Things that make you feel old

[kwassa]

I'll start.

The advertisement I saw the other night where Sally Fields was selling osteoporosis medicine.

I remember Gidget. And, the Flying Nun. What has happened to the world?

[miss_american_pie]

1. My sister

once asked me what an 8 track was.

[Bassic]

7. I heard a kid ask his dad what a typewriter was the other day. nt

[progmom]

2. She looked good though, didn't she?

[swimboy]

6. I thought so too!

:hi: :loveya:

[anarch]

3. my knees n/t

[Reverend_Smitty]

4. I worked in a high school this fall...

The freshmen were barely old enough to remember when Clinton was president!

[HughBeaumont]

5. Donny Osmond is a grandfather.

Blues Traveler and the Spin Doctors are now Rib-Cook-off bands (not like I was into either of them).
The first Lollapalooza (which I went to) was 15 years ago this summer and it was only $30.
The twin babies who played Meg in Mr Mom are 23 years old. One of them is a parent.
In August, Marcia Brady turns 50.
Slayer's Reign in Blood is 20 years old.
Next year will be my 20th HS reunion (which I ain't-a going to).

[Monk06]

50. You know you're old when Donnie Osmond riffs with Jeff Beck n/t

[Shell Beau]

8. Seeing the kids that went to the YMCA when I was

a camp counselor! Now they are all driving cars and graduating High School!! They were wee little lads when I was there!

[eyesroll]

9. A thread on a law-school discussion board, in which the poster asked

what she should wear on a first date. The options:

A white sundress and flip-flops.
A khaki cargo skirt, a tank top, and espadrilles
Jean capris, polo shirt, flip-flops
A T-shirt from Abercrombie and Fitch, printed with "I may not be perfect, but parts of me are pretty awesome!," with a jean skirt and flip-flops


I can't imagine wearing anything other than the dress on a first date, and I can't imagine wearing flip-flops anywhere other than a dorm shower or a beach.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

26. I'll wear flip-flops for anything less than formal.

I'm 23.

[ThomWV]

10. Getting Up In The Mornings Starts It

It tends to go uphill until midafternoon and then the bottom falls out. The legs go first. Elbows follow in close step.

I am probably one of the most fit 60-year-old persons you could ever meet, but god dam, its starting to get to me.

[NewWaveChick1981]

11. Seeing college freshmen and knowing

I'm old enough to be their mother. :(

[kwassa]

12. Hearing Led Zeppelin songs as Cadillac adverstisements

Back in their heydey, the two would have nothing to do with each other, each represented opposites of age and politics.

[NoPasaran]

13. Bob Dylan

Now old enough to collect Social Security.

[zanne]

90. Knowing that I can turn the TV on without a remote.

Alot of kids don't know that you can turn it on, adjust the volume and change channels without the remote.

[leftofthedial]

14. my age

the way young people look at me

[Beware the Beast Man]

15. Seeing 90's videos on VH1 Classic.

[RevolutionaryActs]

42. Shit, that makes *me* feel old and I'm only 20!

:hi:

[kwassa]

16. Hiphop Oldies ( or old school, as it is called)

[Withywindle]

17. 80s retro.

Young people's shock and horror when I say I didn't use a computer until college.

Seeing young music geeks online talking about how they were only 5 or 6 years old when Kurt Cobain died.

Seeing an old episode of the X-Files with Mulder talking on one of those brick-sized early-90s cell phones and remembering how futuristic I thought that was at the time.

[Beer Snob-50]

18. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are having a 30th

Anniversary tour and I saw them when they first became something and opened for J Giels Band at the Springfield Civic Center.

[Blue-Jay]

19. Hearing 80's songs on an "oldies" station.

I thought oldies were pre-1970. :cry:

[smtpgirl]

21. remembering what disco was

Do the Hustle

[WoodyTobiasJr]

20. A New Hope will be 30 years old next year - That's just sick!

[Nikia]

22. People who were little kids when I graduated HS are getting married

Granted some of them are marrying rather young, espeically it seems ones going off to Iraq, it still is a little weird. I am 28.

[taterguy]

23. reading live music listings

And realizing you have no desire to see any band playing around town

[kiraboo]

24. My mirror. That's all it takes!

[Blue_In_AK]

25. My baby's turning 21 this year. n/t

[trof]

35. Mine will be 35.

<sigh>

[retrospective66]

27. Bon Jovey turning "Country"

:wtf:

I'm older then his fans and I STILL don't like country! :crazy:

[Wetzelbill]

28. seeing people I think of as little kids who are like 23 now

I'm like "WTF?" weren't you like 14 last year? :)

[pink-o]

29. Knowing there's a huge percentage of people

..who've never turned over a record, never used a typewriter, never printed with silk screen or linoleum block, never written with a calligraphy pen, never picked up a periodical reference manual in a library...

