You know you are over 40 if...

[elone]

You lived in a small town and garbage pick up was by horse and wagon.

*now you are just making things up*

You rode a skateboard that didn't bend.

[Sybl]

*now you are just making things up*

You rode a skateboard that didn't bend.

*Is not making it up, if you look into my towns history, Mr Peck, picked up garbage until the week before he died*

You paid less than 50 cents for a gallon of milk

[elone]

You used to eat Necco wafers.

[Sybl]

You played hop scotch.

[elone]

You had a hula hoop

[Sybl]

You remember bubble ornaments on your Christmas tree.

[elone]

You had an Encyclopedia Britannica

[Angel Fire]

When there were coin-op arcade game centers at every shopping mall.

[Anesa]

PAC MAN FOREVER!!!   ;P

[Angel Fire]

Mmmhmm... and also when Donkey Kong was the main star of a Nintendo video game.

[sartracker]

you remember when there was only am radio, freakin funny to remember that far back LMAO

[Sybl]

You remember toys without batteries.

[avorae]

You used out a lighter instead of a glow-stick during the love song at a concert.

[Ephemera]

If you took typing in high-school.

[Ephemera]

You remember when Compact Discs were unveiled.

[TaintedAndDelish]

You remember 8 tracks?

[gaggedLouise]

You actually saw the first moon landing as it happened, and remember it (okay, that's more like fifty years old, but still)

[Sylk]

actually, no  it's not. I was in kindergarten or first grade when that happened and I watched it on a black and white tv. Even wrote the network a letter in crayon because they pre-empted my saturday morning cartoons and I was mad. I still have the reply.... somewhere.

and I'm 47.

Warner brothers cartoons were not censored, cut or politically correct

[Avis habilis]

... your first exposure to classical music was Bugs Bunny in The Rabbit of Seville.

[Anesa]

...this was your "laptop" as a kid....

[despickable]

When you were in the classroom you had to do maths with your head not with a calculator

[Captain Maltese]

If you don't own a single electronic device yet that has a name that starts with a small i.

[lonlyazn]

When miniskirts wasn't shunned as smut

[Sybl]

..when per-fabricated meant you were lieing, and had nothing to do with building a house.

[eiselmann]

[you] Knows there over forty, cause they dont know how I guessed they would read this.

Okay theres obviously a logical explaination here but on the surface thats scary.... (was quickly scanning the thread and stopped at the above post completely at random......)

you know your over 40 because you recall a time BEFORE Star Wars

The only live game of football(soccer) shown on TV each year was the FA Cup final

When you think Batman, you think Adam West first.

You rode a Chopper bike

When you went food shopping with parents, the total family food bill for them was less than the cost of buying food for your pet today.