# You know you're old when... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 3, 2017, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-old-when/800611 "2017-11-03T17:49:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-old-when/800611/61 "2017-11-07T17:39:30Z")
I’ve said this one before, but… if you now re-watch “The Breakfast Club” and your favorite part is where Paul Gleeson promises to beat the snot out of Judd Nelson… yeah, you’re old! ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-old-when/800611/62 "2017-11-07T18:46:49Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I’ve shared this one before on the board. > > A couple of years ago, I was eating dinner at a fast-food restaurant, when a group of teenaged kids came in. They were probably age 15 or so, and in the group was a couple, who were walking hand in hand – the girl was wearing a Bob Marley t-shirt, and the boy was wearing a Led Zeppelin t-shirt. > > My first thought was “That’s cool, they like old-school music.” And, then, I thought about it. They were both wearing t-shirts for acts which had had their heyday about 35 years earlier (i.e., the late 1970s), and acts which I had been listening to at their age. > > But, the real kick in the gut was realizing that, if, in 1980, when I was their age, I had been wearing a t-shirt for a music act that had been popular 35 years earlier, I would have been wearing a Benny Goodman or Glenn Miller t-shirt. :eek: This. And allow me to plug in some numbers. Many classic rock radio stations play 80s songs. I get the same thing with the background music in many stores I patronize. Let’s just say that a large number of those songs are from 35 years ago. The equivalent would be if I had been listening to songs from 1930 instead of The Beatles back in 1965. That’s hard for me to comprehend. ---
**Author:** ![rbroome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-old-when/800611/63 "2017-11-08T03:07:27Z")
I was amused when an elderly man in the locker room at the gym I go to commented that at his age he misses the days he could stand on one leg and put on his pants without falling over. I smiled and agreed-I was leaning against the locker to put on my pants. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-old-when/800611/64 "2017-11-08T03:56:47Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > When you find yourself wondering if the “Five-Seconds Rule” applies to suppositories. Now, that’s funny! ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-old-when/800611/65 "2017-11-08T04:46:28Z")
When I was a kid, the middle-aged veterans were Vietnam veterans. The people who were running the businesses were the ones who could drop fire out of the planes they couldn’t paint “Fuck” on. WWII veterans were retirees and Camp survivors were the nice little old ladies in Skokie my grandmother lived with. There were a _very_ few WWI veterans kicking around in assisted living centers or similar. Now, the middle-aged veterans are Gulf War Vets, the ones who stormed in with Stormin’ Norman Schwarzkopf. WWII veterans are still a lot more numerous than WWI veterans were when I was young, but they’re getting to an age where living alone is increasingly a problem. WWI veterans are one with the Spanish-American War veterans (who founded the VFW) and Civil War veterans (who founded the GAR) and Nineveh and Tyre. And now Vietnam veterans are edging towards Medicare and Social Security like a massive bolus gets pushed towards an inflamed colon by the inevitable peristalsis of time. And I can still see _Hawaii Five-O_ episodes where it’s the WWII veterans who look like my dad. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-old-when/800611/66 "2017-11-08T14:26:35Z")
After my experience at Burger King this morning: When you remember when fast food was fast. ---
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-old-when/800611/67 "2017-11-08T20:23:55Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > . . . like a massive bolus gets pushed towards an inflamed colon by the inevitable peristalsis of time. I’ll have to remember that one. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-old-when/800611/68 "2017-11-09T15:27:32Z")
…you have to bite your tongue to refrain from reminding your boss that not only can you read, you’ve been able to read longer than he’s been alive. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-old-when/800611/69 "2017-11-09T17:41:07Z")
My office-mate is young enough to be my grandchild - I’m only 3 years younger than his grandmother. The guy in the office next door is a year older than my daughter. And I’m pretty sure I’m old enough to by my boss’ mother - I don’t think he’s 40 yet, and I’m closing in on 64. But to parrot an earlier post - it really hit me when Obama was elected - he’s about 7 years younger than I am. I’d gotten used to doctors and dentists looking like children, but the President??? Just get off my lawn… ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-old-when/800611/70 "2017-11-09T18:08:52Z")
When you watch “That 70s Show” and find yourself siding with Red Foreman. Those damn kids really are dumbasses. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-old-when/800611/71 "2017-11-10T19:40:13Z")
When the girl who appeared as the sensitive teen in that movie from just a few years ago shows up as the parent of a teenager in Sunday’s Wisdom of the Crowd. > **[Susan May Pratt - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006721/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t17)** > > Susan May Pratt. Actress: 10 Things I Hate About You. Susan May Pratt was born on 8 February 1974 in Lansing, Michigan, USA. She is an actress, known for 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), Drive Me Crazy (1999) and Open Water 2: Adrift (2006). She... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-old-when/800611.md?page=3)