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40 Funny Posts Of People Grasping The Reality That They’re Old Now, As Shared On This Online Group
If not for the three grey hairs peeking out, I’d feel as fresh as new. It seems like only yesterday we’d drink Capri Sun, burn CDs and listen to the Smashing Pumpkins. Speaking of the latter, kids these days call it “dad rock,” and how can you blame them?
The oldest of Gen Z, aka the newest generation that was born between 1997 and 2012, is now 24. No, it’s not you who are 24, it’s the kids who have no clue what “pick up the phone'' means.
So today, we’re diving deep into the world of no illusion, ready to face one fact we all dread (hence the booming skincare industry among millennials!)—we are old. Thanks to the corner of Reddit ‘Heck I’m Old,’ we have a collection of posts to make you feel not just old, but rather ancient. “When you look at kids nowadays and see their music you can't help but think of how everything is old,” says the group’s description and from what you see below, they ain’t lying.
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I'm Just Going To Leave This Here
Ah Nostalgia....
Zoom Meetings!
If you ever feel like time is passing at the pace of a hadron collider, you can be sure you’re not the only one. Most of us feel that the passage of time is inevitable, and that it only makes us older (but also wiser, more confident and happy overall!).
Having said that, it's no secret that our modern society is obsessed with freezing and even turning back time. This ageing paranoia that’s sweeping across our society has been heavily fueled by social media, where young folks constantly put pressure on achievements, looks, and everything, really. Its competitive nature shows that someone is doing better and has accomplished more by your age than you have.
I Remember!
The Struggle Is Real
Just Pause Duh
Being scared of ageing is not only nothing new, it seems like it creeps into the minds of younger generations obsessed with anti-ageing life choices earlier than ever in history. In 2018, a report from the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) found that millennials felt the most negatively towards ageing, viewing it as a steep decline and assuming dementia and loneliness as inevitable.
I'm Old I Remember Having One Thinking It Was So Cool
I Feel This Deep In My Soul
That cashier was just jealous that you got to experience Blockbuster and they didn't lol
I Consider This A Small Victory
In some extreme cases where fear of getting older interferes with your life, doctors diagnose people with gerascophobia. “Gerascophobia sufferers have very frequent thoughts about changes in their appearance due to ageing and increasingly losing control over their life as they get older. These thoughts trigger panic attacks, shortness of breath, sweating and shaking," Dr. Rose Aghdami, a consulting and coaching psychologist, told Refinery29.
"Their behavior is affected too, as they often avoid certain activities which remind them of ageing, withdraw from social contact, and become more isolated."
You Might Be Old...
Doc Brown And Marty Mcfly Still Here, Together, In 2021
Hey, this one actually made me feel good. They ditched the Delorean?
Never Failed
The RSPH has also urged people to stop using the term 'anti-ageing' popularized by the beauty industry, since it could be putting pressure on women to see ageing as something inherently detrimental. Another 2017 study found that 30% of women under 35 were regularly using anti-wrinkle products, a fact that’s so obvious when browsing through social media that you don’t need a survey for it
"I Grew Up With No Internet" Starter Pack
Beware This Man
Thanks, Macaulay. I wish you would look up to Bart Simpson, he doesn't age like that.
I Resemble That Remark
Who Else Had These Exact Same Speakers?
This Feeling All Of The Time
What Else?
UK specific but when I was a kid in the 80's we had a grand total of 4 TV channels to choose from.
Ah that was when that newcomer, Channel 4 came along, with all it's naughty films! LOL
Load More Replies...And despite the naysayers claiming it doesn't really work, it absolutely did.
Load More Replies...That television channels went off the air at a certain time😱😱....they would loose their minds!!! And having to wait till NEXT WEEK to see part 2 of ur favorite show!!!
I kind of liked that the stations turned off at 11pm or 12am. No way you could stay up really late or all night watching TV. But it really was a pain to have to stand up for the national anthem before you went to bed😆! But if you were a kid it was really frustrating if you woke up too early and the channel wasn't on yet. You had to find something to do on Saturday mornings until the cartoons came on.
Load More Replies...The smell of ditto paper, ring of a typewriter bell when you reached the end of the carriage, the drone of propellor planes, mechanical cash registers, my father's slide rules.
When the record got stuck and played the same three words over and over until you moved the needle.
Getting a scratch on your record, depending on it's depth and length, forget it. You just had to go buy another one. And flipping it over to hear the other side.
Load More Replies...Taking pictures and having to wait until you took the roll of film to the shop to have it developed to see them.
"After you dialed a number on the phone you needed to wait til the dial plate readjusted so you could dial the next number... now go look up what a dial plate is, kiddo."
45 rpms. I have the red insert tattoo'd on my leg, and always get asked if thats a radiation symbol.. lol
Ellen DeGeneres got a 17 year old girl to; refold a map; look up a number in the Yellow Pages; and use a rotary phone to call it. Never laughed so hard in my life. At least she felt embarrassed.
