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TrulyReconciled ( member #3031) posted at 6:27 PM on Monday, September 9th, 2013

You know, I've *never* said that ...

"In a time of deceit, telling the Truth is a revolutionary act."

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nowiknow23 ( member #33226) posted at 2:45 PM on Tuesday, September 10th, 2013

You may find some truths to relate to here...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexnaidus/signs-youre-too-old-for-this-crap

You can call me NIK

And never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
― Sarah McMane

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TrulyReconciled ( member #3031) posted at 2:50 PM on Tuesday, September 10th, 2013

You are so helpful ... youngster

"In a time of deceit, telling the Truth is a revolutionary act."

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nowiknow23 ( member #33226) posted at 3:37 PM on Tuesday, September 10th, 2013

You can call me NIK

And never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
― Sarah McMane

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TrulyReconciled ( member #3031) posted at 4:14 PM on Tuesday, September 10th, 2013

Thankfully, I look 10 years younger than I actually *am.*

"In a time of deceit, telling the Truth is a revolutionary act."

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Sad in AZ ( member #24239) posted at 4:14 PM on Tuesday, September 10th, 2013

Blow dryers??? You remember setting your hair with empty frozen orange juice cans--or if it was really long--empty one-pound coffee cans in order to straighten it!

You are important and you matter. Your feelings matter. Your voice matters. Your story matters. Your life matters. Always.

Me: FBS (no longer betrayed nor a spouse)-63
D-day: 2007 (two years before finding SI)
S: 6/2010; D: 3/2011

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TrulyReconciled ( member #3031) posted at 4:30 PM on Tuesday, September 10th, 2013

Still *cool* ...

"In a time of deceit, telling the Truth is a revolutionary act."

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JKL Vikings ( member #32094) posted at 9:34 PM on Tuesday, September 10th, 2013

OK I'll play

I remember when ATARI was all the rage and you didn't need a masters in engineering to play a video game

When parents showed KIDS how to WORK GADGETS. (My 6th grader is helping me with my new phone)

When rap had lyrics besides n---, b---- and ho

VCRs

Cassette tapes

Her- Alpha Female 42
Me-FWH 44
Married since '02, together since 2000
D-day 2/10/2009
3 sons- J- born Oct 2001
K- born Sept. 2005
L- born Apr. 2008
We ALL have issues. It's how we deal with them that makes the difference

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kernel ( member #27035) posted at 11:58 PM on Tuesday, September 10th, 2013

Cassette tapes? Try 8-track tapes.

And this Batman and Robin:

[This message edited by kernel at 5:59 PM, September 10th (Tuesday)]

"On particularly rough days when I'm sure I can't possibly endure, I like to remind myself that my track record for getting through bad days so far is 100% and that's pretty good."

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Clarrissa ( member #21886) posted at 12:53 AM on Wednesday, September 11th, 2013

I remember 8-tracks and that Batman and Robin. I also remember Atari.

Here's one for the more "mature" members - actual penny candy. A pop that cost 2 bits out of the machine. Pop in glass bottles that you could return for a nickle (or 10 cents). Pull tabs on either beer or pop cans.

For the smokers, a pack of name brands that cost 45 cents.

I'm sure there's more but I can't think of them right now.

ETA: you may be getting old if you know the meaning of the term "L7" - as in "He/she/they are so L7".

[This message edited by Clarrissa at 6:55 PM, September 10th (Tuesday)]

BH Cee64D - 50
FWW (me) - 51


All affairs are variations on a theme. No one has 'Beethoven's 5th' to everyone else's 'Chopsticks'.

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TheRealDeal ( member #39560) posted at 1:52 AM on Wednesday, September 11th, 2013

Watching The Hardy Boys (not re-runs) on TV.

Being infatuated with Shaun Cassidy and being jealous of my sister for having a poster of him in her room. And of course, singing along to his famous Do-Run-Run song.

Buying a 12-inch B&W TV for my bedroom and my friend being jealous of it as we watched, sitting on my waterbed.

Roller-skating at the 'Rink every Saturday night. BTW, I recently found a roller skating rink in nearby town and I found that I still have the moves! What fun it's been!!

any former-roller-skaters will get this...knowing the words to Rappers Delight

Being impressed when the first fast-food chain came to town and had a DRIVE-THRU window.

Renting, not owning, our telephone from Ma-Bell.

Watching slideshows with my family from the slide projector.

My first cell-phone, was a big ol' flip-phone, and as my sister put it, the size of a man's shoe.

Knowing the difference between leaded and unleaded gas-pumps.

Learning to type on a manual typewriter at home but in school on the oh-so-cool electric version!

yikes, my list could go on and on...

but just for the record, I don't think of myself as old!

