i'm so old i...

[Sailor Kenshin]

I had some black and white pet rats at one time. They enjoyed playing with feathers.

[RuiFromUK]

... forget everything that happened before today's breakfast (15 minutes ago)

[pengeezer]

....was a latchkey kid before the term was coined.


John

[jar]

I came to fountain pens late in life. As a child starting school we had to bring our own stones to scratch lines into the cave wall. For art we had to chew charcoal and ocher to spit over our hands leaving shadow paintings. Later we learned to sharpen sticks and make better drawings of the bison that almost killed us yesterday and the mastodon that used to chase us on our way to school.

Later we learned to search for the GREAT Fire bird and steal feathers. We went down to the stream and found rocks that we could split giving us sharp edges that could be used to shape the end of the feather into a nib. We would chew up the charcoal or ocher and mix it with water and fat to get lovely inks, red and black, purple and brown. But we had no paper and so tried to write on the hide of the antelope. Unfortunately they refused to stand still so writing became a challenge and often left us gasping for breath.

[spotted and speckled]

I told one of my students one day that "when I was going to school" we had to grind our own graphite for standardized tests, and they believed me.

[Crazyorange]

I came to fountain pens late in life. As a child starting school we had to bring our own stones to scratch lines into the cave wall. For art we had to chew charcoal and ocher to spit over our hands leaving shadow paintings. Later we learned to sharpen sticks and make better drawings of the bison that almost killed us yesterday and the mastodon that used to chase us on our way to school.

Later we learned to search for the GREAT Fire bird and steal feathers. We went down to the stream and found rocks that we could split giving us sharp edges that could be used to shape the end of the feather into a nib. We would chew up the charcoal or ocher and mix it with water and fat to get lovely inks, red and black, purple and brown. But we had no paper and so tried to write on the hide of the antelope. Unfortunately they refused to stand still so writing became a challenge and often left us gasping for breath.

Hey I thought you were younger than 89. Which means you can't be a caveman

[kia]

I came to fountain pens late in life. As a child starting school we had to bring our own stones to scratch lines into the cave wall. For art we had to chew charcoal and ocher to spit over our hands leaving shadow paintings. Later we learned to sharpen sticks and make better drawings of the bison that almost killed us yesterday and the mastodon that used to chase us on our way to school.

Later we learned to search for the GREAT Fire bird and steal feathers. We went down to the stream and found rocks that we could split giving us sharp edges that could be used to shape the end of the feather into a nib. We would chew up the charcoal or ocher and mix it with water and fat to get lovely inks, red and black, purple and brown. But we had no paper and so tried to write on the hide of the antelope. Unfortunately they refused to stand still so writing became a challenge and often left us gasping for breath.

Feeling a bit down today?

That ok, because today I have yet to fill my quota of believing three unbelievable things before breakfast.

[Crazyorange]

Sniff sniff
Jar where are you? I'm missing your stories.

[jar]

Sniff sniff
Jar where are you? I'm missing your stories.

You'll have to wait. Working on a website design.

[ballboy]

Only just found this thread late last night; such fun to read, especially jar's Morgan Freeman like retelling of what seems like something Frank Darabont would direct. Authentic and epic!

[Sailor Kenshin]

I'm so old that, when the family moved a few miles down the road, my friends and I wrote letters to one another instead of using the phone. No innerwebz, no smartfonz. Back then it was always InCoWriMo.

[Toulouse]

Both my first fly rod and my slide rule were made of bamboo.