What fact makse you feel old?

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  • Hellbent_Heidi
    Hellbent_Heidi Posts: 3,669 Member
    1. Friends from high-school are becoming grandparents or watching kids graduate high-school.
    2. Everytime I see one of those "you must be born before today's date in "INSERT YEAR" to purchase alcohol" signs
  • ksraider
    ksraider Posts: 107
    My daughter's class when she graduates will be Class of 2021!!!
    My youngest will graduate in the the class of 2020...the same year I have my 40 year class reunion.
  • neverstray
    neverstray Posts: 3,845 Member
    When kids you knew, saw them as a baby, are now graduating college and getting married.
  • Kamikazeflutterby
    Kamikazeflutterby Posts: 770 Member
    People who where born in the 80's can drive :)

    and people born in the 80's can DRINK! well some of us!

    People who were born in the early 80s are now in their early 30s.
  • dsjohndrow
    dsjohndrow Posts: 1,820 Member
    Hendrix is dead. My son is going to be 35 in August. My knees don't like me. Gas cost 35.9 cents when I started driving.
  • aimeerocksx3
    aimeerocksx3 Posts: 91
    The fact that kids starting high school this year were born in 1998.

    This.

    Also, some of my friends are having 2nd children, moving into houses, having mortgages, etc.
    And here I am, moving into my parents basement with my fiance and 2 dogs. HUZZAH!!
  • BAMFMeredith
    BAMFMeredith Posts: 2,810 Member
    10 year high school reunion is this November..

    Mine's in September!
  • EDesq
    EDesq Posts: 1,527 Member
    I graduated from my IT degree the year Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web :laugh:

    Can you imagine doing an IT degree, or in fact anything, without a readily-accessible internet?

    Edit: I hate the fact you can't edit badly-spelled topic headers :explode:


    I listen to music with people who can ACTUALLY SANG, The Writers are Creative and Original and don't Sample: Like Aretha, Smokey Robinson, The Temptations, The Supremes, Jackie Wilson, Sam Cook, ARETHA, ARETHA, ARETHA!!!
  • kerricolby
    kerricolby Posts: 232 Member
    Kurt Cobain would have been 45 this year.
  • EDesq
    EDesq Posts: 1,527 Member
    I have "old persons" disease..Bad Hips and knee! I look Great but when I start walking, OH MY! Great thing about that is it is soon to be fixed!
  • bonogul
    bonogul Posts: 96 Member
    A 4 year old kid telling me that i am old :), whatever, i gave her a mean vaccine shot... she deserved it for call me old. I am 25. come on kid :)
  • rileamoyer
    rileamoyer Posts: 2,412 Member
    That I am old enough to file for Social Security this summer, some of my grandkids are old enough to vote. On the flip side, I rocked till 2 a.m. last week to an awesome band that plays current music, and a 14 (maybe 15) year old driver wanted to drag race me (my Charger really) on main street the other day. You are only as old as you feel.
  • gwduker
    gwduker Posts: 293
    Hmmm. My kids consider techno the grandfather of dubstep.

    My first car was a 1980 Chevette and I had a boom box with D batteries in it because the radio didn't work.

    I can remember having "party lines" where you had to share a phone line with 2 or more neighbors in the small town I grew up in. (You could actually pick up the phone and hear their conversation.)

    We had those too and a family friend STILL has the old Rotary phone that came with those. My son had no idea ho to make a call on it! :)
  • phee03r
    phee03r Posts: 14 Member
    I didnt read through the thread, but Eminem's daughter Hailey is on her HIGH SCHOOL's volleyball team!
  • Miss_dannii
    Miss_dannii Posts: 1,351 Member
    the fact that I'm 25 and I'm a widow x
    Also the fact that I have a pension lol
  • 19kat55
    19kat55 Posts: 336 Member
    The fact I remember where I was and what I was doing the day JFK was shot.
  • AmadaLynn
    AmadaLynn Posts: 116
    The fact that I only occasionally get carded now when buying alcohol.
  • Temporalia
    Temporalia Posts: 1,151 Member
    Another fact: the fact that i've been using the internet for the last 17 years and trying to explain to younger people how it has changed and that it wasn't always this fast and that webpages didn't look like this...

    Remember playing Larry on the computer without our parents knowing on the Tandy 1000.
  • pixidust82883
    pixidust82883 Posts: 17
    I look at 'kids' these days and despair of the future of our society.
    Agree!!!
  • Way_2_a_Healthy_Mel
    Way_2_a_Healthy_Mel Posts: 175 Member
    My 20 year class reunion was last year...wish I had gone:ohwell:

    Mine is next month. I can't go...
  • digitalbill
    digitalbill Posts: 1,410 Member
    My son reminded me today that the car I bought brand new will be able to to into a car show in 5 years because, by then, it will be a "classic".
    I reminded him that although my car will in fact be 20 years old, it will still be a Cavalier and, therefore, have no place in a car show.
  • getskinnyby25
    getskinnyby25 Posts: 27 Member
    That my YOUNGER brother is 22
  • Daysednconfused
    Daysednconfused Posts: 975 Member
    All of my friends are having kids on purpose.

    This cracked me up!
  • sportyredhead01
    sportyredhead01 Posts: 482 Member
    Hearing songs from my late teens on the "Classic Rock" station.

    ^^^^^^This and the fact that I saw a bar advertising "90's Night".

    I feel like the 90's were like just the other day.
  • sarahkatara
    sarahkatara Posts: 826 Member
    The fact that my "little brother" just turned 18 and graduated from high school and all I can think of is the picture of me holding him as an infant...I was 8. I'm 25 now so not old but damn it sure can make you feel that way!
  • mtaylor33557
    mtaylor33557 Posts: 542 Member
    My neice, who I can remember as an infant, the little girl I babysat.. she is now a senior in high school and babysits my son.

    It's been 10 years since I graduated High School.

    I hear music from my youth on "classic music" channels.

    The trees in the quad at the university I attended where so small when I graduated they had to have stakes... they are now, big, pretty trees.

    I no longer get carded for alcohol.
  • Way_2_a_Healthy_Mel
    Way_2_a_Healthy_Mel Posts: 175 Member
    My first car had an 8-track player.

    Windows 3.1 was released the year I graduated from high school.

    I remember when MTV first came out, and they played music videos.

    When I told my son the pilgrims were not around when I was born, he asked me what kind of music was popular when I was born. I told him disco....he then asked me if I had an afro when I was born. LOL. I told him no, I had no hair, so he asked me if Paw Paw (my dad) had an afro...lol.

    Y'all have really sparked memories for me, and now I feel super old. Someone mentioned Hypercolor T-shirts! Wow! That brings back some crazy memories.
  • polarsjewel
    polarsjewel Posts: 1,725 Member
    **Sorry this is so long, I just received it in an email**


    Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."

    The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

    She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.

    Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

    Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books. But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.

    We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.

    Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

    Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana . In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right;we didn't have the green thing back then.

    We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.But we didn't have the green thing back then.

    Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.


    But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?
  • cgsr
    cgsr Posts: 113
    Having a kid in the 6th grade
    Being annoyed by sagging pants
    Giving lectures to interns about underage drinking...
  • Charice
    Charice Posts: 188 Member
    ^^^ Ouch...thank you for your confession.

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