I feel so OLD... (Page 2)

Typewriter...ha! Why, in my day, we used a chisel and a flat slate rock....

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yup! i remember the mimeograph. my mother was the school office assistant and she sometimes let me run it. that was a BIG deal for me.

fyi, i was listening to npr the other day, and they made a comment--something like, today's college freshman were 2 years old when reagan left the presidency. how depressing is that.

but scratch all that! i'm with sam, i embrace the fountain of youth!! tri will keep me young!!

dana

Atari and Smurfs? Seems all my kids want to do now is play Playstation, which I why I banned them from it this summer. They were "miserable" at first, but I'm amazed at how their attitudes have changed for the better. They have no choice now but to go outside and play. Its the best thing I ever did for them.

My summer memories as a kid were playing from dawn till dusk, only coming home when my mom yelled out the front door that it was time for dinner. My legs would ache at night from playing so hard with all my neighborhood friends. We'd play kick the can, stickball, corkball, wiffleball, hide and seek, cowboys and indians, build tree forts, and race our bikes with playing cards sputtering on the spokes (mine was a schwinn chopper with a banana seat and sissy bar). Much simpler times back then...

Atari doesn't make me feel old, wishing my kids could find joy in just playing outside does sometimes make me wish for the "old days", though...

Nice one Motivated!!

We noticed that our kids were always fighting over the TV, the computer the playstation – screens, screens, screens is all they wanted to do. So we banned them during the week.

Same as you found – first few weeks they were miserable -after that they found other things to do and are much better for it. My boys has learned to ride his bike and is out on that all the time!

We do allow screens at the weekend but of course that’s the time that we plan days out and swimming etc. HAHAHAHAHAHA evil parents rule!

Atari??

I remember using a Commodore Pet. – before they brought out Ataris!!!!

Karl,
We grew up together only in different locations. Our back yard had base pads and a diamond worn into it from endless hours of whiffle ball. When it got too dark to play ball, we played hide-n-go-seek until the folks called us in to clean up and go to bed. Maybe when the tri. season ends we can all get together for a whiffle ball tournament!
Don

There's no age limit on wiffle-ball...one of the greatest backyard games ever invented.

wow- mimeograph machines- that ink went everywhere.....we played a lot of kickball & wiffle ball too- just had to be home when the streetlights went on....in the summer we played flashlight tag.........my first bike my dad put blocks on the pedals so I could ride it....rainy days was puzzles or go to the head of the class ....i'm waxing nostalgic better stop-


we STILL play wiffle ball- with the lawn chair as the backstop...


Edited by isis54 2004-06-10 10:00 PM

Took my wife's bike down out of the attic today. A Cro.Mo. Trek 400. No braze on's, no clipless pedals, no fancy saddle. Now here's the 'I feel old' part; Who in this group has heard of Shimano 'Biopace' chainrings?

Edited by rookie44 2004-06-12 10:18 PM

Biopace chainrings...a good idea in theory, but they just seemed have disapeared. I had the biopace chainrings on my 1984 Miele Lupa, a fine Columbus steel framed road bike with Shimano 105 components.

And as for whiffle ball...is that anything like German ball where two teams face each other and tag other members of the opposing team by hitting them with a very heavy ball the size of a basketball? They forced us to play that darned game throughout grade school in the fifties and into the early sixties. Ah, the pain when you got hit in an area where the skin was exposed or worse yet, in the face.....OUCH!!!!!

We didn't have Smurfs either; we had the Mickey Mouse club back in the time when Annette Funicello was just a little girl?!? :-O

Edited by Machiavelo 2004-06-13 8:49 AM

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Seasoned?!? Why I'm so seasoned, I must be very flavourful!

Lara, you're too kind.

"It's not the age -- it's the mileage." Indiana Jones.

The thing I remember most about the memeograph machines was the smell of the copies. I thought it was kinda cool. Guess back then we were all trying to "sniff" something..ha ha

Having a birthday tomorrow - feeling down right Spicy!

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The number is very Tri-licious......

39!

ack! I should go swim 39 laps, do crunches in sets of 39, then drink 39 glasses of wine!

Today, I don't feel so old. When I started training I couldn't run a mile in less than 10 min.
HA! I just did 3 miles @ 26:59

I guess goals do work.

Don, those moments are great, aren't they? You train so hard and endure those painful workouts. Occassionally, there's one where it just all comes together and the endorphins take over. Congratulations!

No, not yet! I refuse to grow up or to grow old or whichever comes first. No tinkering toys in my childhood either. We played war in the classrom with regular rubber bands and orange peel. if you want to know how. it's easy; place a rubber band around your thumb and index finger, extend your hand making a Y. Bring the opposite side of the band and place an inch square circle triangle or whatever shape the orange peal comes out. Extend towards you the peel holding the rubber band and then just let go. Practice first against a wall (or your obnoxious cooworker). After rubber bands we were introduced to "hondas" (I don't know the name in English) It is that weapon David used against Goliath.....No he was not my playmate; I was in another continent then. ;-)

55 and going back to my bike!

Pong. Man we thought it was cool.

Not everything we did outdoors as kids was so good for us...remember JARTS?

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Yup, the huge metal darts that you would throw up in the air and try to get to land in a hula hoop. You could take out an eye and your frontal lobe with those things. Life was good back then...