You know you're old when...

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by Littlebear

Does anyone remember when you had to buy your phone from Ma Bell? I think the choice was one table model, one wall model, & later, the Princess phone!

I'm old enough to remember pre-lawsuit when your only choice was to rent a phone from Ma Bell.

Speaking of which, knowing Ma Bell is a good sign that you are old enough to know why it is rude to be on my lawn.....

[Littlebear]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

....
Speaking of which, knowing Ma Bell is a good sign that you are old enough to know why it is rude to be on my lawn.....

Because of what Onslow did to your shrubbery that time?

[UncleWede]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

It boggles my brain that said employee doesn't add in deposits, keep track of payments/withdrawals and just takes the bank's word as far as her balance goes. And she's not a dimwit. She's a smart kid (30ish). Does a great job.

I have a BS in math and have never been able to balance a checkbook. Even when I did it for my dad using Excel, I could never do it.

So I use my bank app (you geezers know that terminology, correct?) and check that my deposits match what my LES says, verify charges, and then see that there is still a number greater than zero, we can go to dinner tonight!!!

[jamesinaz]

Checks are still viable for some situations. Now, if you are STILL using them in the line at checkout at your grocery store you are officially too old.

[Turkish Pickle]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

Please exit my lawn, youngster.....

yea im getting scared, the average age here seems to be mid 80s
i thought BMW guys were cooler and younger


might have to migrate over to the subaru forums soon

[jimbobiggens]

I have a checkbook.
Somewhere.
I think.
I'd have to hunt it up.
I hope it's right where I left it. (yikes!) Ya'll going to make me go look now.

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by jamesinaz

Checks are still viable for some situations. Now, if you are STILL using them in the line at checkout at your grocery store you are officially too old.

I’ve never used them at checkouts. I only use them to pay bills.

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by Turkish Pickle

yea im getting scared, the average age here seems to be mid 80s
i thought BMW guys were cooler and younger


might have to migrate over to the subaru forums soon

You don’t have to be young to be cool. Besides, think of all the great advice and life lessons you got from us old people, grasshopper. Try getting that frum Subaru.

[upstatedoc]

you saw Benny Mardones perform in a dive bar in the late 80's

[UncleWede]

You worked security at a Dead concert, in high school

[upstatedoc]

[mc-m3]

Originally Posted by DETRoadster

Same. It makes balancing the checkbook possible. So much harder to do when money is getting automatically pulled out right and left by some new-fangled "autopay" mumbo-jumbo. My wife thinks I'm nuts but I really like the organization and control of sitting down once a week to enter all the debit card receipts into the checkbook, cut the checks, and balance the register to the penny. Some folks are just wired that way I guess.

I don't use debit cards. I don't know about now, but when they first came out they offered nearly 0 fraud protection. So if you get skimmed they could clean out your account and you had no recourse. So to this day I either use cash or credit.

[DETRoadster]

Originally Posted by mc-m3

I don't use debit cards. I don't know about now, but when they first came out they offered nearly 0 fraud protection. So if you get skimmed they could clean out your account and you had no recourse. So to this day I either use cash or credit.

Still not much protection. We have 2 checking accounts: The "big" account and the "small" account. Small account gets a couple hundred bucks a week transferred in automatically and it's what we use for around town debit card transactions: Dinner out, Home Depot, etc. We draw it down to close to zero and then it fills back up again. hence our need to balance that account's checkbook closely. it also means if someone snags our debit card and empties the account we are out a few hundo. Not the ned of the world.

[Littlebear]

Originally Posted by UncleWede

I have a BS in math and have never been able to balance a checkbook. Even when I did it for my dad using Excel, I could never do it.

So I use my bank app (you geezers know that terminology, correct?) and check that my deposits match what my LES says, verify charges, and then see that there is still a number greater than zero, we can go to dinner tonight!!!

I hate it when these young folk go modern on us, mature folk.

Murf

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by UncleWede

I have a BS in math and have never been able to balance a checkbook. Even when I did it for my dad using Excel, I could never do it.

So I use my bank app (you geezers know that terminology, correct?) and check that my deposits match what my LES says, verify charges, and then see that there is still a number greater than zero, we can go to dinner tonight!!!

Wifey writes about 4 or 5 checks a month to the few places who are still not up with the times and allow direct payments or payments by cc. Plus we pay folks like the hair salon, pet sitter, and dry cleaner with a check. We do the same; check online to make sure deposits are correct and checks/ATM withdrawals are correct. We never get anywhere near a zero balance, so there's no need to balance the checkbook. Can't remember the last time I used my ATM card for a debit payment.

