You know you're old when...

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  • Sperry4gmu
    Sperry4gmu Posts: 4
    you can't drink all night and stay up untill it's light without feeling sick for 4 days after... :-(


    .......and when you did drink all night and stay up, you remembered it the next morning! :drinker:
  • Amazonbella
    Amazonbella Posts: 338
    You think "Nightmare on Elm Street" Movies were scary....then see them with your 17 year old niece who looks at me like I fell off the porch and bumped my head! (Okay I agree...they are cheesy now! LOL)

    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...."
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    When someone says that was a looooooooong time ago, in 2005! Wtf? :huh: :noway:

    HA! My kids say that all the time.
  • admegamo
    admegamo Posts: 175 Member
    When you know every song on the "old school at noon" list on a pop station.


    For real, I remember hating all the song because I thought they were boring then one day old school at noon came on the radio but since I was busy doing something and couldn't change the channel...I was like, "What?!" lol
  • leebesstoad
    leebesstoad Posts: 1,186 Member
    When you drive by a billboard advertising a Pat Benatar concert and the 22 year old in the car pops of with "Who's he?"

    Funny you said that. I just drove past a a billboard advertising a Pat Benatar concert and I wondered how many younger people would know who she is.

    My partner was a waiter in a coffee house around town when she was just starting. He turns 60 in a couple of months. lol.

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  • SmallMimi
    SmallMimi Posts: 541 Member
    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 a quarter of a century.

    Try closer to 40 years! Crap!
  • ChgingMe
    ChgingMe Posts: 539 Member
    When you're in the Walmart music section and you hear.. Excuse me we are having a retro party at our high school and need old music. Can you tell me who sings I Will Survive?!
  • leebesstoad
    leebesstoad Posts: 1,186 Member
    A serious one: You know you're old when you remember listening to the Selective Service draft lottery on the radio to find out where you birthday was chosen to know if you might be called up for service to go to Vietnam. To find out if you or your friends might die.
  • ChgingMe
    ChgingMe Posts: 539 Member
    • ...you have a 2 year old GREAT-GRAND NIECE... and you're only 40!

    LOL, you just said, "only 40"...


    SMH

    I have a 22 year old (today) great nephew and I'm only 48.
  • leebesstoad
    leebesstoad Posts: 1,186 Member
    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 a quarter of a century.

    Try closer to 40 years! Crap!

    Try over 40 years. Really crap!!!
  • SmallMimi
    SmallMimi Posts: 541 Member
    After reading the posts on this thread, I have come to understand OLD seems to be a state of mind and perceptions. I feel sorry for those of you that are in your 20's and think you are old, you haven't even lived yet!
  • Lornamcs
    Lornamcs Posts: 10
    You wear a baggy jumper and no one asks when the baby is due.
  • iamdominique
    iamdominique Posts: 32
    You tell people you've seen Harry Chapin, Gordon Lightfoot, John Denver, and The Who in concerts, and you get blank stares.....

    That's the kind of music I listen to. The Who is one of my favourite bands....I'm 18....some young people have decent taste in music ;)

    ETA: I also quite enjoy pat benetar (as per someone elses earlier comment). not to mention eric clapton, aerosmith, neil young, santana....the list goes on and on.
  • cad39too
    cad39too Posts: 874 Member
    Online; when you have to pick your birth year and realise you need to scroll down twice to find it :ohwell:
  • ChgingMe
    ChgingMe Posts: 539 Member
    When you measure time in decades when relating to something. Back in the 80's we used to, or I remember one time in the 90's.
  • johnwhitent
    johnwhitent Posts: 648 Member
    A serious one: You know you're old when you remember listening to the Selective Service draft lottery on the radio to find out where you birthday was chosen to know if you might be called up for service to go to Vietnam. To find out if you or your friends might die.

