You walk into the local pizza place and realize you have changed the diapers of each and every one of the crew.
You go to have icecream later and are greeted with “Hi, Teacher Cyn!” by both of the teenagers working the counter.
When the last two Presidents and a couple guys on the US Supreme Court are younger than you are.
I hate to admit it, but the first time I ever felt “old” was 17 years ago (I was a mere 25)…
I was at a party. I lit a joint and passed it to the girl next to me (she was about 17). She sneered and said “Eewwww, pot. My parents smoke pot.”
I guess the thing that’s hit me most recently is the fact that several women who I find sexually attractive are grandmothers. (Yeah, I know this is Tennessee, but still…)
growing old Peacefully,
TN*hippie
…when you go on Amazon.com soley to purchase two Smooth Jazz CDs. (Did that just tonight.)
Yep folks, techchick has almost abandoned her Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and the like for smooth jazz. Almost but not completely.
…Your social security number is 2…
All your former favorite sports team players, are now your current favorite sports team coaches, managers, and owners…
Your nephew asks you how to use a dial phone - or what a record player is…
You remember, (or still use) TV’s with no remote control…
You know who “ABBA” is… shudder
when you get tickets to a concert. the same guy you saw at your first concert where you could drink beer. and then the star falls and breaks his HIP!
when your son’s school has a “hippy day” costume contest and he wins first prize wearing your old clothes.
when you go to see a movie (shrek) and they quote an old song (i FORGOT which one) and your the only one in the audience who gets the joke and then your kid puts his hand over your mouth because your the only one laughing.
The day I realiazed how old I was getting was when I dropped the soap in the shower. Rather than simply picking it, I realized that I was actually forming a strategy to retrieve it(Now, If I put my hand on the soap holder, I can lower my self enough to put my knee on the edge of the tub…).
I *owned *a Datsun - it was my first brand-new car…
Last night, I was having a random chat on ICQ with a man who’s a little older than I am - we were discussing all the cool stuff you get when you join AARP… I can join in 2004…
<sigh>
I first realized it while talking to a (married) co-worker. She mentioned that it was her mothers birthday, and she’s actually YOUNGER than me.
Two things that recently happened to me:
When someone mentions a rapper named Nelly, and you say “I don’t know her.” (Nelly is a guy.) Huge laugh.
When your friends’ children call for information on the “new” musical video they just saw of Jesus Christ Superstar. SIGH. I’ve discovered that telling them there’s two Spanish (Spain & Mexico) CDS of the show makes their jaws drop. Oh well, I figure it doesn’t hurt a new generation to get into musical theatre.
yeeeeee, I know who ABBA is,
they where my idols back then.
And I don’t feel old…
You know your’e getting old when:
You’re stop having sex.
You can remember having to walk out past the chicken coop in the dark carrying a lantern to use the outhouse.
I quit the AARP last year. Their election coverage pissed me off.
Thank the odd gods of the galaxy I’m not that old yet!
. . . the kids you baby sat for get married, and have kids of their own.
. . . when you remember that MAD magazine was $0.40 an issue, and CRACKED was the only competition that MAD had.
. . . when your first bicycle had a banana seat.
. . . when you remember that KISS was popular.
. . . when Valarie Bertanelli was young and pretty and wore tight jeans. (She’s still pretty, but the effect is not the same.)
. . . when you can remember who Fonzie was, and that he wore a cloth coat in the first season of Happy Days.
. . . when you could stay up late to watch “Medical Center.”
. . . when you can remember the Orioles’ pennant winning lineups from 1969 - 1971, but you can’t name more than two members of the current team (and once more, you don’t care!)
You say to younger cousins/friends/people you know “When I had [insert item] it didn’t have/do [insert what it didn’t have or do that it does now]”
Actually… I’m only 18 and I have already said this. Freaked me right out.
Hmm what else?
I actually remember records (still have mine though my record player doesn’t work anymore :(), there is a rotary phone attached to my computer… we have a cordless upstairs. I love ABBA… oh yah
You see advertisments for Bjorn Again which is a band that covers ABBA and tours all over doing so.
Cousins you last saw as tweens are graduating from high school and going to University.
Dear god, I had another one today:
I was at a seminar and I was Very Happy that they gave us -
the dreaded
indelible marker of Middle Age and Beyond—
[gasp!]
the canvas tote bag!
And I know I’ll use the damn thing. And that I was thinking that one of those would be damn handy for my library books, for a couple of extra things for the beach, for lunch…
[sub]I feel so…ashamed[/sub]
When I started smoking, premium brand cigarettes were 50 cents a pack and you could smoke anywhere-- including in hospitals.
Also, mediocre weed was $15 an ounce. Super-primo killer dope was $30 an ounce. I remember being outraged when it went up to $35.
Peace,
TN*hippie
When you look at the year book from your freshman year in HS and realize that you’re now older than all of those big, scary seniors at the time those pictures were taken.
I’m only in college, but I look at those and just think, “there’s no way I’m older then they were at that time,” but I am. I hate to think how I’m going to handle it when kids that were born in the 90’s start going to high school.
I’m sorry, could you repeat that?
Or cousins you held when they were infants are graduating from college and come to you for job hunting advice.