[Turkish Pickle]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

You don’t have to be young to be cool. Besides, think of all the great advice and life lessons you got from us old people, grasshopper. Try getting that from Subaru.

what do you mean? putting an ebay tune on a WRX and joining the big wing gang will surely give me great advice!!!

[REB_TN_15]

You know you're old when you look around and realize that you are now part of "Those blithering idiots" you've been railing about at work all these years. I'll hit 40 years of service next year. I guess you could also say that you're old if you had one job your whole career. Not many of us left nowadays that haven't been let go, downsized, rightsized, or sold out.

I still have a checkbook and may write one a month or so. The bank won me over when they offered Bill Pay for free about ten years ago. That saved me $10 a month in stamps. You give up the float, but it was worth it. Now everything goes through credit cards to earn points. I have my son to thank for that.

[jamesinaz]

Originally Posted by REB_TN_15

You know you're old when you look around and realize that you are now part of "Those blithering idiots" you've been railing about at work all these years. I'll hit 40 years of service next year. I guess you could also say that you're old if you had one job your whole career. Not many of us left nowadays that haven't been let go, downsized, rightsized, or sold out.

I still have a checkbook and may write one a month or so. The bank won me over when they offered Bill Pay for free about ten years ago. That saved me $10 a month in stamps. You give up the float, but it was worth it. Now everything goes through credit cards to earn points. I have my son to thank for that.

Yeah. I recall playing golf with the younger guys because the "old dudes" play from the short tees. Thinking now my future holds shorter tees.

[Rmtt]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

I don't know but when I grew up in Brooklyn, DUMBO was a nasty neighborhood. A lot of the bad neighborhoods are now gentrified.

My mom and her family were from Bensonhurst. Must have been rough around there. My grandfather drove a cab and worked for a newspaper. One of his "fares" and him got into an altercation, and he had his eye permanently damaged with a box cutter.

He use to scare us as little kids with his glass fake eye.

When my mom was 17, they moved to what was supposedly be a better place....Chicago.

They lasted 2 years there before moving to SC.

Her brother (My Uncle) was old enough to stay in Brooklyn when they moved, so he didn't go. Got mixed in with the wrong crowd and was shot in the head about 5 years later.

[jimbobiggens]

My brother and I snuck into a Led Zeppelin concert at some coliseum in LA, got caught and kicked out, snuck in again, smoked something wrapped in a funny-looking paper, got caught again and this time the police took us home, which earned me a right good a$$ whipping.
All I remember about the music is it was loud and weird, and it seemed like all the people there needed a shower. Stinky hippies.

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by Rmtt

My mom and her family were from Bensonhurst. Must have been rough around there. My grandfather drove a cab and worked for a newspaper. One of his "fares" and him got into an altercation, and he had his eye permanently damaged with a box cutter.

He use to scare us as little kids with his glass fake eye.

When my mom was 17, they moved to what was supposedly be a better place....Chicago.

They lasted 2 years there before moving to SC.

Her brother (My Uncle) was old enough to stay in Brooklyn when they moved, so he didn't go. Got mixed in with the wrong crowd and was shot in the head about 5 years later.

I was born and raised in Bensonhurst, which was one of the better neighborhoods. Solid Italian, but lots of the Soprano stuff going on which ironically kept the neighborhood safe.

Sorry to hear about your uncle.

[King Rudi]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

You don’t have to be young to be cool. Besides, think of all the great advice and life lessons you got from us old people, grasshopper. Try getting that frum Subaru.

Who are you calling old???

Originally Posted by Turkish Pickle

what do you mean? putting an ebay tune on a WRX and joining the big wing gang will surely give me great advice!!!

Bazinga!

Originally Posted by REB_TN_15

You know you're old when you look around and realize that you are now part of "Those blithering idiots" you've been railing about at work all these years. I'll hit 40 years of service next year. I guess you could also say that you're old if you had one job your whole career. Not many of us left nowadays that haven't been let go, downsized, rightsized, or sold out.

I still have a checkbook and may write one a month or so. The bank won me over when they offered Bill Pay for free about ten years ago. That saved me $10 a month in stamps. You give up the float, but it was worth it. Now everything goes through credit cards to earn points. I have my son to thank for that.

A new member from TN! I'm about an hour from you.

I am a direct result of the change in business over the years. Growing up, my father worked for the same company from the time he was 18 until the company packed up and moved to Mexico. The next position he took, he stayed with until he passed. Many of other family members and friends/acquaintances were the same way. Almost every company that I have worked for, I stayed with until they closed the doors. Extremely frustrating to be a good employee and being forced change careers, as many times as I have, in order to stay employed. In the past, considering whether or not the company you are applying with, will remain in business for as long as you want to be employed wasn't a concern like it is today. Seems everything is disposable nowadays.

Welcome to the forums!