Shit that reminds me I'm old.

[wolfie]

The actual being involved with her part made me feel young.

I believe it was Groucho Marks who said "A man is only as old as the woman he feels".

This morning, when the waitress brought the bill for my breakfast, she asked herself out loud "Did I remember to put in the senior discount?" Yes, she had - and I've still got a few months to run before I hit 48.

[LesserSouthernFroglet]

Lets see...

Seeing things I currently own and use in the kitchen at the local antique shop.

Being old enough to be a parent to most of the people I know.

Seeing the date on a M*A*S*H re-run the other night and realising it's over 40 years old.

Going to a cruise briefing recently and seeing all these 'old farts' going on the cruise as well - then realising I'm probably up there with them in age. <sob!>

Finding out the guy I called a cranky old bastard is younger than me...

[El Pollo Guerrera]

Talking with people at the 'nerd club' about seeing "Star Wars" when it came out in theatres... the first time... 37 years ago...

A surprising number of the club members haven't seen it at all, either.

Also, I was playing cards with a few who were talking about anime... I mentioned that I wasn't a fan but the last one I had bought was the re-release of "Akira". None of them heard of it.

[taxguykarl]

Carding my tax custys and remembering where I was on their DOB's in the '80's and '90's.

[ADeMartino]

"Reagan was shot?" - honest answer to the question of "Where were you..." And this was years ago while he was still alive.

ON. MY. BIRTHDAY. It really put a damper on things.

[sms001]

Be thankful there's no hover cars, though.
Could you imagine three-dimensional gridlock?

Glad someone else feels this way - flying cars would be a nightmare; screw the gridlock, people can't drive in TWO dimensions! (Although we don't have to imagine 3D gridlock, the getaway scene in The 5th Element depicts it pretty well. )

[AnaKhouri]

We were visiting my mom and she had been cleaning out the basement. She handed me our old rotary phone. "Remember this?"

My son (almost 5) asked what it was. When we told him it was a phone he glared at it and said, "No, it's not!"

[MoonCat]

Talking with people at the 'nerd club' about seeing "Star Wars" when it came out in theatres... the first time... 37 years ago...

Me, too!

I was once with my brother at the nearby thrift shop. There was a teen boy there who pointed to an item there and asked us, "How does this work?"

It was a record-player. You know, kiddies, the thing with the arm, and the needle, and...oh, never mind.

Wasn't sure if I should be annoyed that he figured we would know, or not.

[Racket_Man]

Also, I was playing cards with a few who were talking about anime... I mentioned that I wasn't a fan but the last one I had bought was the re-release of "Akira". None of them heard of it.

If you really want to get "early anime" try seeing the first run of Speed Racer here in the US in the late 1960s.

I remember Tobor the 8th Man (he smoked some kind of energy cigarettes to rejuvenate his power) shown in the US around 1966 I think and the original Astro Boy.

[otakuneko]

Realizing MovieBob and I are about the same age and that's probably why I agree with his opinions so much.

Realizing that "the future" as depicted in many of the cartoons I watched as a kid... is now and for one of them at least, a few years ago.

Also, I was playing cards with a few who were talking about anime... I mentioned that I wasn't a fan but the last one I had bought was the re-release of "Akira". None of them heard of it.

INCONCEIVABLE!

If you really want to get "early anime" try seeing the first run of Speed Racer here in the US in the late 1960s.

Hey! Stop making me feel young!. Just because there's no anime on my anime-planet profile older than 1971... >.>

[ADeMartino]

Me, too!

I was once with my brother at the nearby thrift shop. There was a teen boy there who pointed to an item there and asked us, "How does this work?"

It was a record-player. You know, kiddies, the thing with the arm, and the needle, and...oh, never mind.

Wasn't sure if I should be annoyed that he figured we would know, or not.

It was funny showing my nieces my old-school telephone - the one that has an actual bell, and rotary dial. They thought it was a 'novel' idea - until they found out that aside from dialing the phone number, it was pretty much useless. Most voice menu systems won't work from a rotary contraption like that.

[Mikkel]

Most voice menu systems won't work from a rotary contraption like that.

At the time you could buy tone-generators. I think I have one somewhere, made by Canon .

[Severen13]

When someone online referred to Batman Returns as an "old movie" (It was released in 1992, so I guess it qualifies as "old now" ).

Or reading about a 13-year-old kid who listened to a cassette tape on a Walkman and it took him two days to realize that he needed to flip the tape over to listen to the music on the other side.

The Joshua Tree was released in 1987.

Like A Virgin was released in 1984....two years before Lady Gaga was born.

Back to the Future turns 30 next year.




You little whippersnappers, get off my lawn!!!

[Elspeth]

My hubby's coworkers didn't know what Windows 95 looked like.

[Chromatix]

My grandfather - no, *not* my great-grandfather - was born the same year that Queen Victoria died. He served in both World Wars. (I'm actually younger than that makes me seem.)

Split-flap (Solari) displays have been retired from most railway stations and airports worldwide. I actually rather liked those - the noise they made meant that you knew when something was happening, and they remained readable from a pretty good distance.

Most word-processors now produce larger files for basic documents than most of the computers I learned to program on could easily cope with. The sheer waste astonishes me, but younger coders don't give it a second thought - they only worry about megabytes and gigabytes now, not kilobytes.

Most people today would be incredulous that a mechanical calculating machine could exist and be useful. It was still easy to find shops that used mechanical cash registers when I was young, and there were abaci in the classroom.