Popo Gigio, Stiller and Mira and the first time the Beatles were on TV. Then there were always the requisite spinning plates.
Load More Replies...Dark room.. my kid asked me after watching an episode of stranger things and boy was that a confusing conversation for her. Bunny - Rabbit ears, just looked it up and they are sold but not the old school ones bc just why lol.. Using another tape player to make a mix tape of music. Beta player and soon to be vhs. Many many many many vhs tapes that were taped over a million times and written on and crossed off on that white sticker line. Haaaaaaaaa. The only cell phone was a car phone and only if you had a good amount of money. I used land line and when I turned 18 I bought a pager. Haaaa a pager lol. They were so freaking cool but so dumb... Teenage kids actually playing man hunt and hide and seek. Kids now a days have NO IDEA what bored is.. Walkman and then the discman which was so super cool even though it skipped a million times through a song. I could go on and on.. Was a great visit to my childhood 🥰
Up at my aunt and uncle's cottage way up north.
Load More Replies...The transistor radio!.....The transistor radio went on to become the most popular electronic communication device of the 1960s and 1970s.
I was going to say that. I used to listen to it as I went to bed. Invariably I would fall asleep with it on and run the battery down. I would get in trouble because apparently they don't grow on trees. Who knew?
Load More Replies...Waiting till Sunday for chat on phone with boyfriend away at college in another state....cheaper long distance rates!
I can remember calling home long distance and asking to speak to myself to let my parents know that I made it to my destination. That way we didn't have to pay long distance phone charges.
Load More Replies...I was extremely excited when I got an extra long phone cord for my Princess Phone so I could walk more than 2feet from my phone.
Going to the neighborhood payphones, or any payphone you walked by to check for returned dimes that someone forgot to take out.
When you turned on the tv you had to wait a few minutes for it to warm up. 😏
Oh yes and smoling was considered good for you!
Load More Replies...What is this "premium" thing you speak of? Is that a UHF channel?
Load More Replies...An 8 year old could walk in and buy cigarettes. We took guns to school in the country. Left them in the jeep with the bong. Less than $10 for a concert ticket. Same for the t-shirt. Muscle cars on dirt roads as a teen, fueled by 70 cent/gallon gas. Unlimited supply of big block Pontiacs and mopars. For a few hundred bucks . People who were skilled, and worked for a living. Absolutely not being expected to give even the slightest f**k about the opinions of anyone that isn't actually in your life. No f***s. Not even a fractile portion thereof. When social media was the hallway in between classes. Back when only the real true assholes felt entitled. Karen was just some girls name. A dollar would buy 4 candy bars. McDonald's coffee stirrer was the absolute premier coke spoon of the Disco generation. I could do this all day, but I'm actually being paid to do something entirely other than this. In light of that...
I only disagree with your "People who were skilled, and worked for a living" comment. People nowadays have more vacation time but use less of it than ever. Cell phones mean you NEVER actually have a real vacation day or sick day from work. No pensions to retire with. No company loyalty to the employees... Oh & college loans designed in such a way that they are NEVER PAID OFF. Every job you can get nowadays requires college. Even an (secretary) administrative assistant. But the company still wants to only pay you like you're "ONLY a secretary."
Load More Replies...Watching Perry Mason, in black and white, with my mother, while she ironed.
While I was reading this, my son came across a reference to flash mobs and I had to explain it to him.
Cars without seatbelts (or at least you did not have to wear them....cars with cigarette lighters/ashtrays in them, cars without the sport mirror. I am restoring my original car, a 1988 Chevy Nova. It was one of the first cars to have a sport mirror as a standard feature, had shoulder strap seatbelts in the backseat and an ash tray/cigarette lighter with an actual rubber bumper. Can't wait to get it running. Just got historic plates and insurance for it.
Scary stories about getting AIDS from a dirty public toilet...
TV began at 6pm and endet at 11pm with the national anthem and then white noise .....
When you accidently took out one of your dads cassettes from the car too fast and it completely unravels.
Benny Hill Show. Loved watching it!! And can’t forget the Beverly Hillbillies!!
Sometimes we put tinfoil on the rabbit ears to make the TV come in better.
playing cards clothespinned to bike spokes for that awesome noise!
3: it's a magic number. I'm just a bill, yeah, I'm only a bill. Conjunction junction, what's your function?
Black/white TV with a roof antenna, 3 broadcast stations, plus PBS. Visible images during good weather only.
Wanting to put a call through to my aunt living in Britain and asking the operator for Tolls, then giving the toll operator the number, then hanging up and waiting for half an hour for her to call back and say "Through now" and then listening to Auntie Barbara sound like she's talking into an empty baked beans tin on the other end of a stretched wire.
Telephone exchange names. Ours in South Gate, Ca. was Loraine. Our number was LO66221.
There were only 3 TV channels in Britain until late 1982. Of those channels, BBC1 and 2 were closed down for half the day so all you had was a test card and muzak.
