# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/101 "2011-06-09T19:08:17Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > [ol] > [li]Talking about Seinfeld to youngsters today is like when my mom told me about Fibber McGee and Molly on the radio when she was young.[/li] > [li]Oh, and explaining Truman & Potsdam to my kid for his history study and having him ask if I was around then…um, no…[/li][/ol] “Daddy, were you bombed in the war?” “Son, I was so bombed I don’t remember _a thing_.” ---
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/102 "2011-06-09T20:19:14Z")
You kids ain’t seen nothin. Send me a note when you reach 83 🙂 I am 83 :(☹ ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/103 "2011-06-09T20:20:03Z")
So I play bridge. I used to joke that just my entering the room would lower the average age of the players by 40 years. My partner and I would rotate through table to table and every 60-90 year old would exclaim “oh, it’s so nice to see such young people playing bridge! This game needs it.” And slowly those comments started getting less and less frequent. And now it’s been years since I’ve heard that comment at a table. Hi. I’m 34 and apparently even the octogenarians think I’m old. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/104 "2011-06-10T18:18:20Z")
> [@Gymnopithys](#): > > You kids ain’t seen nothin. Send me a note when you reach 83 🙂 > > I am 83 :(☹ So… do you remember James Buchanan being as bad a President as they say? D&R ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/105 "2011-06-10T18:42:36Z")
my coworker is young enough to be my daughter. my oral surgeon is young enough to be my son. i walked up the counter to pay for pumping gas at the local stop n’ rob the other day ago and noticed that the CHILD in the line at the next register beside me was a cop. with a gun. this CHILD didn’t look old enough to shave, let alone carry a glock on his hip!:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/106 "2011-06-10T19:23:55Z")
My memory is for shit. I often think of something I want to add to this thread and then when I get home to my computer I can’t remember what it was… ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/107 "2011-06-10T19:37:10Z")
> [@Gymnopithys](#): > > You kids ain’t seen nothin. Send me a note when you reach 83 🙂 > > I am 83 :(☹ Thanks for being with us and making me feel, not so old, daddio. 23-skidoo! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/108 "2011-06-10T19:43:31Z")
> [@Scubaqueen](#): > > i walked up the counter to pay for pumping gas at the local stop n’ rob the other day ago and noticed that the CHILD in the line at the next register beside me was a cop. > > with a gun. That hasn’t happened to me with cops before, but it has happened with pictures of U.S. soldiers. Half of them look like they’re just girls and boys. ---
**Author:** ![RalfCoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@RalfCoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RalfCoder)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/109 "2011-06-10T19:57:59Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > I am 46. I live in a college town, so I am surrounded by 18 to 22-year-olds. > > …snip… > > I was _totally_ checking him out. > > … more snippage… I hear you, A35. (May I call you by your first name? Thank you…) I am 54, and work on a large campus. I see coeds that are jaw-droppingly good looking. But having a conversation with some of them means I have to consciously put about 30 IQ points into short-term storage in order to not want to brain floss with a hot poker. Some of them couldn’t think their way out of a paper bag. And when I realize that I was much the same way about 30 -35 years ago, I start to feel old… ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/110 "2011-06-10T21:47:22Z")
> [@loshan](#): > > 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. To use the elevator where I work, on the upper or middle stop, you must use an access card to get on. To get on at the lower, ground floor level, no card is needed. So delivery guys can get in on their own, and come up to the next level, but to get back on we have to card them in. I joke to one young delivery guy and said “Welcome to the Hotel California” He didn’t get the reference. For you youngun’s 'You can check in any time you like/But you can never leave" The bishop of our diocese(state of Kansas, Episcopal) is younger than me. The POTUS is younger than me. And I find myself talking about when things were cheaper. Ack, I’m turning into my parents!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/111 "2011-06-10T22:39:14Z")
I feel old when I see people that are younger than me with gray hair. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/112 "2011-06-11T07:43:58Z")
I recently found out that George Clooney was born the month that I graduated from high school. He’s too _young_ for me! \*\* Gymnopithy\*\*, you are just now getting _interesting_… When I was in my late twenties in 1972, I met a fascinating gentleman in his early seventies when I was in Copenhagan. We spent a lovely day together before I saw him off at the train station. I’ve thought of him often through the years. I think I owed him the last letter. In my mind he has come to look more and more like Paul Newman. Funny how those things work out. Now I would be only two or three years younger than he. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/113 "2011-06-11T13:20:28Z")
