"You're Old!!!" moments
Have you ever had somebody say something to you that made you feel old all of a sudden? My first such moment was about 10 years ago when I was interviewing a student to work in the college computer lab I managed, and she called me "Sir."
Most recently, this afternoon we were doing some almost-last-minute Christmas shopping at the mall. I was looking for a hat for myself, and I was at a department store examining a grey fedora and calculating the sale price. As I stood there with the hat in my hand, a chick-let dressed like a somewhat younger, not-as-rich version of Paris Hilton went by with a guy. They paused for a moment, and then walked on. As they passed, the girl said, "No, not those hats... we need the kind of stuff young people would wear!" :cool:
The summer of 2000 showed me that either I was getting old, or that I worked with a bunch of crackhead college kids. I'm going to go with the latter...and keep in mind, this was in suburban Washington, DC.
The company I worked for at the time marketed products to college kids...and during the summer (our busy season), we had quite a few college kids working with us.
One day, one of the girls that worked for us was inviting some coworkers to a party at her apartment later that night. It wasn't something I would have went to anyway, but I made a half-joking, half-smartassed remark, "Damn, don't I get an invite?" Her reply was, "No offense, Terry, but you're old"...and she sounded so serious when she said it.
At the time this incident occurred, I was 24, and had only been out of college for a year and a half. :(
It's all good though...I probably make more than any of them at this point anyway...stupid motherfuckers.
[COLOR=indigo]Every time I tell someone how old Justin will be on the 29th.
My oldest will be 16 in 8 days.
I suppose it will be worse when my youngest turns 16, but luckily, that's 9.25 years away...
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My forensic sciences teacher was telling the class one day that when he was in college, ballpoint pens had <i>just</i> come out, and everyone was all up in arms because they said it would "ruin people's handwriting". Apparently, back then, everyone still used ink and quill.
And despite the rudeness, I actually said, "My God.. how <b>old</b> are you???"
Originally posted by sycamore
At the time this incident occurred, I was 24, and had only been out of college for a year and a half. :(
I'm twenty-four, now, and I can say I've experienced similar things as of late. Two years ago, I returned to my high school to visit and speak with my old Chemistry teacher. Students were still milling about even after classes were over with and they overheard me talking about college and how classes were treating me. I'm not sure how we got on the topic, but the student looked at me strangely when I mentioned cassette tapes.
"You know, for music?"
"Huh?"
Yep -- after further questioning, I found out that the graduating class of 2002
only knows compact discs. They have never owned magnetic media for music.
Another extremely depressing moment happened in my undergraduate psych class just this recent semester. The discussion: episodic memory storage. The instructor was trying to find a way to explain to the class that instructional memory is not stored in the same way you store episodic.
"Episodic, you see, is when something dramatic happens", he said after stomping on the stage loudly to make everyone jump, "and there are some things you will never forget. You know, like Challenger -- I will never forget exactly where I was when I saw it lift off and explode and neither will you."
The class, at this point, was giving him confused looks. Someone in the back raised their hand and said it would be better if he used September 11th as the example because "I was, like, one year old at the time, but my parents told me all about it".
Shit.
I refuse to accept that the kids from the class of 2002 are clueless about cassette tapes. Vinyl, I could almost understand their confusion, but not cassettes. They have to be some dumbass kids to not know cassettes. Most of their parents probably have cassette players in their cars.
Ten years from now, yeah, then I'll believe the cassette is something they might view as a curiosity seen only on Antiques Roadshow.
Actually, the getting old thing for me was duly noted when I raged at a supermarket checker for attempting to card me for cigarettes. When I was in my thirties, I got carded for alcohol (which I thought was cool), but this was too much. It was early in the morning. I was running late, I was obviously NOT 18, and my ID was in the car.
Some other highlights: Rotary Dial phones, Burnt Sienna as a Crayola Color, and Play-Doh comes in more than four colors (but at least it still smells the same).
And on the "flashbulb" memory example ...
Your experience shows a shift also ... the KEY event was always "where were you when Kennedy was shot?"
[COLOR=indigo]And for Californians, it's "Where were you when Northridge hit?"[/COLOR]
I think not having my own kids has allowed me to feel more in suspended animation- there arent the daily markers...yet.
But a few years ago, one of my former elementary school students introduced himself to me in a bar. That was a wierd kinda time lapse. I didnt know him all growed up. But then, after he started talking, I could see the 12 year old smart alec in there. Turned into a cool guy.
Also, just last week when watching a 18 year old NHL player skate the warmup, it dawned on me that the parka I was wearing is older than him. and its a great parka.
I was told by my cousins (14 & 15) that I'm REALLY old just yesterday. I tried to explain my bouncing rubber ball of life theory to them but they don't get it.
Here's the theory...
When you bounce a rubber ball it bounces high and with each bounce it bounces lower and faster than the bounce before. Life is like this. When you're a child, a year seems like a very long time, and the older you get the faster the years go by until it seems like they're whizzing by faster than you can believe. You don't feel older inside, but your body starts having trouble doing the same things you did before easily. It takes longer to recover from injuries, etc.