The list goes on when you're 51! Guys, I work with someone who was born in 1988--she just turned 18!


How is that possible? Shouldn't someone born when Bush One was campaigning for prez still be in diapers????

[joneschick]

31. it may not be any comfort but,

my 18 year old has done every one of the things on your list. She adores typewriters and owns several. The rest of the list.......it's just an interesting household. :shrug:

[lpbk2713]

30. Watching a cop drive by in a police car.

And wondering "Is he old enough to drive?"

[Throd]

32. That a 1967 car is a "classic"

My car and I are the same age. I went to the auto parts store and the parts I wanted weren't on the computer system. They had to go digging through old parts catalogs to get the right stock numbers. The 19 year old at the counter said "Man, we rarely deal with anything THAT old anymore."

[Monk06]

56. When I owned a 48 Ford in 1973 I bought ignition parts over the counter...

Now a Morris Minor is Vintage and costs $10,000 for a
clean one in England. In 1973 the Morris was a college
grocery getter you bought for $250 from an old lady.

[kwassa]

72. I had a '41 Nash that I bought in 1972.

I actually found a original unused muffler for it.

The car cost me $235.

kinda like this one:

[1monster]

96. You young whippersnapper you!

:D

[hyphenate]

33. The fact that I have a 28 year old niece

is one.

The fact that most of the bands from my youth are in their 60s and 70s.

The fact that I keep saying, "Back in the __s" usually implied as thirty or forty years ago.

[NNadir]

34. Nobody knows what a slide rule is.

[trof]

37. Isn't that something in baseball?

;-)
Yeah, I remember the geeks with their rules in the belt scabbards.
hoowee

[NNadir]

41. Who are you calling a geek buster?!?

;-)

[dipsydoodle]

62. Slide rule................

You must be youngster - I can remember log tables.:)

[NNadir]

92. But you can't be older than the slide rule.

http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/C.J.Sangwin/Sliderules/inventrule.html

I remember the log tables too. In fact interprolation was an important part of my high school education.

[dipsydoodle]

94. I see what you mean

No - not quite that old.:rofl:

You learn something new every day.Thanks for the link.:)

[Pithlet]

36. Kids that I used to babysit are now getting married. n/t

[GoddessOfGuinness]

38. My aching feet

and my grey hairs

[tuvor]

39. Realizing that hottie over there is young enough to be my daughter.

I'm not apologizin', yunnerstan. :)

[Monk06]

51. Realizining that hottie over there is too young to date my son.

[tuvor]

57. Hey, welcome to DU, gbrooks!

Howdy from the Island! :hi:

[Monk06]

58. What a coincidence a friend of mine went to art school in England..

One of her fellow students was an Icelandic Policeman?????!!!!!

By the way guess who this little cutie is.



Oh by the way DANES SUCK!!!!!

[tuvor]

71. Did you reply to the right post?

:)

[Monk06]

91. I read Island as Iceland and concluded by your screen name..

that you were Icelandic. Stayed up way to late
on that one. LOL

[raccoon]

73. Realizing that men I find attractive are young enough to be my son. nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

40. My shoulder, hip and knee joints.......

Especially when I first get up.......:cry:

[mwooldri]

43. When a new TV/radio station opened, that generated excitement.

I remember Channel 4 coming on in the UK. Now that was an event. I remember Countysound Radio coming on air for the first time - that also was an event, hey a _local_ radio station!!! Something other than the BBC Home Service. When Countysound 'did the splits' and separated AM and FM, that was an event - hey we now got two local stations!

Now pretty much anyone can have a TV or radio station - and it's based in their own home and streams out online.

[mwooldri]

44. Oh, and another one: my favourite entertainers passing away.

Now they weren't spring chickens in my day but still....

When Ronnie Barker passed on, it made me feel old.
When the Queen Mother passed on, it felt like the end of something.
Princess Diana passing on was a shock and certainly made me feel mortal.

When my grandfather passed on - that was something else, and I can't put it in words.

Mark.

[liberaltrucker]

45. My wrinkled, uh, ...............

:cry:

[WindRavenX]

46. When people talk about the "retro" Nintendo 64

:cry: :cry: :cry:


THAT WAS ONLY A DECADE AGO DAMMIT!!! I WAS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL!!!!!

[onehandle]

97. Calling the Nintendo 64 retro is a marketing thing.

Aimed at pretty young people in their twenties and early thirties.

I had a "Magnavox Odyssey" in my earliest video game days. Google that.

"Antique" is the word the marketing monkeys are looking for.

[driver8]

47. Reading posts on my college's webpage from freshmen who

are entering in the fall. I then realize that I was a freshman 25 freakin' years ago!!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

48. The fact that my 51st birthday is just one week away

:cry:

[FVZA_Colonel]

49. Both have to do with Computer Gaming World

1. Their current editor in chief is the only fulltime staff member who was there when I began reading it.

2. They are now featuring magazines I own in their "5, 10, and 15 years ago in CGW" section (all in the 5's, so far)

[Haole Girl]

52. When I hear songs I liked in college...

on Muzak! Yikes!

