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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group
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In every millennial's life, there is that one day and that one time that you say something to yourself or out loud and then stop for a second in awe. Whatever the sentence was, you couldn’t have imagined saying it unless, well, you’re middle-aged. Be it “I am looking forward to going to bed” or “Why is the music so loud in here?!” and then all of a sudden, the moment of realization hits and the lightbulb switches on: I am definitely ageing. And before you change your mind from getting takeout to actually going home and cooking the chicken that’s been sitting in your fridge for a few days now, take a look at the list below of the best things people have caught themselves saying that made them realize they’re slowly knocking at the middle-aged people's door.
The online community r/AskReddit, labelling themselves as “the place to ask and answer thought-provoking questions,” was a perfect platform for the user naxxfish to fire it out to the millennials: “What was the most middle-aged thing you caught yourself saying recently?” And, well, the answers were ranging from hilarious to hysterical to "I can actually totally relate." Vote for your favorite ones and let us know yours!
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That's a nice box, keep it.
I've done this my whole life. (i used them to store markers and pens and other random crap i kept in my room)
Not something I said but I just stood out on my porch this morning drinking my coffee and someone drove by pretty fast and I thought “that’s way too fast”
I tried listening to the iTunes top 100 yesterday for a change of pace and it all sounded like hot garbage, “WHAT ARE KIDS EVEN LISTENING TO THESE DAYS?!”
Scrolling through my Spotify and constantly asking who the hell are these people?
Okay but seriously who the hell are they? Like i've never listened to them why tf do they keep showing up
I slept wrong and haven’t been able to turn my head for three days.
i did this and i am gen-z.................it hurt so bad ;-; I was in total pain and i lied in bed for days
You want to go out for dinner? Oh no, I can’t; I have chicken in the fridge that I have to cook before it goes bad
This could also be a young person thing because a lot of young people are broke.
"Oh no thank, you. I can't have caffeine this late in the day or I'll never get to sleep tonight."
My spouse was offering me the last soda from the fridge. It was 1pm.
I was venting to a coworker about these noisy bastards living next to me. I actually said the words, “goddamn teenagers and their Bluetooth machines”. I stand by my admonition but man it was my greatest age leap forward since I embraced the sensible Toyota.
Had a riveting conversation with some friends about the best office chairs for lumbar support.
Hey, I personally think everything needs lumbar support. I'm 15 and I don't know what a lumbar is but I do know they need support!
Wanted to buy a snack and then thought, "no, I have food at home"
Some kids ran through my lawn the other day. I'm still recovering.
When my wife asked if there was anything she need to pick up at the store, and I responded: "I think we're out of asparagus."
Not sure what foul demon possessed me to to say those words.
My housemate: you want a drink?
Me: Nah, man. I haven't had a drink in... six months maybe? More?
My housemate: You stopped drinking?
Me: I'm not SOBER or anything, it's just that alcohol makes me sleepy.
Geez... am I millenial-ing wrong? *sips on 3rd beer of the evening while home, alone, reading boredpanda*
Why do I get up every day and crack like a glow stick with out the glow it’s so disappointing.
"They just don't make them like they used to" them being good wood dressers
"When you leave a room, turn the light OFF!"
I've become my dad.....
"Can the kids (in the park outside) shut up"
I am the grumpy old lady now.
I can't fix one thing in my house without at least 15 minutes of complaining about the previous owners handiwork.
Like the nincompoop previous owner who installed fluorescent undercabinet lighting in 1993 using screws which were too long and penetrated through the bottom shelf of the cabinet and then just left them like that for 25 years.
I slapped a crate I had strapped onto the back of my car and said "This isn't going anywhere"
Quit touching the god damn thermostat, you’re driving the bill up.
In a conversation with a friend "I managed to find a really good knife block recently..."
I had my bachelor party in Vegas recently.
I went to bed because I was tired, not because I was sloppy drunk like every other time I went to Vegas. Fml I’m old now
“No, I’m okay. It just takes my back a little while to loosen up in the morning.”
"I can't have curry after 6 or I'll have heartburn all night."
"I will never financially recover from this"
Said after turning off yet another light left on in my home
It sneaks up on you, doesn`t it?
"This younger generation...no one wants to do hard work. Call in for a sniffle. Someone asked on Sunday for us to put in Sicktime for the upcoming Saturday...cause she doesn't want to work on Saturday. They don't make workers like they used to." I'm 40. My 80 year old grandfather started to laugh.
Uhhh this pandemic is proof we shouldn't shame people for calling in sick or with a sniffle. People should rest when they are sick. Life's too short to compromise health for work. The problem is people can't afford to take a break and the irony is it makes them worse workers not better
The problem is the people calling in that aren't actually sick. I'm all for someone staying home sick. It's when I see them post the photos at the park on the beautiful sunny day that ticks me off!
