# Things that make you feel old **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 6, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530 "2011-06-06T18:51:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/21 "2011-06-06T20:26:20Z")
When your daughter and her friends are talking about classic rock… referring to Green Day’s _Dookie_. That’s not “classic”, that’s a few years ago, dammit. ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/22 "2011-06-06T20:36:50Z")
I just turned 44 yesterday. In the last two years, I had to have cateract surgery and get reading glasses. Fuck I’m old. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/23 "2011-06-06T20:38:18Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > That’s not “classic”, that’s a few years ago, dammit. Anything after _Beat It_ is noise that the kids today are listening to. On my lawn. ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/24 "2011-06-06T20:39:32Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Anything after _Beat It_ is noise that the kids today are listening to. On my lawn. I’m planning to build a geobubble just so kids can’t be on my lawn. ---
**Author:** ![kbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kbear)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/25 "2011-06-06T20:40:26Z")
I took my daughter to a vintage sale last weekend. Half the clothes were from the 80’s :-/ ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/26 "2011-06-06T20:41:20Z")
I am 46. I live in a college town, so I am surrounded by 18 to 22-year-olds. A few months ago I went to a play on campus. The cast was made up of entirely freshmen. I saw a young actor, tall, handsome, beautiful voice. I was _totally_ checking him out. Then I realized he couldn’t be more than 19 years old! Ewwww! _I’m old enough to be his mother!_ I mean I was _totally_ checking him out. Wuff! ---
**Author:** ![loshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce73a5/32.png) [@loshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/loshan)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/27 "2011-06-06T20:51:17Z")
When I realized that the SO’s 27 yo nephew didn’t know the following: The Big Mac Song (Two all beef patties, etc.). Didn’t know who “Mary Ann and Ginger” were. Had no idea what I was talking about when I said, “Calgon, take me away.” I guess having full grown adults who don’t get your cultural references makes me feel old. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/28 "2011-06-06T20:51:22Z")
One of my co-workers doesn’t know who Rupaul is. I don’t know why, but that did it for me. I know the MTV generation\* is done and over with. But he didn’t even know some of the famous people from that era. After Rupaul, I asked him about a few other people. I practically fell over when I realized he had no idea whatsoever who the Dire Straits were…and he’s only 8 years younger then me. By MTV generation, I’m talking about back when they played videos…and Rupaul was all over the place. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/29 "2011-06-06T20:55:30Z")
Seeing horrid boy bands like New Kids On The Block going back on tour as a nostalgia act after having mocked them as being for little kids back in their first incarnation. Watching them knock down buildings that you remember them putting up in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![osme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/df788c/32.png) [@osme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/osme)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/30 "2011-06-06T20:58:08Z")
Ringo =70 Paul=69 on the 18th ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/31 "2011-06-06T20:59:39Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I practically fell over when I realized he had no idea whatsoever who the Dire Straits were…and he’s only 8 years younger then me. I remember asking someone just 10 years younger than me if he knew the song _Stairway to Heaven_, and he didn’t. Then again, I was 18 and he was 8. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/32 "2011-06-06T21:22:20Z")
> [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](#): > > I am 36 and had a tennis match against an 18 year old the other day. During one of the changeovers I was thinking about how I was old enough to be his father. That depressed me. Then he kicked my ass and that depressed me even more. It was like losing to a younger, fresher version of myself. Nice username/post combo. 😃 > [@a35362](#): > > I am 46. I live in a college town, so I am surrounded by 18 to 22-year-olds. > > A few months ago I went to a play on campus. The cast was made up of entirely freshmen. I saw a young actor, tall, handsome, beautiful voice. I was _totally_ checking him out. Then I realized he couldn’t be more than 19 years old! Ewwww! _I’m old enough to be his mother!_ > > I mean I was _totally_ checking him out. Wuff! And sometimes they look back, and leave you wondering, “Was that young hottie checking me out, or do I have food on my face?” ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/33 "2011-06-06T21:28:29Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > Watching them knock down buildings that you remember them putting up in the first place. They put a parking lot on a piece of land When the supermarket used to stand. Before that they put up a bowling alley On the site that used to be the local palais. --Ray Davies Back on topic – when you realize there are kids graduating from college today who have no memory of there not being an Internet. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/34 "2011-06-06T21:34:39Z")
There are people born on Clinton’s inauguration day who are now parents. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/35 "2011-06-06T22:25:09Z")
One word: Medicare. Yes, I’m that old. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/36 "2011-06-06T22:31:51Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > I just turned 44 yesterday. In the last two years, I had to have cateract surgery and get reading glasses. > > Fuck I’m old. We’re still younger than Obama, gosh darn it! I started receiving AARP newsletters a few years ago..isn’t 40 a little young? WTF. It’s not like anyone our age is going to be able to retire. Like, EVER, at this rate. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/37 "2011-06-06T22:33:00Z")
The first was Lunch Money, a children’s band with a TMBG-like alternative sound, which I bought without even having any children. It was a symbol that people of my age were having children. Then, a couple years later I found out about Justin Roberts, a children’s musician who uses a 2000’s pop punk sound, (and I also own stuff from him because I out and out like the sound.) So people from the generation after mine\* are now having children. \*Dont get me wrong, I like 2000’s pop punk/emo the best, as it comes closest to breaking Sturgeon’s Law in that only about 50-60% of it is crap, but I won’t kid myself that most of its fans are 37 like me. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/38 "2011-06-06T22:41:44Z")
[This photo.](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/lifeline-live/2010/09/22/bfkastclubx-large.jpg&imgrefurl=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2010/09/breakfast-club-gang-reunites-in-honor-of-john-hughes/1&usg=__5OPSLxLKr68ofj3YdW7dsoyFAco=&h=430&w=490&sz=28&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=3jSvi8Gg0HhhZM:&tbnh=129&tbnw=172&ei=31btTfz0PIigsQOPpMC3Aw&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dbreakfast%2Bclub%2Btoday%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D852%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=534&page=1&ndsp=32&ved=1t:429,r:30,s:0&tx=108&ty=49&biw=1280&bih=852) Yup, that’s The Breakfast Club. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/39 "2011-06-06T22:43:12Z")
I don’t remember if I’ve told this story before, but… Several months ago, I stopped at the Subway near my house to eat lunch. Three very pretty (very!) young ladies came in behind me. I got my sandwich, grabbed a booth and settled in with my book. They took the booth next to me. I wasn’t overtly eavesdropping, but I couldn’t help but overhear their conversation while I alternated between reading and mildly leching after them. Their conversation got around to birthdays and ages, and the hammer dropped. I was older than all three of them added together. :eek: ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/40 "2011-06-06T22:49:02Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > [This photo.](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/lifeline-live/2010/09/22/bfkastclubx-large.jpg&imgrefurl=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2010/09/breakfast-club-gang-reunites-in-honor-of-john-hughes/1&usg=__5OPSLxLKr68ofj3YdW7dsoyFAco=&h=430&w=490&sz=28&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=3jSvi8Gg0HhhZM:&tbnh=129&tbnw=172&ei=31btTfz0PIigsQOPpMC3Aw&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dbreakfast%2Bclub%2Btoday%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D852%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=534&page=1&ndsp=32&ved=1t:429,r:30,s:0&tx=108&ty=49&biw=1280&bih=852) > > Yup, that’s The Breakfast Club. If Judd Nelson had taken the Grandpa glasses off, I would have said, “Whoo, that’s a good-looking bunch of people!” Yeah, they’re all around my age. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530.md?page=3)