lynn Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 I'll start. You ask the lady working toy area in Target if they had Erector sets and she says "What's an Erector set?" yep, she had not clue what I was talking about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renthead Mommy Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 Okay. When Fergie got big and they started talking about her on the radio I was surprised, but wondered what the Dutchess of York was up to now that was getting so much mention on the radio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mert Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 ...you have to wear your reading glasses to sew or craft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinmom Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 You are told you have to start wearing bifocals. Hmmphh! :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehog Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 .. you just can't stay up late like you used to. .. you can't drink like you used to either.. of course, that's not from personal experience.. :blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 New soldiers look about the same age as your kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renthead Mommy Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 New soldiers look about the same age as your kids. Well in my case they looked the same age as the babysitter, but yeah. My friend and I were driving past one of the dorms, and it was one of the first warmer days. A bunch of the guys were wearing shorts and sleeveless shirts walking out of the dorm. My friend says "That's what the husband looked like when I met him. All built and pumped up." I pointed out in about 2-3 years that would be her son! Her response: :scared::svengo: My husband came home one day. I asked him what was wrong. He said he got a new dental assistant today. The kid was born after husband graduated high school. It hadn't seemed possible you could be old enough to enlist if you were born after his hs graduatation. But he did the math. Got to say that realization hurt him a little. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 The kids I babysat as a teen are now having kids. I ask for cellophane tape at the store and the checker doesn't know what I'm talking about. I catch myself looking for tin foil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 (edited) Well in my case they looked the same age as the babysitter, but yeah. My friend and I were driving past one of the dorms, and it was one of the first warmer days. A bunch of the guys were wearing shorts and sleeveless shirts walking out of the dorm. My friend says "That's what the husband looked like when I met him. All built and pumped up." I pointed out in about 2-3 years that would be her son! Her response: :scared::svengo: Exactly! My eldest is (almost) 15, in a couple of years one of them could be her boyfriend!!!! :willy_nilly: My husband came home one day. I asked him what was wrong. He said he got a new dental assistant today. The kid was born after husband graduated high school. It hadn't seemed possible you could be old enough to enlist if you were born after his hs graduatation. But he did the math. Got to say that realization hurt him a little.Yep, we've already btdt, I graduated 20 years ago. It doesn't seem possible. The kids I babysat as a teen are now having kids. My husband was pretty upset when our flower girl got her Master's degree. :lol: Edited December 19, 2010 by Mrs Mungo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinmom Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 When I told my kids that I knew no one with home computers or even word processors until about the time I went to college. They looked at me like I'd sprouted horns! :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lolly Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 When I told my kids that I knew no one with home computers or even word processors until about the time I went to college. They looked at me like I'd sprouted horns! :glare: Home computer? I was already married!;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanceXToo Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 I'm still in my 30's (not for long, but hey), but I knew I was getting old like 9 years ago when my husband told me he'd gotten us a DVD player and I said: "What do we need a DVD player for? We have a perfectly good, working VCR!" Now... I keep finding stray gray hairs here and there. <sniff, sniff>. And I go to bed at the time of night at which I USED to just be getting ready to go out back in the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomOfOneFunOne Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 I don't get ID'd for White-Out anymore. :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 DD came up to me recently with something she found in the back of the closet. "What's this, mommy?" She'd never seen a VCR tape before...and suddenly I knew how my dad felt when I asked him what the deal was with the 8 track player on the radio in the garage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommyfaithe Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 You are told you have to start wearing bifocals. Hmmphh! :glare: I can beat that. I wear 2 pair...yes 2..one on top of the other in order to read....now that is OLD. Faithe.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommyfaithe Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Home computer? I was already married!;) I had 4 kids!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagira Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 On the radio at the local Kmart the lyrics "Walk Like An Egyptian" came on and I started moving in rhythm and singing the lyrics. Since I look young, people were looking at me weird, especially those younger than I am. Yup, I remember the eighties ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pooh bear Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 You are told you have to start wearing bifocals. Hmmphh! :glare: I'm 32 and I have to wear them. Gosh, did I feel really old when I was given that news! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truscifi Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 I was over at a friend's house and her cell phone was out of battery. She told her son to go plug the regular phone into the jack so she could use it. He stopped for a minute and said "what's a phone jack". We just looked at each other. :001_huh: Welcome to the digital age. Also, the child I started babysitting when she was 9 months old (I was 16) is graduating high school this year. :svengo: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punchie Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 When I realized that I was old enough to be the mother of a 13 yr old boy (whom I chewed out at the pool over the summer for swatting at a bee that then flew right at me). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truscifi Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 On the radio at the local Kmart the lyrics "Walk Like An Egyptian" came on and I started moving in rhythm and singing the lyrics. Since I look young, people were looking at me weird, especially those younger than I am. Yup, I remember the eighties ;) I love that song!! And I remember when it came out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Me, too, and had a child.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 You know you're getting old when you recall that this upcoming year will be 30 years since you graduated - from college.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Cashiers ID you when you buy white out? I've never heard of this! I must be rilly, rilly old.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 LOL! That reminds me: you know your husband is old when you have to read everything for him (especially if the light is low) and interpret, too, because he also can't hear any more.