[solvegas]

...... the candles cost more than the cake.

and there is a chance they will set off the fire alarm ... 

[gonZo]

...or they're the trick candles that can't be blown out, and they outlive you.  

[gOOber]

 

[gonZo]

...there's a picture of an old girlfriend in the newspaper, and you realize the article is about "active seniors". It happened to me today.

Hmm, just how "active" is she?
*eyebrows*
*eyebrows*

[rtpoe]

You spot a book about something you remember living through in the History section of the local library.

[WhoDunIt]

...you hear your class song on the oldies station.

My sister and I are only in our 30's and we've already had those moments!  My newest car has satellite radio and I discovered they have a Classic Rap Station........yes I typed "a Classic Rap Station"........and heard "Mo Money, Mo Problems" on it and could only think....has it been that long all ready?!  Shortly afterwards my sister tells me she was getting her hair done and the Adult Contemporary station that was playing while she was there started playing "No Scrubs"   

When I was looking at this car back in the spring, I mentioned to the saleskid that some of the reason I was looking at it was for gas mileage when compared to my truck and was surprised it made so much power for only needing regular (it also runs quite nicely on E-85, I have discovered ) and then brought up that my first car was from the mid 80's and had a turbocharged 4 cylinder that required premium.....which only cost $1.50 a gallon when I bought that car and was only around $1.80 when it finally gave up and when I bought my truck, regular cost around $1.60 or so a gallon.............apparently he isn't old enough to remember gas being that cheap or was probably born after that car was killed off

[solvegas]

When I was looking at this car back in the spring, I mentioned to the saleskid that some of the reason I was looking at it was for gas mileage when compared to my truck and was surprised it made so much power for only needing regular (it also runs quite nicely on E-85, I have discovered ) and then brought up that my first car was from the mid 80's and had a turbocharged 4 cylinder that required premium.....which only cost $1.50 a gallon when I bought that car and was only around $1.80 when it finally gave up and when I bought my truck, regular cost around $1.60 or so a gallon.............apparently he isn't old enough to remember gas being that cheap or was probably born after that car was killed off

Gawd, you are young .... I remember gas at $0.22 a gallon for regular. My first job was at a ESSO ( before it became Exxon ) station in Houston  back in 1972. Octane was 95 for regular, 100 for mid-grade and 105 for premium which you paid a horrible $0.28 !  The agony !  And then in 1973 we had the arab oil embargo and it went to .... $0.45 !!!  THIS CALLS FOR WAR !!! Or something like that. My mother drove a 1971 Chevrolet Monte Carlo ( one of the best looking cars ever ) and I remember her driving into my gas station and she remarking " I can't believe I spent five Dollars to fill the car "  . Yup, remember my grandad talking about how he use to only pay $0.04 per gallon back in the day and me being bored with his " Good ol' days " tripe. 

[pedonbio]

Hmm, just how "active" is she?
*eyebrows*
*eyebrows*

Oh, my! She and a friend were doing an "educational performance" for some third-graders. Mostly I remember that she once said, "If it weren't for these (pointing you-know-where), my social life would be pretty limited."

[Tugboatcap]

Gawd, you are young .... I remember gas at $0.22 a gallon for regular.

When I was about 10 years old, I'd pump the gas at my family's marina (hand crank reset La Gloria Oil Co. pumps!) and the price was $0.17-9/10 a gallon.  Sheesh.  What I'd give to have a couple of thousand gallons at that price...

Tugboat"Oh, yeah.  Marine Gasoline doesn't have road tax added!Cap!

[gOOber]

....you have to choose what funeral to attend. I had to choose between two equally important people  to me who had funerals at the same time today.

[DruulEmpire]

Ack!  Goob, I'm sorry.

to Bio below: this reminds me a bit of my RIP Lunar Visitors thread.  I figure we may lose an average of one Apollo astronaut a year this decade now that Armstrong has gone.

[pedonbio]

Druul, there's a tipping point when you attend more funerals than weddings in a year. After that, the slope slips.

Edit: Thinking about it, there's really a plateau: First you go to a lot of weddings, hopefully getting laid; then for about twenty years there are a few weddings, mostly re-starts, and a few funerals; then you suddenly realize you've gone to ten funerals and no weddings...

[solvegas]

....you have to choose what funeral to attend. I had to choose between two equally important people  to me who had funerals at the same time today.

In my case it becomes impossible to attend the funerals of family members in Mexico because by law a body must either be buried or cremated within 24 hours of a Doctor or appointed goverment official declaration of death. This law made sense when it was inpractical / impossible to preserve the body without danger of communicable disease spreading back in the 19th century. Those who believe only the US is full of idiot or obsolete laws are mistaken. Anyways, my father, who was born in Mexico even though he is a Canadian citizen now,  had 12 brothers and sisters and in the last 4 years four have passed away and I've missed all of them since I live in the US and they all died in Mexico. My mom passed away 2 1/2 years ago here in Vegas and the funeral was attended by mostly the American and Canadian side of the family. I do feel bad for you that you had to make a choise Goober and hopefully everybody will understand that sometimes it's just impossible to do that which we need or want to do. 

[DruulEmpire]

... Benjamin Franklin is your hero all over again -- and for all the wrong reasons.

[pedonbio]

... Benjamin Franklin is your hero all over again -- and for all the wrong reasons.

Could there be a wrong reason? An outspoken atheist, hard **94** and eager to fuck any woman who caught his fancy, who invented, among other things, fire insurance, oceanography, urban street cleaning, and that wonderful fireplace that made the '60s so warm...? Yes, he was a lousy husband, and he had issues with his son, but who's perfect?

Gouvernor Morris at least gets honorable mention for losing a paternity suit when he was 80.

Let's face it: These guys really were the fathers of our country!