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You Know You Are Old When.......
Published on August 24, 2004 By SSG Geezer In Humor
As you may know if you have read this blog before, I am a geezer, (note the lower case)
but I am biologically not in what are more commonly referred to as the Geezer age group.
Here is a little questionaire for you. Feel free to post your own too so I can ID some more geezers.
You might be a Geezer if:

1. You are old enough to be a parent of 90%+ of your day to day co-workers.

2. You need help standing up after spending more than 5 minutes sitting cross-legged.

3. Trip-hop, Hip-hop and like music just make you think of crummy Disco. (Which still sucks)

4. When your kids are taller than you and will soon be able to take the car keys when they want to.

5. When you go out to eat ,and you wish you could eat off the seniors menu, but can't.

6. When you need reading glasses and distance glasses for driving. (Or bifocals)

7. When you long for the simple days, when there was only one choice of Cable TV packages.

8. When you long for the day when there was no cable TV. (not mee I love ESPN)

9. When you don't really give a rats ass about any sports figure except to laugh when they are jailed.

10. You think that no one could ever be that naive when uttering a politically inclined pronouncement.

11. You liked Hubert Humphrey. (A great Minnesotan!)

Leave me more since my brain is numb from work.

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on Aug 25, 2004
Join the club! We accept liberals , conservatives, indies and Libertarians, (btw where's Gideon?) limp along the road to
financial freedom with me and the Catfur Ranchers of America!
For your free brochure call 1-800 DUM-BASS, Ext. more on.
on Aug 25, 2004
20. After being thoroughly stimulated and excited by this website, you take a relaxing break from it with a cup of milky tea.

But perhaps that's a bit UK centric...
on Aug 27, 2004
Or your beer gut in my case (and chips)


Mine's a combo of both problems... bad back and bear gut... that's two strikes...
on Aug 27, 2004
I am a geezer-ette.  That's sad........
on Aug 28, 2004
1. You are old enough to be a parent of 90%+ of your day to day co-workers. This may be true when I get a job again, if I have to work in fast food

2. You need help standing up after spending more than 5 minutes sitting cross-legged. Got me there

3. Trip-hop, Hip-hop and like music just make you think of crummy Disco. (Which still sucks) Got me there, too.

4. When your kids are taller than you and will soon be able to take the car keys when they want to. Nope.

5. When you go out to eat ,and you wish you could eat off the seniors menu, but can't. Hell, no...supersize me, baby!

6. When you need reading glasses and distance glasses for driving. (Or bifocals) uhh, no.

7. When you long for the simple days, when there was only one choice of Cable TV packages. ok, I'll cop to this one

8. When you long for the day when there was no cable TV. (not mee I love ESPN) 25,000 channels of ESPN, baby...I want a play by play analysis of Dan Patrick's nose hair movement!

9. When you don't really give a rats ass about any sports figure except to laugh when they are jailed. Nopr.

10. You think that no one could ever be that naive when uttering a politically inclined pronouncement. Nope. I've met some pretty stupid people in my day.

11. You liked Hubert Humphrey. (A great Minnesotan!) Good gravy, man...I know they grow some good weed up in Minnesota, but you're supposed to be a SOLDIER, man!!!!

so that'd make me, what? Like 35% geezer? As in getting, but not there yet.
on Aug 28, 2004
you know you are a geezer when you start off stories with, "back when i was your age..."
i find myself doing that more these days...
on Aug 28, 2004
My parents are geezers . . . maybe even Geezers . . . when they came to visit me earlier in the summer, it took them a good 3 days to get adjusted to the time change. All they could do was sleep. They do other old people stuff, too . . . my mom can't go anywhere without having to stop at a gas station to go pee. I still love them, though . . . even if they are geezers.
on Aug 28, 2004
Whe n you start a story with: "when I was in the Corps..."
on Aug 28, 2004
when you get sexually satisfied squeezing into a tight parking space.

when your kids think Metallica belongs on a oldies station.

great post geezer but you are only as young as the people you feel.

Macdaddy
on Aug 28, 2004
Good one wyd! I don't feel too young lately but maybe that will change. (I doubt it)
Half of my rep at work is because I am such a curmudgeon. I love that word!
on Aug 30, 2004
Half of my rep at work is because I am such a curmudgeon. I love that word!


I've always preferred coot. As in crotchety old coot. I love that one.
on Aug 31, 2004
Heres a Geezer quiz for ya'all....
(Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about.)


In my own self interest, I won't be sharing my score with any of you...
on Aug 31, 2004
gezzer smeezer..its all about attitude..Age doesnt rule me..Im alot more focused,wiser,driven than most young punks,besides when your younger your not broke in yet . You have no experience.Most people who are younger than I are really not that bright..brain dead is the correct word.It takes years of living to get to the point where your not as stupid as you used to be.
on Aug 31, 2004
LW you should not have gotten all of those, even I didn't and my grandma had a wringer washer, w/a wringer for the rinse and bluing too!
Butch wax? Packards? that's before your time too. Good one though
How do you remember Howdy Doody?
on Aug 31, 2004
Hey . . . I think my small hometown Taylor Mart still sells candy cigarettes . . . at least they did a few years ago . . . ahhh, the smooth flavor of a candy cigarette . . . always steadies my nerves.
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