My theory on why time flies is this:
As we get older, our attention spans increase. We become more accustomed to long periods of time going by without anything interesting happening, and (thanks to the wonderful world of work) are placed in such situations more often than when we were kids.
All of a sudden, the summer's over, and we think "How can it be fall already? It seems like Memorial Day was just yesterday." That's because we've done things that are useful to us, but often not all that much that's out of our daily routine.
Compare this to the kid who's been a little ball of energy over that period; to him, the summer vacation lasts forever (though it's still not long enough when it's time to go back to school), because he's been doing one thing after another after another during those months (and if he ISN'T occupied, he's squirming in his seat, ready to bolt off to something that _is_ interesting).
Signs of aging: My cousins have a Sega Dreamcast, and I (their decrepit gaming uncle) offered to put together an Atari 2600 emulator disc for it. They'd never _heard_ of the 2600.
I subscribe to the theory that the main reason time goes more slowly for kids is that each minute represents a larger percentage of the total time they can remember.
Originally posted by warch
.............. it dawned on me that the parka I was wearing is older than him. and its a great parka.
Heh, heh, heh.:thumb:
Well - I know I'm old - the three kids were in the backseat and Janet Jackson's "Control" came on the radio. I quizzed them on who it was and they were like "Brittney Spears?" Then I told them who it was.
"Oh - is that on the new album?" Uh no. It was on an album in the 1980's. "Really? I thought her first album was the one that had "All for you" on it.
Doh.
I got carded this week. :) Of course, I had a hat on my bald head...dulp!
I finally ruined my old hiking boots, too bad really, they only now qualified to get their drivers licence.
Originally posted by Griff
I got carded this week. :) Of course, I had a hat on my bald head...dulp!
I finally ruined my old hiking boots, too bad really, they only now qualified to get their drivers licence.
What, are you out of duct tape?:)
Originally posted by sycamore
The summer of 2000 showed me that either I was getting old, or that I worked with a bunch of crackhead college kids. I'm going to go with the latter...and keep in mind, this was in suburban Washington, DC.
The company I worked for at the time marketed products to college kids...and during the summer (our busy season), we had quite a few college kids working with us.
One day, one of the girls that worked for us was inviting some coworkers to a party at her apartment later that night. It wasn't something I would have went to anyway, but I made a half-joking, half-smartassed remark, "Damn, don't I get an invite?" Her reply was, "No offense, Terry, but you're old"...and she sounded so serious when she said it.
At the time this incident occurred, I was 24, and had only been out of college for a year and a half. :(
It's all good though...I probably make more than any of them at this point anyway...stupid motherfuckers.
If this is the same party that I'm thinking of, then my "old" moment happened at the party: I was the oldest one there!!! LMAO! :D
Originally posted by daniwong
Well - I know I'm old - the three kids were in the backseat and Janet Jackson's "Control" came on the radio. I quizzed them on who it was and they were like "Brittney Spears?" Then I told them who it was.
"Oh - is that on the new album?" Uh no. It was on an album in the 1980's. "Really? I thought her first album was the one that had "All for you" on it.
Doh.
Oh dear oh dear!!!!! *cringe* Confusing Spears with Janet??? Lawdy...
And MTV sucks too bad to save them!!!! ;)
[COLOR=indigo]My kids friends have NO idea who Depeche Mode, Led Zepplin or Pink Floyd is. I didn't even want to think about Flock of Seagulls, Culture Club or Duran Duran. ... ... **sigh**[/COLOR]
Originally posted by OnyxCougar
[COLOR=indigo]My kids friends have NO idea who Depeche Mode, Led Zepplin or Pink Floyd is. I didn't even want to think about Flock of Seagulls, Culture Club or Duran Duran. ... ... **sigh**[/COLOR]
Ok - me and the BF have an obsessive love of the Dave Matthews Band. When asked one time who they were - kids had no clue. Then, when told, the twelve year old stated "oh. Old people music."
ACCCCKKKKKK.
An online friend, who I won't hunt down and kill because I know he's older than I am (he's in his 60s, and a wonderful gent) sent me this recently .... fits in here, so I'm posting it.
I scored 21
Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about! Ratings at the bottom.
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive-6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
I got a thirteen. Not bad for only being 33 years old...
1-7, 14-17, 19, 22, 23, and 25. score 14
17 i guess i am getting old .
I used to think that when i was older than the playboy center folds i was getting old , but now my step daughter in older than the center folds :eek: :eek:
I freaked when i turned 25 , I wasa quarter centery old .
I turned 40 this year .
I got 15...and I'm way younger than Griff. ;)
Rho, it wasn't that party. This was some gathering that was planned a short time thereafter. But that party was a trip too...
Some of my college co-workers decided to invite people over to hang out at their place after work one night. I thought it would be a good idea to go...it would be just like the shit my friends and I did when we were in college.