And eventually Ceefax. Used to cycle through it as a child if I couldn’t sleep
Load More Replies...There was a box on the top of the tv that you would press a button to turn to that particular channel. No remote. You had to get up and push a button. Oh, and if the screen was "rolling" and wouldn't stop you would bang on the top of the tv to get it to stop rolling. And most often it worked!
The TV programing ended at midnight. Unless it was Friday or Saturday night. Then there was the Midnight Movie on one of the 4 channels we had.
In my day we had to drive to checkout movies like you would at a library
The child was the remote control for the tv. And we only had 8 channels where I'm from and the kids station turned off at like 9pm or some channels changed to a different one.
Lots of the south and east of the UK only had 4 channels until digital tv took over. We couldn't get Channel 5 because it would interfere with French TV. Those with money could get Sky.
Fuzzy transmission. I tried watching the Mars Landing on Channel 5 and could just about make out what was going on. It was annoying as hell.
Load More Replies...Did you play Mooncresta with the little plastic decoder to translate the Captcha into letters and numbers so it would let you load, til some smart alex came up with a *cheat* to bypass that altogether?
Load More Replies...You have to watch the TV Test Pattern with the Indian with a Huge Headdress until the station resumes broadcasting for the day...and you need to watch the National Anthem at the end of the broadcast day until the station shut down for the night.
My mom cooked everything in the microwave because Nana paid a lot for our new “oven”
The kindle fire I had was in black and white and only had books.
I use a tv as a monitor, which also hooks up to a ps3. Laptop is channel 2, games is channel 3 :P
When my cardiologist asked me what I did for work before I became a nurse I said I worked at Michigan bell. She and the PA looked at each other like this lady has dementia. They both said at the exact same moment what is Michigan bell? I said it was back when we had land lines
Then they left the room, when they returned I said you googled it didn’t you? And they said yes but they could not imagine a whole phone company be named after Michigan. Apparently they didn’t read the googling quite far enough. So far that’s the oldest I ever felt I’m sure there’s more to come.
Load More Replies...I ran across this very problem not to long ago. Dial up internet access .
Pounds shillings and pence. Ounces, pounds stones, hundredweight tons, anything imperial.
We only had 9 tv channels and the tv shows ended at 12. NY the 1950’s
Having only the three biggest networks on a TV with rabbit ears as an antenna. Oh, and all three networks signed off around 11pm. No late night tv for anyone.
When I was a child only one person in our street owned a car and only one person had a telephone (and it wasn’t the same person)
The top k**b should be on Zero. Leave it there and only turn the bottom one.
We could cripple entire generations with rotary phones (heck any landline phone) and bringing back manual transmissions. (evil laugh 😈)
Someone on TikTok asked why someone didn't just ring their family members cellphone in 2002 (unresolved mystery) and I had to explain that most people didn't have a cellphone in 2002. I was a kid, but still felt old from that.
The tac tac tac sound of the tv button when you rolled in my dad's old tv
That switch (tv/game) thing you use in the tv to play with the atari
Think about this... "How old would you be, if you didn't know how old you were. ,?".
If you wait long enough watching TV, it eventually turns to nothing but the American anthem and then static.
The sheer thrill and wonder of a calculator the size of a book that could add, subtract, multiply, and divide.
No one had smart phones in Elementary school because they were so expensive and there were only 3 models out
I know two: 1st, The best cartoons came on Saturday mornings and if you missed it you missed. 2nd, the biggest struggle kids had was keeping their Tamagotchis alive
My first cell phone has a 1" inch screen, it took five minutes to send a text and I always called people offer 9.
You had to make sure that none of the neighbors in your party-line were on the phone, so you could use it.
Ice cube trays were made of metal inside and out, with an odd fulcrum handle to loosen cubes—and stick to your fingers
When a cool looking van came around the neighborhood on Saturdays and sold bread, small cakes and pastries out of multile drawers from the backdoors. One drawer even had candy!
Only had one TV channel. Only one commercial in TV shows. Station(s) all went off the air ai 11:00pm.
Wringer washers. Scrub boards. Party lines. Stove top/ camping toasters
We had 3 channels on tv in my little town and Mommy had an 8 track player! :-)
Telephone numbers with only 3 numbers. Talking to the “operator” often.
We only had black and white TVs and all programming on all 3 channels stopped at midnite. Plus there were dials on the tv and we didn't have anything called a remote
Had to explain this to my kids when I hooked up the old Super Nintendo. They never did quite grasp it. Can do amazing, wondrous things with today's tech, but can't get the SN to play. 😆
The game telephone whispering in someone's ear and see what comes out as being told.
I remember the midnight Star Spangled Banner then the test pattern. Then static....
I know what an 8 track is. But that's because my uncle had a car with a 8 track player. I use to record cassette tapes from the radio station.
An actual paper TV guide and only having 99 channels but only about 65 of them working
I used my hands to change the 3 stations on the black and white 27 " tv and I got to sit on the floor in front if that tv .
