Old People with Memories

[metro]

This one can be fun. What is your memory on old people with memories?

[Generals64]

This one can be fun. What is your memory on old people with memories?

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I've got a bunch of these...remember I'm one of those old people....However, about eight years ago a friend of mine re married...At 84 years old he was pretty dapper...The lady he married was pretty foxy......The memory was almost there... as he asked me" What do you call those things we used to buy at the Drug Store"? Uh........what do you mean??????...well, you know, tonight's my wedding night.....I call his 64 year son over and he had the talk....He had the memory he just didn't know what he was remembering....Loved him to death...There's more to it but, I'll save that for another time... What was he worrying about?????? Oh my Gosh!!!!!

[PennyQuilts]

I am not really sure I understand the thread but it looks entertaining.

[grantgeneral78]

I am not sure I know what it means either but we will see ....LOL

[NativeOkie]

My favorite was my Grandfather who would point out where "nothing was before"
example we would drive near lake Hefner and he would mention that none of this was there. only fields.
i would tease him by asking "nothing was here?" so this was the edge of the world? the Abyss!
I hate I was so sarcastic with Him. Makes you miss them more.
Now I know I am getting older when I know where things were not.

[PennyQuilts]

My grandmother used to tell the most outrageous stories about all the things she'd done in her life. She swore she "dined before kings and queens" and had traveled through Europe and that some "Big Band" members once sent her a corsage made of hundred dollar bills. She had about a zillion stories like that. As a kid, I believed every bit of it. It never occured to me that she was making anything up.

Her mother (my great grandmother) lived with her and always just listened. After she had a stroke, I went to visit her and grandmother started into her stories (I was about twenty years old, then). This time, with her impulse control a bit weakened, my great grandmother interrupted and said, "You haven't even been to Mexico and if anyone from a Big Band sent you any money, it was for services rendered."

Grandmother began sputtering (but didn't deny it), and I made up an excuse to get out of there. You've have to understand how demure and soft spoken my great grandmother was to appreciate what a liberating moment that was.

[NativeOkie]

My Great Grandmother lived off of S. Agnew, she died in 1986 at 97 or 98 years old she used to tell stories of what OKC was like when she was a young girl wish I would have written them down. One thing I remember was she saw Belle Star one day there in town.

[Generals64]

My grandmother used to tell the most outrageous stories about all the things she'd done in her life. She swore she "dined before kings and queens" and had traveled through Europe and that some "Big Band" members once sent her a corsage made of hundred dollar bills. She had about a zillion stories like that. As a kid, I believed every bit of it. It never occured to me that she was making anything up.

Her mother (my great grandmother) lived with her and always just listened. After she had a stroke, I went to visit her and grandmother started into her stories (I was about twenty years old, then). This time, with her impulse control a bit weakened, my great grandmother interrupted and said, "You haven't even been to Mexico and if anyone from a Big Band sent you any money, it was for services rendered."

Grandmother began sputtering (but didn't deny it), and I made up an excuse to get out of there. You've have to understand how demure and soft spoken my great grandmother was to appreciate what a liberating moment that was.

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Man, I can relate:...My Mom's mother was very worldly...Her 2nd cousins were the Youngers...right, they rode with Jesse and Frank James. Man, she would tell some. She's also the one that told me she made sure Santa left me what I wanted because she knew he like Scotch and Water....I didn't care what he drank, I got the watch. Ever listen to your grandfather tell you about going hunting when he was little boy and he was about 70 at that time. Seems the varmits were always back back then though. Hope I can get the opportunity to tel a few of those yarns to my grandkids some day....

[Generals64]

Just dawned on me (old timers disease) I am one of the old guys with old memories...Boy am I getting slow.....Oh well, I remember....uh....what were we talking about?????

[Generals64]

Talk about old people with memories, there are thousands of memories bottled up in the minds of the people that read this forum. Why Steve Lackmeyer and his writer friends don't capitalize on these to write a book....Payment could be a good steak dinner at uh......................Oh yeah , I remember now Glen's Hikry Inn ...Gotcha huh?????

[Steve]

We're doing the best we can and trying to keep up.

[Generals64]

We're doing the best we can and trying to keep up.

