# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C.Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/121 "2011-06-11T17:17:59Z")
> [@Sateryn76](#): > > Meeting my kid’s kindergarten teacher. > > She’s, like, 12 years old… I know what you mean! I just went to a high school graduation at my old high school, and there are several teachers that were a few grades below me, and at least one that was in eighth grade when I graduated in 1999! ---
**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, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/122 "2011-06-11T17:33:19Z")
> [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](#): > > I know what you mean! I just went to a high school graduation at my old high school, and there are several teachers that were a few grades below me, and at least one that was in eighth grade when I graduated in 1999! I graduated in '96. This made me feel a little older just now. Funny. ---
**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, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/123 "2011-06-11T18:07:39Z")
> [@](#): > > **My Old Man, 30-40 years ago** : _“You kids these days! Whadaya wear those gr#%@ crotch-grabbin’ pants for?? And you look like a girl!..getta haircut!!”_ > [@](#): > > **Me…recently…to my late-teenage son** : _“You Kids!! whythehell do you wanna shave your head for…you all look like Charlie Brown!! And get some pants that fit, i.e. that don’t ride halfway down your ass!!”_ Some vindication however…last week my nephew (twenty-something and hardly a kid any more), who bought into the shaved-head-and-baggy-pants thing big time, was helping me with some home repairs. He was standing on a ladder, I was on the ground holding said ladder. And his pants really did fall down, right around his ankles. _And he couldn’t let go of the ladder to pull them up!!_ I LOL’d. Funny thing, though…the roof still leaks and he hasn’t been back to finish the repair…d’ya suppose I hurt his feelings? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/124 "2011-06-11T18:55:24Z")
> [@Soliloquy](#): > > I graduated in '96. This made me feel a little older just now. Funny. You feel older than **C. Montgomery Burns** :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 11, 2011, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/125 "2011-06-11T19:21:51Z")
> [@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. I usually refuse but that was really cheap, so I said yes. They all jumped out and started shoveling like madmen. I kept working and one of them said “you can let us do it; we’re young.” Damn, that was harsh. They were done in less than 10 minutes and were on to somebody else’s house. I had the same experience with a young guy who came to my door this winter to shovel my walk. He was done in about 10 minutes, too, and it was all shovelled! No parts missing! I don’t think he even broke a sweat. It usually takes me half an hour or more, and I’m sore afterwards. > [@matt\_mcl](#): > > 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.)\ But…but…you’re the young fella of the Canadopers! :eek: > [@Chanteuse](#): > > 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! 😉 I dunno; I think older ladies look pretty good, too. The lines and stuff add interest to your face. Young girls’ faces are so smooth and blank, they look unfinished. ---
**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 11, 2011, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/126 "2011-06-11T20:34:25Z")
Yeah, a few lines are to be prized, not feared or shunned. ---
**Author:** ![Critical\_Mass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@Critical\_Mass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical_Mass)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/127 "2011-06-11T20:51:47Z")
I graduated high school in June 1986. That’s 25 years ago this month. That makes me certifiably old. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/128 "2011-06-11T21:47:22Z")
On the plus side, this thread is making me feel pretty young. ---
**Author:** ![T.Slothrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@T.Slothrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T.Slothrop)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/129 "2011-06-12T05:57:25Z")
When I found out that my kids didn’t know that there was a time when Zombies didn’t eat people. ---
**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 12, 2011, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/130 "2011-06-12T06:03:05Z")
Or they didn’t remember a time when vampires were scary, not just sexy? ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/131 "2011-06-12T07:39:07Z")
lists like this, cause so much of this stuff applies to me (if you were an adolescent in the 90’s your not old enough to complain about it yet, get off my lawn before i call the police and i don’t care if you never left the sidewalk, im still calling the police) nah, what really did it for me was when I caught myself referring to people as “you punks” (alla you punks that graduated after 1990 im lookin at YOU) ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/132 "2011-06-12T09:04:16Z")
People who were born in the 1950s are now turning 60. Jesus Fucking Christ. ☹ Plus the first time I saw an adding machine as a museum display. ---
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/133 "2011-06-12T14:36:00Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > I recently found out that George Clooney was born the month that I graduated from high school. He’s too _young_ for me! > > \*\* Gymnopithys\*\*, 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. The gentleman in Copenhagen wasn’t me. I don’t look like Paul Newman. Only better 😉 And thanks for your appreciation. ---
**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 12, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/134 "2011-06-12T21:34:01Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > I feel old when I see people that are younger than me with gray hair. My partner is 20 years younger than I am . . . and has a lot more gray hair. ---
**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 12, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/135 "2011-06-12T21:43:05Z")
Anytime there’s been a family get-together, the people in my parents’ generation would invariably sit around discussing their recent surgeries, procedures and medications. But that generation is gradually dying out, and the last time we were together, it was my generation having the exact same conversation. The torch has been passed. ---
**Author:** ![CoffinMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@CoffinMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoffinMan)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/136 "2011-06-12T22:28:26Z")
> [@loshan](#): > > The Big Mac Song (Two all beef patties, etc.). My wife wanted a Quarter Pounder with Secret Sauce. All the kids in the McDrivethrough were perplexed and had no idea what the hell I was talking about. Suddenly I had a flash-back of how my grandfather used to look to us grandkids when he would make a good faith attempt to relate to us kids and say things like “I’m hip to that scene, daddy-o” ---
**Author:** ![CoffinMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@CoffinMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoffinMan)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/137 "2011-06-12T22:30:52Z")
> [@Critical\_Mass](#): > > I graduated high school in June 1986. That’s 25 years ago this month. That makes me certifiably old. My lifeclock stopped blinking red and went to black years ago, it seems. Dude, I was class of 1986 too. We were supposed to be forever young!!! ---
**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 13, 2011, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/138 "2011-06-13T02:23:08Z")
Bonus points for the _Logan’s Run_ reference. That’s sure to date you! ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/139 "2011-06-13T11:32:14Z")
Class of 1979. And I still think of _Logan’s Run_ as a newer movie. ---
**Author:** ![notquitekarpov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@notquitekarpov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notquitekarpov)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/140 "2011-06-13T17:00:35Z")
When everyone in the office was comparing what amount their first pocket money was as kids. When I mentioned mine was 3d (a ‘thriphenny’ bit) there was a mix of WTF and laughter. It was equivalent to one and a quarter new pence in decimal money and was sometime in 1970 I think when I was six. I think the next lowest was about 50p (ten shillings old money). I was the only person there whose first pocket money was pre-decimal - there are two guys in my dept older than me but neither of them were in the bar. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530.md?page=8)