Do You Suffer From Geezerism?

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.

Comments (Page 3)

Gideon MacLeish

on Sep 06, 2004

I got 11 on LW's quiz....

I left out blackjack chewing gum for one reason...it had an attempted resurgence in the 80's (hardly geezer age), so I figured it only counts if you remember it from the FIRST time through

Gideon MacLeish

on Sep 06, 2004

ahhh, the smooth flavor of a candy cigarette . . . always steadies my nerves.

The only problem I had with candy cigarettes is...they were damn hard to light!

Insightful

on Sep 25, 2004

Gosh darn it! I"m approaching geezer time.
Where has time gone? How did my kids get bigger then me?

Are you happy?

dharmagrl

on Sep 25, 2004

I got 16. I'm a geezer-ette. A kick-ass, cool as hell geezer-ette (hey, I have to toot my own horn occasionally)...but a geezer-ette nonetheless.

Shovelheat

on Sep 25, 2004

When it takes all night to do what I used to do all night...

Disaster Cat

on Sep 27, 2004

A few more suggestions that you may be a geezer, the first two were from my mother. I now know from personal experience that she is right:

1 - Your doctor is younger than you are.
2 - You see all these young girls with babies everywhere and they look far to young to be mothers!
3 - When you realize that drinking coffee after 6 pm is not a good idea....
4 - When you realize that drinking any liquid, even water, after 10 pm will result in very little sleep
5 - When you list of prescription medications starts to look like an expensive first aid kit
6 - When you notice that every other sentence starts with - "I remember when..."

Hope that helps, I love this thread
Disaster Cat

SSG Geezer

on Sep 27, 2004

Oh yes Cat, all too true, and on little Whip's I got 21 of 25!
#6 "When I was In The Corps..."
Can I come visit?

chiprj

on Sep 27, 2004

1 - Your doctor is younger than you are.

When your company commander is younger than you...

batallion commander would be even worse

SSG Geezer

on Sep 27, 2004

Last one was same age or a bit younger.

The Crusaders

on Sep 27, 2004

"Oh my God....I am a geezer!"

Nadeon

on Oct 21, 2004

Oh my gawd....I became a geezer before I was ready! 19...18 if you give me the wringer/washer, since we had an "automatic"; grandma still had a wringer. Anyone remember those little pies that came in the blue boxes? That was pre-hostess I believe. I couldn't quite decide on the newsreel one. I do remember cartoons before the main feature, so I took the hit My 15 year old just looked down on me the other day and asked how soon he could sign up for driver's ed. I think I'm in trouble!

Nadeon

on Oct 21, 2004

"When I was in the Corps..." I retired last year ending my glorious career in Recruiting. You can tack on: "When you're older than the parents of the kids you're recruiting...by more than 5 years.
On the up side, I don't look anywhere near as old as the guys I went to school with. I still take perverse pleasure in hearing my daughter's friends say "That's your dad?" Especially when they were a few years behind you in school!
Semper Fi SSG G, see ya at the VFW!

SSG Geezer

on Oct 21, 2004

POSt 1405 Spencer IN. See ya there!

trina_p

on Nov 25, 2004

I remember the candy cigarettes - there were the white musks with the red tips called Fags which now don't have the red tips and are called Fads, the pink musks called Big Boss cigars
and my personal favourite the chocolate sticks wrapped in edible paper and come in packs of like 12 in a box like my Nanna's Winfield Red but were called Chicago, San Fancisco etc

I also remember Home delivery of milk with glass bottles and gold/silver foil caps (not cardboard) and I went to the drive-in once. My grandparents were still getting there milk delivered until about 1995 I think (cartons though not glass)

I'm also this
2. You need help standing up after spending more than 5 minutes sitting cross-legged. (sometimes)

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

and this

how about when you feel like death on a saturday morning, even though nothing happened the night before ?.

or when you wake up in the morning with a pain in your body or a pulled muscle, and all you did to get it was sleep funny !.

All that said I was born in 1983

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