You know you're getting old when...

[Bunny the Veggie Slayer]

1: You say "What are they teaching kids in school these days?"

A new girl started working with us a few weeks ago. Nearly 18yo bubbly and friendly with customers and seemed pretty smart... Until yeterday.

She came up to me with something in a bag.
Young'un : "Bunny, someone left this at the till. I don't know what it is or where we keep it."

I looked in the bag.

=80 : "You're telling me that you've never seen a cauliflower before? Seriously?"


I've decided that for the rest of the week (or longer if I can get the mileage) I'm going to go up to her every shift with a different piece of fruit or veg.

"This is a carrot. CAR-ROT."
"This is a Potato. PO-TA-TO"

2: You make a pop culture reference they could never get.

At my last store, one of the girls at work was talking about this new chocolate desert we had in, and how it was playing merry hell with her diet. I made some comment about this making her my "chocolate girl" and getting a totally blank look from her.

One of my supervisors was there "Bunny she'll never have heard of that song she's too young."

I said that was a load of rubbish and did some quick maths in my head. That song came out when I was around 13-14...

She would have been 2yo tops.

That was also the first time I ever felt like a dirty old man.

[It shouldn't]

......when you put the hedge clippers in a "safe" place but then can't remember where the safe place is.
So you finally purchase a new pair.
Guess what you find when you go to put the new ones away in a 'safe' place?


Or the classic.......
looking high and low for the reading glasses until someone points them out on top of your head.

[Argabarga]

Or you walk into a room and suddenly can't remember why you were in there?

[Bunny the Veggie Slayer]

I once spent 20 minutes looking for my glasses...

I was wearing them.


What's worse is my prescription is more than +8 diopters for each eye. I literally can't see my hand in front of my face if I'm not wearing them

[Pagan]

I'm glad I'm not the only one with CRS - Can't Remember Shit!

[Lil Bunny]

This Bunny was on her cell phone the other day yacking to my friend as I was getting ready to leave work.

I ended up tearing my purse apart, emptying my lunch bag and even rechecking my desk when my boss finally asked me "What the heck are you doing??"

"Looking for my cell obviously"

Both him and my friend started laughing unmercifully. It literally took me 30 seconds to realize why.

*headdesk*

Oh and explaining Ozzy to someone? That was a fun convo.

[fireheart]

In regards to the first story, one of our coworkers when he first started didn't know what a lime was
Aaaand I am so glad that we get tested weekly on various produce. (we get the obscure and the not-so-obscure)

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I say you know you're old when you think "Time For Me To Fly" is a song by REO Speedwagon and not the Jonas Brothers.

[JoitheArtist]

I never believed my parents when they said they had trouble remembering their age, and had to calculate forward from their birthdates.

Until I turned 22, and couldn't remember either!

This year I'm...um...let's see, 1982...27!

*facepalm*

eta: and no, i'm not silly enough to think that 27 is old. I just *feel* old sometimes.

[Food Lady]

Quoth fireheart17

In regards to the first story, one of our coworkers when he first started didn't know what a lime was Aaaand I am so glad that we get tested weekly on various produce. (we get the obscure and the not-so-obscure)

Every time I bring leeks to the cash register @ Walmart, the cashier has to ask what they are. But I have to admit I didn't know what they were until a couple of months ago.