I used to get "sick" a lot. I often wondered if I was a "hypochondriac lite" (stayed home and took care when I felt sick). With the pandemic, I have learned I have a shtty immune system. Since I have been VERY careful about germs - I have not been sick for over a year.
@Joonscrab. So book the day off so that they can bring in a replacement, and your co workers aren't left short. Then go enjoy your day in the park. I work 48 hrs a week for 1/2 the pay I did as a plumber and I don't get paid sick days either!
Sami: these days genz have to CONSTANTLY work work work to pay bills, with very less pay , and they probably don't get vacations either. Them having one free day shouldn't bother you this much. They deserve to live too. What is even their life if they work all week and rest on weekends for years ://
Seriously. The more developed nations (not America) actually offer decent sick leave and their workers tend to be more productive because they aren't running themselves ragged. Furthermore, if it's something like a bad cold or strep throat, it ends up infecting the currently healthy people and then now they have to call out sick. So it's better if the sick person just stays home whenever possible.
The problem is people who aren't sick calling in "sick". My roommate for example misses one to two shifts a week! She on probation now and will probably be terminated. She's been with the company for 18 years and just feels that at 40 she shouldn't have to work so hard anymore. I say it's time for her to try something new and not leave her staff so short handed. In our job it's very hard on the rest of the staff because the more hands to help the better.
Was it your generation or your parent's that raised millennials into the adults they are today? Asking for a friend.
his parrents millenials are between 40 and 25 right now so he himself is a millenial lol
Who _wanted_ to do the hard work ever? Sometimes one must do, but no one _wants_. The whole progression of humanity is about to make life easier...
I actually like doing the hard work....and often volunteer. XD
Yes, but don't you think it's our generation (I'm roughly your age) who just allowed employers to do what they please and never complained? For example, I took one sick day in the 14 years I've been with my current employer - not because I'm never sick but rather because I have this idiotic sense of duty that makes me come in to work even when I feel terrible. I think it's the 'kids' who have it right, not us.
Damn those are stupid things to think or say.
My friends and I have great conversations about what are good appliances, and how exciting said good appliances are. Particularly good vacuum cleaners, a good vacuum is amazing.
I just had this conversation with some friends of mine from high school. The head cheerleader was asking the cool goth girl of our group what she thought about the new Dyson and I'm chirping about how nothing can beat my 10 year old Kirby that weighs as much as my first car.
My mom had one of those Kirbys! It was made of real metal, and weighed as much as yours-we called it "The Dinosaur" LOL!! The thing was as old as the dirt it sucked up, and hard as hell to push over deep pile carpets. But man, it it clean-and it ran for DECADES!! 😂😂😂😂
Lol! I have a steel tellus vacuum it has outlived everything and can still lift the carpet slightly as it vacuums, it's just so unkillable :)
sebo!!!!! I love mine and tell everyone who mentions them. Easy to unblock etc and powerful... and no they are not paying me :)
I just recently spent an hour, yes an hour, comparing the various types of different mattress protectors... the quality, the thickness, the fabric, the price etc. AN HOUR. When I finally decided on which one I wanted I came home like a child at Christmas... stripped the bed instantly so I could put it on. I even phoned my friend in Melbourne to tell him about it because he, too, is in the market for a decent mattress protector. When the hell did this happen?
I recently moved into a new condo that I'm renting, I'm flat broke due to the move, and my mom (who doesn't have much money herself) sent me new sheets, a comforter, pillowcases and a super comfy mattress pad as a surprise early birthday present. I literally jumped for joy. And pulled something in my back in the process.
Eeek! I recognize a few symptoms of millennialism. Is that a word?
It is now.
Only a matter of time before youth start saying "OK Millennial."
Went to an amusement park - realized my head didn't like roller coasters anymore. Said to my friends, "Are there any shows we can go to?"
Might have gotten mild whiplash on the Corkscrew at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. Headache, nausea, stiff neck, etc. Never happened BEFORE 35...
I always made fun of my mom because she always had the GOOD containers that we didn't get to take food home in then she had the cool whip bowls we were allowed to take food in. Now I'm just as psycho over my own good containers. It's a sickness.
Boomer here, just wait!!!!!
I refuse to throw away old chargers, instruction manuals for devices I know completely how to work, packets of nails/ screws with only 2 or 3 left in them, weird things I find lying around the house that look important but I have no idea what they are used for etc 'just in case'. They're all kept in a drawer in the kitchen which I call "dads drawer" but which my wife calls "the drawer of useless crap!"
