“I am getting too old for this” doesn’t count.
It’s when you say “I am too old for this” that it counts.
remembering how much things used to costs… like " I remember as a kid 7 bucks could get you in the movies with candy popcorn and a soda and maybe you might have enough left over for arcade games …"
Mrs. solost and I still talk about our $12 dinner and a movie date. It was around the turn of the millenium, before we were married. We went to a mall that no longer exists. It had a Cinemark theater and a food court in the mall right next to it. Cinemark was (is?) a theater chain that showed movies at discount after they’d played in full price theaters for awhile.
The food court had a Thai place, and we got two surprisingly really good red curries for $4.50 each. Then we saw ‘Meet the Parents’ at $1.50 each for tickets. It wasn’t just a cheap date, it was a good date. Mrs. solost is a thrifty sort, and rather than thinking I was a cheap date, was impressed at the return we got for our $12.
I spoke of “remembering the Bicentennial” as an example of how old I was (as I have done for about the last ten years) only to be asked by someone who was an adult, old enough to buy a drink and who had 3/4 of a college degree, “What’s the Bicentennial?”
Heh, not surprised. One of my kids is an official adult and the other will be, later this year. I should ask them if they know the term.
I can’t believe it’s almost time for the Semiquincentennial!!
Do you remember CBS (I think it was) broadcasting “Bicentennial Minutes,” between shows? It was an interesting diversion.
AND IT WAS ALMOST 50 YEARS AGO!
I don’t use a lot of dated speech. But I might start trying to use more. What terms would you suggest?
“Time to breakdance over to the arcade for a quick game of Frogger, some bubble gum cigars and a nickel bottle of Tahiti Treat”.
“That’s a ten-four, Ranger Ranger.”
“Those flappers hoofing the Charleston are the bees knees”.
“We seniors …” and “When you get to be my age…” are always popular opening lines. 
More seriously, I have made it a habit to try to never part with people in acrimony, because there may not be an opportunity to make up. Even when my wife or I leave the house.
I never knew that was an age-related thing; a “chronolect” if you will. I thought it was more regional/dialectical.
My dad was a doctor for many years , and he once mentioned using the “eye-ther” pronunciation because “ee-ther” could be confused with ether.
Never mind.
When i was a kid, olde folks could be identified with your eyes closed (and/or despite their surgeries) by the use of phrases like “I’d imagine so” and “back in my day.” I remember a high school friend’s Grandma saying “cut the wicks” for “turn out the lights.”
Now i feel the same thing is happening. It’s not what has crept in, but what i still use. “Roll down the window” in the car is one that Celtling finds embarrassing. “Dial him up” for calling someone, and “turn it up” for tv volume also come to mind.
Oh dear, where is my shawl?
When I was a kid everything cost a nickel. It was the only unit of currency.
And this is the street where all the Fellas live.
I’ve always been a person who liked naps from time to time but more recently that afternoon nap is almost a necessity. (I’m 70)
Well, back in my day . . . No. It wasn’t my day. I was knee-high to a hop-toad. Anyway, back then my grandma used to call the refrigerator an ice box. And she had a bread box.
Would that make those phrases dead-personisms? (Grandma wasn’t Y2k compliant.)
It probably is, I was just having fun.
Knock, knock?
Who’s there?
Boo.
Boo who?
Don’t cry, Ether Bunny’ll be back next year.
Wow, I remember that one! Why Ether though?
Doctor: would you like a local or a general anasthetic?
Patient: either.
Doctor: OK, pretty old-fashioned, and not what I’d recommend, but ether it is…
It’s like saying “Easter Bunny” with a lithp.