You know you're old when...

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  • sarahthin
    sarahthin Posts: 221 Member
    You're getting ready for your 50th class reunion.
  • sarahthin
    sarahthin Posts: 221 Member
    Your oldest child is approaching 50
  • penelopeyvonne
    penelopeyvonne Posts: 97 Member
    When I was a callow youth at my first job (I was about 17) I teased the two older chaps I worked with by saying "What's it like hearing the songs you grew up with played as Golden Oldies?". Now, of course, I hear my own teenaged songs (and others, older) played exactly the same way... That one sure came back to bite me.

    I still convert back sometimes from £s and Ps to Old Money... ie 5p used to be a shilling. And I remember how my older brother used to give me and my sister 50 pence a week pocket money, when 50p used to be a lot of money!!

    Seriously - what can you buy NOW with 50 pence? When I was slightly younger than that callow youth, my dad and two brothers complained when petrol went up to 35 pence a GALLON. Now, of course, it's £1.35 a litre... :ohwell:
  • justicer68
    justicer68 Posts: 1,223
    I can't remember...what was the question?
  • mister_universe
    mister_universe Posts: 6,664 Member
    I can't remember...what was the question?

    Exactly. I don't remember this thread. I don't remember if I've posted in it. But at twelve pages, I should have, right?
  • foxro
    foxro Posts: 793 Member
    When Mick Jagger of the Stones sings "What a drag it is to get old " (is Mick lying ??):laugh:
  • justicer68
    justicer68 Posts: 1,223
    I can't remember...what was the question?

    Exactly. I don't remember this thread. I don't remember if I've posted in it. But at twelve pages, I should have, right?

    Exactly. :tongue: Do I know you??
  • Lleldiranne
    Lleldiranne Posts: 5,516 Member
    more and more girls my age (22) are getting married :/

    When you've been married almost (not quite, but almost) as long as those young girls have been alive. At least married before they entered school.

    And I'm sure there are some who've got me beat on that.
  • wibutterflymagic
    wibutterflymagic Posts: 788 Member
    You remember using pay phones and they cost 10 cents.
  • Grammie4VT
    Grammie4VT Posts: 35 Member
    ...when some of the people responding to the "you know you're old when" topic are young enough to be your children!
    Or young enough to be your grandchildren! Eeek! :)
  • leebesstoad
    leebesstoad Posts: 1,186 Member
    You remember being fascinated by the guys who spun plates on the sticks on the Ed Sullivan show. And wonder what they would do for a living now.
  • Mamalea32
    Mamalea32 Posts: 134
    You pull a back muscle riding a roller coaster.
  • kosuke081
    kosuke081 Posts: 69
    You know the references in Bowling for Soup's "1985"
    ...then realize that song came out in 2004.
  • leebesstoad
    leebesstoad Posts: 1,186 Member
    You remember when Mick Jagger actually was sexy.

    Oops, strike that. He never was. :laugh:
  • RllyGudTweetr
    RllyGudTweetr Posts: 2,019 Member
    You remember when Mick Jagger actually was sexy.

    Oops, strike that. He never was. :laugh:
    Must.. . . fight. . . David Bowie. . . reference.

    You know you're old if you understand the reference above.
  • justicer68
    justicer68 Posts: 1,223
    You pull a back muscle riding a roller coaster.

    Or when you pull a back muscle doing your hair! :sad: :sad: :sad:
  • Twisted_Wrister
    Twisted_Wrister Posts: 758 Member
    ***Warning**** Hockey reference: When the guys I watched as a kid, now have their own children being drafted into the NHL
  • MrsSWW
    MrsSWW Posts: 1,585 Member
    You overhear this on the bus...
    Youth 1: Yeah, he's got it on his iPod.
    Youth 2: What's an iPod?
    Y1: It's like a phone, but you could only listen to music on it.
    Yep, I can remember us getting our first landline phone back in the 1970s. How thrilling. Now kids don't even know how revolutionary an iPod was...
  • Mia_RagazzaTosta
    Mia_RagazzaTosta Posts: 4,885 Member
    When a girl you work with hasn't seen/heard of Uncle Buck

    The residents that were starting to rotate through the hospital were younger than me (the lowly nurse).

    When your 12 year old daughter doesn't think you're cool, but you know that is total BS. :wink:

    Oh, and when your kids ask what a payphone is.
  • nygrl4evr
    nygrl4evr Posts: 196 Member
    When the fashions you wore in high school are now a named section at the costume shops.

    When the little 8 year old girl you used to watch is now all grown up and has a middle school age child of her own!
  • EmilyJackCO
    EmilyJackCO Posts: 621 Member
    You remember when there was no TV after 2 a.m. (Or was it 1?)

    And it signed off with a video reading the poem "High Flight"

    Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
    And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
    Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
    of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
    You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
    High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
    I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
    My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .

    Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
    I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
    Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
    And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
    The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
    Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

    I will never forget hearing that read for the Challenger memorial...
  • NotSoBigNeil
    NotSoBigNeil Posts: 215 Member
    When you used to take a pound note to get into the local cinema.
  • luckynky
    luckynky Posts: 123 Member
    When your son is about to turn 18.
    When, not only do you have a few chin hairs, but at least one of them is gray.
    When you can remember the first "cell" phones, but they were called "car phones" and had a cord connected to them.
    When you used to watch t.v. by adjusting the rabbit ears and turning the dials.
  • tobafa
    tobafa Posts: 344 Member
    1) You play Wii baseball and tennis with your kiddo and the next day your shoulder and wrist are killing you. 2) You leave a love note in your wife's medicine bottle. :D
  • branflakes1980
    branflakes1980 Posts: 2,516 Member
    When you get just as excited about an outing to the grocery store with no children as you used to get when you were getting ready for a night of drunken shenannigans!
  • sjsosu
    sjsosu Posts: 135 Member
    The music you listened to in high school is now considered classic rock, and the classic rock from your youth is now considered oldies.
  • Mia_RagazzaTosta
    Mia_RagazzaTosta Posts: 4,885 Member
    The music you listened to in high school is now considered classic rock, and the classic rock from your youth is now considered oldies.

    Yes! My dad sat at the kitchen table every morning with the Oldies station on and the music that is now on that station is what the Classic Rock station used to play.
  • leebesstoad
    leebesstoad Posts: 1,186 Member
    You know you're old when you remember motels advertising they had color TVs in their rooms because it WAS a big deal.
  • iorahkwano
    iorahkwano Posts: 709 Member
    You need a nap, a shower & a cup of coffee before a night out on the town.

    Then you come back at 1am.
  • STrooper
    STrooper Posts: 659 Member
    Oh and complain about gasoline being $3.55 a gallon, starting stories with "when I was your age I paid .79 cents a gallon for gas...."

    Try .49/gallon! Three bucks could have you cruisin' all night!

    I remember $.29/gallon.

    I remember $0.07 -$ 0.09/gallon during the Florida "gas wars" in 1968 and when gasoline tripled in price during the 1972 oil embargo to $0.39/gallon.

    Of course, shortly after that we slowed down to 55 mph. I started a new career in Kansas. Driving across Kansas (or any western state) at 55 mph wasn't an experience, it was a career.

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