…you ask a young woman in the glassware department of Gargantuan Booze Warehouse if they have any highball glasses and she doesn’t know what a “highball” is.
…you’re glad to see the latest shades of green, brown, gold, and orange back in style, because now you can haul out the old 1970s knick-knacks you stashed in the back of the closet because you could never bring yourself to throw them way.
…the piece of junk you gave to the Salvation Army last year is going for $500 at Snooty Antiquities.
…you think capris are just as unflattering now as they were back when you wore them and called them “pedal-pushers.”
…a front-loading washer brings to mind all those sudsy overflows and all those back-aches from bending over to unload and reload the darn thing.
…you find yourself instructing young women about how to hang their laundry out on a line.
…young girls tell you that women in the 50s dressed elegantly to do housework, and then say they know that’s so because they saw it on I Love Lucy reruns. 🙄
…you still have an Encyclopaedia Britannica in your bookcase.
…you know how to use an Encyclopaedia Britannica.
…you have a smallpox vaccination scar.
…you can remember when all women were SAHMs—or 99.8 percent of them, anyway.
…you think that holidays once came on specific days of the year, not on Monday. Come to think of it, school’s not supposed to start till after Labor Day, is it?
…you know how to use a typewriter.
…the last time you worked as a secretary you were called a “secretary,” not an “administrative assistant.”
…cheap tumblers remind you of the glasses and mugs gas stations used to give away.
…you miss having a gas station attendant fill your car, check the oil, and wash the windshield.
…you still use a lamp, tableware, wicker hamper, or other valuable purchased with S & H Green Stamps.
😀 Are you a survivor of some prior geologic age? What memories do you own to prove it?
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