What fact makse you feel old?

kcgslp

I will soon be an "empty nester"

sjohnny

I kid I used to babysit is a Marine and served in Iraq several years ago.

All the "new" music they play as "flashbacks".

BAMFMeredith

The fact that Eminem's daughter, Haley, who he's referenced in several songs, looks like this now:



And the fact that my fav radio station has a "flashback lunch hour" and I regularly start jamming to every song and then realize "Oh God, my favorite songs from 8th and 9th grade are now considered flashbacks."

Emancipated_Tai

Several things make me feel old, but I have outlined a few as follows:

1. We didn’t have Xbox or Wii. We had Atari. Enough said.
2. We were required to play outside. No sitting in the house all day or else you did chores.
3. Cell phones were the size of bricks and the only thing you could do was call people.
4. People had actual car phones.
5. We were beaten in school by administration if we acted up. We were then beat again by family members when we got home.
6. We had respect for your elders.
7. Music had meaning.
8. We recorded music off the radio and made mix tapes for our friends/loved ones.
9. Tapes and VHS were all the rave.. what’s a DVD?
10. Being gay on TV was NOT an option (thank gosh we’ve progressed from this stage!).
11. TV actually went off at night. Once you heard the Star Spangled Banner, it was a wrap!
12. Once we did get cable there was only A/B. You had to switch the box from one side to the other to get more channels. However, there still were not many channels!
13. MTV played videos.
14. The internet was still a new concept.
15. AOL chat rooms claimed many virgins in its days of glory.

Way_2_a_Healthy_Mel

My 7-yr old asked me the other day if the pilgrims were around when I was born...

sleepytexan

I took a tour of my college's campus. The current student giving the tour (to myself, my family, and a prospective student with his family), took us to the union and said "We host frequent dances and parties here, often with an '80s theme".

He then looked at me (knew I was an alum), and asked, "did you have '80s parties when you were here?"

I answered, "yup. Every single one".

hahahahahahahaha.

He didn't even get it!

sjohnny

And the fact that my fav radio station has a "flashback lunch hour" and I regularly start jamming to every song and then realize "Oh God, my favorite songs from 8th and 9th grade are now considered flashbacks."

The fact that you were in the 8th and 9th grade when the flashback lunch songs came out and you feel old makes me feel ancient since I was out of college when some of those were new.

biggsexy7

I explained to a kid what a beeper was and that was in the 90's. Plus how the cell phones use to be a hue bag phone.

_Elemenopee_

This..

_Elemenopee_

I took a tour of my college's campus. The current student giving the tour (to myself, my family, and a prospective student with his family), took us to the union and said "We host frequent dances and parties here, often with an '80s theme".

He then looked at me (knew I was an alum), and asked, "did you have '80s parties when you were here?"

I answered, "yup. Every single one".

hahahahahahahaha.

He didn't even get it!

That's awesome! LOL

lizzybethclaire

I don’t really feel old. Betty White said something a few years ago and I carry it with me. “Don’t be scared of getting old. You don’t change, not on the inside. The outside changes, but you will always remain the same as you have ever been, you just get a little smarter.”

BAMFMeredith

I explained to a kid what a beeper was and that was in the 90's. Plus how the cell phones use to be a hue bag phone.

When I was in 9th and 10th grade you were seriously HOT *kitten* if you had a beeper!

ghiaguy

We were out shopping with our kids and they saw an old record player. It might as well have been something from Mars. They had no idea what it was or what it did. At first we thought they were kidding. Unfortunately they were not.

PuggleLover

When my son picked up the phone at a hotel room and thought it was broken because it made a 'funny noise.' It was the dial tone

My grandson did something similar recently when he saw an old school land line phone for the first time. His first comment was "what is that?".

OMG.... I never thought about this... blows my mind.

DieVixen

My new cashiers at work could date my son.

davejlee

I remember making mix tapes.

haha. Would take hours to get it right.

I remember how to use "beeper code".

43770

143

823

scapez

I know what this is:

Yup...me too.

Kris1997

I graduated high school 15 years ago!!!!

The music I grew up listening to is considered oldies

I catch myself saying, " When I was your age........

THIS ^^^^^^^^^^ and thinking 1990 was 10 years ago,this fall is my daughter's last year in middle school. LOL

Emancipated_Tai

My 7-yr old asked me the other day if the pilgrims were around when I was born...

THIS :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

neverstray

When I see Van Halen playing, I think, "those guys are old". I'm only a few years younger. I was in Jr High when their first album exploded.

I was trying to explain to my son how you used to have to get up to change the channels on the tv. He didn't understand.

When my son asks me questions like, "dad, did they have cars when you were a kid?" lol.