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

[dreamseeker]

now that i'm working again, i hate that i need to get a decent amt of sleep (i.e. 6+hrs soo going to bed by midnight the latest) or else i don't feel clearheaded enough to grasp things. i'm SO GLAD it doesn't appear that we'll have meetings or it'd be a wrap for me.

[KSUViolet06]

My chapter recently had recruitment.

I just realized that most of my chapter's new members were all born somewhere between 1992 and 93.

[Shellfish]

I just realized that in another thread I reflexively said "rush" a few times. I am so old that it can't be helped.

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

When I read this thread and say "most of these GCers are young as hell."

I know, right? I'm glad people who are older than I am started posting!

I do not feel old AT ALL. Why would I? I'm still in my 20s.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

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!!

Originally Posted by AZ-AlphaXi

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!!

Originally Posted by DrPhil

When I read this thread and say "most of these GCers are young as hell."

Thank you. The youngens complaining about feeling old makes me feel REALLY old..lol.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

When I read this thread and say "most of these GCers are young as hell."

Originally Posted by AGDee

Thank you. The youngens complaining about feeling old makes me feel REALLY old..lol.

I'm with you two.

Originally Posted by LucyKKG

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!

I stopped writing in cursive in high school (in the 70s), as soon as my teachers said I didn't have to anymore. My cursive is horrible.

But FWIW, both of my kids have had to learn cursive in elementary school, so it is still taught.

[preciousjeni]

Originally Posted by Jen

My first camera being a Kodak 110 with a cube flash.



I felt really modern when I got a Kodak Disc:

I don't remember my first camera, but I definitely had a disposable flash bar.


The only difference was that mine wasn't horizontal. It was VERTICAL, so the camera plus flash ended up being taller than my head! I distinctly remember the smell of the flash bulbs as they burned out.

I feel older when I think about being born in the 1970s and all the history that has passed since that time. But, I don't feel old by any means. I'm still a youngin!

[NinjaPoodle]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

I Kadeem Hardison if they had a flip to them.

I remember when he made flip glasses cool for young Black folks. I recall wearing a pair.

HA! Love it!