What fact makse you feel old?

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  • recriger
    recriger Posts: 245 Member
    I was in the storage unit the other day looking for a dry bag. I figured it would be in with my old camping gear. I pulled out my old backpack that I had taken to New Mexico during one of the best trips of my young life. I dumped it onto the floor and picked up the dry bag I was looking for, it had something in it. I pulled out a Nalgene bottle from back when they still had the mountain lion on them. It was yellowed and kinda nasty looking. Then It hit me that this bag had been transferred around from family member to family member, never opened since the last time I used it in 1994!!

    The part that actually made me laugh is that as I picked up the bag I knew what other bags, straps and camping utensils were going to be in it 18 years later. It "feels" like I closed the bag and put it into my parents basement just last year...Didn't I??
  • LovinLife68
    LovinLife68 Posts: 9
    People that I went to HS with are now grandparents.

    ^^^This
  • kenyajae
    kenyajae Posts: 48
    The fact that college football players are 1/2 my age.
  • fbmandy55
    fbmandy55 Posts: 5,263 Member
    Seeing teenager's posts on facebook. I still felt I like was posting stuff to my classmates not long ago... then I saw the kinds of things those kids say...
  • JadedSouls
    JadedSouls Posts: 136 Member
    I graduated HS 18yrs ago..
    I have a son turning 16 in August..
  • amymeenieminymo
    amymeenieminymo Posts: 2,394 Member
    Kids born when I was a sophomore in high school just graduated from high school this year.

    In Back to the Future Marty went back 30 years to 1955, if that movie were made today he would go back to the year 1982 :noway:
  • jennifer52484
    jennifer52484 Posts: 888 Member
    10 year high school reunion is this November..
  • SandiBren
    SandiBren Posts: 33 Member
    I was looking for hubby the other day in a store and the cashier said "If you're looking for the ELDERLY man in the beard, he left a few minutes ago." I said okay and left before it hit me.......my man is elderly???? LOL!
  • focus4fitness
    focus4fitness Posts: 551 Member
    People born in the 90's are starting to legally drink.
  • HisChild2011
    HisChild2011 Posts: 145 Member
    That my daughter - 11 - and nieces - 14 & 16 - informed me that no one uses my slang anymore! And that I would know that if I wasn't old and unhip! Are you freakin kidding me??? OLD?! I just made it into my 30's - and I am the epitome of hip!
  • Touched670
    Touched670 Posts: 97 Member
    How about this....I became a grandma (Mimi) in April and my baby son graduates from high school Saturday. Where did the time go?
  • AllisonMart
    AllisonMart Posts: 155 Member
    My BFF's son is 14 and has a pic of a girl in a bikini as his screensaver. He told me he got a new phone for his birthday, and then he asked what kind of phone I had when I was 14. I said, "the kind that plugs into the wall and has a cord".

    And his little sister is 12. I was babysitting the son the day she was born.
  • lporter229
    lporter229 Posts: 4,907 Member
    When I go into a convenience store and see those signs that say " You must have been born before 1994 to buy tobacco and before 1991 to buy alcohol". I was already out of high school when these kids were born (and sadly, I still get a little disappointed when I don't get carded).
  • 2Grtkids
    2Grtkids Posts: 93
    I feel old when I cant tolerate teen girls.......

    I was them once?! what happened?! LOL

    ^^^^^ This, definitely.
  • pinthin87
    pinthin87 Posts: 296 Member
    My 19 year old cousin asks who's James Brown, Jaleel White, and Morgan Freeman! How can she not know these people?
  • montana_girl
    montana_girl Posts: 1,403 Member
    In Back to the Future Marty went back 30 years to 1955, if that movie were made today he would go back to the year 1982 :noway:

    Okay, now I really do feel old.... :frown:
  • Myslissa
    Myslissa Posts: 760 Member
    I have twins that will be able to legally drink by the end of this year.
  • anima_gemella
    anima_gemella Posts: 243 Member
    I feel old whenever I talk to my 16 year old niece! It felt like yesterday I was reading her bedtime stories! :sad:
  • SixCatFaerie
    SixCatFaerie Posts: 690 Member
    -People that I went to High School with are now grandparents.

    -All my favorite music is now considered "Classic".

    -Kids that I've know since they were in diapers are getting married & having kids.

    -I hate most of today's popular music.

    -I don't understand why/how kids behave these days.

    -Kids do/say things these days that would have gotten me back-handed/spanked/beaten with no repercussions whatsoever for them.

    -Kids now have a sense of self-entitlement because everything they want is freely given, whereas everything I wanted as a kid I had to work my *ss off for.

    Yep, I do in fact realize that I'm saying the exact same things that my parents & grand-parents before me have said! Totally think it is true though!

    Perfect example: My husband's best friend's son (18 yrs. old!) actually said to him a few weeks ago -

    "Dad, you need to go get a better job so that I can have money."

    THE 18 YR. OLD KID WAS SERIOUS!!!!

    Obviously, he said no. If I had disrespected my parents like that, even at the legal adult age of 18, I would have gotten back-handed across the face/beaten with a belt until I learned what respect was!
  • Cliffslosinit
    Cliffslosinit Posts: 5,044 Member
    My GRANDDAUGHTER turned a year old Sunday.:noway:
    Hold on I gotta go slap my son:laugh:
  • Qatsi
    Qatsi Posts: 2,191 Member
    Having to accept the necessity of reading glasses.:noway:
  • stephc0711
    stephc0711 Posts: 1,022 Member
    The little girl I used to babysit turned 18 last week! :(
  • aligatorwww
    aligatorwww Posts: 48 Member
    My almost-22-year-old daugher asked me how we got directions to where we're going without the internet! I couldn't remember...LOL!
  • Sabresgal63
    Sabresgal63 Posts: 641 Member
    That my son is almost 33 years old:bigsmile:
  • JenaePavlak
    JenaePavlak Posts: 350 Member
    Training in "kids" (17-19 yr olds) at work and my references don't make sense to them... I'm only 9 years older then them!
  • EpiGaiaRepens
    EpiGaiaRepens Posts: 824 Member
    people born in the 90's can buy booze. what else is there????
  • SixCatFaerie
    SixCatFaerie Posts: 690 Member
    The fact the kids have Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and a wii with a butt load of games but they say their bored! Go outside and play in the dirt.

    Absolutely!!!
  • brittigno
    brittigno Posts: 193 Member
    Some people born in the '90's can legally drink.
    lol this.
  • anabell31
    anabell31 Posts: 268
    I feel old whenever I talk to my 16 year old niece! It felt like yesterday I was reading her bedtime stories! :sad:

    My niece is only 2 weeks old, I hope the bedtime stories last a loooong time :(
  • recriger
    recriger Posts: 245 Member
    Actually just yesterday I was teasing the wife about taking up smoking again (quit a year ago now). I was joking about grabing a pack of Harley Davidson cigarettes and jumping into my 1978 Nova to go for a spin just like my buddies and I did when we were teenagers.

    I said something like, "ah, how booring life was just a short 10 years back." Then she laughed in a rather cruel manner and said "Try 20 Einstein.". My brain was automatically doing the math as if I were still 25 instead of 35. I think I'm missing something!

    1, 2 Freddy's comming for you. 3, 4 better....

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