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Let’s play.

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It requires a little math today.

But it’s old math, so we’re good.

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19 out of 20 for me… because as hard as it is to believe, I’ve never been to a drive in movie. They were pretty much a dead thing by the time I started dating.

I have to laugh at being a boomer though because to this day, I still…

Listen to music on a record player,

Have photo albums filled with prints.

Pay for something with exact change.

Use a library card regularly.

Have a favorite radio station ( though admittedly it’s on satellite)

Watch the news at the same time every day.

Use a checkbook register.

And own both a cassette and 8 track player.

Once a boomer, always a boomer.

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Now you.

How many of these things have you done?

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60 thoughts on “Let’s play.”

  3. 20 for me, too!!
    No drive-ins? I last went to one in the early/mid 80s. It was a multiplex of 8 or more screens. You could see other movies but not hear them.. till drive-ins changed to using car radio channels.
    … which reminded me, I went to a popup drive-in at a local parking lot sometime before covid. They had food trucks and roller-skating delivery girls. I wore pjs and sat outside my car, like I did as a kid, till it got too cold.

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  4. 16 – Maybe because I’ve only been up for 15 minutes but I’m having problems with the wording of #7 ; I don’t know what #15 means, I don’t think I’ve ever been to a drive-in movie but something about that strikes a chord and No, I’ve never watched the news at the same time every day. Honestly, I’ve only ever watched the news when something catastrophic happened. For years I kept the tv on a rolling cart in a closet and just dragged it out on the rare occasions there was something I wanted to watch.

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    1. #7 is the old black carbon paper you stuck in between sheets of paper on the typewriter to make a copy. What a mess that was.
      #15 was the busy signal on a phone call. I hated that sound.

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  6. A solid 20 for me. My first movie was seen at a drive-in theater. “The Little Big Horn!” What an introduction to the film world!!!! I can still see those horrible scenes!

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  8. 20 points it is! How have you never had the exciting experience of going to a drive in theater? My parents would take my brother and I as kids. They would pack up our station wagon with sleeping bags, homemade burgers wrapped in foil, bags of chips and Coca-cola in glass bottles. It’s a memory I cherish of being able to have gone to a drive in with my parents and as a teenager as well with my friends.

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    1. That sounds like fun.
      My parents went to the city to see plays on Broadway, but I don’t remember them ever going to a movie. Odd, now that I think about it. But they didn’t watch tv either, so I guess it was normal for them.

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  10. All 20. I do have a hard time remembering phone numbers now but remember when I knew everyone’s by heart. Easy identifiers of boomers. Now, I know everyone must know as the cashier waits for me when he or she tells me, “$18.23 and I count out the pennies.” And they are waiting……

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      1. Under $20 is cash as I break down the cash I carry. Tips, sometimes I have a $50 to break down for hair stylist tips, mani tips, etc. Or when we pay the yard man who mows our lawn. If we also, tip him.

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      3. Oh, yeah I don’t tip the husband for building things although I am a mean baker and cook, not a candle stick maker. And thank, God, he can fix things and garden ! How is your hip doing?

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  11. 20 out of 20, but I confess I paused at “busy signal.” What was that? my aged brain asked. It makes me realize how long it’s been since I used an analog phone or called someone with one. I got rid of my last landline phone when I moved out of Minnesota. It’s been digital/cellphone ever since.

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      3. “Generation Jones is a micro-generation or demographic cohort born roughly between 1954 and 1965. Sandwiched between late Baby Boomers and early Generation X, this group occupies a unique cultural space. They were too young to participate in the iconic counter-culture movements of the 1960s but came of age facing the economic stagflation of the 1970s and 1980s.”

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  17. Done them all and just listened to a Cassette the other day. It is part of my Record Player set-up. I also still have Photo Albums and still use a Check Register even though I rarely if ever write Checks.

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    1. I’m totally old school when it comes to bill paying. I don’t want anyone in my account and hate automatic withdrawal. Send me a bill, I’ll send you a payment. It’s getting harder these days but I’m hanging in.
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  21. i still got three working Drive-Ins near me. One is a two screener that shows current movies, one shows a current film with an older film, the last place specializes in retro showing of mostly horror & exploitation films

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  26. it’s like there was a specific period of time when you could do 12 of these in the same day. easy 20 of 20 for me. i don’t usually score like that on internet quizzes but this one is in my dna.

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  27. 19 for me too. I never watched the news at a regular time, that I remember.

    We had a drive-in here in Naples as recently as 20 years ago. My kids remember going with us. There is still one going strong in a little Georgia town near our GA place, and I can’t wait to take my kiddos (big and little) there soon.

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