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Can you think of something that existed in your lifetime that automatically ages you? Example: pay toilets.(Yes, I remember them.)

Posted - December 14, 2019

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  • 19937
    When I was in Junior High School (circa 1957), a slice of pizza and a coke was 25 cents.

    Street games called Johnny Ride the Pony, slug (a form of handball), hop scotch, ball 'n' jacks, Skully.  

    You needed a key to tighten your roller skates to your shoes (and you used the skate key to throw in hop scotch).  

    Black and white saddle shoes worn with bobby socks, crinolines worn under your poodle skirt to make it stand out.  

    No helmets, knee pads or any other bubble wrap when you rode your bike.  

      December 14, 2019 12:31 PM MST
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  • Blockbuster video stores. 
      December 14, 2019 12:48 PM MST
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  • 1152
    I can just barely remember (full size) Hershey Bars being $0.05 at the local convenience store.
      December 14, 2019 12:54 PM MST
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  • 7792
    Other people being stupid all of the time and subjecting me to it. That'll age me quite a bit.
      December 14, 2019 12:58 PM MST
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  • 44620
    You must be older than water.
      December 14, 2019 1:28 PM MST
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  • 1152
    And you hang out on this site? 

    You should change your handle to "Methuselah"...
      December 14, 2019 1:31 PM MST
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  • 46117
    Let he who is SO SUPERIOR TO EVERYONE ELSE CAST THE FIRST STONE.  You sound like the stable Genius in the White House now.  
      December 14, 2019 3:58 PM MST
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  • 44620
    I have to wait until my shoulder heals before I can throw anything.
      December 14, 2019 6:10 PM MST
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  • 7792
    YUP!!!
      December 14, 2019 6:52 PM MST
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  • 4624
    The Sun.
    I didn't start wearing a hat until my early thirties.
    I now look ten years older than an English person of the same age.
      December 14, 2019 4:36 PM MST
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  • 14795
    How very very true...I know a girl that moved to OZ around twelve years ago...she roughly the same age as me but looks at least 25 years older ,she look dried out and her skin looked like she was in her seventies..she never wore a hat either...:(
      December 14, 2019 5:25 PM MST
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  • 44620
    She's only 33??
      December 14, 2019 6:12 PM MST
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  • 14795
    No older than 37, i generally never ask others how old they are...it was hard to know it was her...I remember being shocked at the time...and she was not someone I knew well 
      December 14, 2019 6:54 PM MST
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  • 14795
    Excessive alcohol and heavy smoking takes it toll on people two....
      December 14, 2019 6:57 PM MST
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  • 17599
    They are still found in European countries.  I haven't seen one here in a long time.   

    I remember separate water fountains for black or white people to use.  It's a faint memory; stronger is the memory of my mother's explanation to me when I ask that childish question:  Why?  
      December 14, 2019 5:57 PM MST
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  • 44620
    What was her response?
      December 14, 2019 6:11 PM MST
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  • 551
    They are making a comeback in Britain.
      December 20, 2019 12:51 PM MST
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  • 53509
     Separate water fountains?

    :(
      December 21, 2019 2:17 AM MST
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  • 14795
    A Halloween Mask and formaldehyde embalming fluid......:(
      December 14, 2019 7:07 PM MST
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  • 14795
    Mummification or Daddification if you're embalmy enough to try it..   :( 
      December 14, 2019 7:13 PM MST
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  • 14795
    Carbon Dating for old fossils that still have blood surging through their veins and still wish to carry on with their obsession of populating the world single handed.....hehe....
    They belive it can't be achive in a stroke with the aid of modern medication that came from out of the blue one day..... :(CD 
      December 14, 2019 7:23 PM MST
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  • I'm old enough to remember pay phones, VHS tapes, dial-up internet, and when people called it a "cellular phone". :P
      December 14, 2019 11:56 PM MST
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  • 17599
    It's mobile phone but works on a cellular network.  
      December 20, 2019 10:18 PM MST
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  • 16794
    33, 45 and 78. The fact that I even know the relationship between those numbers ages me.
      December 20, 2019 11:28 PM MST
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  • 53509

      I got it immediately. 



      December 21, 2019 3:29 AM MST
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