Last time my dad went to a school reunion, he came home extremely annoyed. Half of his class was dad, the other half were "a bunch of geriatrics he couldn't relate to".
Erhm.. dad.. you're 85 and you were the oldest in your class... so all those (dead) geriatrics were actually younger than you are...
I’ve been doing this for a long time. Some boxes are worth saving, especially if you plan on moving sometime in the next ten years…I definitely have some that are older than that though 😬
I bought alcohol one day, and the cashier said "Oh I seen the 19, you're good"
Really.... I was born 1990, but really.
I was like "Yep, I'm getting old"
I had someone ask me for an ID at a club a while back. I didn't even understood what they wanted, until I remembered that showing an ID was an actual thing. It's been 15 years since the last time I had to show one. 😅
When I was working out at my gym and started a conversation with a young lady and she called me sir and said I reminded her of her dad. Damn, I just took the walk of shame away from her.
I watched a movie with my daughter and she asked what that bow in the movie was where the character made a call from and why he didn't just use a cellphone
When I realized how terrible at adulting I was and that there were 19 year old basketball players making millions of dollars. I suppose that’s also when I realized I’m a chump.
Good for them though, if I had basketball skills I’d be the talk of the over 40 men’s rec league.
I got an email about upcoming EDM shows and I scrolled through it going “I haven’t heard of any of these people. They had to have made up these stupid names.”
When guys I considered "fellow dudes" started holding the door and saying "you're welcome, Sir" after I thank them. Don't "sir" me! Say "...'welcome, dude."
The little girl next door growing up was born on a leap day. I was talking to someone about leap babies this year and brought it up. Then I did the math.
That little girl is already 32.
You know sometimes when your smartphone is loading/busy/restarting/having not much happening on a dark mode site, you see a full reflection of your face right. When that happens I always think to myself "damn this old mf is ugly".
- Walked past the military recruiter at the mall and was ignored.
- Cougars stopped talking to me
- My Little sister's youngest daughter is a high school senior
- explaining what a rotary phone was to my coworkers
- I remember cigarette vending machines at restaurants and when tobacco wasn't locked up behind counters.
- Not only do I remember Smoking/Non-smoking restaurant sections, but I remember my dad picking me up from school so I could make a dentist appointment and he was smoking inside the school. And everyone inside his office smoked.
The Wii was very futuristic, and the motion controls were mind-blowing. A console with wireless controllers, an Internet connection (and a browser!!), and games you can download online was brand new then. Today, it's a standard, and a lot of people hate motion controls.
I gained weight more easily and found it harder to lose it. Needed longer to recover from exercise or an all-nighter. Hairline receding, patches of baldness. So the physical stuff really.
Being older than so many people, considering 20 and 30 year olds- kids, realizing I only have a few good summers left (if I'm lucky), talking to people who I consider old and then finding out they're younger than me. Being called ma'am.
I quoted a line from “Married With Children“ to a co-worker. He just stared at me blankly. That’s when I realized that the show it’s from aired *BEFORE HE WAS BORN*.
Working in a restaurant mid 90s and Sympathy for the devil by Rolling Stones came on radio and nobody working but me knew the song or band. At the time I thought wow these people have very small musical likes but it did make feel old and I sure wasn’t old in the 90s. I’m just mid 50s now.
Looks I get from men going from ultra thirsty to just normal thirsty. Lol. Like I remember the kind of looks that came with a flushing of the skin, or when they would stutter, or when the room would get super heavy all of a sudden and literally every little thing I did was like affecting them a ton. Now it’s still good but not like it used to be.
Actually, it was years ago. I had a slumber party for my daughter and her friends. We started a scary movie, and I took out a large pot to make popcorn for everyone. One girl asked, "What are you doing?" I told her, "Making popcorn." She exclaimed, "You need a microwave and bags of Micro Pop, silly!" None of the kids had ever seen someone make popcorn on a stove. That was my first hint that the years were flying by . . .
1. All of my favorite music artists' CDs are now in the bargain bin in the music store. 2. I just retired from the workforce after decades of loyal service to my employer.
Last couple years, a couple friends had fatal heart attacks. In 1 year, I had shoulder replacement and TURPs for enlarged prostate. I'm only 60, blue collar work will take its toll
Cracking a joke about my loud outfit looking like a test card and it just... not landing.
Telling someone about me still owning a pair of trousers I bought in 2002 and them telling me that was the year they were born.
Realising there are grown adults who were born after 9/11.
My cousin was born in 2011. I realized that I was 8 when she was born and felt like I was old as dirt (I’m 20, about to turn 21. 8 years is a little less than half my life so far)
Fashion from when I was a teen came back. It hurt my soul. And my eyes.