We could walk around alone on the street until almost 9 o clock without being afraid or fear assault.
When my parents got our first TV I ran all the way home from school to find half the neighbourhood's kids already there watching the one and only channel available in those days.
I remember the box being on UHF! And calling in to pick the next song 😂 my tv was a lil black and white (in the 90S we were POOOOR!!) w vhf and uhf DIALS and tin foil wrapped coat hanger rabbit ears 😂😂 sat on a old popcorn tin for YEARSSSS
Alright, I'll believe that I might be too young to get this one. Can someone explain?
Grew up in my early childhood in a country town in Queensland Australia. No TV at all until 1971/2 and then only 2 channels, a local one and the ABC. TV ended just before midnight and everything went over to the test pattern
Needed a special connector to allow my ieee 488 enabled Osborne1 to use a b&w tv as an external monitor, same for the TRS80 model 1.
I remember when push button phones became a thing. I remember my mother standing by the kitchen sink or sitting at the table for hours after dinner, with the phone cord stretched across the room while she talked to her friend. I also remember when phones had 4 metal prongs (the top 2 prongs were spread just slightly wider than the bottom 2) to plug into the wall.
no tv on Thursdays, live in Iceland, and no tv in July either.
Climbing into the big cabinet to talk on the phone because there was only one phone and it was in the kitchen
when I was 4 we moved into a flat with no bathroom and an outside toilet
only one channel, started at 7am and stopped at 10 pm, first show I ever watched Ed Sullivan
1953 One channel, stopped at 10 pm, on 26-inch black and white TV, first show Ed Sullivan
I used to work in a retail bank. A customer brought in a bag of crowns. For those that don't know half a crown was two shillings and sixpence or 12 and a half pence. Therefore a crown is five shilling or 25p. Banks will only give you the value of the coin or note you have to take things to a dealer to get more. The young cashier exchanging these coins didn't give the customer five shillings each, she gave them five pounds each. Oooops
Incidentally it wasn't me. I was around when half a crown made you rich!
Load More Replies...All of the TV channels went off the air from midnight to 5 AM. They played the "Star Spangled Banner" then had test pattern while off air. And we only had 4 counting the Educational channel.
I didn't understand that either. But not because I'm too young. I'm too old. I'm pre-video game era old.
Only if channel 3 was set to 36 otherwise channel 3 was ITV. (UK TV)
Telephones with rotary dials and long cables connected to the wall. And only ONE ringtone.
A good old fashioned bell. I miss those. The ones trying to imitate them now don't sound right.
Load More Replies...I have ALL of Star Trek the Next Generation (Yes, every single episode), on VHS with NO commercials because... we pressed PAUSE, with the TV GUIDE synopsis for each episode tucked into the case of each 'cassette'. As for Video Games? Mine came on a CASSETTE TAPE - that played through a cassette machine through a Tandy Vision (Radioshack), until I worthy of using Dad's Coleco. This of course, before STTNG.
I remember when my grandparents had HBO and it was on channel 7. I think that was 1992ish. Does anyone else remember that?
Oh and Nickelodeon was on channel 27 I think. I also still remember calling my grandparents and not dialing the area code, just 7 numbers
Load More Replies...We had a 7-party phone line. I remember how excited my mom was when we moved to a 3-party line. Our ring was 1 long, 2 short.
Along with my sister and some friends, we recorded our own radio shows onto cassette tapes.
We only one TV channel back when I was young in Sweden and then we got two and then the first commercial channel sneaked around the law by broadcasting via satellite from England.
We used to carry a book that had a map of every state, and in many cases had maps of bigger cities in the car during every road trip. More specific to my teenage years though: We used to print out step by step directions and often times end up getting lost because the directions never accounted for detours or topographical changes.
Had to switch the tv on at least 5 minutes before the program you wanted to watch as the set needed to warm up.
The PEACOCK logo on TV...if you don't know what I mean, "forget about it".
I can actually remember when there were only two channels. BBC 2 was an exciting new arrival when it came!
The indispensable skill of blowing into the Nintendo cartridge so that it would load the game.
I still remember the channels we had.. 2 PBS, 4 CBS, 5 ABC, 7 NBC, 25 FOX, 38 WSBK (later UPN) and WLVI 56 (later the WB). And if we had the disconnected cable hooked up, we could tune into tnt on 9 and cartoon network on 11 somehow. Plus didnt have to adjust the antenna and had perfect picture. Also the 60s+ had scrambled naughty channels. If the dials were adjusted just right....could catch a glimpse of something.. occasionally..
Rabbit ears for the TV and then having to hold it in all kinds of positions to get it to work.
Crumpling up tinfoil and wrapping it around the tips of the antennas
Load More Replies...TV sign off at midnight with multicolored stripes and buzzing sound until it came back on at 6 am...
My mom (79) says party lines (on phone). Like you had to share that one phone cable hanging above your house with the whole neighborhood.
