by Renda Ashley

Created on: October 24, 2008

"When I was your age I had to get up at 2 in the morning, milk the cows, while pulling up weeds, and collecting the eggs for breakfast. And that was before we were allowed to start the fire for the wood burning stove to warm our frozen hands. Then we had to fix breakfast, from scratch. After that, we had to walk to school barefoot in the snow and rain uphill, on the way to school, and on the way home." If you have never been told that

You may not be a Baby boomer.

Lying in bed at 10:00 at night, you have the transistor radio under your pillow to listen to the Beatles sing "I Want To Hold Your Hand." Fear is coursing thru your veins, because you are afraid that your parents might find out that you are listening to "That racket that isn't even music." If you have never done that

You may not be a Baby Boomer.

If you have ever heard someone talk about how terrible the great depression was, and wondered why they didn't take an anti- depressant for it

You may not be a baby boomer.

While digging through the walk- in closet you come across the "World's largest C.D." only to find out later that it was called a "33 record"

You may not be a Baby Boomer.

If you ever found a poodle skirt in any of your mother's old high school relics...

You may not be a Baby Boomer.

When you heard your parents mention "Spock" and thought of "Star Treck" and not the child expert...

You may not be a Baby Boomer.

If you think that the only way to buy gasoline is to get out at a 7-11 sort of store and pump it yourself; If you have never driven over the black hose that dings and a guy comes running out to meet you and checks under your hood and washes your windshields and fills the tank up for you

You may not be a Baby Boomer.

If none of your baby pictures are in black and white...

You may not be a Baby Boomer.

When you hear about "Woodstock" you think about a "Peanuts" cartoon character...

You may not be a Baby Boomer.

If you never, at anytime in your life, believed that the stork delivered babies

You may not be a Baby Boomer.

While taking a shower, you have no difficulty determining whether the Shampoo is indeed shampoo and not conditioner

You may not be a Baby Boomer.

If you didn't have to find your reading glasses or bifocals before reading this article

You may not be a Baby Boomer.

If you remember what you were doing before you logged onto this site...

You are most likely, definately, not a Baby Boomer!

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