What fact makse you feel old?

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.

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.

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!!

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!!!

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!

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.

I didnt read through the thread, but Eminem's daughter Hailey is on her HIGH SCHOOL's volleyball team!

The fact I remember where I was and what I was doing the day JFK was shot.

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.

My 20 year class reunion was last year...wish I had gone:ohwell:

Mine is next month. I can't go...

That my YOUNGER brother is 22

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.

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.

**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?

^^^ Ouch...thank you for your confession.