One house phone / phone line and you had to share it with the whole family
Home Box Office (HBO) was $10 a month and had no commercials! It was "pay TV"
Having to use volume and tone on the cassette player to load a computer game
Illusion is the ultimate weapon Centurion power extreme Down in Fraggle Rock Tootsie Roll is a dance, a song, and a candy You've got the touch Look at all these rumors around me everyday Ickey shuffle Encyclopedia Salesman Bo knows Like Mike Who's the master Cartoon Express Ghost Busters had a gorilla And last but not least - there was a machine with the dedicated purpose to rewind VHS tapes. That's just 3 min worth of reminiscing on the 80s and 90s.
Television had only three channels and you had to change the antenna manually!
In 1960 we watched three channels on a TV the size of a refrigerator. They all went off the air at 11 pm after asking "do you know where your children are?" and playing the national anthem.
We had a switch that let us change it between 3 and 4, I honestly don't know why.
I also remember something like this for the bluetooth and Wii :O. Lol I am young but I relate to so much old stuff because we didn't really get fancy entertainment stuff.
I'll have you know, the RF switch also let you use channel 2. But since that was ABC, nobody ever did.
In The ‘80s, TV Stations Just Turned Off Late At Night. No Infomercials, Nothing. Just This
Well, they played a nifty tune first, and then some nice white noise to fall asleep to...
70's Kids Checking In
Well, This Is The New Metric For How Old We Are, I Guess
My Kids freak out every time I tell them I wasn't born in this Millennium
Stolen From Facebook
Phoebe’s Baby Is A College Grad
hahaha, I actually thought to myself: wow, she actually kept in touch with him even tho it wasn't her baby?
Was It A Nokia Or A Razr You Had?
I had a Nokia c2 when I was 10 or 11. Used to feel quite smug typing fast without looking at the keyboard.
We All Knew This Day Would Come
Aww
Anyone Else??
And then you go to the actual store and those young whippersnappers rearranged it again.
An Ancient Artifact From A More Civilized Time
Pretty Much!
oh crap, i totally have such location in my home town, the realization hit me like ton of brick
Old School Uncool
Some Redditor Is Mocking His Dad For This 80's Handset That's Plugged Into His iPhone. All I Can Say Is, That Looks Amazingly Comfortable....
I Was 20 When It Aired And God, Do I Still Feel Old....
Good Morning
me, 35, in march 2021 : for vaccination too young, for gynecologist 'geriatric' :D
Afv Anyone?
The American bashing on this site seems to be a hobby for a lot of people.
After 9 And On The Weekends Plus $.10 Texts
Pink Floyd::pride
This Cut Me Deep
Never Failed
I use to have a fake 8 track player to fool my car into playing cassettes. In 1992.
That's Relatable
Internet Is For The 1 Percenters
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40 years old in a few weeks and currently on holiday. Very excited / proud that we went OUT for dinner after 8pm and stayed up after midnight!! But did still walk passed most of the bars and restaurants because they were "too loud" or "busy". We just wanted peace and quiet, with decent food, a nice atmosphere and as few other humans as possible. We're officially old. But had a lovely evening!
A few months ago, I (only 43) had to show a kid how the gas pump worked. He kept hitting the octane number. After the fifth punch I told him, "You have to lift the handle cradle. It's old school." He lifted it, and pleasantly chuffed, said, "Thank you, sir!" And I was instantly 70 years old.
Wait, what other kind of pumps are there?!!
Load More Replies...Honestly, any of these that start with “remember when?” and then show computers or cell phones seem silly to my old self. Those all still feel new to me! I still remember when a cordless landline phone felt like future tech. I called a friend from it and told him I was in the front yard. He was blown away. And we didn’t even keep the phone. It was a gift for my grandparents, and my mom wanted me to test it first since she didn’t trust the technology!
My official first “I feel old” moment happened way back in 1997, when my son was 6 years old. We had an old stereo system that had a record player. I still owned a few albums, but never played them, because it was missing the needle. I finally found one in an old thrift shop and set about putting it to use. After listening to the first side, I told my son to flip it over to the other side. Being a child who only knew CD’s, he exclaimed, “It has music on both sides?!! Cool!!!” (This kid is 30 now, which officially makes me ancient!)
Bullcrap. If your kid was 6 in 1997 he's like 20 now. YES he is. He is. Yep. No, you shut up. 😐
Load More Replies...You know you're old when an actor you had a crush on is advertising stair lifts.
Wanna feel old. As a young teen, I remember it being a big thing to stay up late to watch Soul Train and the Midnight Special with Wolfman Jack on weekend nights.
When you get your invitation card from AARP... well, that made my hubby feel old. Me, I'm two years younger, so they're not after me, yet. (yet)
I got my first communication from them at 28 (somehow, they knew when I saw that first gray hair....)
Load More Replies...I was telling my kids about the first Fantastic Beasts movie: Me: "I think it takes place in the 20s." 7yo: "It IS the 20s." Me: 7yo: Me: "Fine. The 1920s."
