You Know You’re Old, When ...

  … You remember the day you filled your Spiroll with a spilled cup of coffee, and the floor plan prints are always darker on the lower half of the sheet.

  … You wonder why so many firms spell their names without spaces between the words.

… You actually cut and paste paper to create the original for a spec.

… Your first portable PC was the size of a small suitcase … and it hurt your shoulder to carry it.

… You show someone how to twirl a pencil to make its lineweight consistent.

… Your Mayline loosens, and the walls of your building are not parallel.

… Your pin bar gets bent.

… Your floppy disk file gets lost.

… You run out of S’s on your Letraset film.

…You have to reset the screws on your slide rule.

…Your foot-inch adding machine stylus gets lost.

…Your set of Rapidographs dries out.

… Your transit leveling screw is stripped.

…You know the real reason that blueprints are called that.  You’re even older if you know why they are blue.

… You think that PDF might mean ‘Pretty Darn Fast’.

… You wonder why Fly Ash would be good for anything.

… You really like how quick it is to change the font with your Selectric typewriter.

… None of your Architect friends have any connection to IT, unless they think you’re thinking about Clara Bow.

… You think that hard and soft refer to density.

… You know that a drafting machine has no power supply.

… You practice your hand printing by writing only in block letters.

… You consider whether you want your personal ‘style’ to be vertical or inclined.

… You lost your drafting pad.

… You know all about 3D software because you can sit with the operator.

… You refer to all Contractors as ‘he’.

… You sand a chisel point on your pencils.

… Your standard details are in a filing cabinet.

… You messed up your computer program by dropping the punch cards.

… You knew what hanging chads were before you ever heard the word chads.

… You made every effort to keep gray water out of your building.

…  You thought Green Power might have been a reference to the Hulk.

… You think that Present Value refers to your Christmas Bonus.

… You think that a guy boasting about his PEX is talking about his body tone.

… You use CSI specs, and you’ve never thought about criminal activity.

… You liked the performance characteristics of asbestos shingles.

… You enjoy long, hard, drenching showers.

… You think that if you sit still and think long enough that a light bulb will turn on, not off.

… You think the best use for old blue jeans is for cut-off’s.

… You think that LEED may be a city in England.

… The people talking to themselves on the street near you don’t have blue teeth.

… You double-shift your CAD drafters to pay off the equipment purchase.

… You call drafters draughtsmen.

… You wonder where the funeral is, since everyone seems to be dressed in black.

… Your Sweet’s catalogs are a tradable commodity.

… You wonder why a classic movie may be good to show in your building when IRMA is proposed.

… You refuse to put Styrofoam on the outside of your building.

… Your slide collection gets buckled because you left it in the back seat of your locked car, parked in the sun.

… Your carousel projector jams.

… You were the only woman in the office.

…You were the only woman on the jobsite.

… You admire the integrity of Howard Roark.

… You wonder what happened to Frank Gehry.

… You are renovating your own renovations.

… You’ve got writers’ cramp … and you think that carpal tunnel is a way for fish to get around the new dam.

… You’re annoyed by 30 under 30.

… You don’t find your PA in a doctor’s office.

… You get all the references here.