In This Thread, We Talk About Things That Make Us Feel Old
 

- My baby sister started high school today. I vividly remember when she was born, and now she's all grown up

- In 2 weeks, I'll be closer to 30 than I am to 20 :eek:

- I'm getting an awful lot of deference at frat events

- I'm starting to get invitations for my 10 year high school reunion

- I start a lot of sentences with "back in my day..."

*heads back to my patio to shoo the young whippersnappers off of my lawn*

* There are food labels I can't read no matter what if I have my contacts in.
* My youngest sister turns 40 this year
* Hearing about anything to do with my sorority chapter, and realizing they could easily be making fun of us just like we did the ladies in the 60's and 70's composites. So what if we wore massive shoulder pads and spackled on makeup?

My baby sister also started her first day of high school today.

I'm watching all the freshmen appear on campus and wonder if I used to look that wide-eyed, naive, and needlessly enthusiastic.

I'm not even that old. I just -feel- old.

I can remember what happened 30 years ago.

This is a timely thread for me...my daughter is starting kindergarten this week!!:eek::eek:

I took my baby to college on Saturday. Where did all that time go?

My oldest son has been married now for over a year, and now I'm looking forward to a grandchild... YIKES!

I don't feel old, but I am old! Never thought I'd be old....

I still remember the door chants, so at least my memory is still good.

I'm glad one of us does.;):P

- When I bring up some of my favorite artists/music videos/movies to young bucks, I'm told that "I'm into old school music/movies"

- I say "young bucks"

Stuck in your head
 

I still remember a BUNCH of them, and I never heard most of them again after that week, about this time 26 (!!!) years ago.
d.e.lta go delta. g.a.doublema go gadoublema.
piiii baaata phi for me pi beta phi for you
pi pi adpi like it love it adpi
kaappa kaappa kaappa gaamma I am truuly glaad I aam a
badoombadoom tri delta badoombadoom tri delta (ok, that's a cheat... they shared an alley with us so I heard that one for 4 years)

a sister asked if Prince was the one that sang Purple Rain.
my baby brother turned 21 and has a full beard. wtf?
i've been in a relationship for four years and am considering future steps

It's actually "I'm so happy that I am a" ;)

Ok, I know some people will roll their eyes at some of these, but they're what makes me feel old.

- I'm starting to talk about things that happened 10 years ago.

- My cousins starting frosh and senior year of HS!

Eh, I'll add more later.

Some of the kids I babysat are graduating college this year.

Oh, please!
Ya'll complaining about feeling old at, what, age 27?
My DH turned 58 this summer.
He complains about feeling old.....and his 94-year-old father rolls his eyes like a teenager!!:p

My littlest brother had his first day of college today at my alma mater. I helped move him in last week and seeing how much campus has changed made me feel old. Then I remembered it had be 15 years since MY freshman year...some really fantastic friendships were forged in my college years!

My Alumnae Chapter had our first event on Saturday. I was asking one of the new girls if she had filled out a form to join, yet. She replied, "Yes, ma'am." I live in the South and am not bothered in the least when someone calls me "ma'am", but for some reason, it really hurt at an alumnae event!

lol I have the original DS. She'd probably look at mine almost the same way.

I get called Ms. tld221 at this new job. I teeter between looking like a college student and like the mother of a college student, depending on what I wear and what I'm talking about.

My youngest brother-8 years apart-calls me a fossil. I've been upgraded from a rock (when i was 21 and he was... 13?)

Rock, fossil... I ask him what happens when i turn 26 in October, he says "you just gonna turn into dust. I feel sorry for you." :eek:

oh! and when i go to concerts of "old school" acts and know all the words to songs that came out "way back when."

Kinda like in Music and Lyrics, when Hugh Grant plays that has-been 80s pop singer... i'll totally be that girl 10 years from now with BSB/NSync, etc. Man, i am SO down for an 80s baby reunion-type show. SO DOWN.

On another note: i said something was "played out" on t.witter and has to ask, "hmm, i bet saying phrases like "played out" is played out."

I feel old when I realize I've had friends for 20 years and my husband and I have known each other for 12. We're young, but those things make me feel old. Oh and the fact that all my old relatives are on fb yet I've had it since it "became available to my college"

Ha! you'll don't know what old is ... my son graduated from college in May and my husband and I will have been married 26 years in Sept. And I pledged 40 years ago this month!!

Next month is the 8 year anniversary of claiming straightedge.

When I was in college, centennials for NPHC organizations seemed SO FAR AWAY.

Incoming freshmen (Class of 2014) will have missed two centennials and will experience FOUR!

I have multiple lipsticks from a manufacturer where the color doesn't show through the lid, and I have to put on my reading glasses to see the name of the color on the bottom. It doesn't help that the light in the room where I put on my makeup is jacked up and I need to replace it.

My baby sister starts college in less than 2 weeks.

I turned 30 3 months ago.

I found a grey hair in my eyebrow.

I remember seeing the "classics" in the movie theaters.

My senior year of high school, gas was less than a buck a gallon.

That Beloit mindset survey thing: http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2014.php

...particularly the item about most of the class of 2014 not knowing how to write in cursive. Jeez.

Yeah, what's up with that? I usually write in cursive, and I graduated in 2009. I have one friend (who's 2 years older than me!!) who confessed that he can't read cursive so I have to print for him. I don't have terrible handwriting either. Ugh!

-my cousin started her sophomore year of high school. I remember when she was born.

-my brother's ten year high school reunion is this year.

-I was a fan of Transformers, GI Joe, and He-Man when they were cartoons and not big blockbuster movies (fyi-He Man is being redone into another movie).

-I write in cursive as well (I had high schoolers that didn't know how to write in cursive).

-That I'm ready for a nap after putting in an 8 hour day setting up my classroom (and that I took one)

-I remember a time when there was no such thing as DVD players, Internet, Cell Phones, HDMI, laptops, hybrid cars, etc...

-I remember when gas was less that $1.00 a gallon.

-That I graduated high school 13 years ago.

the fact that the majority of the girls in this upcoming pledge class were born in 1992+. I'm going to feel so old compared to them.

THAT and the new kid at work didn't know what captain planet was.

I remember being in an airport and only guys with suits had computers.

I turn 30 THIS decade.

I write in cursive as well.
I didn't get a cell phone until I started college.
I have a huge collection of VHS.
80's music is awesome.

When I hear my FAVORITE songs..in an elevator, ugh, and then I start singing them.

Ugh, I've been there. I told a Saved By the Bell joke while giving a campus tour last year and only the parents laughed. ::facepalm::

And for the record, I always write in cursive.

People who were seniors when I was a freshman are turning 40 this year. :eek:

My 20 year high school reunion is next year.

This year's college freshmen were mostly born when I was in college.

Hearing songs that were popular when I was in high school on the oldies station. (Not even the classic rock station!)

My nephew started 6th grade today....and so very excitedly reminded me that next year he'll be a teenager. :eek:

I have been asked by various teenagers, "Who is NSync/BoyzIIMen/SWV?" and of course, the all-humiliating "What's a Spice Girl?"

Mr. SID came up with this one the other night: "You're getting old when you find that you're buying more Greatest Hits cds than the new ones." Yeah, my birthday is coming much too soon to laugh at that one!

You've learned to say "what or where is your tatoo," rather than "you have a tatoo?!"