Stuff That Makes You Feel Old

[GirlySports]

We hired a girl to do accounting fulltime today.
Birthdate: 1990

Remember when U2 did that video to pay tribute to The Beatles (Where the Streets Have No Name). Well that was like 18 years after the Beatles did their rooftop concert. It's been 24 years since then.

Doug Flutie has a daughter who is now a cheerleader (this has been discussed already).

Hearing Novak Djokovic saying his idle since he was a little boy is Pete Sampras.

My first boyfriend ever just had his 3rd kid.

[troutman]

I remember when the prairies were full of buffalo.

I did feel old when I realized I was older than any player in the NHL.

[REDVAN]

When I was your age, pluto was still a planet.

[SeeGeeWhy]

Going to the bar makes me feel very old.

[BurningYears]

I'm not even that old, but when checking ID's for Alcohol and seeing 1993 soon to be 1994 being the legal age. damn I was in Elementry when you were born.

[troutman]

When I go to a rock concert, I am usually the oldest person there. When I go to a jazz concert, I am usually the youngest person there.

[BloodFetish]

I was in my 2nd year of college

[bizaro86]

I was at the University recently. It's only been a few years, but man did that make me feel elderly.

[Cowperson]

A few years ago I was having a genuinely serious discussion with a young lady in the office - very pretty incidentally - about government bonds yields and their ability to presage changes in equity markets and mentioned a paper I had written on the topic in 1983.

"I wasn't even born yet!!!" she magnificantly blurted out.

Oooofff. Right in the gonads.

We both thought that was hilarious but then that got me to thinking: "Holy crap, I AM getting old."

That was probably the first time I had considered it.

More lately, my half-marathon times are credible but stagnant and, as I now like to joke, "At my age, I'm not going to get any faster. All I'm trying to do is not get any slower."

It is what it is and, as recent studies have shown, people tend to be happier as they get older and I'd say that's probably true.

Except when you're unexpectedly kicked in the nuts by pretty, observant young things.

Cowperson

[afc wimbledon]

When I was nipper we all thought we would die in a nuclear winter, you kids today with yer global warming have it so bloody soft.

[sclitheroe]

Pearl Jam is celebrating their 20th birthday as a band this year. Is my musical era really that old now?

[scotty2hotty]

High school girls. Definitely high school girls.

[Regular_John]

The intern in our office talking about his weekend plans last June:

Intern: "Yeah I'm going to my girlfriends graduation ceremony this weekend"
Coworker: "Oh yeah? Where's she graduating from? Mount Royal? SAIT? UofC?
Intern: "Oh just highschool"
Me: "Go away Phil"

I mean I know he's a university student, but for some reason I felt that would make him 3-4 years younger than me? Not 10.... dammit.

Also, get off my lawn.

[troutman]

It is strange to hear people call 80s music "Classic Rock". I remember going to Sam The Record Man on Tuesdays, and buying those albums when they were brand new.

[red sky]

Just seeing the birthdates on all of the prospects makes me feel very old.

Then again Mr. Troutman makes me feel young so it's not all bad.

[Montana Moe]

Tuning in to the MTV Video Music Awards a couple weeks ago made me feel old.

[CaptainCrunch]

When I was a kid

Minnapore was a separate town
The Calgary Tower was by far the tallest building in the city
When I was born, man hadn't visited the moon, they had just broken the sound barrier, America was embroiled in Vietnam


I've been through records, 8tracks, tapes, CD's and DVD's.

I remember when we had a black and white T.V., then color, then we went from 3 channels to 12 channels, then we got the first primitive remote that had a cord, and channel levels.

I remember watching the 72 series live, watching the Jets play in the WHA, the Flames in Atlanta then in the Corral.

I remember the strap in school.

I remember when there were 3 slurpee flavors coke, grape and orange

I remember when the wall came down, and we had thought foolishly that peace would break out.

I remember polyester leisure suits, acid washed holy jeans, 70's commercial rock, the 80's pop revolution, the really depressing music of the 90's.

Girls with big hair, girls wearing dog collars.

I remember being enthralled by the weekly adventures of Paladin, James T Kirk, Half Gun will travel, and gun smoke.

I remember when John Wayne was the greatest actor in the world.

Elvis Presley fell off of the toilet and died.

I was called sir by a girl in a meeting the other day.

I remember life before home comuputers, I remember my timex sinclair, my Vic 20, my 64, my Amiga and my P.C.

I remember my friend had the Apple 2 C

I remember text based computers games, mono graphics, CGA, EGA VGA SVGA

I remember when you bought computers without hard drives, and used 8 inch floppies.

My first computer job was changing reel to reel backup tapes

I remember calculators with 5 big red numbers.

I remember a life before aids where the scariest thing that you could catch required a tiny comb and cream.

I remember when you could walk by porn theatres that sold magazines, and movies like Behind the Green Door, and Debbie does Dallas were almost main stream.

I remember an NHL with a dozen teams and no teams in Alberta.

[JiriHrdina]

What makes me feel old - is realizing how old my parents are and becoming very aware that I don't have that much time left with them.

[bc-chris]

i used to work for the dad of one of the guys on my men's hockey team.

i remember my boss bringing his little guy (maybe 4 or 5 years old) to the job site on a saturday. i was doing construction at the time, so the little guy would jump into the forklift with me - he'd steer and i'd control the gas/brake.

now this "little guy" is one of the top point-getters on my mens team!


another one is talking to youngin's about cassette tapes and vinyl and they just look at you mystified!

[troutman]

Originally Posted by red sky

Just seeing the birthdates on all of the prospects makes me feel very old.

Then again Mr. Troutman makes me feel young so it's not all bad.

I was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel. And I am immortal.