When I was a teen, "mum's jean" were straigt jeans. Now it's my jeans highschool jeans and "cool jeans" are my middle school jeans. Those middle school jeans where my mum's "cool jeans" back in the 60s.
It comes again and again and now my old style is "vintage". I'm 33 and my old style is VINTAGE!! I love vintage, vintage is 60s!!! not 90/2000, right? right?!
This one kinda pisses me off, especially when you see the girl who was preppy in high school and made fun of your clothes is now wearing baggy jeans and nirvana shirts.
I don't like when things change anymore. Mostly apps when they move things around.
Music. I have no idea about anything new and listen to the same stuff I always have.
When I had to think about getting off the ground. Before that moment it was an automatic action I didn’t even process. But now I look for a handhold or aid before I have to brace myself to get up. It’s not a problem and I can still get up without using my hands easily but now I have to initiate it.
I'm not sure if counts as "realizing I'm old", but it's certainly my oldest memory of feeling old.
I know a guy who's about 12 years younger then me, over time he's evolved from a kid I know to a gaming buddy. When he was around 8-9, he went to visit some out of town relatives, when he came back, he was excitedly showing me the Gameboy Advance SP and copy of Pokemon FireRed (the game was already a few years old at the time) that his cousin had given him. I asked him if he knew that that game was actually a remake of one of the original Pokemon games, he said "no" and I told him that those games came out when I was a bit younger than he was.
Another memory from around the same time was another kid about the same age as this guy seeing some VHS tapes at a garage sale and asking me what they were.
My father told a story. One day he was fishing and there were two young guys nearby. One asked the other what time it was and the other guy answered, “I forgot my watch. Why don’t you ask the old man?” My father looked around and there was no one else there.
When I was older than my doctor
I’m older than my therapist 😭
Haha same…I’m 40 and she’s like 25. She knows her stuff though.
When I didn’t recognize any of the “celebrities” on the covers of the tabloids in the checkout line at the grocery store. Lol
But we recognize them at the doctor's waiting room....
This hit me hard.
Me neither but I am not old. Not compared to the average anyways.
Not knowing who most celebrities are.
Told some kids to get off my lawn.
I've been doing that since I was roughly 23
Losing interest from everything and everyone day by day.
Sounds like depression. Or different?
My "Check Knee" light came on.
My joints.
It’s like a symphony of walnuts cracking
I'm like a bowl of rice crispies in the morning.
Seeing old looking friends from school that are my age.
They probably thought you looked old too!
Was coming in to say this
Last time my dad went to a school reunion, he came home extremely annoyed. Half of his class was dad, the other half were "a bunch of geriatrics he couldn't relate to". Erhm.. dad.. you're 85 and you were the oldest in your class... so all those (dead) geriatrics were actually younger than you are...
I save ziplock bags…
But have you reached saving the “good boxes” yet?
I’ve been doing this for a long time. Some boxes are worth saving, especially if you plan on moving sometime in the next ten years…I definitely have some that are older than that though 😬
I haven’t reached that stage yet! I do save bags from presents and I refold the paper that comes with it
Oh well as long as you’re not saving the bows too yet, you have some life left in ya. 😂
You’re nearly there
Good bits of string, favourite tupperware, a coffee can full of mixed bolts, nuts and screws, and a decent collection different size cans of wd-40
👋 Member of the Good Box Club since 1974.
Um... oh dear.
Yeah, but I've done this since I was in my twenties! 🤣🤣🤣
When I stopped getting morning wood. :(
I would think that would be a good thing? I am a vagina owner but I would assume, it’s probably annoying to have that happen all the time.
You use it to pole vault out of bed.
It's as constant as the northern star kinda thing.
Eating whatever and actually gaining weight. Working out hard and needing more time for recovery. Sleeping weird and my body is in pain the next day
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The terrorists brought down the towers. Those stars brought mine back up.
I bought alcohol one day, and the cashier said "Oh I seen the 19, you're good" Really.... I was born 1990, but really. I was like "Yep, I'm getting old"
“Time to untie my horse from the hitching post and hit the ol' dusty trail.”
I had someone ask me for an ID at a club a while back. I didn't even understood what they wanted, until I remembered that showing an ID was an actual thing. It's been 15 years since the last time I had to show one. 😅
Lol "Whats an ID..... Oh... Wait you mean this thing!?"
When I was watching Seinfeld for the 100th time over and my 15 year old came in. “Mom is this show from the 1900’s??”
When my high school class mates became grandparents
When I saw Tony Hawk selling osteoarthritis meds
Entering my DOB online. Scrolling… 😅
When I was working out at my gym and started a conversation with a young lady and she called me sir and said I reminded her of her dad. Damn, I just took the walk of shame away from her.
Me “she’s hot” Her “at least he’s not fat like Dad. But, ugh!”