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Bring lots of Yellow Legal pads to the meeting.....you'll get a full load....
Here's a recipe you should try and then tell us what Restaurant in OKC it comes from....
SALAD DRESSING

8 oz. Philadelphia Cream Cheese
8 oz. Sour Cream
1 Tsp.Garlic
1 Tblsp. Salt
1 raw egg
Mix until smooth and creamy

you have to serve it fresh and refrigerated due to the egg being raw.....makes a great Dipping sauce and/or Salad Dressing...HMMMMM if you want it a little looser use another egg....MUST be kept refrigerated...

[Doug Loudenback]

This one can be fun. What is your memory on old people with memories?

Well, if no one else wants to know, I DO. What's your definition of "old people?"

[Generals64]

Well, if no one else wants to know, I DO. What's your definition of "old people?"

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Well, Doug I believe that age has nothing to do with being old....Old is someone who thinks only of what they should have done and what could have happened. You know, "I should have done this and that and that could have happened".....Old memories from elderly people are so much fun. You know "I remember swimming at Twilight Beach when it was a cow pond"...Gosh then, I remember swimming there when it was a cool place with a fountain, clown and a bunch of pretty girls.....My kids say show me where it is....I said it's not there anymore......My Grand kids..."Ah Grandpa" let's go to the lake ..."you know the one where it used to be a creek..."

[USG '60]

You know you are old when you hear someone discribe you as SPRY.

[Generals64]

You know you are old when you hear someone discribe you as SPRY.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------I think we're all old to somebody....Right? Don't really know what I just meant.....
The wife said Supper is ready...Oh well what were we talking about???

[bowtieguy]

----------------------------------------------------------------------------I think we're all old to somebody....Right? Don't really know what I just meant.....
The wife said Supper is ready...Oh well what were we talking about???

I've found that you don't have to decide when you get old, your Grandkids will tell you. If I remember correctly.

[papaOU]

Now I know I am getting older when I know where things were not.

If things were not how do you base their being there in the first place. Are you a General?

[papaOU]

My Great Grandmother lived off of S. Agnew, she died in 1986 at 97 or 98 years old she used to tell stories of what OKC was like when she was a young girl wish I would have written them down. One thing I remember was she saw Belle Star one day there in town.

Interviewing our relatives is a really good thing. Especially if you like genealogy. If you can try to tape them.

[papaOU]

You know you are old when you hear someone discribe you as SPRY.

Or you use the noun britches.....

Dad! It's not a swap meet........

The postman, mail carrier or letter carrier.

Or while driving around you grandchild asks, "Is this going to be another history day?"

[nik4411]

I feel like my grandparents have so much interesting stuff to tell and stories to talk about. I love hearing about how things were "back then", and just how their lives were. For example, my grandmother in her younger years had her pilots license, so did my g'pa, and his brother, and they used to load up the family and fly to different places to visit family and etc. I think that is so cool. Also, hearing them talk about how things were during the different wars. Hearing it from someone first person rather than reading about it in a book.

Now they are getting to the age that I know they won't be around too much longer, I already lost my paw paw last fall, loved him dearly, and it sucks I can't ever talk to him again and hear his stories of the past.

[nik4411]

I feel that people from older generations are one of the best tools for knowledge of life and history. I know that is sort of a "duh" statement, but I've come to realize you can learn so much by talking to someone who lived in times you can only know from the history channel, pbs or a book. I'm 24 so my real life experience doesn't go back all that far.

[papaOU]

I feel like my grandparents have so much interesting stuff to tell and stories to talk about. I love hearing about how things were "back then", and just how their lives were. For example, my grandmother in her younger years had her pilots license, so did my g'pa, and his brother, and they used to load up the family and fly to different places to visit family and etc. I think that is so cool. Also, hearing them talk about how things were during the different wars. Hearing it from someone first person rather than reading about it in a book.

Now they are getting to the age that I know they won't be around too much longer, I already lost my paw paw last fall, loved him dearly, and it sucks I can't ever talk to him again and hear his stories of the past.

I hope you take this as it is intended and not a smart-ass remark. You can talk to paw paw any where and any time you want.

[nik4411]

No I know what you are saying. Thanks PapaOU

[Generals64]

No I know what you are saying. Thanks PapaOU

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Hey bud, I have two boys older than you and they understand with one Grandfather gone. But, from an old man...your Paw Paw is with you at all times...You'll feel a slight wind in your ear and you'll know who it is...Reality
is a such.....God and his son are always there...just as you Paw paw is...He is always there....I dream about my PeePaw and i'm old enough to be your Paw Paw....If you need a replacement on earth I'm here....PapaOU is there...Generals78 is there...Carltonskeeper is there....All the men of this thread will support you let us know....