I can't remember I was this busy with proving other people are old when I was a kid. Do kids these days think they don't age or something? I mean, this is a nice trip through memory lane for me, but I don't need it to know how old I am. The pain in my back when I slept wrong and the tired eyes at 22:00 tell me that :D
We just called our parents and their friends dinosaurs or old as dirt.
Load More Replies...Though, I'm Gen Z, I feel like I know many of these because my grandparents raised me and I love me some old movies. A kid in the future would probably ask me what Netflix was or who the Kardashians were.
Gen Z old entertainment gang! :D I have so many awesome memories from older live action disney movies like Love Bug that nobody else seems to know about as well as just older movies in general.
Load More Replies...I was 55 when the young woman at the movie theater asked if I wanted the senior discount. Slightly taken aback, I said " no thanks" ." Are you sure?" she asked?
I remember when people started saying " yes ma'am and no ma'am" to me. I finally had to let it go and let them.
Load More Replies...My granddaughter's collection of historical coins includes anything before 1995. 🤣
I remember telling my husband that smart phones were just a passing fad because they were so sensitive they might not stay off if you put them in your purse or pocket and that no one looks at the internet enough to justify those charges.
I was in college with a smartphone before the iPod existed. Windows CE was as bad as anyone said but it was pretty rad when I visited Kansas and realized the fields all had free WiFi and in 2002 I could surf the internet on the go like most people take for granted now.
Load More Replies...71yo now...and so many memories I can't even begin.... it's almost my bedtime and I haven't even had supper yet!
I'm gen z but still, I grew up with more “old fashioned” things. I barely knew what an iPhone was when I was in 5th grade.
You know you are old when you recall that the neighborhood dogs all ran around together. We did not even on a leash (lead).
And they could poop anywhere and nobody bitched about it. Yeah! Oh wait I forgot *****.
Load More Replies...Making my grandchildren watch APOLLO 13 so they could see what a real miracle going to the moon actually was - spaceship with knobs & buttons and no digital/computer
No doubt! I turned 40 last August, and my (now husband) and I went on our honeymoon in January to Puerto Rico. There was all kinds of partying and clubbing and we were like Nah, let's grab a glass of wine and sit on the beach and just cuddle and listen to the waves. No crazy drunkeness or anything. And we too stayed up late cuz you know ... honeymoon special occasion lol.
It's just hit me that I'm the same age my late mother was when she was busy having her first Year from Hell, with a husband (my dad) battling cancer while her father (my grandfather) passed away from a heart attack. I thought she was so old back then. Now I'm THAT age, though it's been eighteen years since *I* lost MY dad and six years since I lost my mom. That makes me feel ancient.
You feel old? I'm older than the space age. When I was born, the only thing orbiting the Earth was the Moon. The world population was 2.87 billion.
I just retired... a little early, but still. I have never felt so old in my entire life. I feel great, and don't look ancient, but every single time I tell people "I'm retired" when they ask what I do... oy vey.. I die a little more
I have never been so old in my entire life, so I feel you.
Load More Replies...As a member of Gen Z I always find this stuff kinda funny. A lot of my entertainment was old growing up. My family often watches disney movies from around the 70's like The Cat from Outer Space and rarely does anybody else know what I'm talking about. We also had an amazing VHS collection.
Everyone grows up watching Disney classics, regardless of generation. But I will admit I've never heard of The Cat from Outer Space.
Load More Replies...I remember when I was about 12 figuring out hold old I would turn in 2000. "43? I'll never be that old"
I think when I started looking at the expiry date before I buy a bread...that was a dead giveaway
I see that more than half the items were deleted per viewer votes. I assume the ones I wasn’t too old to relate to were among them.
Age is a weird thing. I'm 22 and extremely socially inept autistic. I'll see people talking about work, college, marriage, kids and feel like they are so much older than me, but often they're younger or just 2 or 3 years older. And then in the same breath they talked about being engaged they will say something that feels so naive I can't believe this person is my age.
Making my grandchildren watch APOLLO 13 to show how going to the moon was actually so incredible… got there on knobs and toggles and no digital/computers
A couple years ago I went to a goodwill store and was browsing, found a few things for my crafts and was at the counter when the gal said to me 'any discounts??' I glanced up and she said 'ahh senior discount, any more??' I left everything on the counter and walked out. Got in my car and started to cry!!. Reality hit and I walked back in and said ' yeah i will take it....senior discount.' I had just turned 65 and that was my first hint of reality!!
