# Stark reminders that you are getting old **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 30, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stark-reminders-that-you-are-getting-old/257632 "2004-07-30T19:38:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2004, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stark-reminders-that-you-are-getting-old/257632/81 "2004-08-03T16:33:05Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > “Smells like Teen Spirit” > > NIRVANA IS OLDIES??? WTF??? There is **no way** that Nirvana is Oldies. I don’t even consider it retro! At least not until 2012. I would put it into the Oldies catagory in at least in the 2030s. It’ll be a “Classic” in the 2020s, and “Oldies” in 2030s. That’s just my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![JackPoint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/278dde/32.png) [@JackPoint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackPoint)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2004, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stark-reminders-that-you-are-getting-old/257632/82 "2004-08-03T16:58:47Z")
I tend to calculate the years when things happened by the year I started teaching school. I recently realized that was more years ago than my age at the time. A guy I have been friends with since I was 14 retired last year. A few things I remember that really make me feel old: Our house was unusual because it had 2 phones. Not two phone lines, two phones, one in the basement and one in the kitchen. My great aunt Edith had what would have been a rotary phone, but it didn’t have a dial on it. You picked it up and an operator said “Number Please.” Color TV was a new concept when I was a kid. My brother miraculously escaped serious injury in a car accident when his head hit the windshield. Almost no cars had seatbelts. More recently, my first computer’s memory could be expanded to a whopping 48k. I couldn’t imagine how I would ever use that much space. I will be 50 next year and I’m still trying to decide what to do when I grow up. ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2004, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stark-reminders-that-you-are-getting-old/257632/83 "2004-08-03T17:48:51Z")
> [@SHAKES](#): > > The other day I went to pick my son up from his mothers house. He leaves the house from the garage entrance. Since I don’t have a remote; what he has to do is push the button then run underneath the door before it closes. > > He does this and as soon as he gets in the car I tell him “Way to go there Indiana Jones!” to which he replies: 😕 “Who’s Indiana Jones?” 😕 You do understand your duty to educate this boy and give him a proper cultural background, right? “Who’s Indiana Jones” indeed. My reminders? My nephews, whose diapers I personally changed on many occasions, are now old enough for ol’ Uncle Kilty to buy them both a beer. The older one is engaged to be married now. College kids call me “sir”. I’m the same age as my doctor. ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stark-reminders-that-you-are-getting-old/257632/84 "2004-08-03T19:06:47Z")
Forgot to mention - in October I’ll reach the ripe old age of 33… ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2004, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stark-reminders-that-you-are-getting-old/257632/85 "2004-08-03T19:08:30Z")
My friend had an old moment a while back. She was 31 at the time, shopping with her three young boys (oldest was 6) at Target. To decorate the music section, they’d suspended 45s from the ceiling. Her oldest looked up at her and said, “Mommy, what are those?” I felt funny when I went back to my hometown a handful of years after graduating from high school and I no longer recognized the kids behind the counter at the grocery store and Dairy Queen. I felt old when I went back recently and not only did I not recognize them, I thought to myself how young they looked. It feels strange when I think about how some high school classmates of mine have kids nearly as old as next year’s 10 year reunion (some older!) - and I have no plans to have any in the foreseeable future. Time flies. ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stark-reminders-that-you-are-getting-old/257632/86 "2004-08-03T19:44:04Z")
> [@zamboniracer](#): > > Back in 1995 after a Cleveland Indians game my friends, John and Paul, and I went to Hooters for some beers and some relatively inexpensive girl watching. John is a very good looking guy who was home on leave from the USAF and the girls there just flocked around him. Paul and I tried our best to get some flirting in edgewise but it was clear none of the girls were even going to pretend to have any interest in either of us and so we took it in stride. However, one of the lovelies said to me that I’d be perfect for her mother. > > When a Hooters Girl offers to fix you up with her mother you are by definition old. And just think, that was almost 10 years ago! So what are you now, ten years after “old”? 😉 Mine came when I realized that most of the kids I work with drive themselves to work, and they were born in _ **1988** _. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2004, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stark-reminders-that-you-are-getting-old/257632/87 "2004-08-03T19:59:57Z")
> [@Bambi Hassenpfeffer](#): > > And just think, that was almost 10 years ago! So what are you now, ten years after “old”? 😉 > > Mine came when I realized that most of the kids I work with drive themselves to work, and they were born in _ **1988** _. Oops, I forgot that detail, didn’t I? I was 34 at the time. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2004, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stark-reminders-that-you-are-getting-old/257632/88 "2004-08-03T20:15:24Z")
Time alone will tell. All you need to do is wait for it. It also doesn’t help when people with your birthday graduated high school in 1983 and talk of “old.” Or when you get a photo from your high school[Homecoming Queen](http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/dwsimm2000/detail?.dir=/8cf7&.dnm=d07c.jpg) and go back to your yearbook. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stark-reminders-that-you-are-getting-old/257632.md?page=4)