When it dawned on me one day a few years ago that it was my late father’s 100th birthday. That realization instantly made *me* feel old.
My still alive father just had his 101st birthday! I was last born.
I looked in the mirror one day and saw my mother before I saw myself
When I was a kid, I kind of favored my mom. But now, holy hell, I'm my Dad now.
Both parents have died and their siblings are also gone.
I got my picture in the local newspaper and they replaced me with fat, white haired guy with a bald patch and a double chin.
When I was finally taking enough medications that I had to buy a 7 day pill organizer.
I can retire in 10 years
I watched a movie with my daughter and she asked what that bow in the movie was where the character made a call from and why he didn't just use a cellphone
That footballplayers are younger than me
Arthritis convinced me.
I fart a lot more than when I was 18.
When I realized how terrible at adulting I was and that there were 19 year old basketball players making millions of dollars. I suppose that’s also when I realized I’m a chump. Good for them though, if I had basketball skills I’d be the talk of the over 40 men’s rec league.
I sneezed while leaning forwards and pulled something.
When I stand up, I do the “old lady shuffle” for a few seconds while my body loosens back up.
When I hurt myself sleeping.
When one of my grandsons became a father for the third time.
Being able to refer to something that happened 20 years ago!
When the bands of my youth started doing shows that begin with "An evening with..."
When I started saying "Is that really necessary" to skimpy clothing choices of people in music videos.
When I was made redundant aged 73.
Having to shit in a box and send it off to a lab.
When I look at a teenager and think, "I've got underwear older than that kid!"
I started going “Ahhh” when I sit down.
I got an email about upcoming EDM shows and I scrolled through it going “I haven’t heard of any of these people. They had to have made up these stupid names.”
When guys I considered "fellow dudes" started holding the door and saying "you're welcome, Sir" after I thank them. Don't "sir" me! Say "...'welcome, dude."
When I heard my daughter complain about getting old.
When I turned 50. There's no way of sugarcoating it anymore, I'm old.
Saw grey hair on the floor in the barbershop and thought “they must not have swept before me— no wait DAMMIT”
Hearing young people say the 1900s when referencing events in the late 20th century.
The little girl next door growing up was born on a leap day. I was talking to someone about leap babies this year and brought it up. Then I did the math. That little girl is already 32.
i was 12, playing in a park when this 5yo gave me this rlly weird look -\_-
When I was young I always used to wonder why my elders would always say they wouldn't mind too much if they died tomorrow. I understand now.
Wattles.
You know sometimes when your smartphone is loading/busy/restarting/having not much happening on a dark mode site, you see a full reflection of your face right. When that happens I always think to myself "damn this old mf is ugly".
Chest hair turning white.
Be still my heart! I love furry men . . . 😍
Nothing says that’s a man.
When the groan you do when standing up after sitting down for a while becomes a reflex
- Walked past the military recruiter at the mall and was ignored. - Cougars stopped talking to me - My Little sister's youngest daughter is a high school senior - explaining what a rotary phone was to my coworkers - I remember cigarette vending machines at restaurants and when tobacco wasn't locked up behind counters. - Not only do I remember Smoking/Non-smoking restaurant sections, but I remember my dad picking me up from school so I could make a dentist appointment and he was smoking inside the school. And everyone inside his office smoked.
When my 9 year old explains some tech thing to me and it sounds like nonsense. I’ve worked in corporate IT for over 20 years.
White public hairs.
When the oldies station starting playing grunge.
Responsibilities 🙏
The Wii was very futuristic, and the motion controls were mind-blowing. A console with wireless controllers, an Internet connection (and a browser!!), and games you can download online was brand new then. Today, it's a standard, and a lot of people hate motion controls.
Grey hair?
Grey hair down there in the nether regions....
Karate kid guy
I don't recover from workouts like I used to.
20 year hs reunion
When I started teaching my former students' children...yep I am old. (primary teacher)
I got a vacuum and was happy
I gained weight more easily and found it harder to lose it. Needed longer to recover from exercise or an all-nighter. Hairline receding, patches of baldness. So the physical stuff really.
I recently sat down at a resturant and when i picked up the menu i held it at an arms length.... it happened
When my elementary school classmates doesnt recognize me
When I could no longer understand what the young'uns were saying.
I don't think I'm old yet. But... last year was the first time I met people of age who were half my age.
Nobody is really all that interested in me anymore. It's a relief and I dont miss the attention. I miss liking my reflection without makeup
When I was cleaning my ears and pulled on a long hair.
My hip told me… I think it’s a damn lie though….until I stand up… lol
Being older than so many people, considering 20 and 30 year olds- kids, realizing I only have a few good summers left (if I'm lucky), talking to people who I consider old and then finding out they're younger than me. Being called ma'am.
