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Looking at the guide for upcoming 2019 Christmas specials and you don’t know any of the singers or groups.

You know you’re an old fart when you can sing the words from “Frosty the Snowman” when you’re past 70

You know you’re and old fart when you can tell the story and go around the house singing “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” When you’re past 70

You know you’re an old fart when you can visualize, sing the song from “The Little Drummer Boy” and get misty eyed when you’re past 70

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Where are Andy Williams, Perry Como (singing Ave Maria), Pavarotti, et al

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My kids fit in that category and they aren’t old. Lol

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They probably could also answer my first sentence. 😉 I posted this because I was looking at the guide for upcoming Christmas specials. I got frustrated due to not being familiar with any of the guest stars/singers/bands, etc. I just felt so damn old...which I am...sigh 😔

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It’s funny because my mom is in her 70’s and I guarantee she knows more about pop culture than me or my kids.

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She sounds like my mom use to be. She was always ahead of me in fashion, stars, etc. Now I’m 76 (far older than most of you) and the world has passed me by. I know zilch about pop culture.

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When you think 10pm is staying up late..

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Got that right lol

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I was thinking of a recent Bobs Burgers episode where they want to go to a party but it starts at 10 o clock. You mean the party starts at 10? Ahhhh.

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My son and his girlfriend are here and they are leaving at around 11pm to go to a club. That seems so late to me now.

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My ex husband was saying how early I go to bed. But I get up at 6:30am and you get up at 8:00!!

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And I used to be out until 5am in my partying days - what was I thinking? lol

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I think even in college the latest I could stay up was 2am

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I'm going to post the thread latest you have stayed up.. My guess some of these guys have stayed up 48hours . Lets see.

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I used to stay out half the night and still make it to work on time. Youth...nothing like it. I had the world by the tail.

“Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower,”

“Yesterday when I was young,
The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue,
I teased at life as if it were a foolish game,
The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame;
The thousand dreams I dreamed,
The splendid things I planned
I always built, alas,
on weak and shifting sand;
I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day
And only now I see how the years ran away.“



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No wonder you dumped him

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I was thinking of a recent Bobs Burgers episode where they want to go to a party but it starts at 10 o clock. You mean the party starts at 10? Ahhhh.

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And your normal bedtime is 10:30 - 11:00 😄

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Ok boomer.

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When you know that the big button under your left foot in the vehicle is the headlights dimmer switch.

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I remember those! Dang, I'm old.

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I think Chevy trucks switched to high beams on the column in 1988.

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I was a happy camper when the switch was made. That floor button was always a stretch for me - I'm only 4'12". 😉

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I bet that was a stretch!!!

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As vertically challenged as I am, my sister was 2 inches shorter. I felt for her, I tell ya. But she was someone who, when I was with her, I felt tall.

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4'12"? ;)

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And that's when a lot of blondes got confused and got their legs tangled in the steering wheel.

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Hey, I’m a blonde and my legs didn’t get tangled in the steering wheel reaching for the dimmer switch...

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So... how'd they get tangled...?lol

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Mine's a '78

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I liked those. Much easier than fumbling with a lever on the column. OMGosh, last week I was driving at night and attempted to flash someone who had their brights on (or so I thought). I ended up turning off my lights! Yikes! I had trouble turning them back on! Yep, give me the floor dimmer switch!

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I prefer the on-the-column switch. Unfortunately, I have been known to turn on the wipers instead. Oops.

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Now that made me laugh! 😅I’ve done it so many times and it startles me!

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Me too!

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OMG that's funny

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Trust me... I understand

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...when you can get through an entire day without taking a picture of anything.

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...when all your sports heroes have retired.

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...and yet they inundate you with senior citizen oriented commercials (e.g. Joe Namath & Mark Spitz).

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I've seen Broadway Joe, but not Mark Spitz, thank goodness.

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I’m still waiting for Roger Staubach to come onto the field!

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And then there's Bruce Jenner who's become an also ran.

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The older you get, the earlier it gets late.

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You finally got your head together, now your body is falling apart.

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You rely on your barber to keep the hairs growing out of your ears trimmed.

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You know you’re an old fart when you grow hairs where you never had them...and lose hairs where you did have them. Why in the hell do hairs start growing out of your ears and nose? Why?

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That's one of those conundrums Arsenio Hall would address with his, "Things that make you go hmmm."

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Ain’t that the truth! Life is like a roll of toilet paper...the more you use...the faster it goes!

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Yep, the closer you get to the end, the faster it goes!

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