[Richard Steele]

53. The little noise I make when I get up from my chair...

The fact that half the Ramones are dead...

Oh, and the two friends my age who have recently had heart attacks.

[yurbud]

54. my young girlfriend looking at Kurt Russel on a magazine cover and saying

he looks old.

I remember him as kid in those disney movies.

[yurbud]

55. 80s nostalgia--no one told me the 80s were over yet.

[giant_robot]

59. Playboy centerfolds...

...the first shock is when you're older than the centerfold. The second is when you're old enough to be her father. :(

[Roon]

89. Think of my Grandfather

He's old enough to be their great-grandfather

[MissHoneychurch]

60. To know that the kid who's nanny I was

will turn 19 this year. I was 19 when I was his nanny :scared:

[mykpart]

61. Saw a repeat tonight of the Colbert Report where

he interviewed two teenage girls about Reagan, and they said they weren't born yet when he was President, and they hadn't studied him yet in history!

[seemunkee]

63. one of my friends was born the year I was married

[Brewman_Jax]

64. Who's Jimmy Buffett?

I was asked at the past weekend's Buffett promo at one of my favorite watering holes by one of the waitresses. Has that much time passed? :(

[kwassa]

65. Warren Buffet's brother?

just askin'

[Brewman_Jax]

66. That's funny

:rofl:

[MissHoneychurch]

67. Hey L_A

how are you?

:hug:

[Brewman_Jax]

68. G'day, MissHoneychurch!

hello to you, too! :hug:

[MissHoneychurch]

69. So good to see you

we haven't talked much in the last weeks. I am not posting much threads these days, rather answering other. I guess we missed each other. How are you and your parents?

[Brewman_Jax]

74. Still having fun

at the Renaissance Festival. The closing weekend is this coming weekend. Dad is home from the nursing home and hip replacement surgery. The cat was very happy to see him. He lost about 30 lbs, and I hope that he'll do better at taking care of himself. He's learning to get around slowly.

[MissHoneychurch]

76. That is good to hear about your dad

I hope he keeps up with it.

Any new pic from the festival you are willing to share? :evilgrin:

[Brewman_Jax]

77. Not yet

they haven't been developed. I will let you know when they're back. ;-)

[MissHoneychurch]

78. Please do

:bounce:

Do you still have me email adress or do I need to pm it to you again? :D

[Brewman_Jax]

80. Still have it

I just had to make sure it was still there.

[MissHoneychurch]

81. LOL

I am looking forward to an email from you :D


What was your costume this year?

[Puglover]

70. Getting out of a car

or standing up from a chair and hearing myself make old man noises.

[CBHagman]

75. A co-worker just told me that...

...Jane Fonda is now 68. Aiee! That doesn't seem possible.

[Mutley]

79. My younger cousin is already married and expecting a baby.

:o

[Burma Jones]

82. Ear Hair

[RFKHumphreyObama]

83. I'm only 25

And I feel old when:
• I had to explain to my cousin’s then eight year old daughter what the Soviet Union was and that * had had a father who had also been President. Having been interested in politics since the age of eight or nine, I remember both very well
• I see kids born in my first year of high school entering high school now
• I see kids born in my last year of high school and my first year of university entering kindergarten
• I see my school and childhood friends married and with children
• I see my friends below my year at school now returning to my school and becoming teachers

[BlueIris]

84. My little sister (by four years) is getting married this summer.

I remember when she was three.

[Patiod]

85. When I told someone I got into PFunk in 1979

when a bunch of us were heading out for a PFunk concert.

She looked at me funny.

I said "you weren't even born in 1979, were you?"

One of the downsides of my SO being an actor - most of his fellow actors are kids.

[CanuckAmok]

86. I was mistaken for my assistant's dad.

I took him to lunch and we were both trying to pick up our server.

I joked that I was taking my son out to lunch, and she thought I was serious.

Ouch.

[CanuckAmok]

87. My girlfriend.

She was born in 1983. I was in high-school in 1983.

Still, there are worse ways to make me feel old.

[Roon]

88. I heard one way to really tell you are old

Is when you and your parents end up on the same side of the generation gap.

[1monster]

93. My younger sister is a grandmother three times over...

My kid is only fourteen. I'm entitled to feel young!

[Seabiscuit]

95. Realizing if I live to be 100 I only have 39 years left.

[bettyellen]

98. i remember when you couldn't fax or track packages......

and everybody pretty much lied to give themselves an extra two days to deal with the crap you sent them.
if there was a fed ex, i think it cost like $100 a package so no one used it.