I had my first feel old moment two years ago when I was student teaching a class of high school sophomores. Out of the blue one day I realized that these kids did not remember the Challenger explosion because they were either infants or embryos. I was in kindergarten when that happened. I had just turned six.
I just made someone else feel old, didn’t I? Sorry. I remember the Challenger explosion very vividly if that helps.
They don’t know MONTY PYTHON!?! :eek: These children have had insufficient education! I blame standardized testing and No Child Left Behind. When children don’t know about Monty Python, every child is being left behind.
grumbles Why in MY day, we talked my Latin teacher into showing us all of “Life of Brian” IN CLASS instead of just the “Romans go home” scene. And that was in 1997!
LUXURY!
When I was a wee child, we didn’t get so much as “How Not To Be Seen” in school! They made us watch “Are You Being Served?” as a study in British culture! Tell that to these children today and they won’t believe you…
I was just reminiscing episodes of Sea Hunt, where the special effect was to shake the camera to make it look like a giant octopus was hanging on the ship.
I got an invitation to join AARP a few years ago when I was in my mid twenties. I figured they’d just found a way to evaluate my old fart state of mind. 
Looking back, I really wish I’d filled the thing out and sent it in. Just to see what their response would have been. I’d be bummed to know that I could have been getting the senior discount all these years.
I had one of those moments earlier today, mixed with a eeewww I’m feeling like a dirty old man, moment.
I was at a store waiting in line and heard two clerks casually talking. One was a little older than me and the other younger. However, since both were in their work attire, it was kinda hard judging from fashion the exact age, which otherwise tend to clue me in.
I was checking out the younger girl, who’s kinda cute with a really friendly face. Of course, I knew I had to be at least ten years her senior,but I can still look, can’t I.
Their conversation drifted to plans for the weekend and Younger Girl said she was happy this was her weekend off, since she was gonna celebrate her dad’s birthday. He turns 50.
I’m 43.
:eek:
I was adopted at a late age, 11, by a couple who were 23 at the time. Of course to an 11yr old, 23 is ancient! I remember teasing them that I would put them in an old folks home!! Of course now im 34 and they are in their late 40’s, and it has occured to me that if I do put them in a home, I better make sure a bed is next to them since I wont be far behind!
The other day I visited my “mom” at the hospital and one of the nurses asked if i was her husband!!! ACKKKKKKK!!!
The look on her face was priceless tho when I said “no, im her son”. No I dont look that old, but my mom looks great.
Just today I had my Officially Old moment.
I tuned in to the local classic rock station at work. They played “Back in Black”. They played “Sweet Home Alabama”. They played “Break On Through”. And they played…“Betterman”.
The Pearl Jam song.
The Pearl Jam song that appears on their third album, so it’s not like it was even their earliest work! Vitalogy only came out in 1994, and that was just…
Ten years ago.
It’s not that I didn’t think this day would come. No, when I was a young lass I predicted that someday my favorite new group, Pearl Jam, would be featued on classic rock radio stations. And I knew that when this happened, it would be a clear and unmistakable sign that I had become old.
Today, my friends, I am old.
When I was 19, Mrs. Cardinal got an invitation to join AARP, with the sample membership card. I put it up in my college dorm window for display. If only they’d put the first name, it would have helped me a lot…
I like both of those remakes, despite being OTD (older than dirt :D), as well as the originals.
My old moment came the day my son asked me about a box of “big CDs” he found at my dad’s house.
“Big CDs,” I repeated blankly.
“You know, the big CDs! Grandpa said they were yours; there was, like, something called “Shirley and Squirrely” or something.”
At that point I realized he had found a box of old LPs.
Heheheheheheheheeee…
Hello, Shirley!
This here’s Squirrelly!
It’s got squirrels! And CB slang! How can one not love it?
This reminds me of the time when I heard the local “new rock” station refer to Nirvana as “old school.” If by “old school” they meant “better than the crap that’s being recorded today,” I agree. If they meant “old” then I guess I need those AARP memberships everyone else is getting.
Crap. I remember who my date was, the night we sat up and watched the moon landing. (Her name was Carla, my first love).
Crap.
I’m 31, and my “I feel old” moment came a couple of months ago when I started going to a new place to get my hair cut. The little cutie-pants who cuts my hair and I were talking about Halloween, and she confessed that she’d gone trick-or-treating as late as high school. Jokingly, I asked “which was what, last year?” and she huffily replied “No! It was like three years ago!”
I then realized that if she thought being three years out of high school was a long time, the fact that I’d been out of high school for 13 years that and she was just finishing second grade when I graduated, made me, by definition, ancient.
Kids today, I tell you! When we were young, we didn’t try to make our elders feel old!
I hate to break this to you but I heard Pearl Jam being played on a classic rock station over a year ago. So, you were officially old then. You just didn’t get the news until a few days ago.
If the music is too loud… you’re too old.
What if the music that’s too loud is Britney Spears?
Oooh, oooh, can I point out that that the moon landing was 17 years before I was born? It was only 14 years before my sister was born (almost to the day, actually), and she just turned 21 this summer?
Sorry. I just…had to.
glares You’re first against the wall when the Silverhaired Revolution rises, missy…