Ah, yes, or as my hubby calls it, "My wife's closet." And, FYI, that toilet tank top I saved? Very handy when someone (hubby) dropped the tank's lid so I could fix the "weird noise". Ha! Never useless! Never! *maniacal laughter*..... Also, those manuals come in oddly handy.
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You are my dad, I tell him it is all online yet he saves it all.
I don't have a drawer of useless crap, I have a spare room of useless crap. Well not useless to me as it's full of things I might need someday.
The one for me that really bugs me is when I see it's coming up to 10pm and start thinking to myself "it's getting a bit late now".
Getting excited when you order a new gadget, i.e. a hoover, mop, kettle, hairdryer
I had a thing for "containers" - small trinket boxes, itty bitty boxes made of woods or shell or ceramic, etc., from the time I was in first or second grade. I collected them and put things in them and sometimes put the cute little boxes into the bigger cute little boxes... Lol, by the time I was in college I had graduated (ha ha) to "I can't throw this actually useful cardboard box away - it's too good a box!" Oh, boxes, how I love you...
When people give me presents I save the box if it's nice, thinking "This a can use for someone's birthday in the future".
Don't forget to save the wrapping paper too, as it can be reused for something else.
humph, you kids wait until you are kneeling on the floor and wonder how you're going to stand up again.
Already there
From a Gen Xer....don't feel bad about these things (except the physical stuff). Once you survive your 20's and you're no longer a drunk freeloading moron, you become responsible for your own life, and your perspective changes. It's called maturity.
Instead of trolling around clothing stores and getting our nails done or something my sister and I went to Michael's to buy yarn on sale because I've taken up knitting and went to Lowe's and Home Depot to look at appliances to replace to one's in the houses we own. We had a very interesting and long conversation about why fridges being connected to wifi be stupid and the pros and cons of counter depth fridges. Then we went and had salads for lunch instead of cheese burgers because or metabolisms aren't what they use to be and drove away in our Toyotas. I'm 28 and she's 29 lol
I bloody love bedtime now
Gen X here - I once told my friend we had to rewind the VHS before returning it to Blockbuster.
I was in a white goods store a few years ago with my fiancé when he showed me a cool gadget and I said "yeah it looks cool, but look at it! Those bits don't come apart so it would be a nightmare to clean!" I could've sworn it was my mother but she was a few hundred kms away.
I saw myself in way too many of these
Not sure if this counts but my fiance and I love to go antiquing. My last trip was over 200 dollars but i got a box worth of stuff including 2 coke glasses that look like the old fountain glasses with metal handle and everything. I also like buying vintage records. They sound so nice.
Maybe they’ll finally realize boomers aren’t bad. Filthy rich people are.
well, no boomers in general aren't bad. The problem that millennials (used to) have was essentially the same issue that the generation between them and the one after millennials have with each other --- that pattern. It's far easier to notice the differences and contrast with them than it is to accept them.
Dear Millennials, Welcome to my world. Sincerely, A Generation Xer
Told my kids to turn that damn rap crap down and the next day I blasting 2 PAC and they said the same thing to me I said this is not crap, this is a classic and besides, 2 PAC is different, he's still alive. Lol
I'm reading these after working in the garden for several hours yesterday. I'm stiff and sore all over. I'm 37 and I felt these in my soul.
As a millennial i can totally relate with most of these!!!
Lets see....last yr we got super excited about getting a new stove. And 2 days ago i pulled a rib muscle leaning over to count something in a low cabinet. Ive had my share! Lol!
“Slowly” ... seems like warp speed to me. 37 with two “elder teenagers,” though 😂
Smh... Some of these comments. I wonder what you'll think 15-20 years from now.
Oh yes indeed, there is so much more to come. Wait until you can't sleep at all, wait until you have to get up in the middle of the night to poop. Wait until every visit to the doctors ends up with you having to take another new tablet. So much fun times ahead for you guys. lol.
I am most of these and im gen z
Wait 2 days, you'll wake up at 40 and be like wtf happened!?
Same!
Yep, me too
Wow, feels good to read. Cause I'm born in 1987 and I don't recognize myself in any of this.
D'ya live with your parents still?
I recently explained to my 16 yr old son how much his internet costs (vs how much jobs pay) and he decided that he will live with me forever.
Nope. I don't even live in the same country than my parents.
I was born in 81, I'll be 40 in less than 2 weeks and a few years ago I would have said the same thing... But now... I'm on board with a lot of these.
Wow lol im 1987 and I'm all over this list it describes me XD
I don't either! These are all so stupid !
I won't say "stupid". Everyone live they life a different way. But some physical things could be avoided by a little exercising (I am not a fit guy, I avoid gyms, but I do trekking, biking...) and the rest by staying curious and a bit of a child in the world.
