One of the first times I felt "old" today...

[lavamat_jon]

Well, as some of you may know I started attending college this September and there are people of varying ages who are on the courses I am taking. Anyway, we were in Art today, and were talking about children's television when a friend who's about 20 and I mentioned Edd the Duck and the broom cupboard era of CBBC. It shocked me in that other people on our table who are both 2 years younger than me, didn't remember Edd the Duck or the broom cupboard era of CBBC at all... nor a lot of the programmes I used to watch as a kid!

A very strange experience I have to say, and have noticed more and more as I'm growing older.

Jon

 

[maytagbear]

Just wait.....

until a shop assistant calls you "sir," or hands back your ATM/credit card with a "Thank you, Mr. _______." (instead of a plain "thank you for shopping at _________.")

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[toggleswitch]

Miss Clairol here we come.........

oh child. You just wait, it gets better.

My sister and her girlfriend were discussing the records in their collecion, when the 9 y.o. son of the friend said "Mommy what's a record?" CD's came out around 1980-1981.

My nieces (13 and younger) have no clue how we lived without computers, cash machines and various other electronic "helpers"

I think if they realized that their great grandmothers only had washing machines in the later portion of their lives and never owned a dryer or a dishwasher they would freak-out.

There was ONE black & white television; one telephone [mostly to receive calls since there was no additional charge for that] and one radio per household.

If you want to feel REALLY old, ask anyone who finds grey below the neck. It ain't fun.

 

[polkanut]

Hey Toggle,

Not only grey below the neck, but on the chin, and various other places (WINK WINK).

 

[nurdlinger]

Salesclerks and others...

give you Senior Discounts without even asking whether you qualify.

 

[jaxsunst]

It may seem weird...

The first time it was struck home for me, a woman was pointing out a trash can in the mall for her kid. She said "See next to that man over there", not guy, or young man, but just plain man.

I have only recently found my first gray "below the neck" hair.

where do you plan to use the Miss Clarol?

 

[DADoES]

It's not *that* long ago that I heard someone still refer to me as "boy." (Heyyy, watch it Toggles!)

I got the gray marching. Bring it on.

 

[seamusuk]

Am I the only Uk person here....

That remembers Noel Edmonds in Multi Coloured Swop Shop???

Oh Actually Mike should do- better than me

lol

Seamus

 

[seamusuk]

Ducks and runs..........

Quickly!!!!!!

 

[frigilux]

Ways in which I feel old at 47 (soon to be 48):

1) College kids consider the 1980's retro.

2) I have no interest in watching 'Made' on MTV.

3) Every new rock band sounds like the pale retread of a band from my past.

4) Prostate exams, Lipitor, and bi-focals.

5) Three-fourths of the Ramones have passed on.

 

[aquarius1984]

edd the duck

was my high school era. Im of the generation GOING LIVE with Gordon the Gopher on a saturday morning. Rivalled with Wackaday. Ok lets play, its WACKADAY! La la la ! Good ol timmy mallet and magic the bird. Wait til you hit 22 and start remembering stuff. Hehe Nick.

 

[arrrooohhh]

When people born in 1988 start feeling old. How do you think that makes me feel? HA HA!

I was in High School in 1988.

Maybe I should get in line for the pension now.

 

[DADoES]

Nope. You're a youngster!

 

[zipdang]

My rude awakening was when I was with a group of people in a restaurant, and when we ordered drinks the server asked to see the ID of someone sitting next to me. I asked if she needed to see my ID, too, and she said no.

That night our server learned a valuable lesson about how to earn her tips.

 

[perc-o-prince]

OH GAWD!!!!

Jon,

I just looked at your profile to see your age...and....well.....I have shoes older than YOU!!!

Now who feels old?

Rich

 

[toggleswitch]

ROARING HERE.
*LOL*

Where on the Miss Clairol you say?

Well honey, mix twice the batch and do the ***tch and they will never know what color you realy are.

ducks and runs

***WHOOSH***

 

[Kenmore62]

TURNED 50 TODAY

HII was telling some teenagers when I was a kid our phone line had several other family,s on the same line. You wasn,t allowed to talk too long on the phone as somebody else on your line might want to make a call. Also if you picked up the phone and somebody else was talking you had to hang it up and wait till they were through. They couldn,t imagine sharing a phone line with other people.ONE B+W TV WITH THREE STATIONS!!! ONE PHONE!!! ONE RADIO AMSTATIONS

 

[frigilux]

Speaking of telephone memories, does anyone besides me remember when phone numbers began with a word? Our phone number in South Dakota, when I was very young, was Turner6-5958. The first two numbers of the prefix were the first two letters of the word (886-5958).

 

[kenmore58]

Talk about feeling old -- 30-year class reunion from high school this year!! Yuck!! But age is still only a number.

Life has been good to me so far and I can't complain. Sure, I'd like the eyes to work a little better and I wish I had a little more energy. But I still wake up every day and say thank God for my family, my soon to be 11-year relationship, the friends I have, my somewhat successful career, my beautiful home, etc., etc.

Life is what you make it!!!

Ron