You know you're old when...

Rogiefreida

I run a chain of auto repair shops so bear with me here, but...

When your General Service Techs don't know how to start a carbureted car, or the kid working the local auto parts store doesn't know that long before Mitsubishi made a Lancer, Dodge also had a car named Lancer.

Le Sigh.

Or when you're best friend's "baby sister" who you visited the day she was born now has a 1 year old. :noway:

pudadough

I realized that the kids I teach were born in a different millenium than I was...


I tried to explain the concept of a dial up modem to a 13 year old and ended up saying "They sounded like Skrillex."

SakuraRose13

When you realize you've been out of highschool for four years.hollly efff.

Try 10 years see how you feel and oh and my husband has been out for 13 years now and his cousin who is 14 has no idea what a cassete is lol has never heard of transfomers or rainbow bright .

she has no idea what she's missing , just today I found my husbands Sega Genesis not sure where his super Nintendo is though.

Wish I could play not sure if I need any special adapaters though.

and that my daughters 16 months and turning 3 august 10th will never know what a record is a cassette or a vhs is ? They will never know what it was like to not have a cellphone or not have a video game system or having wireless internet or ipads , they don't have this now but someday they will.

Ill be 30 in Feb 9th and wow a lot had changed since I was born.

toutmonpossible

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 can't remember because ours was delivered by the milkman in bottles. No one drank skim milk and the whole milk always had a layer of cream on top.

I posted earlier about being able to talk your parents into buying a quart of chocolate milk from the milkman. My uncle George (we called him Bus) was a milkman for Embassy Dairy in DC.

I saw that. We used a company called Weissglass Dairy. I don't remember the milkman's name, but his was nice, and always dressed from head to toe in white. He used to deliver the miilk around 6 in the morning.

foxro

You want to test drive a new car but are totally paranoid because; you don't know how the door opens let alone how to start the car and; are afraid to accidently touch something that might initiate a zombie or nuclear apocolypse !!!

CookNLift

When you scream out "Who Loves Orange Soda?!" and everyone stares at you weird or just racially assumes black people. smh

leebesstoad

When you realize your 20 year old has never had anything other than high speed internet his entire life.

Lleldiranne

Your morning TV consisted of Miss Connie on Romper Room and Captain Kangaroo.

Oh, Mr. Green Jeans -- people think you're a brand for a sustainable clothes line.

Don't forget Wonderama. It used the theme from The Unsinkable Molly Brown, but you didn't know that.

And The Polka-dot Door! I can still hear the theme song.



Or, you remember when Sesame Street was actually good. Forgetful Jones, Guy Smiley, Franklin, Ernie & Bert were roommates (I remember the t.v. M skit, that was funny!!), Snuffleupugus was Big Bird's imaginary friend, Barkley, Mr Hooper ….
Elmo wasn't there.

leebesstoad

You were able to get your first drink at the age of 18 legally.

brenn24179

I am wearing a pair of jean shorts that are 30 years old that I just got back into. Also when everyone is saying Mam to me all the time!

toutmonpossible

You were able to get your first drink at the age of 18 legally.

You remember when the 26th Amendment was adopted which lowered the voting age to 18. You remember the failure of The Equal Rights Amendment. You remember the introduction of "Ms."

nottaquitter

When you can quote lines from Bradey Bunch reruns

When you can still sing the theme from "Talk to Mr. Ed." Nothing like those unsingable themes from "Mad Men," "Dexter," and "Breaking Bad."*

*J/K

OMG hahahaha

nottaquitter

When you can quote lines from Bradey Bunch reruns

When you can still sing the theme from "Talk to Mr. Ed." Nothing like those unsingable themes from "Mad Men," "Dexter," and "Breaking Bad."*

*J/K

OMG hahahaha

Jesus I am old

dkirkling

you walk in a room to get something then forget what you went to get.

native2music

When you absolutely can't imagine going to a concert or see a local band play during a weeknight. (Seems here in TN, venues don't know how to schedule on any other night than a Thursday.) I refuse to go unless on a weekend... I made one exception... blues artist, Jonny Lang... worth it? yes, but I felt like dog poo the next day at work :ohwell:


I also felt old when I heard that most schools stopped teaching cursive writing. What?! Then I began thinking how different it was when I was in school compared to my 15 year old son. Main differences: he took a foreign language in elementary school (which is not a bad idea), he was lucky enough to have learned cursive writing before they stopped teaching it, but now that he is older no one enforces cursive, everything is researched online (when I was in school, we had to use newspapers, books, interviews, etc. to research), his math teachers encourage using a calculator when doing math (he has a hard time with multiplication and he's now in high school. I had to memorize multiplication tables.... and Algebra 2? No way was I allowed to use calculators without showing my work.)
.... It's actually frustrating as a parent knowing that technology is "dumbing down" our kids.

RobinsEgg

As a kid in the mid - '50's here in the mid-west, they had No Problem spraying the city streets for mosquitos with big trucks of chemicals with 8 sprayers each rolling down the streets 2 at a time. We didn't even stop playing and go inside when the trucks rolled by with their noxious gasses.....now I am 62 and have asthma.............hmm..........:grumble:

toutmonpossible

You remember when anyone who was tattooed was in a circus side show, or had worked for the Navy and always stank of liquor.

buffer221

When clothing trend is on its third cycle

Laac68

When you visit a museum and see something you used to use (rotary phone, game of Pong, typewriter).

My husband and I visited a few antique places and found toys that we use to have as kids. I couldn't remember whatever happened to my "Simon" electronic game.

Laac68

you walk in a room to get something then forget what you went to get.

LOL...I have done this many of times and also whenever I go to call someone and forget whom I was going to call.

anemoneprose

When the idea of having to produce your ID is HILARIOUS

When you are at least two generations removed from the current wave of kid toy nostalgia

When you recognize that generational nostalgia occurs in waves & that yours isn't special

When you have zero, zero frame of reference for youth lingo

When you think anyone under 25 looks like an actual baby

When you see individuality in the faces of the very old, and can easily imagine what they looked like as younger people, even children. When I was a teen, honestly, all people over 68 sort of looked the same to me

When you no longer care about winning a damn thing, or proving a damn thing, to anyone but yourself

When you find it is much harder than it once was to come down hard, black or white, on a moral issue, because you can see most sides

janinab75

When I just had my 20th high school reunion.
When people I work with don't know who Molly Ringwald is.
When people I work with don't know who The Grateful Dead is.
When I got my first email address in my second year in college and the World Wide Web wasn't being used yet.

leebesstoad

When the idea of having to produce your ID is HILARIOUS

When the idea of having to produce your ID is the highlight of your day. Which is the reason why you need to order a drink at Hartsfield International Airport (at least at TGIFridays). Everyone gets carded no matter what age. Haven't felt that young in years. lol

leebesstoad

When you've had your email address so long it is only your first and last name @yahoo.com. And it is a very common first and last name.(

janicelo1971

when you pee jumping rope!!!

leebesstoad

when you pee jumping rope!!!

When sleeping through the night without having to get up to pee is a miracle of biblical proportion. lol

leebesstoad

You remember standing in line with everyone in your community to get the polio vaccine as soon as it was available. And you remember the fear in your parent's faces before the vaccine was discovered when talking about polio. And the iron lung.

RllyGudTweetr

When I just had my 20th high school reunion.
When people I work with don't know who Molly Ringwald is.
When people I work with don't know who The Grateful Dead is.
When I got my first email address in my second year in college and the World Wide Web wasn't being used yet.

When you can remember that Molly Ringwald on the cover of Time magazine was a big deal.

anemoneprose

You remember standing in line with everyone in your community to get the polio vaccine as soon as it was available. And you remember the fear in your parent's faces before the vaccine was discovered when talking about polio. And the iron lung.

Hey, surely some thing other than war & disease presented itself to you in your youth? What about fake cigarettes for kids? Pet rocks? Something?

davemunger

When you get all nostalgic as you read the things people remember in the "You know you're old when..." topic. Amazing stuff, here!