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Hah I feel you. All these people aging fuçking HORRIBLY and blaming it on simply being in their 30s and pretending to be super old. Nah you just aren’t a child anymore. And they’re out of shape.
And I'm sure you're just the picture of responsibility and determination right...? Maybe we all just gotta fitness bro! You gotta keep up that fitness bro, so then you too can be fit and we can be fitness bros together bro! Wanna go fitness with me bro? You know sometimes you just gotta fight the urge to not fight bro! Set your sights on that goal and make it happen! That's the only thing holding anyone back! Just be like me bro! /S Gah. Excuse me while I vomit all over my shoes. I'm so tired of this "gotta be an alpha! Gotta have that hunter personality! If you're dissatisfied you can only blame yourself" bullsh*t. That whole "if you haven't come out of this pandemic with a new skill, new side hustle, new body type, you've wasted an opportunity like no other!" shtick... People have s**t going on. People ache, inside and out. People are dealing with death and disaster, all around them, and trying to cope. Sometimes, it feels like aging backwards and forwards. Simultaneously. Sue me.
Haha. You're all old now. Welcome to the club.
I tell ANY kids to "STOP that squealing & screaming! Went partially deaf at age 12 & it wrecks havoc with my H/Aids...😄🎧👂😱
My day was fine until I read this post lmao
I think these are all me
Reading all of this I came to one eye opening conclusion...we are going to all be older adults for longer than we were young adults and now I am even more tired. 20 - 40 is nothing compared to 40-85+ it feels like we got cheated somehow.
And for me it's: I can't have that coffee after 8pm or I'll be awake all night!! Laugh and learn youngsters - this WILL be you one day :)
As a kid, I was always disappointed that my mom made sandwiches for road trips, instead of getting to go to McDonalds off the highway. Last long drive with my partner: "honey, I have sandwiches, grapes and banana bread. What do you want?" I then stopped talking as it dawned on me: I have turned into my mother. (Which is great, because she is absolutely incredible)
Getting excited about... buying new pillows. For the first time in probably ten years. If that's not 'old people', I don't know what is.
Good pillows matter! Just tried mulberry silk filled pillows and they are wonderful.
Ooh that sounds so nice! I have been buying quality linens recently and have noticed the difference in comfort I can't believe I wasted time and money on the cheap sheets that don't last; the nice ones also last longer
They really do last longer, I agree Lauren. Cheaper stuff just goes bobbly and rough. Though sometimes that's all you can afford - been there a few times.
Soon I'm going to buy my first couch and get some throw pillows! But nothing pretentious with words on it though.
Why do people insist on commenting on every entry? Are they desperate to see their names in print? Why do they insist on pointing that this stuff happens to everyone? Well, duh, but let's try to keep our boats on the same river, people: don't read entries for how you would react, but how the person who wrote it felt and why. Try re-reading the title or maybe the explanatory paragraphs at the beginning. One last thing: your "joke comments", generally aren't. Thank you. I feel better.
We get to an age when our bodies start to wear out and this is most of what makes me 'feel old' Some of it is nostalgia for the music of my youth but I truly believe that this generation is the best so far. They've been on the frontline during this pandemic and kept all of us safe, they haven't complained and they have stepped up and made things happen. Us 'oldies' should be more grateful..
I was about 30 years old when I discovered that you get to wait for about 3 seconds before you actually start to pee. Now I'm used to it.
Millennials are literally in their 30s to 20s overall. Lol they are not slowly turning middle age right now and are the definition of young adults.
No I'll have salad, if I have pizza I'll just get heartburn.
Reading this I realised that I've been middle-aged since I was a teenager....ouch!
I was offered the senior discount at the grocery store (pre pandemic, no mask) I was 35 at the time.
Guys, we've all become the people from that insurance commercial. You know, the ones that go to those classes that guy teaches, so they can learn how not to become their parents? Yeah, that's us!! 😭😂🤣😂🤣
As a Gen-X/Boomer cusp "old-middle-ager", I'm laughing so hard. We all made fun of "the old folks" but now we're them. Happens to the best of us, if we're lucky.
Omg You are all ageing at only 21 !!! Seriously
I hate these stairs why can't I live on the first floor
Or the "Now when I wave to someone, the underpart of my arm flaps too."
I realized I had crossed over to the adult side when I saw two little kids playing leapfrog, and instead of thinking 'aww that looks like fun', I thought 'one of them will miss and land on the other kid, and then they'll start fighting'.
I work with kids and have to break up arguments, and have learned to intervene before they start to fight, but I didn't even know these kids.
Boomennials But yeah i like how it mostly turns out to recycle stuff, stop wasting food that would rather go to waste, and being aware of annoying stuff u used to do so u stop doing.
