Yikes! Me, too.
When I first started teaching as a second career, I calculated that there was more of a difference between when my students were born and 9-11 than me and the start of WWII, but I never thought about WWI.
Me, three! Why did you inspire me to do that calculation?!
I remember when Star Trek: The Next Generation premiered, and all of us old-school Trek fans were upset that the new Enterprise had an “old man” in charge, and there was an annoying little kid on the ship.
That annoying little kid is now 7 years older than that old man was when TNG premiered.
When I read this, I thought you said WWII, and I thought, So what? Isn’t everyone here?
Then I realized it was WWI, and I did the calculations, and it’s true for me, too! I turn 71 in October.
Dayum!
I just applied for Social Security today. I feel ancient now.
When I was a kid, and I became aware that there was this thing called World War Two that ended in 1945, I did the arithmetic and worked out that that was twenty years ago. In other words, Ancient History, almost the stone age.
Unless I’m misunderstanding something about the calculation everyone’s talking about.
I’m 68 born in 1958. My age counting backwards before my birth is 1890(!). World War One (The Great War) was 25 years more recent than that. The Russo-Japanese war was 15 years more recent than that.
Per 1890 - Wikipedia many things happened. The USA expanded from 42 to 44 states when Idaho & Wyoming joined. And the Wounded Knee massacre happened.
No, it was me misunderstanding. 
Just saw this online.
I’m old enough to recognize all these people and old enough to be shocked by how young they were back then.
Yes, but it’s easy for an actor to look older if they’re playing an old character.
Also, was Alice from the Brady Bunch supposed to be old?
I don’t recognize a single one.
But that, unfortunately, does not make me young.
When i was a kid watching the show, all of the adults were old.
Well, she wasn’t supposed to be young. Between the hairstyle, the touch of gray in her hair, and the laugh lines on her face, I always assumed she was intended to be, at least, more than a few years older than Mike and Carol, but not necessarily old enough to be in the generation of the kids’ grandparents.
Yeah, it mostly makes you not someone who watched TV in the U.S. in the '70s and '80s.
First row: Redd Foxx (Sanford and Son), Carroll O’Connor (All in the Family), Wilford Brimley (Cocoon, which was a movie, not a TV show), Norman Fell (Three’s Company)
Second row: Polly Holliday (Alice), Ann B. Davis (The Brady Bunch), Jean Stapleton (All in the Family), Rue McClanahan (The Golden Girls)
For the most part, those actors were playing working-class characters, so perhaps more worn down than the glamorous types on the nighttime soap operas.
Speaking of grocery shopping … well, yes, thank you for asking, I was speaking of grocery shopping way back earlier in this thread! And every time I do it lately, I get so exhausted and overheated that I wonder how much longer I can keep it up. And hauling all the stuff into the house and putting it all away just adds to the burden. I literally have to stop and sit on the sofa arm and sip a bottle of water before I can finish the job.
As for mowing the lawn and outdoorsy stuff like that, fuggetaboutit. I’ve been getting someone to do that for several years now, and snowplowing even longer than that.
I do not need a big three-bedroom three-bathroom house with a finished basement just for myself. It’s time to think in terms of a retirement home, not necessarily with assisted living but maybe with meal service so that my own groceries are really just for snacking. I’m very jealous of @ThelmaLou who ended up in just such a place. For me at this point, moving is going to be a huge chore, very little of which I’ll be able to do myself.
Moving is definitely an ordeal. And what you want is independent living like I have, not assisted living. Assisted living is where caregivers help you bathe and dress and stuff like that. You’re not ready for that. But once you land in an independent apartment like I have where meals are available and somebody else deals with the yard work and anything that’s broken you call management and they fix it, then you are home free. Getting there is like crawling across the Rocky mountains on your knees in a blizzard, but it can be done.
And you absolutely do not want to move yourself. In fact if you do some research you will probably find a moving company that specializes in moving old people from their big-ish houses into smaller apartments. This is an actual industry now because there are so many of us old people. And yeah you will have to pay for it and I don’t know where you live but where I live it was about $3,000. The company packed everything moved it and I unpacked it. Anyway start researching it very casually pretending that you’re just browsing aimlessly and see what you come up with.
@Chefguy is in a similar residence with his wife. Maybe he will chime in here and give you some sage advice.
And by the way around here you can get your groceries delivered and some people do. Good old HEB.
Thank you so much for your feedback on this, @ThelmaLou. Yeah, I’m familiar with full-service movers as they were involved in a corporate inter-city transfer back in my younger days. They were amazingly efficient at packing up everything but – as you suggest – fairly useless at unpacking because it was pretty much easier to do it all yourself, since you had to tell everyone where every little thing had to go, and often you weren’t even sure yourself. It was easier to just tell them to go away and deal with the unpacking slowly and methodically by yourself.
One of my big problems is the huge amount of crap in the basement. Some of it is furniture that may even be valuable, some of it maybe not, and lots and lots of boxes of stuff of variable quality. There’s a beautiful silverware set that was gifted to us on our wedding, some gorgeous chinaware that I may never use, and on and on … 
Those haircuts make them look much older.
I feel for you, my friend. Twice I have just walked away from half a house-full of stuff.
Some of it-- books, for instance-- I’ve never really gotten over.
And to follow up on that, as a Gen-Xer growing up watching those shows, I think people just seemed and acted “older” back in those days. Like you got married relatively young, had some kids, and you basically stayed that way forever no matter what. If you happened to find yourself single in your 40s or older (as I believe Alice was) that was sort of viewed as a sad and undesirable situation to be in.
These days a lot more people are marrying later or getting divorced. And I think (at least my generation) prefer to not just sit around watching TV until they die.