Well, Rho and I went over there...and the kids were living it up, drinking like crazy, blasting the stereo, not a care in the world...just like the shit my friends and I did when we were in college...except that I now found it to be rather irritating.
I came to the conclusion that that sort of thing just isn't for me anymore. And over the next couple of years, I finally realized that I really am getting older...my body doesn't bounce back like it used to, I can't do or don't want to do some of things I used to do, etc.
This brought me to a weird point in my life, which still exists--Rho and I are still fairly young (34 and 28, respectively), but we can't run with some of these young folks anymore. At the same time, we can't run with a lot of people our age, b/c they're wrapped up in their families. Back in Washington, we tried meeting people through a childfree website...and it turned out that the desire to not have children was about the only thing we had in common with many of them...you'd think these people would have better things to do than bitch and complain about children and their parents...
So far, we've found that the best way to handle the weirdness is to simply rewrite the book. :cool:
That makes you the expert Bruce. :thumb:
Whats a P F Flyer?
The best "soda pop" machines are still those where the bottles are right there but you can't pull them out of their little metal holder thingie until you put the money in.
And then you still try to beat the mechanism by pulling out two bottles at the same time, but it doesn't work because the mechanism is just right.
I'm sure these old machines are wasteful of energy, with the door letting the cold air out of all the bottles. And the glass bottles would break and wreak havoc, and they were heavy, and they didn't hold much, and if they were returnable somebody had to haul them back to the bottler.
But it was better dammit.
I managed a 19. Although a couple are getting pretty hazy.
Such as Word prefixes. I was taught to remember all my relatives phone numbers like this: Lansdowne-5, 2397.
That dialed my Godmother.
And my memories of the drive-in are those of a child...the last movie I saw in a drive-in (until recently) was Star Wars. And half the time I was more interested inthe concession stand..
On a side note, that particular drive-in is now a strip mall. Like Quakertown needs any more of those.
Brian
My beloved drive-in is now a Fresh Fields, a Chuch E. Cheese, and a Staples.
PF Flyers were just about the coolest shoes on the planet, before there Nike and Adidas. They outmarketed Keds and Converse back in the the day. Also, they sometimes had really cool toys that were given away with every purchase ... There was a jungle tooth thingy, the plastic tinted to look like eather ivory, with a whistle (not a regular old ball whistle, but one of those ones with the rotary blades that made a sound not unlike that of a lonely loon on a summer's evening) and helpfully provided a morse code chart so you could fail to understand the message your friend was whistling you with some authority.
Oh how I loved my PF Flyers, the ONE time I was able to convince my mom that I needed them. We were a Keds family, you see, and our regular shoe-salesman (who didn't sell PF Flyers) made a point of telling my mom how bad they would be for my feet, and how good the Keds were ....
The drive-in my family and I used to frequent is now a strip mall my mom shops at in South St. Louis County. The last movie I saw there was E.T.
Originally posted by Undertoad
The best "soda pop" machines are still those where the bottles are right there but you can't pull them out of their little metal holder thingie until you put the money in.
And then you still try to beat the mechanism by pulling out two bottles at the same time, but it doesn't work because the mechanism is just right.
I'm sure these old machines are wasteful of energy, with the door letting the cold air out of all the bottles. And the glass bottles would break and wreak havoc, and they were heavy, and they didn't hold much, and if they were returnable somebody had to haul them back to the bottler.
But it was better dammit.
Before Harley Davidson made their dealers remodel for the yuppies, Hanums in Media, had a Coke machine that sold the heavy glass 6 1/2 oz bottles. That stuff would take the scum from a 3 day binge, off your tongue. Or the chrome off your bumper.:D
Cardboard records you'd cut out from the sides of cereal boxes.
Originally posted by warch
Cardboard records you'd cut out from the sides of cereal boxes.
Man I forgot all about those things!
I even ate cereal I couldn't stand for those sometimes.
My next entry: actual prizes in Crackerjack ... what they are putting in there now are certainly less likely to result in a liability lawsuit, but the joy of finding the miniature compass in a tire or the bug's eye viewer can not be felt by today's children.
Cereal boxes were regularly bowed out and ripped up, to say nothing of the poor cereal, as my bro and I dug in there for gold. Cereal? what cereal?
We'd get in trouble if we cut out the box before the cereal was gone...on one occasion my dad tossed the empty box of Honeycomb which included a pressed record of "Sugar" (appropriate) by the Archies. Gone...gone...We raises such a ruckus he yelled at us, stormed out and returned with a new 45 (record)
This was also a time when we'd use that glass bottled milk with the cardboard top-the milkman left it on our doorstep in a silver insulated box.
Boy, now I feel old.
We had the milk delivery when I was a youth, and then it stopped. And then, in 1977, we up and lived in England for a while, and the milk delivery was back again. This time it was better: it was in pint bottles, and it was not homogenized so the cream floated to the top. You'd either pour it off for use as cream later, or you'd stir it in if you preferred whole milk.