Omg I feel this! I find myself constantly grumbling about the "youth of today" who are all somehow stepping out on their own with no clue about living as an adult. They have no idea how to do housework, have terrible work ethics, and don't know how household bills work. Its so weird because I'm literally only in the late 20s and am talking about 17-22 year olds. Theres literally about a 10 year difference max.
20’s bragging about who closed the bar, 50’s bragging about who went to bed before 10
I bent down to get my mail and hurt my back so much that I had to go to the chiropractor.
These are hysterical.
My grown son has been sending me pictures of my "grand baby plants"! He is trying to grown his own garden for the first time.
And now the millennials who've spent the last decade blaming boomers for everything bad can listen to the Gen Zers and whoever comes after that blaming them for everything bad...
This week, my allergies were acting up and I sneezed too hard ... and I think I tore my hernia again.
Literally every item on this list hits too close to home.
I'm a millinial but even 10 years ago these where relatable to me, I guess I'm an old soul 😅. But seriously who doesn't like sleeping /going to bed because you are tired?!
FINALLY! Millenials know how GenX felt when we had to deal with them all these years.
Using a Copy machine "You used to tell it how many copies you wanted and press copy!"
...I guess I’m middle aged then
I see this all around, what are millennials? gen-z?
I've been experiencing a not inconsiderable number of these since I was in my mid-20s. I'm now 40 (so borderline Millennial depending on the metric used - I think I'm closer to Gen X, but there's apparently only a year in it)
Me (a 14 year old): my back, hip, knees hurt Also me: *run straight into a wall four times within the hour*
I'd add one more thing, but it will probably get me banned for being sexist
My retirement plan has always been to have a house with an attic, and to get an air rifle, then shoot at the gnome statues in my lawn the middle of the night while shouting "GET OFF MY LAWN!" Then I'll call the police the next morning to complain about the kids trashing my front yard again.
lol
Yessss!
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Not really. These are all pretty stupid! I'm a millennial and none of these are relatable. Turning a light off means you want to save energy and money not being an old crabby person. I like all music and own devices with Bluetooth. This makes millennials seem like they've become 80 years old or something.
It sneaks up on you, doesn`t it?
"This younger generation...no one wants to do hard work. Call in for a sniffle. Someone asked on Sunday for us to put in Sicktime for the upcoming Saturday...cause she doesn't want to work on Saturday. They don't make workers like they used to." I'm 40. My 80 year old grandfather started to laugh.
Uhhh this pandemic is proof we shouldn't shame people for calling in sick or with a sniffle. People should rest when they are sick. Life's too short to compromise health for work. The problem is people can't afford to take a break and the irony is it makes them worse workers not better
The problem is the people calling in that aren't actually sick. I'm all for someone staying home sick. It's when I see them post the photos at the park on the beautiful sunny day that ticks me off!
I used to get "sick" a lot. I often wondered if I was a "hypochondriac lite" (stayed home and took care when I felt sick). With the pandemic, I have learned I have a shtty immune system. Since I have been VERY careful about germs - I have not been sick for over a year.
@Joonscrab. So book the day off so that they can bring in a replacement, and your co workers aren't left short. Then go enjoy your day in the park. I work 48 hrs a week for 1/2 the pay I did as a plumber and I don't get paid sick days either!
Sami: these days genz have to CONSTANTLY work work work to pay bills, with very less pay , and they probably don't get vacations either. Them having one free day shouldn't bother you this much. They deserve to live too. What is even their life if they work all week and rest on weekends for years ://
Seriously. The more developed nations (not America) actually offer decent sick leave and their workers tend to be more productive because they aren't running themselves ragged. Furthermore, if it's something like a bad cold or strep throat, it ends up infecting the currently healthy people and then now they have to call out sick. So it's better if the sick person just stays home whenever possible.
The problem is people who aren't sick calling in "sick". My roommate for example misses one to two shifts a week! She on probation now and will probably be terminated. She's been with the company for 18 years and just feels that at 40 she shouldn't have to work so hard anymore. I say it's time for her to try something new and not leave her staff so short handed. In our job it's very hard on the rest of the staff because the more hands to help the better.
Was it your generation or your parent's that raised millennials into the adults they are today? Asking for a friend.
his parrents millenials are between 40 and 25 right now so he himself is a millenial lol
Who _wanted_ to do the hard work ever? Sometimes one must do, but no one _wants_. The whole progression of humanity is about to make life easier...
I actually like doing the hard work....and often volunteer. XD
Yes, but don't you think it's our generation (I'm roughly your age) who just allowed employers to do what they please and never complained? For example, I took one sick day in the 14 years I've been with my current employer - not because I'm never sick but rather because I have this idiotic sense of duty that makes me come in to work even when I feel terrible. I think it's the 'kids' who have it right, not us.
