You know you're old when:

[Hawkeye]

Is that meant to be 'xylophone'??

Nah! Scummy It was definately a Stylophone

[nadroj]

You get asked if you Model A is a "one owner".

[nadroj]

You get your spud gun taken off you "coz you might get someone in the eye".

[ellipsis]

...when the trees we planted on bare land and protected from the rabbits. possums, chooks...the kids..the weather...now seem like Sherwood Forest and you need a man with a bigger chainsaw than yours... and bigger balls , to take a lot of them out...

[Spearfish]

You know you are old when *cover your eyes boys* you had to use enormous sanitary protection, complete with belts and safety pins FFS!

aaaarrrgggg!!!

I bet they didn't help you swim, ride a bike or play tennis???

[MSTRS:Me]

... And Radio With Pictures with Karyn Hay was really weird

Before that was GruntMachine. And before that was Hulabaloo...and girls swooned over Peter Sinclair and he let them...
Damn - must be older than I thunk.

That'll explain why, when I stick my chest out, my pants fall down...

[oldrider]

you remember your phone number having 5 digits

I can remember when there were only 2 .... (and you had to crank the phone and ask to be connected!)

[nighthawk]

When TV didn't start until 5pm

And was black and white.

WNTV1 DNTV2 etc were the TV stations...Town & Around with Peter Read, Man from UNCLE etc were playing then...

And my 1st half doz of Bavarian Bitter cost $1:97. (BIG bottles mind!)

AHH the early 60's
Damn I can remember that quite clearly, Peter Read was a clever bugger, I also can remember he had an observatory of his own in his back yard.

BASS beer came in cans and would take your eye out if you were'nt carefull, decimal currency came in in 1967 and confused a lot of older people.

[MSTRS:Me]

...decimal currency came in in 1967 and confused a lot of older people.

What's changed? Everything STILL costs twice as much as it did...

[nighthawk]

I grew up between the then trentham police college, the army base and a prison - all with their own community housing - a clip round the ear was never far away.

You forgot the apprentice boys barracks(The Germs) what about Saturday race day at trentham you could not travel up our down Fergusson Drive without being stuckin traffic forever.. and if you happened to get a boot in the backside from the local cop ..you bloody well deserved it..

[Maha]

you remember your phone number having 5 digits

88297 was our number growing up in Palmmy, the Ekatahuna Kiwi was on top of the PDC building, the radio staion was 2ZA and there were three picture theatres, the Regent, the State and the Odeon....OMG time warp, I need a lay down..

[nighthawk]

What's changed? Everything STILL costs twice as much as it did...

Don't you mean twice as much as yesterday...

[nighthawk]

Mum drummed into us kids..."your phone number is 7589 if you get lost" we would wander from one end of the hutt valley to the other...the advent of a stopbank in Upper Hutt put our plans to camp out at McKurdy's castle on hold for a year...

[Daffyd]

When I was a kid our 'phone number was 861M, our next door neighbour was 861S and the back neighbour was 861D.
It was amazing the number of times we heard a 'click' while we were talking. The nosy old bitch next door would be listening in.

I started in business in 1965 and got a line of my own, 5007, then they introduced 5 digit numbers so mine became 85007. Our STD code was 021 and that was added, (without the 0,) when the entire South Island went to 7 digits and adopted Chistchurch's STD of 03.

[Bald Eagle]

I grew up between the then trentham police college, the army base and a prison - all with their own community housing - a clip round the ear was never far away.

Fond memories - 18 months in barracks there. Eggs and beans on toast for sunday brekkie from the Y for $2 bucks.