My #1 ex's grandfather used to pour off the cream for his cereal then eat it with a fork leaving a bowl of slightly used cream for the kids.:rolleyes:
Originally posted by Undertoad
We had the milk delivery when I was a youth, and then it stopped. And then, in 1977, we up and lived in England for a while, and the milk delivery was back again. This time it was better: it was in pint bottles, and it was not homogenized so the cream floated to the top. You'd either pour it off for use as cream later, or you'd stir it in if you preferred whole milk.
[COLOR=indigo]And man, if you forgot to bring in the milk one morning, it was spoiled by noon.[/COLOR]
UH....i vaguely remember the invention of the microwave oven? sears came out with a geigercounter after we had it for a year...."just to check" ....I do not currently own a microwave......I have a convection toaster oven.
....and the vcr.......did any of you go beta?
what makes me feel old is when i get a loan approved for someone who was born in 1984. and i graduated in '88.
after reading this thread, though, i'm feeling slightly more sprightly.
No microwave!? How do you dry off the pets after a bath?
Or make funky designs on CDRs?
One of my HS teachers swore by Beta, and would only use VHS when necessary...and this was '93.
Originally posted by sycamore
One of my HS teachers swore by Beta, and would only use VHS when necessary...and this was '93.
'93?!? whoa. i was a manager at a local video store chain and we only carried VHS. that was from '89 to 91, in the collage days.
as a kid i used to like to catch roaches with a paper towel then wad it up so they couldn't get out and the zap them until they popped in the microwave. sick i know, but i'm sure someone has done worse......
The only time i miss the microwave is when i want microwave popcorn, but as i am now 2 mos into the atkins diet, and can't have popcorn anyway, I don't miss it at all. jinx assures me that the microwave destroys most of the nutrients in food anyway. plus this toaster is almost as fast. and food is crispy not soggy.
PS. why the fuck is the semi colon where it is instead of where the apostrophe is?! i use the apostrophe all the time, and hardly ever use the semicolon. I'd like to start a revolution about this. I must have backed up 3 or 4 times to correct the semicolon typo. maybe i just shouldn;t bother. yeah, that;s it. that;s my revolution right there. i will no longer bother to correct that typo when i miss the apostrophe key and hit semi by mistake! who;s with me?!
[SIZE=1]-no i'm not drunk.....i;m just punchy from a busy day [/SIZE]
Originally posted by lumberjim
i will no longer bother to correct that typo when i miss the apostrophe key and hit semi by mistake! who;s with me?!
[SIZE=1]-no i'm not drunk.....i;m just punch from a busy day [/SIZE]
LJ ya rebel! it;s alright on the typo;s. what? make your quota in one day did;ja?
p.s. - i need a citified redneck refill!:beer:
[COLOR=indigo]Talk about old, I can remember when the ' and the " were on a typewriter on the upper left of the keyboard, where the ` and ~ is now.[/COLOR]
Originally posted by plthijinx
'93?!? whoa. i was a manager at a local video store chain and we only carried VHS. that was from '89 to 91, in the collage days.
This guy was a nut...he had tons of old Beta machines in the A/V room. I personally haven't seen blank Beta tapes sold in at least 15 years, and I've never seen them at a video rental store.
jinx assures me that the microwave destroys most of the nutrients in food anyway.
Not to pick on jinx all the time, I swear I don't mean to, but this is one of those shit molecule theories that juju can disprove with dye and paper.
[SIZE=1]IMO, naturally[/SIZE]
If I believed everything Rho said, I'd be dead by now, probably. And vice versa. :)
Originally posted by lumberjim
PS. why the fuck is the semi colon where it is instead of where the apostrophe is?! i use the apostrophe all the time, and hardly ever use the semicolon. I'd like to start a revolution about this. I must have backed up 3 or 4 times to correct the semicolon typo. maybe i just shouldn;t bother. yeah, that;s it. that;s my revolution right there. i will no longer bother to correct that typo when i miss the apostrophe key and hit semi by mistake! who;s with me?!
Dude, go
Dvorak. Every key is in it's most logical, efficient place, based on placing commonly used keys nearer to the primary fingers (index and middle fingers). Of course, it is exceedingly tricky to unlearn the conventional keyboard, which was
specifically designed to slow the typist down:
The type-bar system and the universal keyboard were the machine’s novelty, but the keys jammed easily. To solve the jamming problem, another business associate, James Densmore, suggested splitting up keys for letters commonly used together to slow down typing. This became today’s standard "QWERTY" keyboard.
As for moments of feeling old, I've had a few. Probably my worst was last May, when my wife and I moved into our new house. A neighbor came over to say hello and introduce himself, so I called my wife to come join us, and introduced her simply as "Brittany." We talked for another minute or so, and the neighbor asked "So where's your wife?"
I indicated Brittany, and said "Er, she's right here."
"Oh!' He said. "I thought she was your daughter."
That guy is
still on my shit list. Heheh. I'm only three years older than she is.... damnit. Sure, she does look young, but young enough to be my daughter? Damn.
