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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
Oh yes, spilling the juice while running back to the tv and constantly bumping your knees or toes when jumping over the furniture... but thanks to the adrenaline: no pain felt!
...and almost finishing peeing in your pants while you put them back and run.
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pause it! Lol. We didn't even have remote controls. You had to get up and push a button to change to one of four channels. 🤣
Youngest of the family is always the designated channel changer.
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I'll see you the no pause button and bodily damage, and raise you the end of the broadcast day screen. Which usually consisted of the American flag while the National Anthem played. Followed by either the rainbow screen or white noise. God I'm old! Lol
A minute silence for all the scraped knees and bumped toes sacrificed for entertainment.
How about arguing over what to watch because there was only one tv in the house? Or constantly getting up to adjust the bunny ears for better reception? Beta tapes before VHS?
Or watching fragments of contents between channels during advertisement times, because one wanted to watch that hottest cartoon, the other wanted that hottest soap opera that happened to be broadcasting at the same time.
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The pause question, omg. How young must this kid be not to know what tv is!
There was only anything worth watching certain hours of the day. You couldn't watch anything otherwise. From 3 to 6, every channel showed talk shows. From 6 to 7:30, news on the networks, but from 7 to 7:30 the indy channels would show sitcoms. From 8 until bedtime: NEW SHOWS!... but only between mid-September and mid-May. Summer break? Christmas break? You can play outside all day long and STILL have hours to watch TV? OLD SHOWS ONLY!!!!
When the phone would ring during the final round of Wheel of Fortune! RUINED!!!
That time as a kid when you had the stomach flu and couldn't stay out of the bathroom while your favorite show was on: "Now I have to wait for Summer re-runs before I can see it."
My family planned our whole Sunday around being ready to watch "Bonanza" when it came on that evening. I even remember when we got our first COLOR TV!
And, back then, commercial breaks were about 2 minutes long. Now they are more like 4 minutes.
PAUSE IT??? YOU WERE LUCKY TO GET IT TUNED IN ENOUGH TO WATCH IT 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thinking that you may never have the chance to see the show again unless it had a summer rerun AND you were not on vacation that night. And not knowing that the Wizard of Oz, which came on once a year, changed to color when they got to Oz, because you didn't have a color TV yet.
And I can't believe how big of a deal it was that we were the 1st ones in our area to get a video game...ATARI'S PONG!!! A dark screen with a dot to hit by moving "paddles" up or down.
I remember the first remote had click-type buttons. When I babysat for a family who had one, I almost didn't accept pay! Hahaha
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Right, like we're running to and from the bathroom/kitchen if we could pause it! Lol!
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When I was a kid it was black and white tv and you had to keep adjusting the vertical hold. Pause it, you were lucky to get a picture. And I am only 60, yes I said ONLY
The responses are so cute. These kids actually think we had a Pause option.
We didn’t have VCR’s, so I would lie in front of the TV and hold a cassette tape recorder to it so I could listen to my favorite shows later. I thought I was so tech savvy, or I would have if I had ever heard the phrase.
Technology changed a lot since I was little. I still remember when it was like that haha
When I was a kid in a little town called Streaky Bay there were no ads. The only channel was the ABC and one other but we only watched the former. If you needed to go to the loo you had to hold it in for as long as possible. I remember sitting through Doctor Who jiggling because I didn't want to miss anything. When my family moved to Adelaide I loved ads as it actually meant you could go to the loo without missing anything. I still love ads as it means I can do this without having to ask what did I miss?
No pause! I was grounded on night from tv. I had to miss the full house episode when they go to Disney land. I dint think i ever got to see it!
Forget running back...how about having to adjust the antenna to get reception? Plus there were only like 7 channels.
oh man i remember watching AFV and almost killing myself trying to jump over a glass table
remember my childhood when everybody was at home promptly by 5pm to watch 'santa barbara' :D and definitely no pausing
No way could you do bathroom AND snack in one run. You had to plan them across multiple ad breaks.
How about the ROTARY ANTENNA. If you lived an an area where your stations were distant and scattered, With a k**b twist of that Archer controller, sitting on the Motorola Quasar or next to dad's chair, the roof-top antenna would rotate in the direction of the city you wished to receive. We were in Ocean Springs (Biloxi), Mississippi. One maybe two channels local, all the others were in New Orleans, Mobile, Ft. Walton and Pensacola. I was about 10, one thing I remember, when we kids were outside hard at play, every half hour or so, all of the TV antennas would start turning randomly in different directions for news programs and boring grown-up stuff. But on Sunday, I think 7pm, check local listings for exact time (TV Guide), all the antennae in the neighborhood would align and point in the same direction. Wonderful World of Disney, In Living Color. This antennae phenomenon would also occur for Brady Bunch and Partridge Family. Pause button not included. Please don't sit so close to the TV.
How ' bout having to WAIT til next week to see your show again, never mind the seasonal cliff-hangars.
Commericals weren't as long as they are now. The second the screen turned black it was pretty much a speed run. Being the one to restock popcorn suck too
Yep, no such thing as pausing TV back then, you watched it or you didn't no re-runs or rewinds either....
Freakin' living room parkour when you heard "oh sh-- that's not a commercial!! The show's back on!"
Nowadays, I cannot go to the cinema because I am bound to need a bathroom break and no one in the universe can pause the movie for me. :(
We didn’t have a pause button and to turn off or down the sound you had to get up walk to the tv to turn it up or down.
