What fact makse you feel old?

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  • Pollywog39
    Pollywog39 Posts: 1,730 Member
    I voted for Richard Nixon.

    Now there was your first mistake !

    Here's what makes ME feel old:

    Remembering when we got our first COLORED TV.
    Watching Get Smart, and thinking how COOL it would be to have those inventions.....which we now have (cell phones, teeny cameras, etc.)
    Party lines.
    Rotary phones.
    no such thing as home computers!

    I am old enough to have been able to go to Woodstock (although I didn't), to see the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, and to groove out to the likes of Herman's Hermits and Led Zeppelin.........and to say things like Far Out and Groovy on a regular basis.

    I smoked dope when it was pretty liberal and easy to get dope...and it was rarely laced with anything else.
    I wore fringed jackets and BIG bells and braids in my long, straight, parted-down-the-middle hair.

    Ahhh, the good old days :wink: :wink:
  • lucythinmint
    lucythinmint Posts: 239
    My daughter turns 13 this year, I'm 30.5.
    I shop at Costco, and I enjoy it.
    My 80 year old Granny, said I wasn't a spring chicken anymore. :laugh:
    I wake up every morning at 6:30am with no alarm clock without fail. (my mother used to do this, I called her old for it)
    All my favorite songs are now on the Classic Rock station
  • rowerdc
    rowerdc Posts: 36
    My hips after a long hike... ouch!
  • ElleBee615
    ElleBee615 Posts: 177
    Tupac Shakur died 16 years ago.
    RIP Biggie and 2-Pac

    ^^Word!!
  • onequirkygirl
    onequirkygirl Posts: 303 Member
    My grandson has already begun to use sarcasm.
  • bethvandenberg
    bethvandenberg Posts: 1,496 Member
    How long it takes to recover from anything from a hangover to a hard workout.
  • MichelleWagner50
    MichelleWagner50 Posts: 240 Member
    Thanks for this post! Makes me laugh to read some of them.

    I feel old thinking that kids graduating high school were born the year that I graduated high school!!!
  • cindyhoney2
    cindyhoney2 Posts: 603 Member
    When I noticed the "must be born by theis date' at the liquior store the other day and it was the year I graduated HS.

    When I became a Great-Aunt.

    My BF's step daughter just had a baby making her a grandma at 39.

    My knees and shoulders on a daily basis. lol.
  • erikkasusann
    erikkasusann Posts: 104
    A high-school aged kid asked me the other day "what kind of music was cool way back when" I was his age. Little s#$t.
  • MikeM53082
    MikeM53082 Posts: 1,199 Member
    The fact that I meet girls in bars that were born in 1990!
  • MichelleWagner50
    MichelleWagner50 Posts: 240 Member
    I used the term "floppy disk" this weekend and a highschooler looked at me like I was smoking crack. :noway:
    HAHAHAHA!! OMG! That made my eyes water I was laughing so hard!!!:laugh:
  • wisebadger53
    wisebadger53 Posts: 382 Member
    When I was a kid, my parent's could spank me without fear of being arrested.

    I remember when our only TV had vacuum tubes, rabbit ears, and a black & white picture.

    My first car didn't have seat belts.

    I remember watching the Beatles live on the Ed Sullivan show.

    I've been married over 1/2 of my life.
  • mojoronhome
    mojoronhome Posts: 2
    the fact that my next big birthday is 50
  • Kalebsmommy424
    Kalebsmommy424 Posts: 110 Member
    Tupac Shakur died 16 years ago.

    Right!!! I was 17 yrs old...thats insane
  • LoriInIowa
    LoriInIowa Posts: 113
    30 year class reunion this summer.

    Any mention of "Happy Days" "Little House on the Prairie" "The Waltons"

    Youngest son (21) getting married in 4 weeks....and leaving for the Navy in September.

    Oldest son (almost 24) has a 5 month old baby.

    Kids I coached in Jr. High are MARRIED and have MULTIPLE kids (on purpose)! LOL

    My "middle school" students flabbergasted that I remembered every detail of where I was/what I was doing the day Pres. Reagan was shot.

    I was told this past week by a 5 year old I am "old but cool!" (Not sure about that one---it sure made me laugh!!)

    I'm 47....and once-upon-a-time thought that was ANCIENT being so close to 50 and all. :)

    Thanks, OP (and all you posters) for the good laughs!
  • jjnt007
    jjnt007 Posts: 302 Member
    I cannot read the hymn page numbers at church without putting my glasses on.
  • MichelleWagner50
    MichelleWagner50 Posts: 240 Member
    My niece who was a seven year old bridesmaid at our wedding is getting married next year - she's 24!
    My hubby's cousin was 5 in our wedding. She's getting married in July and is 22. Yikes!!
  • Rachaelluvszipped
    Rachaelluvszipped Posts: 768 Member
    The fact that I meet girls in bars that were bojavascript:add_smiley('noway','post_body')rn in 1990!

    Haha, that^^^^ and we just noticed one of our daughter's ex class mate was in our bar as well.. :noway:

    Our twin boys just turned 18 and are going to graduate next year...

    and our lil one starts kindergarten next Fall...eeks!!
  • maab_connor
    maab_connor Posts: 3,927 Member
    i saw a pintrest today that said "i still think 1990 was ten years ago" and it hit me... it was NOT ten years ago. when did THAT extra decade happen? and who said??
  • juliecat1
    juliecat1 Posts: 3,450 Member
    i saw a pintrest today that said "i still think 1990 was ten years ago" and it hit me... it was NOT ten years ago. when did THAT extra decade happen? and who said??

    Yes! I saw that one the other day too. Eff you Pinterest!

    I have an 11 year old. That makes me feel old every dang day. how the fudge?!!
    Oh! And realizing the other day its been 15 years since highschool.
  • ScottyNoHotty
    ScottyNoHotty Posts: 1,957 Member
    I had to explain to one of my office underlings what the Challenger disaster was.......
  • Dead_Darling
    Dead_Darling Posts: 478 Member
    I was singing along to songs from 1997 that was played on the Vintage Channel...I'm only 25!!
  • willy0524
    willy0524 Posts: 1,897
    I get the munchies after 1 toke now.
  • NiciS72
    NiciS72 Posts: 1,043 Member
    That many of my high school friends have kids graduating from college and high school!

    Oh and that it's costs more for ONE YEAR at the college I graduated from here in Illinois Go REDBIRDS costs more than my WHOLE DEGREE!!!!! (24k)
  • drmryder
    drmryder Posts: 181 Member
    The clothes I wore in high school are back in style. Neon everything and colored jeans. Just wait and they will be rolling their pant legs to fit into boots.
  • drmryder
    drmryder Posts: 181 Member
    Found a family picture and my mom is my current age in that photo!
  • cat3nv
    cat3nv Posts: 389 Member
    Bon Jovi and Prince is considered classic rock.
  • cat3nv
    cat3nv Posts: 389 Member
    Tupac Shakur died 16 years ago.

    Right!!! I was 17 yrs old...thats insane


    ^^^^ that too!^^^
  • skoshness
    skoshness Posts: 175
    my daughter's gonna be 30 this year, I don't feel old enough to have a 30 yr old daughter :noway:
  • Flyer615
    Flyer615 Posts: 173 Member
    My first vehicle had an 8-track tape player.

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