Damn those are stupid things to think or say.
My friends and I have great conversations about what are good appliances, and how exciting said good appliances are. Particularly good vacuum cleaners, a good vacuum is amazing.
I just had this conversation with some friends of mine from high school. The head cheerleader was asking the cool goth girl of our group what she thought about the new Dyson and I'm chirping about how nothing can beat my 10 year old Kirby that weighs as much as my first car.
My mom had one of those Kirbys! It was made of real metal, and weighed as much as yours-we called it "The Dinosaur" LOL!! The thing was as old as the dirt it sucked up, and hard as hell to push over deep pile carpets. But man, it it clean-and it ran for DECADES!! 😂😂😂😂
Lol! I have a steel tellus vacuum it has outlived everything and can still lift the carpet slightly as it vacuums, it's just so unkillable :)
sebo!!!!! I love mine and tell everyone who mentions them. Easy to unblock etc and powerful... and no they are not paying me :)
I just recently spent an hour, yes an hour, comparing the various types of different mattress protectors... the quality, the thickness, the fabric, the price etc. AN HOUR. When I finally decided on which one I wanted I came home like a child at Christmas... stripped the bed instantly so I could put it on. I even phoned my friend in Melbourne to tell him about it because he, too, is in the market for a decent mattress protector. When the hell did this happen?
I recently moved into a new condo that I'm renting, I'm flat broke due to the move, and my mom (who doesn't have much money herself) sent me new sheets, a comforter, pillowcases and a super comfy mattress pad as a surprise early birthday present. I literally jumped for joy. And pulled something in my back in the process.
Eeek! I recognize a few symptoms of millennialism. Is that a word?
It is now.
Only a matter of time before youth start saying "OK Millennial."
Went to an amusement park - realized my head didn't like roller coasters anymore. Said to my friends, "Are there any shows we can go to?"
Might have gotten mild whiplash on the Corkscrew at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. Headache, nausea, stiff neck, etc. Never happened BEFORE 35...
I always made fun of my mom because she always had the GOOD containers that we didn't get to take food home in then she had the cool whip bowls we were allowed to take food in. Now I'm just as psycho over my own good containers. It's a sickness.
Boomer here, just wait!!!!!
I refuse to throw away old chargers, instruction manuals for devices I know completely how to work, packets of nails/ screws with only 2 or 3 left in them, weird things I find lying around the house that look important but I have no idea what they are used for etc 'just in case'. They're all kept in a drawer in the kitchen which I call "dads drawer" but which my wife calls "the drawer of useless crap!"
Ah, yes, or as my hubby calls it, "My wife's closet." And, FYI, that toilet tank top I saved? Very handy when someone (hubby) dropped the tank's lid so I could fix the "weird noise". Ha! Never useless! Never! *maniacal laughter*..... Also, those manuals come in oddly handy.
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You are my dad, I tell him it is all online yet he saves it all.
I don't have a drawer of useless crap, I have a spare room of useless crap. Well not useless to me as it's full of things I might need someday.
The one for me that really bugs me is when I see it's coming up to 10pm and start thinking to myself "it's getting a bit late now".
Getting excited when you order a new gadget, i.e. a hoover, mop, kettle, hairdryer
I had a thing for "containers" - small trinket boxes, itty bitty boxes made of woods or shell or ceramic, etc., from the time I was in first or second grade. I collected them and put things in them and sometimes put the cute little boxes into the bigger cute little boxes... Lol, by the time I was in college I had graduated (ha ha) to "I can't throw this actually useful cardboard box away - it's too good a box!" Oh, boxes, how I love you...
When people give me presents I save the box if it's nice, thinking "This a can use for someone's birthday in the future".
Don't forget to save the wrapping paper too, as it can be reused for something else.
humph, you kids wait until you are kneeling on the floor and wonder how you're going to stand up again.
Already there
From a Gen Xer....don't feel bad about these things (except the physical stuff). Once you survive your 20's and you're no longer a drunk freeloading moron, you become responsible for your own life, and your perspective changes. It's called maturity.
Instead of trolling around clothing stores and getting our nails done or something my sister and I went to Michael's to buy yarn on sale because I've taken up knitting and went to Lowe's and Home Depot to look at appliances to replace to one's in the houses we own. We had a very interesting and long conversation about why fridges being connected to wifi be stupid and the pros and cons of counter depth fridges. Then we went and had salads for lunch instead of cheese burgers because or metabolisms aren't what they use to be and drove away in our Toyotas. I'm 28 and she's 29 lol
I bloody love bedtime now
Gen X here - I once told my friend we had to rewind the VHS before returning it to Blockbuster.