That's why I actually prefer Hulu. The 90 seconds of ads 3 times an episode are when I get my drink, snack, do a dab, et cetera
Is it just me or did we manage to summon super powers sometimes trying to get back before we missed anything in the episode? I can't count how many times I got a bruise from running into furniture or clipping a corner just right. Back in olden times, no one knew of the great magic of "Pause". And then came of Gospel of TV Guide to help the weary masses divine when the beloved show would be airing.
Um...I still have my original television from 1980's...it has bunny ears. Try to get a cable guy to work on the cable....they can't figure out how to connect the cable box to that television. Once they did, I keep telling them they need to bring a new box to the house or give me one to take home before I bring the old one back (for an upgrade or replacement box if not working) since they can't figure out how to reconnect the cable to that television if the current box is removed. I kid you not....I have to literally take the new box to my house and pull the cable coming out of the television going to the box and connect it to the new box or they won't know where to connect the cable to the television.
Couldn't you jut pause it - so funny. I also love the post about how when you missed an episode of you favourite show, you really missed. Like in, forever. (Ok, almost forever. noone knew that most of this stuff would be online 30 years later)
The trauma of this experience in my childhood (on the one clear channel and two "snow storm" ones) has made me the binge-watcher of series I am now. I DO NOT want to wait a week for the next episode... even back then I usually forgot what had happened previously (although quite a few programs had a "Last time on..." introduction).
I remember having to wait to find out who killed JR Ewing on Dallas only to find out it was all a dream! That really ticked me off.
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In the UK the electric grid was literally ready for the advert break that came around 8.30pm (I think it was in the middle of Coronation Street) when like half the households in the entire country put their kettles on at once to make a cup of tea.
Also unknowingly letting an inanimate object create the Pavlov's dog effect in thousands of homes while promoting Attention Deficit Disorder.
I was born in 2008 but still ended up doing this and i STILL DO IT cuz i want to prove that i can. Tho now the ad breaks last longer than the show itself AND the ads are more entartaining than kids tv.
....and then the fight you'd have with your sibling because they didn't respect "MY PLACE IS SAVED!" when you got up.
Actually, I was born in 2008, I did not know Netflix even existed till 2020. I was raised traditionally, and my sis who is 8 years younger than me won't witness it. Oh how I miss tv when it had channels
They still have channels, they just have gone to cable. There's also "antenna channels" if you don't have cable but most of those are also on cable.
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WB Kids was the best! Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon, Animaniacs! Memories I'll never forget.
Popeye, David and Goliath, Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry. Captain Kangaroo anyone?
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No. Didn't even have a vcr back in the 70's most tv's didn't even have a remote. Wanted to change the channels you had to literally get up and change the channel manually. Only 3 channels unless you counted PBS than 4. The show's would go off around 1 to 2 am in the morning wouldn't come on until maybe 6 am.
Could you just pause it? Bless, lol A young woman teaching a class I was attending mentioned that she'd heard that people used to have to get up and walk to the tv to change channels. I said, yes, that's right. We also used to walk in front of cars waving a flag (Yes, kids, that actually was a thing when cars were invented. No, Im not old enough to remember that in person)
Yep, or trying to hold it while the ending finished, but you couldn’t and you would pee yourself while your sisters laughed with you!
What was that expensive Charter cable you could eventually get that allowed you to record and pause? We had that for a bit and I thought it was amazing. You could look at the TV guide and see what would be on and when, and have it automatically record so you wouldn’t miss it-you could even tell it to always record any episode of a specific show whenever it’s on. I wish I could remember what it was called-but it sure felt luxurious to not have to wait for commercials to use the bathroom or get a snack!
Or having them turn it way loud so you could at least hear it. And they could never tell you what happened so you could understand it.
2005 kids like me experienced that, not just 90's kids. My family just uses amazon prime now, though
Now you could run to the store for snacks and still have to wait 5 mins. for the show to come on after you got back.
I don’t pause anything at all, never, bathroom break, still playing it’s always on
P- pause? (Once spilled my limeade on the sunroom floor trying to hurry back with my chips and my mom screamed like I had spilled acid instead)
Whoever got to the bathroom first😑 while the other(s) had to miss a few minutes or race to the bathroom next commercial break. I remember asking my dad why we can't fast forward the commercials like we can on the VCR. He actually chuckled and shook his head lol I showed my daughter a picture of a VCR and asked her what it is and how to use it. She thought the display screen was where we see the show, the buttons are used to "search through Netflix, Disney+ or whatever we want to watch and we can put a CD in... ...here! " **points to the VHS slot kids these days
Hahaha pause???!!!??!! Me back in early 80s, you can pause a TV show?? Wow life would've been awesome!! I love how many people said just pause it.. as if.. hahahaha... pause.... bbbbhhhahahahahahahaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!
HA HA There was a time when there was no pause or record. If you missed it you missed it.
Sunken 1970's living room and flying over the three steps that connected it to the rest of the house.
I miss those days. The next day at work or school and everyone was talking about last nights latest episode. Things were better then.
yea, TV on the first floor, was a nice exercice running up and down
you cant pause aired television. you guys must have had short commercial breaks though, lucky
Doing all that and running back in time for the show to start up again. Cardio!
This applies only to satellite TV, I've always had digital TV so I could always pause it.
Satellite? Cable TV or antenna is more likely
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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?
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
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?!!
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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. 😐
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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....)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 *****.
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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.
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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-
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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?