Originally posted by Undertoad
Not to pick on jinx all the time, I swear I don't mean to, but this is one of those shit molecule theories that juju can disprove with dye and paper.
[SIZE=1]IMO, naturally[/SIZE]
I'll talk to her tonight and see if she can substantiate her claims. I never bother to challenge her with this kind of thing, (although i did resist the microwave thing for a while) cuz she can usually show me the why's and wherefore's. I really don;t miss the "reactor" though.
and those poop molecules are real, man! juju is nuts! i mean, who are you gonna believe? a doctor that crawled around on public bathroom floors for years doing his research or some well educated adult college student with a little red die and a paper plate!? c'mon!
Originally posted by sycamore
This guy was a nut...he had tons of old Beta machines in the A/V room. I personally haven't seen blank Beta tapes sold in at least 15 years, and I've never seen them at a video rental store.
i saw them but only in the mid '80;s! that guy was a die hard not-to-let-it-go personna! let me guess, he invested Thousands in the beta-max, eh?
pl, I dunno about thousands...well, maybe. I remember when VCRs were $300-500.
Regarding the microwave thing, the only semi-serious study I've seen regarding loss of nutrients is in vegetables. Though there is other information out there, a lot of it seems unsubstantiated.
Originally posted by plthijinx
'93?!? whoa. i was a manager at a local video store chain and we only carried VHS. that was from '89 to 91, in the collage (emphasis added) days.
You made art by pasting cutout pictures from magazines onto things? Do you have pictures??
Yes, you young whippersnapper, there was a time when BetaMax was thought to be the superior format for video distribution. (okay, the REALLY superior one was the laser disk, but that didn't last because it was too damn expensive and you couldn't record on them).
Once upon a time videos were relased Beta-only. Sony, however, made one of their rare technological gaffes ... they made the format proprietary, so no cheap knockoffs were produced and the format died a quiet death as the VHS format was produced in cheaper and cheaper units.
My first VHS VCR cost $349.99, from Hess' Department Store, and had a programmable timer (very big deal) and a wired remote control. It was a front-loader rather than a top loader. I bought it in 1984, at which time there were no video store chains (West Coast was just starting to penetrate the east coast video market, Blockbuster opened their Montgomeryville store a quite a few years later) and the mom and pop video store I joined (you had to pay a membership fee in the bad old days) in Ambler was 3/4 Beta to 1/4 VHS. I watched that ratio change over time, until they finally discontinued their Beta collection, mostly by selling it off to tape-hungry BetaMax owners. Unlike the major chainstores, the mom and pops' had the infamous "back room" for adult oriented viewing, so I was able to see such classics as Caligula and Alien Lust.
originally posted by OnyxCougar
Talk about old, I can remember when the ' and the " were on a typewriter on the upper left of the keyboard, where the ` and ~ is now.
HAH. I remember typewriters that were produced without a number 1. You had to remember to type a lowercase "l". I also suffered through the use of a "proportionally spaced" typewriter. This IBM electric monstrosity produced beautiful business correspondence, unless you made a mistake, because the letters each had different widths. You also had to remember that a "W" required three backspaces, but a "n" needed only two.
LJ mentioned jinx having an unusual belief regarding nuke-a-matics
As far as the microwave sucking nutrients out of food ... if you are cooking fresh foods, that doesn't seem logical, at least it won't suck anymore nutrients out of something than conventional cooking would. And, for veggies, since the cooking time is shorter, and you are essentially steaming them, just so long as you don't cook the broccoli into a gooey mess, then it should retain more vitamins than if you boil them. Prepackaged microwavable foods have the nutrients pre-sucked out of them at the factory, though. Perhaps that's what you should be worried about.
I believe we both went to the same place. That's the one where one of the clerks was a moonlighting Ambler cop, right?
And membership records were kept on library-style cards in a box up front?
Brian
Yes, Brian, that's the place, next to Guiseppe's Pizza ... it was the ONLY video store in town ... until the West Coast opened up in Broad Axe about 5-6 years later.
Originally posted by Undertoad
Not to pick on jinx all the time, I swear I don't mean to, but this is one of those shit molecule theories that juju can disprove with dye and paper.
[SIZE=1]IMO, naturally[/SIZE]
Oh, seriously, don't worry about 'picking on' me becuase you disagree..... disagree all you want. I'm pretty confident in any decision I've made that I've bothered to research at all, you're not going to bust my bubble by cracking a little joke. And hell, if you want to nuke your food, or hold a radar gun in your lap, or live next to a cell tower - you go for it man. More power to ya!
I just don't know how you can choke the shit down... yuk. :3eye:
I was looking for a different thread and found this ... Just happened to have an experience to add.
We have a new ambulance kid at the nuthouse. He's 19, or maybe 20. I had to explain Woolworth's to him.
And then two of the guys made a joke about Kung Fu (miming picking up the heated bowl at the end of the trial), that they then had to explain.
The young man assures me, however, that he remembers his grandmother having a rotary dial phone, so today's youth are learning something of history.