Me (BS): 47 him (Xws): 55
together 18 years
DDay1, DDay2, Dday 3: March - June 2013
Dday4 + June 2015 through January 2016
Status: done I called it quits 1-6-2016
The hardest part of letting go is realizing there wasn't much left to hold on to

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Clarrissa ( member #21886) posted at 2:54 AM on Wednesday, September 11th, 2013

TRD, you just reminded me of something else. The "ding-ding" as you pulled up to the pump, waaaay back in the day when an attendant pumped the gas for you.

Slight t/j: I watched Emergency! on Netflix a while back and had to pause an episode because I couldn't quite believe the price of gas it showed - 54 cents/gallon for self-serve, 64 cents/gallon for full service. I was thinking "Damn, people would KILL for those prices these days..."

BH Cee64D - 50
FWW (me) - 51


All affairs are variations on a theme. No one has 'Beethoven's 5th' to everyone else's 'Chopsticks'.

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nowiknow23 ( member #33226) posted at 3:25 AM on Wednesday, September 11th, 2013

Watching slideshows with my family from the slide projector.

I still do this with my Mom and Dad's slides from all the vacations we took when I was a kid.

Paneled station wagon with a U-Haul bubble on top. Oh, yeah.

You can call me NIK

And never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
― Sarah McMane

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unfound ( member #12802) posted at 3:32 AM on Wednesday, September 11th, 2013

Paneled station wagon with a U-Haul bubble on top

YES! And sitting in the way back, facing backwards, pretending to drive and getting semi trucks to honk!

Aw, the seventies, when seatbelts were an option and cb radios were the coolest thing ever!

ka-mai
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Kids on the playground can be so cruel. “Get off the swings you’re like 50, and stop talking about Soundgarden, we don't even know what that is."

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aesir ( member #17210) posted at 3:39 AM on Wednesday, September 11th, 2013

When rap had lyrics besides n---, b---- and ho

Okay now you're just making shit up to screw with us.

Pull tabs on either beer or pop cans.

Slight t/j: I watched Emergency! on Netflix a while back and...

I still remember the episode where the emergency was the guy dropped his pull tab into his beer can and then accidentally drank said pull tab and choked.

[This message edited by aesir at 9:40 PM, September 10th (Tuesday)]

Your mileage may vary... in accordance with the prophecy.

Do not back up. Severe tire damage.

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nowiknow23 ( member #33226) posted at 3:41 AM on Wednesday, September 11th, 2013

YES! And sitting in the way back, facing backwards, pretending to drive and getting semi trucks to honk!

Oh, yeah! The wayback ruled. I had so many siblings, we rotated seating on road trips so everyone got a shot at the wayback.

You can call me NIK

And never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
― Sarah McMane

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unfound ( member #12802) posted at 3:46 AM on Wednesday, September 11th, 2013

Tab soda

Tang

jiffy pop popcorn

Lawn darts ..the real kind that always weeded out the not so bright cousins at the family reunion.

smoking sections on airplanes

[This message edited by unfound at 9:46 PM, September 10th (Tuesday)]

ka-mai
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Kids on the playground can be so cruel. “Get off the swings you’re like 50, and stop talking about Soundgarden, we don't even know what that is."

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Vulcanized ( member #33523) posted at 5:45 AM on Wednesday, September 11th, 2013

Quaaludes

Putting on baby oil before going out in the sun

Super uncomfortable (but so cool) wood sole Candies

Me: fBW/MH 40s
3.26.13: Liberation day: D'd the whiny turd after being saddled with a serial cheating, NPD, jitbag 10 years too long

Now:-----> Everything is as it should be

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TheRealDeal ( member #39560) posted at 12:03 PM on Wednesday, September 11th, 2013

YES! And sitting in the way back, facing backwards, pretending to drive and getting semi trucks to honk!

omg, ^^^^ this! yes, we did that too. Ahh, the good ol' family trips in the '68 station wagon.

sitting in back of pickup truck in garden-style ROCKING chairs as we headed to the lake parents would be accused of neglect doing that today!

those pesky optional-to-use seatbelts in cars.

walking to kindergarten 1/2 mile away,by myself,at 4 years old.

Me (BS): 47 him (Xws): 55
together 18 years
DDay1, DDay2, Dday 3: March - June 2013
Dday4 + June 2015 through January 2016
Status: done I called it quits 1-6-2016
The hardest part of letting go is realizing there wasn't much left to hold on to

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TrulyReconciled ( member #3031) posted at 4:06 PM on Wednesday, September 11th, 2013

WATCHING the Hardy Boys???

How about READING the Hardy Boys?? Before TV

"In a time of deceit, telling the Truth is a revolutionary act."

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