Sign of being an old coot
 

I puled into a gas station and said to the attendant (all gas stations are full service in Oregon):

"Please fill it up with regular unleaded."

He looked at me weird and asked "regular what?"

What have you said or done recently that shows you're an old coot?

I used the term "old coot"!

I logged on to PPOT to make this post :)

Next time...just say "fill er up with Ethyl"

One night last week wife was watching "Grimm" on the tube (which is set in Portland ). In one scene some guy pulls into a gas station and tells the attendant to fill it up. I thought WT?... so google it is and... so Oregon and N.J. require full service only gas stations ??

What is up with that ? Pumping gas isn't exactly rocket science. Good luck finding a full service station in this part of the world although I assume there are probably a few but I haven't seen any.

So...does "full service" mean they clean your windows and check your oil....like Gomer :)?

"Full Service" means you don't have to get out of your car in the cold or stand in line at the register (waiting for 3 people to finish scratching off their lottery tickets) because the pump didn't give you a receipt. It also means the kid pumping your gas wants a tip.

Do you recognize any of these?

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Using words for obsolete technology. I still sometimes say I'm going to "tape" something, even though that really means I'll DVR it.

Realizing that kids use totally different words than you do.

Realizing that kids dress totally different than you do.

When every car you drive is older than your kids.

Doing the math and realizing that the attractive waitress is far closer to being your son's girlfriend than anywhere close to your age.

Not really giving a damn about any of the above.:p And I'm only 36!

You're still just a young coot....but show great potential :)

Parts of New York also.

Last weekend I was dressed up in my yard work / work on the car in the garage clothes. Grease stains from past projects and tattered worn out shorts. I needed to run to the store, I did not care one tiny little bit I was in old grubby clothes.

OT here but yes AND please tell my wife this!

We were in Sedona, AZ a few years back, at a gas station filling up when this smokin' hot (young) lady comes over and asks me to help her as she has NEVER been to a self-serve station before..."cause in Jersey we don't have these!!". She gave me her CC (I must look like a trusty old coot!) and I (gladly!!) showed her how to do it ;)...meanwhile the wife is fuming and later called BS on the whole Jersey gas station thing...:o.....GDit, gotta show her this thread to prove that I wasn't BSing her all this time!

Oh, and I too "tape" shows with my DVR!

LOL Joe.....:D

The other day I was telling my son about how when i was his age, we went to the day-old bread store once a week to save 50 cents a loaf for "wonder bread".

He thought I was making it up.

or remember paying 25 cents for either a pack of cigs or a gallon of gas.

+1 on that. I still refer to "albums" when playing a CD. Though this may be due to how much vinyl I still have.

when something is close - you say pertnear

Was getting my hair cut on Saturday. They had some college girls gymnastics competition on TV - Georgia, Bama, LSU - someone else - might have been NC. Anway, LSU gal starts competing, camera cuts to crowd scene with caption "Mary Lou Rettin blah, blah - competitors Mom". I made a comment - oh -look - that gymnasts mom is Mary Lou. Haircutter says "who?"

I used to know what all the signs of being an old coot were but I can't remember any of them.