you know that you are getting old when....

[odeon]

My reading glasses cost too much for that.

['andersom']

I should get myself some with a cylinder in it, and multi-focal would not be a bad thing. But, the cylinder is minimal, as is the prescription for long distant view. So, so far, the cheap one from a discount drug-store does the job well enough for me, luckily. Glad not to need things like prism glasses etc.

[skyblue1]

going to bed early , sounds like a good idea.

[Parts]

You start with the "I remember when" stories about prices

[Parts]

It isn't only reading glasses too I got a couple of these

["couldbecousin"]

It isn't only reading glasses too I got a couple of these

That looks a bit like the equipment at the ophthalmologist's office! Is it? 

[SleepyDragon]

You start with the "I remember when" stories about prices

You tell the young ones that you quit smoking when cigarettes were still 67 cents for a pack of 25 from the shops, and 75 cents out of the vending machines, and the response is an eyeroll and a "Yeah, yeah, and dinosaurs were still roaming the earth."

(Too bloody right they were! Hell's bells, I went out with a few of 'em.)

["couldbecousin"]

You start with the "I remember when" stories about prices

You tell the young ones that you quit smoking when cigarettes were still 67 cents for a pack of 25 from the shops, and 75 cents out of the vending machines, and the response is an eyeroll and a "Yeah, yeah, and dinosaurs were still roaming the earth."

(Too bloody right they were! Hell's bells, I went out with a few of 'em.)

I remember cigarettes in vending machines! 

And I once dated a stegosaurus, cute but dumb, it's as if his brain was only as a big as a walnut! 

['andersom']

When you talk about prices in the former currency. And you realise that even if it only changed 8 years ago, only people your age and older get it.

Not only realising to get old, but also that youth has a different memory.

[TheoK]

You start with the "I remember when" stories about prices

I remember when the cheapest icecream was 75 öre. Today it's 10 kronor or something. 

[odeon]

Those were the days.

["couldbecousin"]

I'm grateful for all the progress of the past 30-40 years, but I still miss the 70s. 

[Callaway]

You start with the "I remember when" stories about prices

I remember when you could buy a piece of gum for a penny and a Coke for a quarter.

 

[Parts]

It isn't only reading glasses too I got a couple of these

That looks a bit like the equipment at the ophthalmologist's office! Is it? 

Just a big magnifier with a light used in coin stores and doing small hobbies

As far as prices go the first I remember noticing gas it was $.58 a gal cigs $.56 and Coke machines $.25 all from around 78 when I began to look at how much stuff cost

[odeon]

I remember when... when...

Damn, I forgot.