You know you're getting old when? (Page 2)

Incidentally, if you've got any lying about that you want a nice curator to take off your hands... .

When you go to a high school reunion and can't recognize most of the people. Happened to me, I couldn't believe they all looked so different and old...

This may be just the first sign, but you realize you have been out of high school for longer than it took to get to graduation. 

I have an old RCA Victrola made in 1902. 
My daughter who was 8 at the time had some friends over and wanted to show them how it worked. One of the girls noticed the 78 record in my hand and asked, "how are you going to get that disc into the CD player"?

When introducing myself to a class I am about to teach, I erealize that I received my Surface Warfare Qualification bfore some had started school.

When the first ship I was stationed on is now a artificial reef off the coast somewhere.

When I see "Classic Car" plates on vehicles I drooled over as a kid.

When sleeping sounds better than "Pizza" on a night when the babysitter has the kids overnight!!  (Okay, maybe that's not old, just being the father of 3 daughters)

Your kids are in  panic over not being able to find the remote to the t.v. and you tell them about the old days when televisions didn't come with remote control.  How you had to turn the t.v. on by hand.

(do you remeber this?)
Or how we had to move the rabbit ears around until the station came in.

when you start denying you're getting old

when going to bed "late" means 10:30

tv has a special on the "80s"

you wonder whatever happened to Ralph Macchio

you watched "the breakfast club" in the movies

movies you watched are now classics...


...and i'm only 33. i shudder to think what it will be like when i'm 50

When you're singing a song from a flick you watched at the theater and your younger date doesn't know from which movie it came.

Edit: And when you tell her she says `Never heard of it.'

Edited by mr2tony 2009-06-03 9:49 AM

I'd better leave this one alone...

Hey you kids- get off our lawn!  I've been out of school in general for 20 years; after going to schools for 20 years.  I bet I have shirts older than you!

When EMPLOYEES at the high school you work at were born right around the time you got your diploma.

Yeah, what happened to those people?  I still look the same, right?

When your oldest is in the Army and your youngest is going to graduate from HS next year...

When you tell your kid, "You sound like a broken record" and he looks at you blankly because he's never heard a record.

When your kid hears you say something about running home from school to watch a show and asks why you didn't just tape it.

When you realize you've been teaching kids how NOT to kill you in helicopters for longer than the current group of student pilots have been alive.

When you start calling co-workers    "son".

This is a fun thread. Speaking of 20-somethings, I had an experience with a 20-something (no, not that kind of experience) that made me feel older but in a good way. I'm back in grad school getting a degree in tax law. I signed up to do a national writing competition put out by the ABA. The rules stated we had to work in pairs and I was teamed up with a 20-something fresh out of law school. Teams were selected by the profs so I had no input, but I was pretty happy that I was working with an attractive young lady. My happiness quickly faded. She was bright and all, but her lack of experience really showed. As the project deadline was nearing, she just freaked out. I remember thinking, wow, if you're going to stress out like this over a little school assignment, good luck practicing law.

It's funny in class, too, because the young kids don't seem to want to talk to us older students and the old guys kind of stick together. The only guys that talk to me during breaks have gray hair and wrinkles.

When you remember when the songs that are now used in commercials....were just released and on the radio...or 8-track.

Your kids know more about operating your computer than you do.

lol! I have an eight track that still works.

Ironically, LP's are making a small comeback.  and my youngest is very retro - she has a bunch of my old records and a record player in her room.

And who "tapes" shows?  We use a DVR, so there are no actual tapes anymore, old-timer.  (Actually, I am now so addicted to the DVR that I refuse to watch anything when it is actually on.  At a minimum, I wait until the show is 10 minutes in so I can fast forward through the commercials.  And that's if I even know when the show is actually on the air).

I am still in my 20's, late 20's but still there, but the summer students we get working in the office make me feel old. 

Apparently, I care too much about things like my job, benefits and getting a good night's sleep now that I don't really have much in common with them - sad.  Not the end of the world though.

I was telling them about running home after school to watch Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp on it's second go 'round. The first time it was on was Saturday mornings.

We didn't have tape or DVRs then