Shoes. I look at all these cute shoes and I can’t buy them because I can’t walk in them. I never could walk in them, but now I’m too sensible to buy shoes I’ll wear only once. > [@Sigmagirl](#): > > This winter my husband was out of town and I was shoveling my driveway. A car full of young men pulled up and one asked if I’d pay them $20 to do the drive and walk. … They were done in less than 10 minutes and were on to somebody else’s house. That’s worth feeling old for. > [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](#): > > It’s not so much the gray that bothers me, it’s the texture of these hairs. My grays come in harsh and wiry but turn silver and silky - something to look forward to as you get older. > [@Ludovic](#): > > That hasn’t happened to me with cops before, but it has happened with pictures of U.S. soldiers. Half of them look like they’re just girls and boys. They are. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/114 "2011-06-11T14:34:32Z")
> [@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. Well NOW I feel old! What, was Judd Nelson trying to look like my Economics teacher from back in the mid-80s? ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/115 "2011-06-11T14:57:50Z")
- Hugh Laurie is too young for me! - At my high school reunion, my classmates looked pretty well-worn and middle aged, what a shame, when I myself haven’t changed a bit! - Went to a rowdy downtown club a few years back - metal band, mosh pit, crowd surfing. I shouted to my bartender friend, do these kids’ parents know what they’re up to? and he shouted back, “oh, they’re all doctors from the hospital up the hill, they come here most weekends.” :eek: They didn’t look old enough to drive, much less perform a tracheotomy! ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/116 "2011-06-11T15:23:38Z")
Nineteen of Canada’s 308 members of Parliament are younger than I am. (Admittedly we just elected the youngest House in history, but there you are.) What also freaked me out was realizing that Mylène Farmer’s _L’autre_ and Tori Amos’ _Little Earthquakes_, two albums that defined my adolescence, were released in 1991 and 1992, respectively. God_damn._ ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/117 "2011-06-11T15:52:11Z")
> [@what\_do\_I\_type\_here](#): > > In _Back to the Future_, which I do not consider to be an “old” movie, Marty McFly goes back in time 30 years and ends up in 1955. > > If that film were remade today, he would end up in 1981. I think this made me feel older than anything else I’ve read here! As far as older men looking sexy, I couldn’t agree more. I think George Strait is better looking now than he was in his youth. Robert Duvall definitely improved with age, as did Sean Connery. The years have been MORE than kind to Anthony Michael Hall. That’s a list that could go on and on. Unfortunately, it seems to be the opposite for us ladies (unless you’re a freak of nature like Sophia Loren, who apparently stopped aging). We don’t get rugged, we just get wrinkled. I used to think this was totally unfair until one day my sister pointed out that at least WE get to be seen with these hot rugged guys, while they have to be seen with us saggy, baggy old ladies! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/118 "2011-06-11T16:23:47Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > I don’t remember if I’ve told this story before, but… Things that make me feel old…=Telling the same story to the same people, not remembering that I’ ve told it a dozen times before 😃 SS ---
**Author:** ![Soliloquy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@Soliloquy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soliloquy)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/119 "2011-06-11T16:57:31Z")
A couple of years ago my girlfriend and I were shopping at a cell phone counter, and she was flirting with the clerk, whom we mistakenly assumed to be our age. She made the “Open, open, open” reference from the old Mervyn’s commercials and got _blankface_ back. I’m one of those people who turned into a grumpy oldster long before I should have. I don’t want kids on my lawn or people at my door. I don’t understand children or the parents who raise them and let them get away with stuff. I hang out with people old enough to be my parents because I have more in common with them than I do people my own age (for the most part). When I started my job, I was the youngest person doing it. A few years ago, people finally stopped saying “Oh, you’re just a baby!” when they asked my age. Now, I say that to some of my partners, and I totally understand why people said it to me. Life experience is everything. I just want to pinch some of these kids on the cheeks, pat their heads, and tell my more mature partners to make sure they’re the ones running to help when I need it. My son is only 2. I keep realizing that he won’t know what Smurfs or Snorks are. My dad’s truck had an 8-track in it when I was a kid, but he will probably never even see one. He likely won’t see a VCR. Instead of asking for a tv in his room, like I used to, he’ll ask for one in the car. Same with phone/cell phone. So weird. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/120 "2011-06-11T17:12:26Z")
> [@SeldomSeen](#): > > Things that make me feel old…=Telling the same story to the same people, not remembering that I’ ve told it a dozen times before 😃 > SS Not me; I’ve done that my whole life. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530.md?page=7)