Author Topic: Things that make you feel old (Read 43516 times)

John Henry · « **on:** 07 October, 2012, 06:52:26 pm »

Hearing 'Back to the Future part II' described by the continuity announcer as 'retro'.

why1040 · « **Reply #1 on:** 07 October, 2012, 06:53:30 pm »

Watching "Dune" and remembering watching it on HBO in the US...in the 80s!

rogerzilla · « **Reply #2 on:** 07 October, 2012, 06:58:41 pm »

All the shite on the radio; everyone's voice sounds as if it's been through a computer. Which, of course, it has. Anyway, all the good melodies had more or less been used up by the 1980s.

Gandalf · « **Reply #3 on:** 07 October, 2012, 07:04:29 pm »

Celebrating my daughter's 30th Birthday.

hellymedic · « **Reply #4 on:** 07 October, 2012, 07:07:43 pm »

Realising that the 1972 photograph of my school is now 40 years old.

clifftaylor · « **Reply #5 on:** 07 October, 2012, 07:10:51 pm »

Occasionally, I notice that somebody seems to have grafted my dad's wrinkly old hands onto the ends of my arms. Quite odd sometimes.

jogler · « **Reply #6 on:** 07 October, 2012, 07:15:24 pm »

The knowledge that ALL your friends & the majority of your acquaintances are younger than yourself.

LindaG · « **Reply #7 on:** 07 October, 2012, 07:17:41 pm »

Junior doctors the same age as my kids.

Basil · « **Reply #8 on:** 07 October, 2012, 07:36:01 pm »

I describe someone as "old" and then realise they're younger than me.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #9 on:** 07 October, 2012, 07:47:36 pm »

OT students on placement looking at me like I have two heads when I tell them that when I was in primary school I knew three people who didn't have indoor toilets, and one of them didn't even have a flushing outside toilet, just an earth closet.

Tail End Charlie · « **Reply #10 on:** 07 October, 2012, 07:53:53 pm »

Quote from: jogler on 07 October, 2012, 07:15:24 pm

The knowledge that ALL your friends & the majority of your acquaintances are younger than yourself.

This is the way to be. That way you don't spend all your later years going to funerals.

John Henry · « **Reply #11 on:** 07 October, 2012, 08:00:02 pm »

Quote from: Tail End Charlie on 07 October, 2012, 07:53:53 pm

Quote from: jogler on 07 October, 2012, 07:15:24 pm
The knowledge that ALL your friends & the majority of your acquaintances are younger than yourself.

This is the way to be. That way you don't spend all your later years going to funerals.

Yes, and you should get a good turnout at yours.

Kim · « **Reply #12 on:** 07 October, 2012, 08:20:17 pm »

I have a landline and talk about 'albums'.

IanDG · « **Reply #13 on:** 07 October, 2012, 08:21:41 pm »

My 3rd child starting uni - when I moved to Lewis I had 2 kids in primary and 2 who hadn't started school. I now have 1 with a masters, one working locally, another started a degree and the other is doing her highers.

who knows where the time goes?

rogerzilla · « **Reply #14 on:** 07 October, 2012, 08:23:29 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 07 October, 2012, 07:36:01 pm

I describe someone as "old" and then realise they're younger than me.

I do that, especially for women. She's over 40? Well over the hill! Oh, wait...

Arch · « **Reply #15 on:** 07 October, 2012, 08:35:41 pm »

Everything....

A colleague asked me the other day, as we struggled to unload a wet bag of paper, how old I was.

43, I said.

Blimey, he said, you've got 5 years on me and I'm thinking I'm getting too old for this job...

I'm not the oldest on the recycling team, but only by 3 months. Now I think about it, I'm not sure there's anyone working at St Nicks (as opposed to volunteers) who is older than Jonny and me.

I thought then, that I don't really think of my age, as a figure. I do find that my default 'now' is the 80's. If someone mentions the 60's, I automatically think "20 years ago" and then have to readjust.

docsquid · « **Reply #16 on:** 07 October, 2012, 08:37:51 pm »

Having to work out my age from my date of birth.

Most of my colleagues have now retired.

I remember when milk was delivered to our house. By a horse and cart. Seriously.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #17 on:** 07 October, 2012, 08:39:35 pm »

Quote from: Arch on 07 October, 2012, 08:35:41 pm

I thought then, that I don't really think of my age, as a figure. I do find that my default 'now' is the 80's. If someone mentions the 60's, I automatically think "20 years ago" and then have to readjust.

Yeah, me too. It amazes me that people born in the 80s are old enough to have jobs.

orienteer · « **Reply #18 on:** 07 October, 2012, 08:44:48 pm »

Seeing things in museums I remember being in everyday use. This first happened to me 25 years ago in a computer museum in Boston (US).

Wowbagger · « **Reply #19 on:** 07 October, 2012, 08:46:58 pm »

Knowing that one is old enough to be the father of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. And wishing one's own children would get the chance to show the useless fecker how it's done.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #20 on:** 07 October, 2012, 08:58:12 pm »

I have been working for my current employer since before some of my colleagues were born. Mind you, I am still the most juvenile.

Diver300 · « **Reply #21 on:** 07 October, 2012, 09:07:11 pm »

Realising that I was a company director before some of the colleagues in my new employment were born.

Realising that I have no ~~hope~~ danger of promotion as I am the older than my boss and several people in my department who have been with the company for years.

Basil · « **Reply #22 on:** 07 October, 2012, 09:37:48 pm »

I do play it up a bit though.
I annoy the rest of my family by insisting on calling a 50p coin a "Ten Bob Bit".

Rhys W · « **Reply #23 on:** 07 October, 2012, 09:39:35 pm »

Seeing that some of my classmates are grandparents, and I haven't managed to become a parent yet. $:-\$

Basil · « **Reply #24 on:** 07 October, 2012, 09:44:55 pm »

I am not a grand parent, but I know a grand mother who is young enough to be my daughter.

Author Topic: Things that make you feel old (Read 43516 times)

John Henry

LindaG

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John Henry