What makes you feel old
 

Man I feel all my 46 years. Just heard Jack & Diane from John Cougar Mellencamp and realized the song is 29!! years old.

Back To the Future is 25 years old.

rowech makes me feel old.

Thinking about how long ago even the 90s were at this point.

having some college kids show me how to do something I couldn't figure out on my work computer or my work phone..... I used to be up on or think I was up on technology and am realizing that's no where near the case anymore

Damned near everything.

going to karate and training with some cute 18-20 year old girl in the instructor's class then realizing they could be easily be my daughter...

FM

Reds last World Series title was 20 seasons ago. Doesn't seem like that long, but in other ways it seems like an eternity.

Seeing a sign at the gas station

You birth date has to be xx/xx 1993 to buy cigs

Looking at my 20 y/o son

The little aches & pains that I didn't care or worry so much about years ago that now drive me absolutely frickin crazy!

It's not the age, it's the mileage.

Having both my classes have no idea who the Budweiser Clydesdales were.

Do you teach preschool? These have been in Super Bowl commercials very very recently.

my daughter

The pains that I get in my back and knees when I pllay lacrosse with my daughter (or tennis, or anything else that I used to do for hours at a time 20 years ago with little setback).

Hearing the birth date of some athletes and realizing that they were not born yet when I graduated high school.

Getting close to where everyone in the four major sports is younger than I am.

This is basically it for me. I still think of the '90s as recent history and when I realize it's been 20 years I have this surreal moment.

It hits me most at my second job, my serving job, where most of my co-workers were born after the 1984 LA Olympics and get a glazed-eye look if I mention a band from the 80s.

To be fair, 1990 was 20+ years ago. 1999 was "only" 12 years ago. ;)

Add me to the list of feeling that the '90s were more recent than they actually are. College freshmen were born in 1992-3 - yikes...

Yeah, I suppose I mostly think of the early '90s because that was when I graduated high school and back when I still paid attention to things. I couldn't tell you much of anything that happened in '99, I was busy with life by then. I think that's what adds to feeling old, everything from like '97 through now is kind of a blur, it's hard to imagine that it was as long as it was.

Having to explain to someone who Markie Post is.

lol...good pull on Markie Post.

How do I remember 1999? That's when I found a little game called Front Office Football.

I guess I'm also in that born-mid-70s, came-of-age-90s camp who still has to take a moment to register that the 1990s were a lot longer ago than I realized, and that somehow the 1980s are even further back than that. My four-year-old's popping DVDs into the DVD player with confidence, something that didn't exist as a widely available home technology until the very late 1990s, and yet she'll never know things any other way (don't even get me started on the computer stuff). My older daughter, who's seven, always is curious whether this show or that show or this thing or that thing was around when I was a kid. It's still seems a wonder to me that neither of them ever experienced the 20th Century at all.

Realizing that I have teenaged cousins younger than the last version of Sierra's BBPro.

I had a moment where it hit me yesterday, when I felt like yelling at a girl for letting her dog use the bathroom in my front yard.

I caught myself before I yelled for her to, "Get off my lawn!"

Things like this get me every time.

When I was a kid, we used rotary phones to call people. Connected by wires to the wall. And we only dialed 7 numbers. And we liked it! Because we didn't know any better!

We only needed to dial four or five numbers, they knew who you wanted to call anyway!

And if you wanted to change your UHF station without it taking forever you'd crank the dial so fast your mom would yell downstairs, "You're going to break it if you turn it like that!"

What the fuck is a rotary phone? You people are old.


Actually I do remember a neighbor having one when I was 5 or 6.

Hell, most of the kids I teach are freshmen in high school, they make me feel old everyday.

My daughter... who I'm sending off the college in the fall. :(

The rate at which my eyebrows now grow makes me feel old.

Just looking in the 'what are you listening to' thread.

Wait till you can start braiding your ear hairs.

Just plucked my first one last week. Fuck.

The rate at which I seem to be getting even older

My age makes me feel old.

But on a more serious note...having my son tell me (definitively with no doubt in his voice) that I have been married twice. Knowing I've only been married once, I asked how did he come to that conclusion. He responded that me & mommy got married twice, thats how him & his brother are here.

Conversations like that make me laugh but also realize I'm not a young guy any more (or at least a young guy with "babies").

Today a student asked me how long i have been teaching. I responded "13 or 14 years." The response "I wasnt born yet." :(

I saw a magazine cover today and didn't know a single person on it. Granted, it was Us Weekly, but I usually have some idea as to who the people are, even if I don't know much about them. These people were completely foreign to me.

My FB status on March 6th seems to sum it up well enough...

Old porn stars that I used to enjoy.

Ugh, GMILF's...

There's still some that I enjoy...others call it a fetish.

I'm waiting for the "What makes you feel young" thread so I can use, Young porn stars that I enjoy!

Nice.

Music. My kids. Officially being one of the "old" guys at work. Ugh. ;-)