I subscribe to the theory that the main reason time goes more slowly for kids is that each minute represents a larger percentage of the total time they can remember.
That's what I've always thought, too!
Kid's hearts beat faster than adults; therefore they have a different perception of time. The smaller the creature, the faster the heartbeat, the slower time moves.
The smaller the creature, the faster the heartbeat, the slower time moves.
That is not necessarily true. Many obese people have resting heart rates in the 100s. Mine is 65-67bpm, my 2 lb Chihuahua is 72 bpm. Go figure. . .
I know I'm getting old. We had a rotary dial phone just one , and it was in the kitchen. We had only one TV black and white with no remote. my mom stayed home and took care of us, making our clothes. We had a washing machine but no dryer she used a clothes line in the back yard. My Dads uniforms had to be stiff starched I well remember her doing that. We had a Crosley stove, and a Kelvenator refrigerator. Our house cost $15,500.00 a 2br 1ba with a car port on a standard city lot, 1 mile from the beach it has an ocean view sort of. It last sold 2 years ago for 1.5 Million, ridiculous. I loved that old house.
"You're Old!!!" moments
When somebody posts something to an old thread you started, and you see that you started it six years ago.
When somebody posts something to an old thread you started, and you see that you started it six years ago.
And you felt old then.... :haha:
This guy was a nut...he had tons of old Beta machines in the A/V room. I personally haven't seen blank Beta tapes sold in at least 15 years, and I've never seen them at a video rental store.
Ha! we got sucked in to the Beta-max grove in 1982. The picture was better than VHS at the time, so the pron was always a little clearer.
Ha! we got sucked in to the Beta-max grove in 1982. The picture was better than VHS at the time, so the pron was always a little clearer.
Seriously? I had the impression that one of the reasons VHS won (the ONLY reason according to some people) was that Sony wouldn't license Beta to adult film distributors. Or, something.... one way or another, there was pron on VHS and not on Beta.
No, they wouldn't let other deck manufacturers use their proprietary system, trying to corner the market. The picture was better on beta, and the sound was an order of magnitude better. My buddy did a lot of music recording on beta, because you had to spend a fortune to get an audio tape recorder that was as quiet as the beta. I've still got a beta, along with a couple of VHS units, in the attic.
It's 1981. I'm a 23-year old freshman in college (spent a few years dicking around ;) ). My class goes on a field trip, and I bring along a stereo/cassette player with a couple of mixed tapes I made. The song
Bad Company (major hit from a #1 album) plays.
Nobody in the bus knows the song.
*
dies*
lol Glinda!
I just had a You're Old moment. Was watching an episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and in the identity parade round, they showed a video clip of an indie band from 1994, then when the line up came on for the team to guess which one was the base guitarist, they all looked like old blokes! I thought shit! They're my age! I'm an oldie! I still think of the 90s as kind of modern. It's so not *sobs*
Heh, I put brand new 20 year shingles on the roof so I wouldn't have to worry about it... 22 years ago. :(
Yeah, when I programmed the station presets on my most recent car stereo, the oldies station was one I put in there. When the station came on after I programmed it, it was the Eagles. Hotel California. "Hey, I remember when that came out." Awww, shit. I'm old.
Wait what was I gonna post in this thread? Uggghhhh
Recently, we gals sat around and had a chat. Suddenly, we noticed if we weren't talking about ailments, we were reminiscing about the good old times. Someone mentioned all that was missing in the picture is cheesecake for us to be the Golden Girls. :right:
I felt really old at work recently when my dispatch team was discussing the year they each graduated high school when one of them asked my year of graduation. I told him I graduated hs in 1986 and he began to laugh and snicker under his breath. When I questioned him about his laughter he simply said, 'i wasn't born until 1987 Ms Julie'! I would love to have killed him at that very moment!
JuJu, I graduated in '86!! You're not ol--wait, nevermind.
It's ok Gravdigr....I didn't start really living until I hit 40! And capnhowdy makes me feel like a young sexy 18 yr old again!
Seriously? I had the impression that one of the reasons VHS won (the ONLY reason according to some people) was that Sony wouldn't license Beta to adult film distributors. Or, something.... one way or another, there was pron on VHS and not on Beta.
Well we saw a ton of it on betamax. So someone was making it.
If you build it they will cum
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I still can't figure that youtube link shit out.
Hit the quote button and look at what you wrote and what I wrote. I took the number after the equal sign in your link, and put it in the utube brackets.
I'm glad I have a 20-year old sister-in-law that keeps me abreast of what is cool and what is not...otherwise, I'd be fucked.
Hit the quote button and look at what you wrote and what I wrote. I took the number after the equal sign in your link, and put it in the utube brackets.
Hallelujah!!!! Thank you, Bruce! Finally...:D (I tried it, and it works. :p)
I've just finished looking after seven horses during the worst patch of weather we've had for a long time. Just before I started, and going on previous experience, I commented to my seventy year old neighbour that 'I am getting too old for this caper'.