Years ago i remember this one commercial for a dvr box where 1 kid who was like 1-2 years older said to her younger sis "when i was your age we only could record 2 shows at once not 3". XD i got SO mad at it like "girl when i was YOUR age we recorded ONE show on a black tape box the quality was piss n it lasted a yr at most. The first box to record tv live was freaking sorcery! N you still could only record one thing n it was always parents shows"
Im at that age a kid asked what a VHS was..and i fear soon will get to the point ppl will ask what a dvd is....i also remember when TVO first came out how ground breaking it was....im 27 i feel old xD
My "now I'm old" moment came when, about 20 years ago, I was working at a store that sold media and collectibles and such and I had two teachers come in who wanted a poster they could cut the face out of for a pie in the face booth. "I have *the perfect* thing!" and I take them to our mounted posters and proudly display the one we have of Curly, from the 3 Stooges. The one looks at me and goes "Our kids would have no idea who he is." Me: "Now I feel old." I don't think the (older than me) teachers appreciated that remark very much. That, and they were looking to have a poster *donated* to their carnival rather than, y'know, buying something from the store.
they made me feel old and im 15. the fact i knew what most of these were-
Load More Replies...My mother doesn't agree with me if i am saying, i am old. Even I am actually 21 y.o, but my childhood really makes me feel like in heaven because no stress for social media.
I have posted this before on a similar thread, but I was talking to my niece a while ago about computers and school, I told her that we didn't have computers to google answers and she replied with - "oh yes, they had slates and chalk in your day, didn't they?" - I'm 49 now!
I was born in 1996. I'm turning 26 this year. I have siblings that were born in the late 80s. I can relate to most of this list. I shouldn't feel old at 26. What's happening?
I feel so old now. Can somebody hand me my zimmer frame and a packet of ibuprofen please?
40 years old in a few weeks and currently on holiday. Very excited / proud that we went OUT for dinner after 8pm and stayed up after midnight!! But did still walk passed most of the bars and restaurants because they were "too loud" or "busy". We just wanted peace and quiet, with decent food, a nice atmosphere and as few other humans as possible. We're officially old. But had a lovely evening!
A few months ago, I (only 43) had to show a kid how the gas pump worked. He kept hitting the octane number. After the fifth punch I told him, "You have to lift the handle cradle. It's old school." He lifted it, and pleasantly chuffed, said, "Thank you, sir!" And I was instantly 70 years old.
Wait, what other kind of pumps are there?!!
Load More Replies...Honestly, any of these that start with “remember when?” and then show computers or cell phones seem silly to my old self. Those all still feel new to me! I still remember when a cordless landline phone felt like future tech. I called a friend from it and told him I was in the front yard. He was blown away. And we didn’t even keep the phone. It was a gift for my grandparents, and my mom wanted me to test it first since she didn’t trust the technology!
My official first “I feel old” moment happened way back in 1997, when my son was 6 years old. We had an old stereo system that had a record player. I still owned a few albums, but never played them, because it was missing the needle. I finally found one in an old thrift shop and set about putting it to use. After listening to the first side, I told my son to flip it over to the other side. Being a child who only knew CD’s, he exclaimed, “It has music on both sides?!! Cool!!!” (This kid is 30 now, which officially makes me ancient!)
Bullcrap. If your kid was 6 in 1997 he's like 20 now. YES he is. He is. Yep. No, you shut up. 😐
Load More Replies...You know you're old when an actor you had a crush on is advertising stair lifts.
Wanna feel old. As a young teen, I remember it being a big thing to stay up late to watch Soul Train and the Midnight Special with Wolfman Jack on weekend nights.
When you get your invitation card from AARP... well, that made my hubby feel old. Me, I'm two years younger, so they're not after me, yet. (yet)
I got my first communication from them at 28 (somehow, they knew when I saw that first gray hair....)
Load More Replies...I was telling my kids about the first Fantastic Beasts movie: Me: "I think it takes place in the 20s." 7yo: "It IS the 20s." Me: 7yo: Me: "Fine. The 1920s."
I can't remember I was this busy with proving other people are old when I was a kid. Do kids these days think they don't age or something? I mean, this is a nice trip through memory lane for me, but I don't need it to know how old I am. The pain in my back when I slept wrong and the tired eyes at 22:00 tell me that :D
We just called our parents and their friends dinosaurs or old as dirt.
Load More Replies...Though, I'm Gen Z, I feel like I know many of these because my grandparents raised me and I love me some old movies. A kid in the future would probably ask me what Netflix was or who the Kardashians were.
Gen Z old entertainment gang! :D I have so many awesome memories from older live action disney movies like Love Bug that nobody else seems to know about as well as just older movies in general.
Load More Replies...I was 55 when the young woman at the movie theater asked if I wanted the senior discount. Slightly taken aback, I said " no thanks" ." Are you sure?" she asked?
I remember when people started saying " yes ma'am and no ma'am" to me. I finally had to let it go and let them.
Load More Replies...My granddaughter's collection of historical coins includes anything before 1995. 🤣
I remember telling my husband that smart phones were just a passing fad because they were so sensitive they might not stay off if you put them in your purse or pocket and that no one looks at the internet enough to justify those charges.
I was in college with a smartphone before the iPod existed. Windows CE was as bad as anyone said but it was pretty rad when I visited Kansas and realized the fields all had free WiFi and in 2002 I could surf the internet on the go like most people take for granted now.
