You know you're old when...

When Sally Draper is only a few years older than you are.

When Don Draper is only a few years older than your father.

When Joan is your mother's age.

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

Four years out of high school?? Holy Eff indeed! I graduated from COLLEGE in 1971!!!!

You remember products like Ipana, and Maypo.

You remember when Pringle's were introduced.

You remember being able to talk your parents into getting a quart of chocolate milk from the milkman.

You drank Tang because that is what the astronauts drank.

You watched the space launches in schools because they were such historic events.

You practiced duck and cover under your desk at school.

You could ride your bike home from school for lunch which your Mom would fix for you.

You knew that any parent in the neighborhood had permission to discipline you and you would get it when you got home as well. That went for all kids. For blocks around your house. And every kid and every parent knew each other for blocks around.

When the kid you babysat for got married and has his own baby (now 2yo)

When you get out of bed and hear snap, crackle, pop before you add milk to the Rice Krispies

When your daughters friend looks at an actress that is the same age you are and says "she is really old" (yes she really did say this about Demi Moore right in front of me)

One more:

You played on a playground and the whole thing was cement even under the swings.

Yes! And if you burnt your butt on the hot slide it was just too bad.

You check out a "You know you're old when" post and a number of the people responding are younger than your youngest child.

You remember when CDs first came out
You remember when 8-tracks were around
You remember when the options for buying those music albums on the t.v. commercials were "L.P record, and now introducing cassette tape".

You remember when phones had to be attached to modems. And I don't mean dial up internet …

You remember where you were and what you were doing when the Challenger disaster hit the news.

You remember two different knobs on the t.v., one for UHF and one for VHF (and you remember knobs on the t.v.)

Music you grew up with is on the "oldies" station (I know it's been done already)

You realize that the trig student you're tutoring wasn't even born when you took trig.

You find the "over the hill" birthday card you made for your mom and realize, you're almost to that age yourself! (SHe saves EVERYTHING, lol)

You detest Power Rangers because it's a take-off on the cartoon you loved growing up … and then realize you first expressed that sentiment two decades ago! :noway:

You watch that old cartoon and realize it was almost as hokey as Power RAngers.

Does use of the word "hokey" qualify?

The decade when you went to elementary school has become a Halloween costume. So has the decade from when you graduated High school.

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.

Yeah, my high school BF went off to Vietnam and insisted we get engaged before he left, just in case he didn't come back. He now admits it was so that I wouldn't date in college.
He stood there crying when we visited the Vietnam War memorial.... too many names on there that were his friends, who never came home.

One more:

You played on a playground and the whole thing was cement even under the swings.

Yes! And if you burnt your butt on the hot slide it was just too bad.

Oh yeah, and they actually had 2-storey high slides, because they were fun!

... when you have coworkers that were born the year you graduated from college (or after).

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

Ugh, this is SO me!

when you get a grey pube

omfg! hell NO!? tell me this is a joke, this doesn't really happen does it? OMFreakingG , sofreaking out now, just wtf eww! LOL I will be an old bald eagle then if this is the case, not going grey there or anywhere!!!!!!:sad:

He stood there crying when we visited the Vietnam War memorial.... too many names on there that were his friends, who never came home.

^^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^

When you are shopping for shoes with your husband and the salesgirl helping you compares him to her Dad.

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.

I live in Calgary Canada - we're about as dry as Las Vegas, just without the heat. Everything here dries out (Although you 'd never know it this year from all the severe flooding we've had this year :sad:

Edited to add quote that I missed......