Back before Ep.1 came out, the original Star War Trilogy had just been re-released and my buddy and I were watching together. Later we were talking about it when his wife and a friend were in the room.
Wife’s Friend: I don’t know what you guys are talking about, I’ve never seen Star Wars.
Buddy: How can you have grown up without ever seeing Star Wars?
WF: It came out before I was born.
Buddy and Me: [look at each other for a moment] GET OFF OUR LAWN!
I had another old age moment that I’ve mentioned a few times already in these sorts of threads, so I won’t repeat it. Basically, there’s a point where “thinking below the waist” comes to mean regularity rather than libido.
Not ‘old’, but I felt a wierd pang many years ago when I saw *The Breakfast Club * and realized I’d never be in detention again. Kind of a ‘passing of an age’ for me.
I knew I was getting old when… a friend of my nephew noticed an 8-track cartridge and asked, “What’s this? A video game?”
Another oldie moment I had was when a younger co-worker, who liked Andy Griffith reruns, didn’t believe me when I told him Gomer Pyle later had his own show in which he had joined the Marines!
For me, it was realizing that someone I used to babysit was old enough to drive. Also when my little sister got married–it’s still weird to me that someone born after 1980 is old enough to be married.
I turned 33 in 2001. That wasn’t a big deal, but I did reflect that my existance so far had spanned five historical decades. Late 60s, then the 70s, 80s, 90s and now (at that time) early 00s.
Listening to the police scanner with my husband, and the cops reading off a DOB for someone they’d arrested who was born after I graduated high school.
When I was in grad school, I used to commute in on my ten-speed road bike. Eventually I realized that the bike (which I bought new) was older than the incoming students.
When I was talking to friends about times we shared growing up (I’m 37, fwiw), and we all noticed about the same time that we were casually dropping phrases like “about 20 years ago”.
Also, when I refer to fast food chains that no longer exist. Jack in the Box (no longer in IL), Big Boy, and others.
When I learned that Billy Joel’s current wife was born (1981) after I had bought some of his hit albums, such as The Stranger (1977), 52nd Street (1978), and Glass Houses (1980).
In fact, she was an infant when he was dating Christie Brinkley.
Eesh. I’m 39 and still trying to decide whether to become a father, let alone a grandfather.
This summer I’ve felt old thanks to a statistics class I’m taking at the local university. It’s the first math class I’ve had since I took calculus in my first quarter of college, in 1985. Most of my current classmates are 19-21 years old, which means my calculus grade is older than they are.
) to one of the younger staff at work.