You know you're old when...

mockchoc

Your doctor keeps asking have you started menopause yet every time you see her?

SweetTrouble_

getting a friend request here from a dude that's closer to my daughter's age than mine...

Lleldiranne

You remember when:

Thailand was Siam;
The Czech Republic was Czechoslovakia;
Taiwan was Formosa;
Sri Lanka was Ceylon;
Yugoslavia existed; as earlier did
The Austro-Hungarian Empire.*

*j/k

And East and West Germany was a thing.
And the Soviet Union

Lleldiranne

When there were no cell phones and you used to have to hunt down a pay phone and have change to put in it.

Working on a story I'm writing, I have to stop and think -- how likely is it that the MCs would even encounter a pay phone? And then, since it's an important plot element, I have to go back and make it a restored antique so it's not out of place ...

blytheandbonnie

You knew that Duncan from 'Death At A Funeral' was Harris from 'Barney Miller'.
But... Peter Dinklage is in it, too, and I'm young enough to recognize that.

FitzyMax

When your daughter asks
"what was that dial thing on the old telephones all about, must have taken you ages to ring a number"!!!

toutmonpossible

You remember when there were no ATMs and banks closed at 3 p.m. on Friday. If you didn't get money you were SOL.

michelefrench

The tv went off the air every nite...and we had party lines ( you shared a telephone line with the street...u could pick up the phone and hear their convo)

choijanro

When you always forgot things,persons,events,place,etc

mustang289

What was the question again?

runnermama81

You have to be careful what you eat before bed to avoid getting heartburn:)

leebesstoad

Saw this post on another forum I belong to that sort of fits the subject matter very well: I especially appreciate #3.

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When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH ways. yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!

But now that I'm over the ripe old age of 42, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!

1) I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!

2) There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter – with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!

3) Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our *kitten*! Nowhere was safe!

4) There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!

5) Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?

6) We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that's it!

7) There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOSH !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.

8) And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

9) We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen... Forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!

2stepscloser

An intern gives you their date of birth and it was the year you graduated high school.

silver_arrow3

The kids I babysat have begun to have kids.

I'm only 26!

leebesstoad

1. Your sweetie says, 'Let's go upstairs and make love,' and you answer, 'Pick one; I can't do both!'

2. Your friends compliment you on your new alligator shoes and you're barefoot.

3. A sexy babe or hunk catches your fancy and your pacemaker opens the garage door.

4. Going braless pulls all the wrinkles out of your face.

5. You are cautioned to slow down by the doctor instead of by the police

6. 'Getting a little action' means you don't need to take any fiber today.

7. 'Getting lucky' means you find your car in the parking lot.

8. An 'all nighter' means not getting up to use the bathroom.

9. You are not sure these are jokes?

Redbird99ky

Saturday morning tv consisted of Fat Albert, Shazam!, and some goofy apocalyptic show about a six wheeled armored vehicle roaming the land.

Tom Haden showing Popeye, Tom Slick, Super Chicken and George of the Jungle cartoons in between turning squiggles into drawrings.

Looney Tunes, Mighty Mouse, Tom Terrific, Boris and Natasha, Fractured Fairy Tales, The Jetsons, The Flintstones, Gumby, Davey and Goliath, and Colonel Bleep from Zero Zero Island.

Might Mouse:

Here I come to save the day!

When you remember watching The Flintstones and The Jetsons in PRIME TIME on the weeknight!

marilynx

You know you're too old when:

You start mispronouncing your child's tv shows (Pokemon becomes PokeMAN, Yugioh becomes YuJIoh). Sometimes you mispronounce it on purpose just to show how insignificant the shows are.

Facebook becomes too annoying to maneuver

You don't know half of what's playing on the radio

Grocery shopping counts as a family outing

You forget how old you are

Redbird99ky

You remember when:

Thailand was Siam;
The Czech Republic was Czechoslovakia;
Taiwan was Formosa;
Sri Lanka was Ceylon;
Yugoslavia existed; as earlier did
The Austro-Hungarian Empire.*

*j/k

Bangladesh was East Pakistan

Redbird99ky

When the music video's I LOVED watching as a kid/teen on MTV in the 80's is now on VH1 Classic!!

When there WAS no MTV, only the predecessor - Friday Night Videos

leebesstoad

You remember when:

Thailand was Siam;
The Czech Republic was Czechoslovakia;
Taiwan was Formosa;
Sri Lanka was Ceylon;
Yugoslavia existed; as earlier did
The Austro-Hungarian Empire.*

*j/k

Bangladesh was East Pakistan

Zimbabwe was Rhodesia.