Tuesday, January 11, 2011

It's Official --


I am now a Registered Old Fart. Available for weddings, funerals, and general carping, as well as free-ranging "Used to be's."

"That mini-mall. Used to be a filbert orchard!"

"Dollar for a Coca Cola? Used to be a nickel!"

"Gasoline? Used to be a quarter a gallon!"

And they say memory is the second thing to go. First thing to go? Um ... Ah ... ?
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10 comments:

  1. steve-vhWednesday, January 12, 2011 at 5:11:00 AM PST

    Come with a white belt and shoes?
    Don forget velcro laces.

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  2. Steve PerryWednesday, January 12, 2011 at 12:44:00 PM PST

    Yep. Trousers you belt just under your sternum, and garters for your socks, too. Already got the hearing aids and glasses.

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  3. Daniel Keys MoranWednesday, January 12, 2011 at 1:09:00 PM PST

    Dollar for a coca cola? It's $2.50 at the restaurants around here. You're living in the past, old man ...

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  4. Josh KruschkeWednesday, January 12, 2011 at 11:09:00 PM PST

    Old farts.... Sigh.

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  5. Dojo RatWednesday, January 12, 2011 at 11:33:00 PM PST

    You kids get off my lawn!!!

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  6. Steve PerryThursday, January 13, 2011 at 1:16:00 PM PST

    Who buys Coke at a restaurant? Or a movie?

    Six pack at Safeway, just under a buck a can. Twelve-pack, runs about 70 cents. I'm old, but I can still read the prices, sonny ...

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  7. Some guyThursday, January 13, 2011 at 6:19:00 PM PST

    And disco is now an antique fad valued solely for parodying. But- but- but-

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  8. Daniel Keys MoranThursday, January 13, 2011 at 11:20:00 PM PST

    Ah, a cultural misunderstanding. We're good liberal Los Angeleans. We only ever drink coke in restaurants. At home we drink triple filtered molecularly pure dihydrogen oxide diffused through sacred tea leaves imported from the Ganges Valley. Or so we tell the neighbors.

    Sometimes they don't have it in restaurants, though, so then you settle.

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  9. Mike ByersSaturday, January 15, 2011 at 7:08:00 AM PST

    And in just a few more years you'll be a Harmless Old Fart: even better! Being invisible to the younger generation does have it's advantages, though. Remember the Alice Sheldon story "The Women Men Don't See"? It works for both sexes, you know...

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  10. Steve PerrySaturday, January 15, 2011 at 12:55:00 PM PST

    Restaurant? Used to be an orange tree orchard!

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