You know you're old when...
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When you realize you've been out of highschool for four years.hollly efff.
Try THIRTY-FIVE years!!!!! "Holy *&*%$" doesn't even do that justice!!0 -
when your kids are playing wii or playstation and you remember playing Atari (sp?)
when your oldest child is getting ready for senior year and you feel like your senior year WASN'T that long ago
when your 10 yr old asks if I had colored pictures back in my 'olden' days0 -
When you see ads on TV and you're like, wow, thats a stupid reason to buy that thing, and then you realize, its directed at younger people.
When you are baffled that Two Broke Girls gets renewed and gets two back to back spots in prime time, and then it hits you, the younger generation is indeed that dumb that they find that show funny.0 -
finding out that a show that 'just' came on is in like its 8th season0
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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?
I've listed lots of other stuff. But there are a few things kids of today don't really appreciate. And the polio scare every summer was one of them. And the fear that came with the draft lottery for young men was another. Sorry but those were real and even people my age tend to forget them. Especially the polio scare.0 -
...you know all the words to every song from the 80's0
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When you realize you've been out of highschool for four years.hollly efff.
4? ...I'm a little closer to a decade...haha
Try 16 years and the younger 20 somethings that were 4-6 then grate on my nerves. Also when someone told me they weren't alive when the bears won the Superbowl.0 -
You realize that the people born the year you graduated college are old enough to buy alcohol.
You realize that most of the teachers at the High School were born AFTER the year you graduated.0 -
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?
I've listed lots of other stuff. But there are a few things kids of today don't really appreciate. And the polio scare every summer was one of them. And the fear that came with the draft lottery for young men was another. Sorry but those were real and even people my age tend to forget them. Especially the polio scare.
My apologies, I believe I missed some of your other ones. (But not about the TGIF. I think I'll go there for kicks sometime
That said, I think probably people want to forget a polio scare!
I'm not sure if there's an equivalent for my generation. I don't think so. Well, we were taught that premarital sex would kill us 99% of the time, probably. But I don't think that's particular to us.
(Though we might be the only generation to have been exposed to a song like "We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time". I was a kid when that came out, and even then figured it protested too much.)0 -
You've been retired from the military longer than you were in!0
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I'm 26, so I'm not too old, but I realize that my hs reunion is in 2 years. Where has almost a decade gone?! Also, I remember dial-up, and VCR's. My younger 16 yo twin brothers have no clue..0
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A life without mobile phones........0
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When you make weird grunts and sighs when you stand up...like I caught myself doing the other day :-P0
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you don't tie your shoes anymore0
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You can't find your shoes....0
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when your pretty sure you need a crane to get out of the bathtub.0
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When you pick up your friends to go to dinner on Friday night at 4:30. On the way to dinner all 4 of you agree that they need to stop by the library first!0
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You realize that the cast of "Thirtysomething" are all closing in on 60, right along with you.0
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... when you look at your receipt and discover the KID behind the counter gave you the "Senior Discount" on your meal even though you were only 54. (Of course that was pre-weight loss though the hair is still salt n pepper)0
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... when you look at your receipt and discover the KID behind the counter gave you the "Senior Discount" on your meal even though you were only 54. (Of course that was pre-weight loss though the hair is still salt n pepper)
And although you are glad for the discount, the savings aren't nearly enough to pay for the therapy you'll need to recover from the emotional trauma that has wreaked upon your psyche.0 -
When you realize you've been out of highschool for four years.hollly efff.
When you see a post like this and think, wow, I was out of high school for 4 years, ten years ago. And then immediately hate the original poster.0 -
I had a chick I worked with at pizza hut right after I graduated college tell me that she didn't know what Sesame Street was. REALLY?0
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You're driving somewhere at 10pm and see some kids walking and find yourself thinking, "What are they doing? Don't they know it's a school night?"0
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When you realize you've been out of highschool for four years.hollly efff.
When you see a post like this and think, wow, I was out of high school for 4 years, ten years ago. And then immediately hate the original poster.
25th reunion is this year. Geeez, I'm old! But I still play HARD!0 -
When you are pointing out to teens that the cool music they are listening to are remakes from hits when I was young0
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I took my son to see The Lone Ranger and was telling him about the original. He asked if it was a movie or on TV when it first aired. I told him it was on radio. He'd never heard of radio shows.0
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When you realize you've been out of highschool for four years.hollly efff.
When you see a post like this and think, wow, I was out of high school for 4 years, ten years ago. And then immediately hate the original poster.
25th reunion is this year. Geeez, I'm old! But I still play HARD!
My 40th is coming up in a couple of years....
I think the first time I realized I was getting old was when I started channeling my parents... "You call that #*%(& music?" and "Why on earth are you going to take FRENCH? We live within an hour or so of the Mexican border!" (Which was nearly verbatim what my mom said to me when I informed her I was going to take French in HS instead of continuing with Spanish.
Also, when I'm getting wedding and baby shower invitations from kids I've known since they were infants!0 -
You have to trim your ear hair as often as your facial hair.0
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You still play LP's every now and then
I love my records!0 -
more and more girls my age (22) are getting married
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