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennW in SoCal Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 You know you're getting old when you recall that this upcoming year will be 30 years since you graduated - from college.... Hey -- me too!! I know I'm getting old when I read posts like the one in this thread where someone mentions her dad's 8 track tapes. Hello?!! My boyfriend had an 8 track in his Camaro!! You know you are getting old, too, when the AARP starts recruiting you, just reinforce the fact that you are celebrating your 50th birthday. You know you are getting old when your siblings become grandparents, and your M-I-L a great grandmother. You know you are getting old when you realize you are old enough to be the mother of some of the posters on this board!!!!:eek: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsbaby Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 When guys I assumed were close to my age started calling me "mam". That hurt:tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 You know you're getting old when the stupid whisker hairs in your chin turn white. :glare: You know you're getting old when your teenage son gets up in the morning with a furry shadow above his lip and it reminds you to go use the tweezers.:glare::glare: You know you're getting old when you log onto amazon to see if you packaged has been delivered instead of getting up and going to the door to check. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in FL Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Today I went to the liquor store to get some 100 proof vodka. Not only did I have no clue on what to buy, but it was for making perfume with my 10 year old! Melissa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truscifi Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 How do you make perfume with vodka? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Today I went to the liquor store to get some 100 proof vodka. Not only did I have no clue on what to buy, but it was for making perfume with my 10 year old!Melissa :lol::lol: I remember the days when vodka was the perfume. Okay, I remember some of those days. :001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Raise your hand if you know who Brenda Vaccarro is. Nothing says old like referencing an actress and getting a polite smile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LauraGB Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 You know you're old when... Your kids ask what life was like "back in the 1900s". :glare: And you are plucking hair from places in your face you never knew you were supposed to have hair (it was always funny in the movies when they talked about Aunt Marge, but when the reality of age sets in, it ain's so funny anymore). Again, :glare:. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delaney Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Remember when the microwave came out!!?? I was in 8th grade when they got popular and my friend and I nuked everything we could find. Oh and my kids asked me if there was television "back then" and I said, "Yes, but it was black and white, you had to get up to change the channel, and there was an antenna on the roo,f and my mom's hand mixer used to make the TV go nuts." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 The microwave was a big deal. All my friends came over to watch the glass of water boil. We were also the first block on the house to get cable. Who can forget that long cord attached to the tv and to the box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 (edited) :lol::lol: I remember the days when vodka was the perfume. Okay, I remember some of those days. :001_huh: BWAhahahahahaha! eta: Hm. I do not remember when the very first microwaves came out. My grandparents had one from the time I can remember. It had dials and those old-style radio buttons. It eventually went to live in their house at the lake where we still used it until they sold that place. I tried to find a photo, but searching vintage microwave comes up with some really weird things. Oh!! Here we go! This is the one they had! Edited December 19, 2010 by Mrs Mungo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Yeah, your *younger* siblings.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoughCollie Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 You know you are getting old, too, when the AARP starts recruiting you, just reinforce the fact that you are celebrating your 50th birthday. I was lucky. When I turned 50, DS1 received an AARP membership card in the mail. He had a great time using it as I.D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catalinakel Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Raise your hand if you know who Brenda Vaccarro is. Nothing says old like referencing an actress and getting a polite smile. Why does this make me laugh? Because I remember Brenda Vacarro. You bet your sweet bippy, I do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 You know you're old when... Your kids ask what life was like "back in the 1900s". :glare: And you are plucking hair from places in your face you never knew you were supposed to have hair (it was always funny in the movies when they talked about Aunt Marge, but when the reality of age sets in, it ain's so funny anymore). Again, :glare:. I believe it was designed that mothers would be growing facial hair about the same time as their teenage sons. It helps the bonding experience. Feel the same about menopause and puberty, crazy hormones helps the bonding process. Which is why famous men always say "Hi, mom!" to the camera and not mention their fathers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JessReplanted Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 When the wrinkles around your eyes seem to double every time you celebrate a birthday! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatieH Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Your blood pressure spikes at the end of your pregnancy and the doctor says "Well, that happens when you get older." I'm only 28!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsBasil Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 When a friend's teen is wearing a shirt for a band I listened to in high school and I mention, "oh, I loved Green Day back in high school." Only to hear back, "Wow! I didn't know they were THAT old. They've been around a long time." :001_huh: I felt young again when he asked when I graduated high school and told his father, "She started high school the year I was born! When did you finish school?" My solution for feeling old is to have even older friends. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeckyFL Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 When you find out that your Dr. is younger than you and in the same visit he tells you that the bump on your skin is a barnacle. :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathleen in VA Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 You know you're getting old when you have to call your dh at work and ask him which toothbrush is yours. I did this today. I opened the cupboard and just stared at them. I just couldn't remember which one was mine. He thought it was cute.:D Oh, and I remember Brenda Vacarro. Anyone remember Rowan and Martin's Laugh In? Veddy inter-eshting -but shtupid.:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 he tells you that the bump on your skin is a barnacle. :-( :blink::ohmy::angry: That's it, I'm not going to the doctor EVER AGAIN! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JVA Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 (edited) When your gynecologist looks too darn cute and young to be examining you. -That's when I switched to female gyns. Edited December 19, 2010 by JVA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrganicAnn Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 you know you are getting old when dates like 1990 or 1995 don't seem like they should be that long ago and then you realize they were 20 to 15 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merry Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 twenty years and finding to my shock that everyone was talking into a cell phone while walking around on campus. I felt betrayed by the intrusion of the cell phones on my beloved campus. I felt so sorry for the young people who are missing out on the friendly and open atmosphere that is no longer there with everyone yakking away into the phones and making no eye contact with anyone. That was a sad shock that made me feel older than I ever had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katemary63 Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Okay. When Fergie got big and they started talking about her on the radio I was surprised, but wondered what the Dutchess of York was up to now that was getting so much mention on the radio. :lol::lol: Me too! I couldn't figure this out for the longest time!!! LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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