What fact makse you feel old?
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I'm fairly young but
-Using cassette tapes
-Manually changing the tv channel with dials
-Some kids don't know if the titanic was real
-The tallest building in my town was 8 stories, now trump moved in...0 -
My 5th grade students had no understanding of 9/11 because when it happened they were only a year old.0
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Yes! Friday Night Videos! Before MTV got huge, and for kids whose parents "refuse to pay for tv!" LOL
Things that make me feel soooo old...seeing all the comments in this thread about "It's been 15 years since I graduated high school"..."waiting forever for dial up to connect". I graduated high school in 1989 and we didn't even have remote controls for the tv when I was a kid, let alone internet. Hell, when I was a kid, most families I knew only had ONE tv in the whole house and no one had a clue what the internet was. :laugh:
I graduated in 1977. We had a remote control for our TV. Dad would say "Change the channel" and one of us would (whomever was closest to the TV and the antenna control.0 -
when i get someone who was born in 1994 walk up and buy a pack of smokes.0
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When my kids realized I was:
older than the internet
older than cell phones
older than caller id
older than remote controls
older than cd's
older than cassettes
older than required seat belt laws
old enough to have prayer and pledge first thing every day in school
old enough to have used party line phones and out houses
old enough to remember riding a Greyhound bus younger than 12 without an adult.0 -
The number 23 .
Also, my nephew has no idea who Captain Planet is.0 -
That my husband rented a "baby beeper" when our son was due to be born, so I could call him and "beep" that baby was on the way. It was pre-cellphone.0
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that my grandbaby turned 4 this past weekend0
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Yes! Friday Night Videos! Before MTV got huge, and for kids whose parents "refuse to pay for tv!" LOL
Things that make me feel soooo old...seeing all the comments in this thread about "It's been 15 years since I graduated high school"..."waiting forever for dial up to connect". I graduated high school in 1989 and we didn't even have remote controls for the tv when I was a kid, let alone internet. Hell, when I was a kid, most families I knew only had ONE tv in the whole house and no one had a clue what the internet was. :laugh:
I graduated in 1977. We had a remote control for our TV. Dad would say "Change the channel" and one of us would (whomever was closest to the TV and the antenna control.0 -
What makes me feel old is my niece will turn 30 yo this month as well as she will celebrate her 4th wedding anniversary. Plus my 13 yo is taller than I am even when I'm wearing high heels.0
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Guns 'n' Roses released Appetite For Destruction 25 years years ago next month. It still sounds so fresh to me yet I have friends who weren't yet born when it came out.0
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when i hear Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and other bands from the early 90's on the classic rock station and 80's music on oldies radio.0
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When my kids realized I was:
older than cassettes0
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