    I was number 182! That translated as "pack your bags" at the time.
  • djkshdfd
    djkshdfd Posts: 443 Member
    ...you ask yourself on your drive home from work in rush hour traffic, "So this is life?"
  • foxro
    foxro Posts: 793 Member
    You still can't hear the satanic messages in Led Zep, Stairway to Heaven when you play the LP backwards
  • harrietlg
    harrietlg Posts: 239
    When you realize you've been out of highschool for four years.hollly efff.

    Haha try 6 and all the people I work with have just finished..... feeling rather old
  • NumbrsNerd
    NumbrsNerd Posts: 202 Member
    You NEVER get called anything but MA'AM anymore! :grumble: :cry:

    I'm only 30 for Pete's sake - I can still qualify as a MISS, can't I???
  • leebesstoad
    leebesstoad Posts: 1,186 Member
    A serious one: You know you're old when you remember listening to the Selective Service draft lottery on the radio to find out where you birthday was chosen to know if you might be called up for service to go to Vietnam. To find out if you or your friends might die.

    I was number 182! That translated as "pack your bags" at the time.

    I was 4F due to congenital arthritis. I got 332. My friends who were all 1A got in the teens to low 30's. And they stopped calling people up a month or two afterwards. It saved at least one of their lives, I know that for certain. We remember.
  • Pixi_Rex
    Pixi_Rex Posts: 1,676 Member
    The kids you taught swimming lessons are now lifeguards at your pool.

    The kids you baby sat are all graduated or close to graduating within the next 2 years.

    You talk about a trip you took in highschool overseas and realize it was 13 years ago.

    You open the front door and tell the neighborhood kids to get off your lawn, or you yell "Slow the eff down" to the *kitten* that is speeding down your street.

    You call the cops because your neighbors are lighting fireworks at 2am and you have to get up at 5 for work.
  • harrietlg
    harrietlg Posts: 239
    when you laugh at all these kids saying they are 90s kids because they were born mid 90s.... no kids your a true 90's kid if you were born at the end of the 80s !
  • Pixi_Rex
    Pixi_Rex Posts: 1,676 Member
    When you realize you've been out of highschool for four years.hollly efff.

    Haha try 6 and all the people I work with have just finished..... feeling rather old

    13.5 for me.. .I graduated 6 months earlier than the rest of my class. i still don't believe its been that long.
  • foxro
    foxro Posts: 793 Member
    You're still checking your Beatles albums to prove conclusively that Paul McCartney is dead !!
  • k8blujay2
    k8blujay2 Posts: 4,941 Member
    Good God, where to start........

    1) You can remember every word to a one-hit wonder's song from the 80's that you haven't heard in years, but remembering where the car keys are or where you left the phone is damn-near impossible :grumble:

    2) My daughter found the corded phone I keep around in case of a power outage, and she was utterly baffled as to how that could work while attached to the wall.

    3) All my favorite Fisher Price toys from when I was a preschooler have been re-released as classics

    4) The lego that I handed down to my kids has started to crack and break :sad:

    5) You don't bother to shave your legs as often, even in shorts weather, because you honestly really don't care what people think anyway. I'm old, deal with it! :laugh:

    Wait... hold the phone... Legos crack and break?! That right there is baffling to me.
  • CherryDarling21
    CherryDarling21 Posts: 8
    I wouldn't say I am old but for me it's knowing I was around when Germany still had the Deutsch Mark (Grew up in Germany!)

    When 2 Marks equalled to £1! Aha.
  • BigDnSW
    BigDnSW Posts: 641 Member
    you get excited that you go poop without the fiber supplement.

    you realize it now takes you all night to do what you used to could do all night.

    being 50 is not old anymore.

    you get out of bed in the morning and it sounds like a Latin percussion band.

    counting your blessings takes a long time :flowerforyou:
  • _Tink_
    _Tink_ Posts: 3,845 Member
    The kids you used to babysit are married with kids of their own.

    And my oldest turns 21 in a couple of months...how did that happen??
  • Jersey_Devil
    Jersey_Devil Posts: 4,142 Member
    when you get a grey pube

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