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

[Leslie Anne]

I don't understand the jokes in the "You Laugh, You Lose" thread. That makes me feel very old.

[tootiepie2]

I am teaching the children of former students. Last year I taught 3 grandchildren of people who graduated with my husband and he is a year younger than me.

[Pecan]

I remember the world before the Lil Wayne, Nikki Minaj (sp?) and Justin Bieber takeover, and even before Spice Girls and N'Sync.

Does that make me old?

[DrPhil]

When the rap fans of today don't know the origin of hip hop and rap, and the older hip hop songs including: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSoXHUlwraU

[Amicus]

Waiting for a bus a few weeks back, a young man stopped and asked me "Pops, do you know what time it is?" Pops?!?! It was worse than the first time I was called "sir" and the other person wasn't patronizing me.

My first camera was a Polaroid Swinger. It cost $19.95 (if I had too much to drink, I would sing the Polaroid Swinger jingle for you all)

I cannot watch Saturday Night Live (except for the Betty White episode) because whoever is in the cast won't be a funny as the original cast. Yes, I know why "Franco is dead" is funny. I cringe when I remember laughing at SNL sketches in which Buck Henry played a child molesting baby sitter.

I remember when television sets had rabbit ears.

I own a Smith Corona Correctomatic Typewriter. That was cutting edge technology in 1975; I was a popular person in the freshmen dorms.

I know Bobby Sherman and Leif Garrett are.

Oh well

[carnation]

My first camera was a Polaroid Swinger. It cost $19.95 (if I had too much to drink, I would sing the Polaroid Swinger jingle for you all)

Meet the swinger, Polaroid Swinger! Meet the swinger, Polaroid Swinger! It's more than a camera, it's almost alive, it's only nineteen dollars and ninety-five!

Swing it up (yeah yeah) it says yes! (I forget the rest)

ETA: My husband thinks that the last 2 lines are:
Swing it down, it says no!
Turn it off!

[Amicus]

Carnation,

You did it better than I could have done. My hat is off to you, lovely lady

[Alumiyum]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

LOL. You're either old or you're just coolerererer than she is.

On that note, when the teenagers don't know that certain songs are remakes or they think certain songs and artists are new. Then I show them the date that the song was released and the artist first came on the music scene.

I remember when my parents used to school us on music like that. They'd get out the 8-tracks and albums and tell us what's what. That's one reason why I still prefer older music and listen to the old folks stations.

I almost always recognize the remake (and I know I'm not a teenager, but still) because of my dad's musical tastes and tendencies to play the same tape...yeah, it took him a long time switch to CD's and we're just now teaching him how to use the iPod on the iPhone he got for work...over and over and over and over. But many of my friends do not recognize that the songs are remakes and it makes me sad they missed out on great music.

[aephi alum]

I felt old when I got my first mailing from AARP.

I was 19. The mailing came to my college address. I wasn't even old enough to drink legally, never mind retire.

[AKA_Monet]

Southern Hardcore Rock... Like "Maylene And The Sons of Disaster"

Now I'd called it country, blues, rock--something, but kids call it something else... LOL!!!

Bless they hearts...

[Amicus]

I have a friends who cast their first votes ever for then-California Gov. Jerry Brown in the 1976 presidential primaries. Gov. Brown was seen as the future of the Democratic party; I think he was all of 38 years old at the time. The more things change...

The other day I used the term "Rockefeller Republican." In mock horror, one of my friends said "You mean Jay Rockefeller used to be a Republican?!?"

The above story does lead to another point, I remember when "liberal Republican" and "conservative Democrat" were not contradictions-in-terms

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

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

6 days

[KSUViolet06]

Visiting my cousins (middle school aged) who were listening to Justin Bieber. I commented on how one of the songs sounded like NSYNC.

They both gave me a blank stare and asked who that was. When I told them it was the band that Justin Timberlake used to be in, and I think they got it.

[ColdInCanada11]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Visiting my cousins (middle school aged) who were listening to Justin Bieber. I commented on how one of the songs sounded like NSYNC.

They both gave me a blank stare and asked who that was. When I told them it was the band that Justin Timberlake used to be in, and I think they got it.

NSYNC was my childhood. This makes me sad.

[PiKA2001]

I'm closer to 35 than I am 20. I turn 30 in 14 months.

All if these new kids going through rush were still in elementary school when I first joined GC (in 2001). I'm also thinking about my retirement and wondering if I'm really investing enough into my 401k.