Things that you make you feel old

[E&Cmom]

Thought of one more:

When I am filing out a online form and it seems to take forever to scroll to the year I was born.

 

[superme80]

When doing an online survey, I have to fill in the age 35-44. I graduated high school 18 years ago.

 

[ronandannette]

I started feeling old when I realized I was older than most of my co-workers.
I'm pretty much at this stage, and it's startling - I'm even a little bit older than my own BOSS!
I finally concluded that I AM old when I realized I am older than the PARENTS of most of my co-workers.
Not quite here yet, but it may be inevitable as I'm probably going to be a lifer at my current company.

 

[Realfoodfans]

Recently attending a high school reunion for the class of 67 knowing it was 42 years since we left! If you do the maths you'll have worked out we are all 60 this year.

 

[rastahomie]

When I don't get carded. I'm 37 and it's only this year that I'm not regularly asked for my ID anymore.

Mrs. Homie and I were at a local water park yesterday, and went to get adult beverages. They asked for ID! I had mine, but Mrs. Homie didn't have hers. She kept trying to show the guy her gray hair, but he wasn't having it. Fortunately when his boss left the bar the guy took pity and sold her her beer.

 

[tvguy]

They keep a few of us oldie moldies around because some of our "old school" ways are "thinking outside of the box" to young people.
2 people spent considerable time looking for information online and in online databases we pay to use.....and one of them looks at me and asks if I have any ideas where this info is. I picked up the 2013 White Pages on my desk (the past year the company ordered phone books) and had the info they needed in 30 seconds. Information the online and pay databases had purged, was sitting on my desk the whole time.

My immediate supervisor is 20 years younger than me, as is the big boss. So far, both feel my 1970's ways are beneficial to the company.

 

[tvguy]

Recently attending a high school reunion for the class of 67 knowing it was 42 years since we left! If you do the maths you'll have worked out we are all 60 this year.

Ah, if you were 18 when you graduated and you graduated in 1967 that was 49 years ago and you are all 67.

 

[ronandannette]

They keep a few of us oldie moldies around because some of our "old school" ways are "thinking outside of the box" to young people...

My immediate supervisor is 20 years younger than me, as is the big boss. So far, both feel my 1970's ways are beneficial to the company.

I'm, ahem, not quite that old, but having been around in the 90's is sometimes beneficial - like I know how to use the fax machine and the coffee maker that doesn't take k-cups.

 

[Realfoodfans]

Sorry I misled you there! We called it the class of 67 reunion as we started high school in 67 and were the first year in a brand new Grammar school - we were so lucky everything was so modern and we all have a very special bond though now spread all over the world!

 

[jdb in AZ]

When we go to a concert featuring groups who were popular when DH and I were in high school. We look around the audience and wonder why the rock groups have so many gray hair groupies. And the voices on stage don't sound as good as they did way back when, either.

When younger(!) friends are excited about their upcoming 4th wedding anniversary, and DH and I just celebrated #40.

 

[wenrob]

That some friends around my age are going to be grandparents. (I have an 8 year old it boggles my mind)

When people assume my 10 year olds are my grandchildren. To be fair, friends my age and younger ARE grandparents but it's still rude to assume it. You don't ask a woman her age, weight, if she's pregnant or if she's grandma! Oy, I try not to let it bother me but it does.

That my oldest will be 20 in August. Just blows me away.

When I hear "kids" 24, 25 years old are getting married and think, "man, that's awful young to get married." Then I remember I got married at 24 to a man I met at age 20.

 

[Twilight Sparkle]

Friends having major health issues

My achy joints and creaky-sounding knees (seriously, how did THAT happen?!)

Needing reading glasses

The early blondes showing up in my dark hair

Regretting sneezing

Had our 20th anniversary this year (celebrated with a first time ever trip to WDW!)

My DD will turn 13 this year and I'm left wondering why the time passed so quickly

Seeing my aunts and uncles reach ages my grandparents were when I thought they were really old.

Realizing my cousins and I are all in the same age range as the aunts and uncles were when we were having so much fun as kids

Kids and young adults calling me ma'am or Mrs. ------

Those are just a few things. I'll probably think of more - unless my memory fails me!

 

[indygirl99]

I have a whole list but then that would reveal how old I REALLY am. But I will give you one on that list.

When my granddaughter reminds me I can't be 39 since her mother is 40.

I have decided that 50 is the new 39.

 

[DisneyHardin]

My 20th High School reunion was last week!!

 

[King Schultz]

Complaining about today's music and realizing I sound just like my dad complaining about the Beatles. . . 45 years ago.

 

[Bellabully]

When my 13 year old daughter tells me I am

 

[PigletsPal2]

When I realize that I have been married to the same man for 50 happy years, and that we were a couple for five years before that.

When I realize that my DD#1 will be 49 years old in September.

When I realize that my DD#2 will be 44 years old in March,

When I realize that my Precious Only DGD will be 25 years old next month.

I've decided that my current age is fifty-nineteen. I don't know if I'll be fifty-twenty or sixty-ten next year. DDs think fifty-twenty sounds right.

Queen Colleen

 

[Altojudy]

When I'm given the "Senior Discount" without anyone even asking me if I qualify, or when the clerk perkily announces "Oh, today is Senior Citizens' Day -- you save 20%!"

 

[tvguy]

I'm, ahem, not quite that old, but having been around in the 90's is sometimes beneficial - like I know how to use the fax machine and the coffee maker that doesn't take k-cups.

Yeah, I'm the fax King. My younger co-workers are astonished that the California Courts still only accept forms in person or by fax. They do not accept electronically transmitted forms.

 

[ronandannette]

When I'm given the "Senior Discount" without anyone even asking me if I qualify, or when the clerk perkily announces "Oh, today is Senior Citizens' Day -- you save 20%!"

Yeah, I used to find that hilarious when my DH turned 55 - I couldn't understand why he'd rather pay full price...