As to whether you qualify as a senior to participate in this forum, consider that you know you are a senior when:
1. You have grandchildren that are 7 and 8 years old that can do everything on a computer and iPhone better than you can.
2. You often wake up in the morning with some new pains in parts of your body and cannot think of anything that caused them.
3. When you buy a new car, you need your son or daughter to set up, and teach you how to use, the “infotainment” system in the car and, regardless, you still do not know what many of the screen buttons are for and can never find the ones you really need.
4. You remember what life was like before cell phones, email, text messaging,
Amazon, and large (and flat) screen TVs. It was a pleasant time when communication with anyone not within easy walking or driving distance was done only by home phone or mail and you did not have to spend hours going through emails and text messages.
5. You spent many years never seeing 5 teenagers sitting around a table in a room and communicating with each other mainly via text messages.
6. You pine for the days when you paid for things either in person (at a store or other place), or via a check mailed to the recipient, and thus could keep track of what you were spending rather than trying to find out by reviewing huge numbers of emails, hidden within a bunch of other emails, setting out automatic monthly or other payments for things you have purchased.
7. You remember watching the daily news on TV in the early evening and then late at night, including often watching Walter Cronkite, and recall that anything that was opinion, political or otherwise, was presented separately, designated as opinion and not real news.
8. You remember when airplanes had only two sets of seats, first class and economy, and all the economy seats on a plane were the same size and were actually fairly large and comfortable.
9. You remember when banks did not have all kinds of extra charges for using any service the bank had available, and when the only thing you paid for when taking a plane ride was the plane ticket.
10. You can remember when gas to fill a car cost less than $1.00 a gallon.
11. You recall smoking being allowed outside anywhere at Disney World.
12. You can remember buying a four-day park pass for $45 and an annual Pass for $100.
13. You can remember over a period of years often going to River Country and Discovery Island, and going on such things as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the Swan Boats, Mission to Mars, If You Had Wings, Magic Journeys, Horizons and World of Motion.
14. You remember that a restaurant reservation at Epcot was something you did in the morning in the park at stands designed for making such reservations.
15. You remember having trips when you went to the beach and into the water of Bay Lake and Seven Seas Lagoon.
