the geezer club

[Old Professor]

I was having a discussion with a young woman while I was Hospitalized a few weeks ago and being a "Geezer" really hit home, when she not only did not know what a Curmudgeon was, she had never heard the term and doubted it was a real word!! And I can remember all the things Wildthang listed.

When I was a child my GF sang this ditty to me, which my sister and I called the 'Geezer Song"

Oh' there was an old geezer and he had a wooden leg
He never had tobacco but tobacco he would beg.
Said the first Old Geezer "Will you give me a chew?
Said the second Old Geezer:" I'll be hanged if I do!"
"Save up your money and hoard it like a fox
And you'll always have tobaccy in your own tobacco box!"

[madmax]

Mannlicher and I are going on a Greezer roadtrip soon in the SE. The nice things about a geezer roadtrip are...

a. Nobody gets mad when you have to stop and pee AGAIN...ALREADY!
b. Nobody teases you for eating oatmeal instead of bacon or Spam for breakfast.
c. You KNOW there will be cracking, farts, and groans as you both bend over helping each other to set up your tents.
d. You stop splitting firewood after the fire's going. You just chunk another log on. Too long? Throw it on and burn it in half. There... sized just right.
e. As great as 2 weeks of camping is, when you get home you relish the comfort of you're own throne, shower, and bed... and are not afraid to admit it.

[Rick]

I took one of my grandsons to the range this week. He's 8. We were nearly there when he said, "Are we there yet?" I actually thought of this thread because I was thinking along the same lines. 61....8. About the same.

[hunter63]

If you can get 12-13 people sitting around a campfire for 2-3 hours, laughing talking, and comparing note....with not cell phone in sight!........You might have a group or Geezers....

...and if at 8:30, all but 4 decide it's past bed time...and those 4 start cleaning up........For sure you are in a group of Geezers.

[finallyME]

Another criterion is that you have to have socks older than me. I know most of you do.

[hunter63]

As far as an official "Geezer Club" goes...Y'all are on your own.

My signature has been for a while now......
"Geezer Squad....Charter Member #1
Evoking the 50 year old rule...
First 50 years...cared about the small stuff...second 50 years....Not so much"

Pretty much means you can be #1 as well......or #437,.... only matters to you.
You worked hard to get here....don't really care what other might think at this point....

So enjoy it.

Actually I get a small amount of satisfaction at places that say theu have a "Senior Discount"....only to find that you have to be a member ot their "CLUB"...AARP or some insurance company...to get the discount.
I thought getting older was club enough.....so will loudly point out the difference...(What the heck, they already think you are just a crabby old guy)........THEN........

Take out your change purse and make exact change....and ask them to count it to be sure.......(if they can)
You know how forgetful us older folk are.

[Winnie]

As far as an official "Geezer Club" goes...Y'all are on your own.

My signature has been for a while now......
"Geezer Squad....Charter Member #1
Evoking the 50 year old rule...
First 50 years...cared about the small stuff...second 50 years....Not so much"

Pretty much means you can be #1 as well......or #437,.... only matters to you.
You worked hard to get here....don't really care what other might think at this point....

So enjoy it.

Actually I get a small amount of satisfaction at places that say theu have a "Senior Discount"....only to find that you have to be a member ot their "CLUB"...AARP or some insurance company...to get the discount.
I thought getting older was club enough.....so will loudly point out the difference...(What the heck, they already think you are just a crabby old guy)........THEN........

Take out your change purse and make exact change....and ask them to count it to be sure.......(if they can)
You know how forgetful us older folk are.

Oooo now that's got real mileage. Me likey!

[Wise Old Owl]

The first time a really good looking girl calls you "sir" you qualify. When you look around to see who she's talking to and realize it really is you, you're in.

ahh IMO the young girl who give's you a senior citizen discount when you clearly don't qualify... Priceless.

[Wise Old Owl]

If you can get 12-13 people sitting around a campfire for 2-3 hours, laughing talking, and comparing note....with not cell phone in sight!........You might have a group or Geezers....

...and if at 8:30, all but 4 decide it's past bed time...and those 4 start cleaning up........For sure you are in a group of Geezers.

I see that every time I fire up Two and a Half Men... on Fox. Oh did you mean reality? My Bad,Guests can not see images in the messages. Please register in the forum.

[hunter63]

Subject: : Seenagers !



I am a Seenager. (Senior teenager)

I have everything that I wanted as a teenager, only 60 years later.

I don’t have to go to school or work.

I get an allowance (social security).

I have my own pad.

I don’t have a curfew.

I have a driver’s license and my own car.

I have ID that gets me into bars and the Beer Store.

The people I hang around with are not scared of getting pregnant.

And I don’t have acne.

Life is great
!!

[crashdive123]

Too funny.

True though.

[Faiaoga]

You are a geezer if.......
you listened to Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Otis Redding when they were still alive
you drank Pepsi, 7-Up and Coke from cans that did not have pull tabs
your house had a land line and a rotary phone
you wrote term papers on a typewriter that used a ribbon and carbon paper
you delivered newspapers on your bicycle and rode the same bicycle to school
you used a slide rule for college physics and chemistry classes
you learned to SCUBA dive when there were no dive computers

any others from other old geezers?

[kyratshooter]

I'm older than Jimi, Janice or Otis!
I drank Pepsi before they even put it in cans!
I can remember the debate over whether we needed one of the new fangled private telephone lines instead of our "party line".
I was a grown man the first time I laid eyes on a computer, and thought it was not worth having.
bicycle, yep
slide rule, yep
scuba gear, yep
Stay at home Mom, Yep

And I also remember the family getting our FIRST TV ! My dad thought it was just a passing fad and waited until there were three channels available before making the purchase. My mom was all for it since she had been running next door to watch The guiding Light for a year already.

I can even remember my Dad coming home after buying a brand new 1954 Studebaker!

[Rick]

I don’t have a curfew.

I don't have one either. Sadly, it makes no difference. I can't stay awake past anything that ends with P.M.

[canid]

Except that sometimes the license comes with it's own curfew.

[Faiaoga]

A true geezer is a person who watched Crusader Rabbit (supposed to be the first cartoon made specifically for television) on a TV that had a rabbit ears antenna

A true geezer will have registered for classes, participated in the national census or done something else using perforated IBM cards that you were not allowed to bend, fold, spindle or mutilate - extra points if you can explain how to "spindle" a piece of thin cardboard stock.

[hunter63]

I was called a "shotgun programmer" in a card based Fortran and Cobol programming class, in 1969.....but they excepted my credits in 2000 in a Windows based class.....(suggested I take it)...LOL

Shotgun programmers punched the cards up, put them in a deck, dumped into the machine ...."and let the machine sort out your mistakes....."
syntax error...syntax error.....LOL.
Thanks for the memories.......NOT

[Faiaoga]

Only a real geezer will remember postage stamps that had to be moistened before they would adhere to the envelope

Only a real geezer will remember first class postage at five cents for the first ounce

[kyratshooter]

How about postcards that cost a penny?

or being sent to the corner store with $1 to get bread and a half gallon of milk...

And bringing home 75 cents change?

Box of 50 22lr shells for 20 cents?

pack of 100 BBs for 5 cents?

Well, it is nearly 2pm and I have to get down to Golden Corral for the Early Bird special.

You might be a geezer if you finish supper before 4PM!

[chiggersngrits]

A geezer wears extra floatation while on the water fearing if he goes overboard his adult diaper will drag him straight to the bottom.