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.
I just turned 44 yesterday. In the last two years, I had to have cateract surgery and get reading glasses.
Fuck I’m old.
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.
I took my daughter to a vintage sale last weekend. Half the clothes were from the 80’s :-/
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!
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.
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.
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.
Ringo =70
Paul=69 on the 18th
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.
Nice username/post combo. 
And sometimes they look back, and leave you wondering, “Was that young hottie checking me out, or do I have food on my face?”
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.
There are people born on Clinton’s inauguration day who are now parents.
One word: Medicare. Yes, I’m that 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.
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.
Yup, that’s The Breakfast Club.
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: 
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.