He didn't even have the common decency to contradict me!
That's one mistake I shall not make again.
Carruthers (The wrong side of fifty................. groan):o
Ha Ha, don't you hate it when people agree with you?
But cheer up, the horses love you.
Ha Ha, don't you hate it when people agree with you?
Yeah, like when you say, "Oh, I'm so fat," "Oh, I'm being stupid, or how you look or feel old, and you get the agreement of silence. :neutral: People are supposed to disagree when you say something negative about yourself, not agree!:rolleyes: What's worse is when they verbally agree and add a few more points. :eyebrow: So rude....:headshake ... :lol:
First time I noticed the Playboy Bunnies were younger than me by two years.
I felt really really old at 9.02 pm yesterday when my baby gave birth to her baby and made me an official Granddad.
We went to see them today and Mum and my grand daughter are doing great.
While I was sitting in the hospital holding this brand new life in my arms I had a bit of a strange feeling 23 years ago i held my new born daughter in my arms and now I'm holding her daughter in my arms and I thought where do the years go?....
Nothing wrong with Old Grandad, my father drank it all the time. :haha:
Congrats be-bop! where do the years go indeed!
That's wonderful, Be-Bop! I'm glad to hear the little family is doing great!
Congratulations be-bop!
Recipes. I remember when you had to call a friend to find out about a recipe. Now there's the internet.
Most recent, I was telling a 62 year old woman about how the government wouldn't allow margarine manufacturers to add yellow dye to their product.
Yep, you're old all right.
Mortality's sable wings, is what.
I came upon this last night and thought this might be an appropriate place for it...
As I Mature
I've learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in.
I've learned that no matter how much I care, some people are just assholes.
I've learned that it takes years to build up trust, and it only takes suspicion, not proof, to destroy it.
I've learned that you can get by on charm for about fifteen minutes. After that, you'd better have a big willy or huge boobs.
I've learned that you shouldn't compare yourself to others-they are more screwed up than you think.
I've learned that you can keep vomiting long after you think you're finished.
I've learned that we are responsible for what we do, unless we are celebrities.
I've learned that regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades, and there had better be a lot of money to take its place.
I've learned that 99% of the time when something isn't working in your house, one of your kids did it.
I've learned that people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon and the less important ones just never go away.
Pass this along to 5 friends...trust me they'll appreciate it. Who knows maybe somthing good will happen.
If not...tough SHIT!
60 Minutes Correspondent Andy Rooney (CBS): As I grow in age, I value women over 50 most of all. Here are just a few reasons why:
· A woman over 50 will never wake you in the middle of the night and ask, ‘What are you thinking?’ She doesn’t care what you think..
· If a woman over 50 doesn’t want to watch the game, she doesn’t sit around whining about it. She does something she wants to do, and it’s usually more interesting.
· Women over 50 are dignified. They seldom have a screaming match with you at the opera or in the middle of an expensive restaurant. Of course, if you deserve it, they won’t hesitate to shoot you if they think they can get away with it.
· Older women are generous with praise, often undeserved. They know what it’s like to be unappreciated.
· Women get psychic as they age. You never have to confess your sins to a woman over 50.
· Once you get past a wrinkle or two, a woman over 50 is far sexier than her younger counterpart.
· Older women are forthright and honest… They’ll tell you right off if you are a jerk, if you are acting like one… You don’t ever have to wonder where you stand with her.
· Yes, we praise women over 50 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it’s not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 50, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize..
· For all those men who say, ‘Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free? Here’s an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it’s not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!
With the gray infiltration in my goatee, I'd been getting a lot of "Sir" from cashiers wait staff etc... So I trimmed it back to a lower lip brush and got a solid "Man" today. Much better.
the ma'am kills me... I have purple hair ffs, don't ma'am me!
Spoken: "Ma'am"
Thought: "...the purple hair isn't fooling anyone."
:bolt:
yup. fuckers. still card me, though....
maybe I should top the purple hair with a red hat? :lol:
I don't know, I'm thinkin' more Little Nellish...
When kids I knew when they were 2 are now working behind the bar....
When a song comes on at work and it reminds me of clubbin' days, and we figure out what year its from....and someone pipes up with "ohhh, thats the year I was born".
Im not growing old gracefully..at.all.
What sucks is when you are the oldest person in your unit. You are even older than the parents of your troops. It really sucks that they expect you to keep up with these kids in PT. Probably the worst are the gasps when they catch you undressing. It appears gray body hair really freaks kids out. I'm going to start shaving it off (again). BTW, what's with this stuff that older you are the lower your balls hang. I'm seriously starting to worry about stepping on them.
Ducksnuts - Growing old gracefully? I've seen your pics. You're about 26 or 27, right? Geezzz
I recently saw some photos from my year twelve formal (trans: senior prom) ... there are ashtrays on the tables.