I was in a white goods store a few years ago with my fiancé when he showed me a cool gadget and I said "yeah it looks cool, but look at it! Those bits don't come apart so it would be a nightmare to clean!" I could've sworn it was my mother but she was a few hundred kms away.
I saw myself in way too many of these
Not sure if this counts but my fiance and I love to go antiquing. My last trip was over 200 dollars but i got a box worth of stuff including 2 coke glasses that look like the old fountain glasses with metal handle and everything. I also like buying vintage records. They sound so nice.
Maybe they’ll finally realize boomers aren’t bad. Filthy rich people are.
well, no boomers in general aren't bad. The problem that millennials (used to) have was essentially the same issue that the generation between them and the one after millennials have with each other --- that pattern. It's far easier to notice the differences and contrast with them than it is to accept them.
Dear Millennials, Welcome to my world. Sincerely, A Generation Xer
Told my kids to turn that damn rap crap down and the next day I blasting 2 PAC and they said the same thing to me I said this is not crap, this is a classic and besides, 2 PAC is different, he's still alive. Lol
I'm reading these after working in the garden for several hours yesterday. I'm stiff and sore all over. I'm 37 and I felt these in my soul.
As a millennial i can totally relate with most of these!!!
Lets see....last yr we got super excited about getting a new stove. And 2 days ago i pulled a rib muscle leaning over to count something in a low cabinet. Ive had my share! Lol!
“Slowly” ... seems like warp speed to me. 37 with two “elder teenagers,” though 😂
Smh... Some of these comments. I wonder what you'll think 15-20 years from now.
Oh yes indeed, there is so much more to come. Wait until you can't sleep at all, wait until you have to get up in the middle of the night to poop. Wait until every visit to the doctors ends up with you having to take another new tablet. So much fun times ahead for you guys. lol.
I am most of these and im gen z
Wait 2 days, you'll wake up at 40 and be like wtf happened!?
Same!
Yep, me too
Wow, feels good to read. Cause I'm born in 1987 and I don't recognize myself in any of this.
D'ya live with your parents still?
I recently explained to my 16 yr old son how much his internet costs (vs how much jobs pay) and he decided that he will live with me forever.
Nope. I don't even live in the same country than my parents.
I was born in 81, I'll be 40 in less than 2 weeks and a few years ago I would have said the same thing... But now... I'm on board with a lot of these.
Wow lol im 1987 and I'm all over this list it describes me XD
I don't either! These are all so stupid !
I won't say "stupid". Everyone live they life a different way. But some physical things could be avoided by a little exercising (I am not a fit guy, I avoid gyms, but I do trekking, biking...) and the rest by staying curious and a bit of a child in the world.
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Hah I feel you. All these people aging fuçking HORRIBLY and blaming it on simply being in their 30s and pretending to be super old. Nah you just aren’t a child anymore. And they’re out of shape.
And I'm sure you're just the picture of responsibility and determination right...? Maybe we all just gotta fitness bro! You gotta keep up that fitness bro, so then you too can be fit and we can be fitness bros together bro! Wanna go fitness with me bro? You know sometimes you just gotta fight the urge to not fight bro! Set your sights on that goal and make it happen! That's the only thing holding anyone back! Just be like me bro! /S Gah. Excuse me while I vomit all over my shoes. I'm so tired of this "gotta be an alpha! Gotta have that hunter personality! If you're dissatisfied you can only blame yourself" bullsh*t. That whole "if you haven't come out of this pandemic with a new skill, new side hustle, new body type, you've wasted an opportunity like no other!" shtick... People have s**t going on. People ache, inside and out. People are dealing with death and disaster, all around them, and trying to cope. Sometimes, it feels like aging backwards and forwards. Simultaneously. Sue me.
Haha. You're all old now. Welcome to the club.
I tell ANY kids to "STOP that squealing & screaming! Went partially deaf at age 12 & it wrecks havoc with my H/Aids...😄🎧👂😱
My day was fine until I read this post lmao
I think these are all me
Reading all of this I came to one eye opening conclusion...we are going to all be older adults for longer than we were young adults and now I am even more tired. 20 - 40 is nothing compared to 40-85+ it feels like we got cheated somehow.
And for me it's: I can't have that coffee after 8pm or I'll be awake all night!! Laugh and learn youngsters - this WILL be you one day :)
As a kid, I was always disappointed that my mom made sandwiches for road trips, instead of getting to go to McDonalds off the highway. Last long drive with my partner: "honey, I have sandwiches, grapes and banana bread. What do you want?" I then stopped talking as it dawned on me: I have turned into my mother. (Which is great, because she is absolutely incredible)
Getting excited about... buying new pillows. For the first time in probably ten years. If that's not 'old people', I don't know what is.
Good pillows matter! Just tried mulberry silk filled pillows and they are wonderful.