Load More Replies...71yo now...and so many memories I can't even begin.... it's almost my bedtime and I haven't even had supper yet!
I'm gen z but still, I grew up with more “old fashioned” things. I barely knew what an iPhone was when I was in 5th grade.
You know you are old when you recall that the neighborhood dogs all ran around together. We did not even on a leash (lead).
And they could poop anywhere and nobody bitched about it. Yeah! Oh wait I forgot *****.
Load More Replies...Making my grandchildren watch APOLLO 13 so they could see what a real miracle going to the moon actually was - spaceship with knobs & buttons and no digital/computer
No doubt! I turned 40 last August, and my (now husband) and I went on our honeymoon in January to Puerto Rico. There was all kinds of partying and clubbing and we were like Nah, let's grab a glass of wine and sit on the beach and just cuddle and listen to the waves. No crazy drunkeness or anything. And we too stayed up late cuz you know ... honeymoon special occasion lol.
It's just hit me that I'm the same age my late mother was when she was busy having her first Year from Hell, with a husband (my dad) battling cancer while her father (my grandfather) passed away from a heart attack. I thought she was so old back then. Now I'm THAT age, though it's been eighteen years since *I* lost MY dad and six years since I lost my mom. That makes me feel ancient.
You feel old? I'm older than the space age. When I was born, the only thing orbiting the Earth was the Moon. The world population was 2.87 billion.
I just retired... a little early, but still. I have never felt so old in my entire life. I feel great, and don't look ancient, but every single time I tell people "I'm retired" when they ask what I do... oy vey.. I die a little more
I have never been so old in my entire life, so I feel you.
Load More Replies...As a member of Gen Z I always find this stuff kinda funny. A lot of my entertainment was old growing up. My family often watches disney movies from around the 70's like The Cat from Outer Space and rarely does anybody else know what I'm talking about. We also had an amazing VHS collection.
Everyone grows up watching Disney classics, regardless of generation. But I will admit I've never heard of The Cat from Outer Space.
Load More Replies...I remember when I was about 12 figuring out hold old I would turn in 2000. "43? I'll never be that old"
I think when I started looking at the expiry date before I buy a bread...that was a dead giveaway
I see that more than half the items were deleted per viewer votes. I assume the ones I wasn’t too old to relate to were among them.
Age is a weird thing. I'm 22 and extremely socially inept autistic. I'll see people talking about work, college, marriage, kids and feel like they are so much older than me, but often they're younger or just 2 or 3 years older. And then in the same breath they talked about being engaged they will say something that feels so naive I can't believe this person is my age.
Making my grandchildren watch APOLLO 13 to show how going to the moon was actually so incredible… got there on knobs and toggles and no digital/computers
A couple years ago I went to a goodwill store and was browsing, found a few things for my crafts and was at the counter when the gal said to me 'any discounts??' I glanced up and she said 'ahh senior discount, any more??' I left everything on the counter and walked out. Got in my car and started to cry!!. Reality hit and I walked back in and said ' yeah i will take it....senior discount.' I had just turned 65 and that was my first hint of reality!!
Years ago i remember this one commercial for a dvr box where 1 kid who was like 1-2 years older said to her younger sis "when i was your age we only could record 2 shows at once not 3". XD i got SO mad at it like "girl when i was YOUR age we recorded ONE show on a black tape box the quality was piss n it lasted a yr at most. The first box to record tv live was freaking sorcery! N you still could only record one thing n it was always parents shows"
Im at that age a kid asked what a VHS was..and i fear soon will get to the point ppl will ask what a dvd is....i also remember when TVO first came out how ground breaking it was....im 27 i feel old xD
My "now I'm old" moment came when, about 20 years ago, I was working at a store that sold media and collectibles and such and I had two teachers come in who wanted a poster they could cut the face out of for a pie in the face booth. "I have *the perfect* thing!" and I take them to our mounted posters and proudly display the one we have of Curly, from the 3 Stooges. The one looks at me and goes "Our kids would have no idea who he is." Me: "Now I feel old." I don't think the (older than me) teachers appreciated that remark very much. That, and they were looking to have a poster *donated* to their carnival rather than, y'know, buying something from the store.
they made me feel old and im 15. the fact i knew what most of these were-
Load More Replies...My mother doesn't agree with me if i am saying, i am old. Even I am actually 21 y.o, but my childhood really makes me feel like in heaven because no stress for social media.
I have posted this before on a similar thread, but I was talking to my niece a while ago about computers and school, I told her that we didn't have computers to google answers and she replied with - "oh yes, they had slates and chalk in your day, didn't they?" - I'm 49 now!
I was born in 1996. I'm turning 26 this year. I have siblings that were born in the late 80s. I can relate to most of this list. I shouldn't feel old at 26. What's happening?
I feel so old now. Can somebody hand me my zimmer frame and a packet of ibuprofen please?