Went out for a meal yesterday for the birthday of a family friend. My 16 year old niece has recently discovered alcohol. Not in a big way: she's very sensible. She's always been allowed a taste/small glass of what the grownups were drinking, so it's never held huge attraction for her. But in the past 6 months she's started having an occasional drink with her mates. Usually an alcopop like Wicked.
Anyway: I went to the bar to get drinks for me, mum and the girls: wine for me and mum, coke for youngest niece....and a bottle of Wicked for eldest niece. That made me feel old :P buying a 'proper drink' for a girl whose nappy I used to change.
Juju and I went to the buffet for lunch and the cashier gave me the senior citizen's discount without even asking me if I was a senior. Sheesh.
Ducksnuts - Growing old gracefully? I've seen your pics. You're about 26 or 27, right? Geezzz
I love you, Sarge :) ... Add 10ish
I've decided I prefer zip up cardies to button up ones. Now THATS old! :lol:
I've decided I prefer zip up cardies to button up ones. Now THATS old! :lol:
Why would this preference be considered as old?
Why would this preference be considered as old?
Maybe because she's thinking of
these...the old mans cardigan.
Or especially this one...
I find myself worried about the fella on the "Lumberjacket" cover. Clearly up to no good. Emu guy is carefully considering getting it on with Argyle dude.
Buttons vs. zippers be damned... I submit that there is no such thing as a "young" cardigan.
About 8 years ago our local brick and mortar mom and pop main street usa clothing store finally went down for the count. After a splendid 50-80% off sale they shut up the store and eventually it became a Curves franchise.
A few months ago, the owner of the building wanted the basement cleaned out and her friend offered to help out. There had been a wedding or dance or Fireman's Chicken Dinner or something and the tent was still up on the village green over the weekend.
The friend went into the basement of the defunct clothing shop and hauled out hundreds of boxes of clothes and shoes and everything you could imagine that hadn't sold or had been forgotten about, and set it all out under the tent on the green. It was all in miraculous shape. I.e. no mildew or mold or anything. With the exception of the shoes which had that characteristic film of green on improperly stored leather.
There were some great gems and it was "fill a grocery bag for $5." My wife went berserk and brought home tons of shit. She was like a cocaine rat. I went over and filled a bag with Carhartt baseball hats, so I'll not have to buy another hat for at least 20 years.
She also bought me a white cotton knit cardigan with the leather covered buttons...
It's going to good will or Sal's.
Dude, get a nice pair of Pumas and wear it with pride!
I wold have loved pumas! There was a pair of mustard yellow chucks in my son's size, so my wife snagged them.
Buttons vs. zippers be damned... I submit that there is no such thing as a "young" cardigan.
exactly ;)
Buttons vs. zippers be damned... I submit that there is no such thing as a "young" cardigan.
Really? I like cardigans. :D Let me look to see if there are any young looking ones, hihi. :p:
If you don't give a rat's ass what they think, and wear what you want, you're old... or a slob... or in my case, both. :lol:
Or if you wear what someone else lays out for you.
It that case, you might just be rich. :haha:
Cardigans are warm, but they require that you have a pipe in your mouth while you wear them.
I don't know, but those Victoria's Secret models sure don't look old in cardigans. ;)
Got to love those funny old people jokes though.
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Just in case you weren’t feeling too old today:
The people who are starting college this fall were born in 1991.
They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.
Their lifetime has always included AIDS.
The CD was introduced two years before they were born.
They have always had an answering machine.
They have always had cable.
Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.
Popcorn has always been microwaved.
They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.
They don’t know who Mork was or where he was from.
They never heard: ‘Where’s the Beef?’, ‘I’d walk a mile for a Camel’, or ‘de plane, Boss, de plane’.
McDonald’s never came in Styrofoam containers.
They don’t have a clue how to use a typewriter.
Bruce, why you have to go and do that. :( Was telling a friend the other day I only feel old cuz they make me feel old. After your post, I can't be in self-denial anymore. :thepain: ... :lol:
The people who are starting college this fall were born in 1991.
...
The CD was introduced two years before they were born.
I remember playing with CD players in an electronics store in school year 1982/1983. I bought one in 1986.
That's cause your a geek or a nerd or whatever the proper term is, this was for normal people. :p:
Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.
'Cept when it was Coco.
This morning I took our visiting Labradog out for a walk. A group of trainees from the nearby RAF station had just emerged from the woods. 'Good morning, gentlemen' says I, which elicited the appropriate response from all but the only female member of the leading group. She just scowled.
The NCO i/c was a few paces behind and he said 'Good morning, sir'. Now, nobody ever calls me sir. It just doesn't happen.
I have to assume that it was my natural air of authority - stop laughing - or my prematurely grey hair.
OK, I admit it, I'm the wrong side of fifty and I probably do look old. There's nothing I can do about that but that doesn't mean I'm happy about it.
:(:(:(
Our Meels is dating. She brought a lad home to meet my Bro and SiL. He's 18.
I swear every time I look around she's passed another bloody milestone.
..and my cousin June who at 62 is the same age as me, has just become a great-grandma. Awesome.