a saturday night, mr squiggle and being on humphy B bear with miss Kim. no parents sitting in the park watching our every move, you had to earn your pocket money ($2) for the week that included cleaning the dishes, picking up after the animals, setting the table cleaning your room.

 

[mysnakesau]

ha when i first moved up to brisbane i had to get used to the NO shopping on sundays annoyed the hell out of me

Kempsey still has many shops that are only open half a day Saturday and closed Sunday. The only ones that are open on Sundays are the big chain stores that can be found anywhere in Australia.


Miss Kim was on Romper Room. I don't remember her being on Humphrey, but then I didn't like humphrey and didn't watch it anyway. I prefered all the shows about animals - Salty the Seal, Flipper, Lassie, Black Beauty, Flicka, Littlest Hobo. And my favourite cartoons were Thumper the Rabbit, Road Runner and Tom and Jerry.

 

[kamaia]

I have to say, im in the teen years now and, even i think it is a shame that kids in the last couple of years have been so into facebook and technology, hardly anyone goes outside unless it is to go to the shopping mall. I mean, not that long ago, all you guys got told to leave the house in the morning and to not come back until dinner time ( i know that what mum did). i wish i personally could go back in time and see how amazing and energetic your generation was. Good on you all for making the most out of your lives in the teen years.