Ooh that sounds so nice! I have been buying quality linens recently and have noticed the difference in comfort I can't believe I wasted time and money on the cheap sheets that don't last; the nice ones also last longer
They really do last longer, I agree Lauren. Cheaper stuff just goes bobbly and rough. Though sometimes that's all you can afford - been there a few times.
Soon I'm going to buy my first couch and get some throw pillows! But nothing pretentious with words on it though.
Why do people insist on commenting on every entry? Are they desperate to see their names in print? Why do they insist on pointing that this stuff happens to everyone? Well, duh, but let's try to keep our boats on the same river, people: don't read entries for how you would react, but how the person who wrote it felt and why. Try re-reading the title or maybe the explanatory paragraphs at the beginning. One last thing: your "joke comments", generally aren't. Thank you. I feel better.
We get to an age when our bodies start to wear out and this is most of what makes me 'feel old' Some of it is nostalgia for the music of my youth but I truly believe that this generation is the best so far. They've been on the frontline during this pandemic and kept all of us safe, they haven't complained and they have stepped up and made things happen. Us 'oldies' should be more grateful..
I was about 30 years old when I discovered that you get to wait for about 3 seconds before you actually start to pee. Now I'm used to it.
Millennials are literally in their 30s to 20s overall. Lol they are not slowly turning middle age right now and are the definition of young adults.
No I'll have salad, if I have pizza I'll just get heartburn.
Reading this I realised that I've been middle-aged since I was a teenager....ouch!
I was offered the senior discount at the grocery store (pre pandemic, no mask) I was 35 at the time.
Guys, we've all become the people from that insurance commercial. You know, the ones that go to those classes that guy teaches, so they can learn how not to become their parents? Yeah, that's us!! 😭😂🤣😂🤣
As a Gen-X/Boomer cusp "old-middle-ager", I'm laughing so hard. We all made fun of "the old folks" but now we're them. Happens to the best of us, if we're lucky.
Omg You are all ageing at only 21 !!! Seriously
I hate these stairs why can't I live on the first floor
Or the "Now when I wave to someone, the underpart of my arm flaps too."
I realized I had crossed over to the adult side when I saw two little kids playing leapfrog, and instead of thinking 'aww that looks like fun', I thought 'one of them will miss and land on the other kid, and then they'll start fighting'.
I work with kids and have to break up arguments, and have learned to intervene before they start to fight, but I didn't even know these kids.
Boomennials But yeah i like how it mostly turns out to recycle stuff, stop wasting food that would rather go to waste, and being aware of annoying stuff u used to do so u stop doing.
Omg I feel this! I find myself constantly grumbling about the "youth of today" who are all somehow stepping out on their own with no clue about living as an adult. They have no idea how to do housework, have terrible work ethics, and don't know how household bills work. Its so weird because I'm literally only in the late 20s and am talking about 17-22 year olds. Theres literally about a 10 year difference max.
20’s bragging about who closed the bar, 50’s bragging about who went to bed before 10
I bent down to get my mail and hurt my back so much that I had to go to the chiropractor.
These are hysterical.
My grown son has been sending me pictures of my "grand baby plants"! He is trying to grown his own garden for the first time.
And now the millennials who've spent the last decade blaming boomers for everything bad can listen to the Gen Zers and whoever comes after that blaming them for everything bad...
This week, my allergies were acting up and I sneezed too hard ... and I think I tore my hernia again.
Literally every item on this list hits too close to home.
I'm a millinial but even 10 years ago these where relatable to me, I guess I'm an old soul 😅. But seriously who doesn't like sleeping /going to bed because you are tired?!
FINALLY! Millenials know how GenX felt when we had to deal with them all these years.
Using a Copy machine "You used to tell it how many copies you wanted and press copy!"
...I guess I’m middle aged then
I see this all around, what are millennials? gen-z?
I've been experiencing a not inconsiderable number of these since I was in my mid-20s. I'm now 40 (so borderline Millennial depending on the metric used - I think I'm closer to Gen X, but there's apparently only a year in it)
Me (a 14 year old): my back, hip, knees hurt Also me: *run straight into a wall four times within the hour*
I'd add one more thing, but it will probably get me banned for being sexist
My retirement plan has always been to have a house with an attic, and to get an air rifle, then shoot at the gnome statues in my lawn the middle of the night while shouting "GET OFF MY LAWN!" Then I'll call the police the next morning to complain about the kids trashing my front yard again.
lol
Yessss!
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Not really. These are all pretty stupid! I'm a millennial and none of these are relatable. Turning a light off means you want to save energy and money not being an old crabby person. I like all music and own devices with Bluetooth. This makes millennials seem like they've become 80 years old or something.