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.
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?
You feel older than C. Montgomery Burns :eek:
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.
But…but…you’re the young fella of the Canadopers! :eek:
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.
Yeah, a few lines are to be prized, not feared or shunned.
I graduated high school in June 1986. That’s 25 years ago this month. That makes me certifiably old.
On the plus side, this thread is making me feel pretty young.
When I found out that my kids didn’t know that there was a time when Zombies didn’t eat people.
Or they didn’t remember a time when vampires were scary, not just sexy?
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)
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.
The gentleman in Copenhagen wasn’t me. I don’t look like Paul Newman. Only better 
And thanks for your appreciation.
My partner is 20 years younger than I am . . . and has a lot more gray hair.
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.
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”
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!!!
Bonus points for the Logan’s Run reference. That’s sure to date you!
Class of 1979. And I still think of Logan’s Run as a newer movie.
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.