You know you're old when...

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  • _KrisMarie
    _KrisMarie Posts: 17
    ... the radio host says they're going to play some old school music, and you remember buying the CD.

    ... your child is mystified when you tell her you were alive before cell phones existed.

    ... you meet another adult who is still young enough to not know the sound of a busy signal (true story).

    ... there are no more reruns on TV because you can't remember any of the shows you watched. (A perk of being old, according to my dad, who will be 75 this month. :bigsmile: )
  • Tight_Fit
    Tight_Fit Posts: 453
    You had a typewriter at university. Sigh...

    My typewriter is still in my office.:laugh:
  • SrJoben
    SrJoben Posts: 484 Member
    ...you can remember when The Simpsons was new and controversial.
  • TheFisherKing
    TheFisherKing Posts: 935
    When you submitted college essays printed on a dot matrix printer!!!
  • JenniTheVeggie
    JenniTheVeggie Posts: 2,474 Member
    Joey Fantone is doing hair loss commercials.
  • redtreediary
    redtreediary Posts: 69 Member
    Likewise, Mike McCready doing those IBS/Crohn's awareness ads. OMG.
  • ashleyblossom1
    ashleyblossom1 Posts: 699 Member
    I'm technically not old but I felt old when I heard The Lion King was 20 years old. Felt like just yesterday I was a kid watching with my parents singing The Lion Sleeps Tonight. I told that to my dad and he was really surprised.
  • tomcornhole
    tomcornhole Posts: 1,084 Member
    When the gal at Great Clips trims your ear hair. Ugh.
  • MSLUC
    MSLUC Posts: 30
    The morning popping in your knees is the sound of plastic and titanium rubbing together.:laugh:
  • Woodspoon
    Woodspoon Posts: 223 Member
    Hangovers were a minor inconvenience
    5 hours sleep per weekend was standard
    8086's were fast PC's
    Mobile phones weren't even thought of let alone used by school kids
  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
    I remember when my grandmother would give us a dollar to spend at the store and able to get a soda, apple pie/chocolate pie, candy bar and enough change left over to get a big gum ball.

    When I used to laugh at my dad who repeated himself and now I do the same.

    Riding in the back of a truck!! Now you can get a ticket for that!! :noway:
  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
    A lot of the people you watched in sitcoms, as kids, have now passed away. :cry:
  • DanielCraigwannabe
    DanielCraigwannabe Posts: 28
    When you wake up and feel surprised you did.....
  • ladymiseryali
    ladymiseryali Posts: 2,555 Member
    You know you're old when Marilyn Manson, Tool and NiN are all considered "classic rock".....:frown:
  • DanielCraigwannabe
    DanielCraigwannabe Posts: 28
    You know you're old when Marilyn Manson, Tool and NiN are all considered "classic rock".....:frown:

    Say it aint so
  • jhmomofmany
    jhmomofmany Posts: 571 Member
    Waiting up for midnight, to make sure my kids are home by curfew. When did I get to be so lame!?
  • fitnessbabe90
    fitnessbabe90 Posts: 122
    You don't feel excited with your birthday anymore
  • raindawg
    raindawg Posts: 348 Member
    When you have to buy your first nose hair trimmer.,,,and then use it for ear hair also.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    ...you realize all the young & lovely college girls dressed/made up to go out don't challenge or intimidate you the way they did even 3-4 years ago because you're so much older, they are just like a different thing altogether and not a part of the same "competition".

    Although it is a really good feeling...for me anyway!
  • kdeaux1959
    kdeaux1959 Posts: 2,675 Member
    Your first phone was a party line hard-wired into the house and weighed about 20 pounds.
  • asgard825
    asgard825 Posts: 1,516 Member
    U make an >ugh< sound when bending over
  • blytheandbonnie
    blytheandbonnie Posts: 3,275 Member
    You know you're old when Marilyn Manson, Tool and NiN are all considered "classic rock".....:frown:

    Say it aint so
    It's not so.
    Or, it ain't so.
  • ModernNerd
    ModernNerd Posts: 336 Member
    My co-worker informed me that his 15 year old daughter classifies me as old because I paint all my nails the same color or pattern, instead of this ring-finger-is-different-because-I'm-hip-and-surf-pinterest-too-much nonsense. And I'm only 21... :sad:
  • blytheandbonnie
    blytheandbonnie Posts: 3,275 Member
    My co-worker informed me that his 15 year old daughter classifies me as old because I paint all my nails the same color or pattern, instead of this ring-finger-is-different-because-I'm-hip-and-surf-pinterest-too-much nonsense. And I'm only 21... :sad:
    Wow, you expired really early.
  • ModernNerd
    ModernNerd Posts: 336 Member
    My co-worker informed me that his 15 year old daughter classifies me as old because I paint all my nails the same color or pattern, instead of this ring-finger-is-different-because-I'm-hip-and-surf-pinterest-too-much nonsense. And I'm only 21... :sad:
    Wow, you expired really early.

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  • craftywitch_63
    craftywitch_63 Posts: 829 Member
    When you have tattoos old enough to drink.
  • coretemp
    coretemp Posts: 1,796 Member
    My co-worker informed me that his 15 year old daughter classifies me as old because I paint all my nails the same color or pattern, instead of this ring-finger-is-different-because-I'm-hip-and-surf-pinterest-too-much nonsense. And I'm only 21... :sad:
    Wow, you expired really early.

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    May this never happen to anyone, LOL!
  • Karabobarra
    Karabobarra Posts: 782 Member
    You realize that the people born the year you graduated college are old enough to buy alcohol.

    :sad: :sad: true
  • craftywitch_63
    craftywitch_63 Posts: 829 Member
    My co-worker informed me that his 15 year old daughter classifies me as old because I paint all my nails the same color or pattern, instead of this ring-finger-is-different-because-I'm-hip-and-surf-pinterest-too-much nonsense. And I'm only 21... :sad:
    Wow, you expired really early.

    That's hilarious because I have 8 nails the same street cone orange but my ring fingers are a slightly different color and have designs on them. And I'm 50! Does that mean I'm NOT old? :noway:
  • Noogynoogs
    Noogynoogs Posts: 1,028 Member
    The last time you went to a club - you fell asleep before 12

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