How to feel old. (Yeah, I know, I am old).

I took $200 in coins to the bank's coin counter. Stuff that was rejected by the machine, included a button battery, foreign coins and two G.S. Parkway tokens. 

Kid behind the counter: "What are those?"

Me: "Parkway tokens."

Kid: "What are they for? The subway?"

I am then joined in by two women at the customer service desk and we begin talking about the tokens, searching for change at the toll booths, long lines of cars,  waiting to pay the toll...

Hell, the kid probably wasn't even born when the parkway discontinued tokens in 2002.

Oh, also rejected was a 50th. anniversary coin, issued by the Bank of Maplewood in 1970.

Formerlyjerseyjack said:

Oh, also rejected was a 50th. anniversary coin, issued by the Bank of Maplewood in 1970.

I still have a couple of those. I also have a couple of MTA tokens also. Hold onto them.

I was thinking of giving the bank coin to the Maplewood Historical Society.

Formerlyjerseyjack said:

I was thinking of giving the bank coin to the Maplewood Historical Society.

good idea 

How to feel old, in two minutes or less: look up your (believed to be elderly) third grade teacher from the 1970s. Learn she was FORTY-ONE when you were in her classroom. Nearly pass out. 
P.S. I bet Susan Newberry and the folks at Durand Hedden will love to add that coin to their archives!

I would just like to say that I do not need advice on how to feel old at this time. I'm doing quite well on my own.

drummerboy said:

I would just like to say that I do not need advice on how to feel old at this time. I'm doing quite well on my own.

especially from someone named Jack…

• I always get a kick out of telling people I remember the DAY a computer first showed up on my desk at work.  It was an ad agency.  The Client Service people (who worked closely with Clients to determine strategy etc.), were on PC's; the Creative Department was on MACS.  THEY COULDN'T COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER!  
• I remember when a nice young man would push a cart to my office door, come in and take stuff out of my OUTBOX, and deliver a new stack of stuff to my INBOX.
• I remember doing "searches" using products like "Netscape", Alta Vista. "Ask Jeeves"
• I remember when I had my OWN secretary!!!!!
• I remember when my company, Ogilvy & Mather Direct, would have our annual meetings and Christmas parties at places like the NY Public Library, Madison Square Garden, The Museum of Natural History (one year "under the whale", another year in the Planetarium).   Some years it was Broadway theaters, then the cast would put on the show for us!
  
  I may be old now, but I think I'm lucky to have been YOUNG back then!

Juniemoon said:

• I always get a kick out of telling people I remember the DAY a computer first showed up on my desk at work.  It was an ad agency.  The Client Service people (who worked closely with Clients to determine strategy etc.), were on PC's; the Creative Department was on MACS.  THEY COULDN'T COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER!  
• I remember when a nice young man would push a cart to my office door, come in and take stuff out of my OUTBOX, and deliver a new stack of stuff to my INBOX.
• I remember doing "searches" using products like "Netscape", Alta Vista. "Ask Jeeves"
• I remember when I had my OWN secretary!!!!!
• I remember when my company, Ogilvy & Mather Direct, would have our annual meetings and Christmas parties at places like the NY Public Library, Madison Square Garden, The Museum of Natural History (one year "under the whale", another year in the Planetarium).   Some years it was Broadway theaters, then the cast would put on the show for us!
  
  I may be old now, but I think I'm lucky to have been YOUNG back then!

I remember in the 80s, working for a bank, taking a limo 6 blocks to a meeting.