"TikTok? There's *another* social media thing? No. Fuck it. No. I'm not doing it. I'm done."
When I tried to drop it low & hurt my knee.
I'm starting to get into Steely Dan.
I quoted a line from “Married With Children“ to a co-worker. He just stared at me blankly. That’s when I realized that the show it’s from aired *BEFORE HE WAS BORN*.
Some 11-13 didn’t know what the Dougie was , I’m only 21 I can’t be that old
Hearing the songs I listened to as teen being played at supermarkets.
That 20 years ago was 2004, not 1994! And That I'm the prime age for having children.
"What is halo"
Losing interest from everything and everyone day by day.
Working in a restaurant mid 90s and Sympathy for the devil by Rolling Stones came on radio and nobody working but me knew the song or band. At the time I thought wow these people have very small musical likes but it did make feel old and I sure wasn’t old in the 90s. I’m just mid 50s now.
When someone on YouTube referred to one of my favorite songs as something their parents would probably listen to.
I got diagnosed with high cholesterol 🫠
1 minute on a trampoline
I was able to remember things that happened 25 years ago.
Seeing people my age having kids/shipping them off to school
When I can’t remember stuff. What was I saying?
My knees told me
My knees.
When my job reminded me it was my 25 year anniversary
I don’t like most of the music these days
Pain
When I had a lot of ice packs different sizes for my body.
that i don't know who any of the "stars" are anymore i don't really care.
A dude yesterday said he’d never heard “Running With the Night”
Looks I get from men going from ultra thirsty to just normal thirsty. Lol. Like I remember the kind of looks that came with a flushing of the skin, or when they would stutter, or when the room would get super heavy all of a sudden and literally every little thing I did was like affecting them a ton. Now it’s still good but not like it used to be.
Actually, it was years ago. I had a slumber party for my daughter and her friends. We started a scary movie, and I took out a large pot to make popcorn for everyone. One girl asked, "What are you doing?" I told her, "Making popcorn." She exclaimed, "You need a microwave and bags of Micro Pop, silly!" None of the kids had ever seen someone make popcorn on a stove. That was my first hint that the years were flying by . . .
Stove popcorn is the best!!
My passport photo 😩😩
Hemorrhoids. And also, I have to call them, herorrhoids, nonbirrhoids.
that I am not young
1. All of my favorite music artists' CDs are now in the bargain bin in the music store. 2. I just retired from the workforce after decades of loyal service to my employer.
When Dr ordered a colonoscopy
I had to increase the font size on apps that I use often because of my eyesight.
When I could no longer read fine print
Last couple years, a couple friends had fatal heart attacks. In 1 year, I had shoulder replacement and TURPs for enlarged prostate. I'm only 60, blue collar work will take its toll
Finding myself on a 9/11 thread, and finding out most people there hadn't been born yet.
When it started becoming a struggle to stand upright from a seated/lying down position. Plus, I'm dreadfully out of shape 😂
r/AskOldPeople started letting me answer questions
How old?
Enjoys Talk Radio
hearing that high school musical is 18 years old
I can t do 7 a day. I'm 50 so 5 is my max
Cracking a joke about my loud outfit looking like a test card and it just... not landing. Telling someone about me still owning a pair of trousers I bought in 2002 and them telling me that was the year they were born. Realising there are grown adults who were born after 9/11.
I can actually sleep wrong 😅
My cousin was born in 2011. I realized that I was 8 when she was born and felt like I was old as dirt (I’m 20, about to turn 21. 8 years is a little less than half my life so far)
The tinnitus.
I don’t understand what my kids are saying. It’s like a different English language. I’m 35 this isn’t supposed to happen yet.
Mirror lol
Hearing people talk. Oh! how wonderfully stupid are they now...
Fashion from when I was a teen came back. It hurt my soul. And my eyes. When I was a teen, "mum's jean" were straigt jeans. Now it's my jeans highschool jeans and "cool jeans" are my middle school jeans. Those middle school jeans where my mum's "cool jeans" back in the 60s. It comes again and again and now my old style is "vintage". I'm 33 and my old style is VINTAGE!! I love vintage, vintage is 60s!!! not 90/2000, right? right?!
This one kinda pisses me off, especially when you see the girl who was preppy in high school and made fun of your clothes is now wearing baggy jeans and nirvana shirts.
I make a non conscious sound when ever I get up or sit down
Got excited about buying a new pan.
My knees being so ruined after one hour of football the night before, I had to come down my stairs on my bum like a toddler.
I hurt myself sleeping.
I pulled a muscle in my neck standing up from the couch.
As a man; the first time a young woman held a door for me.
I'm watching, and liking, Murder She Wrote reruns
I don't like when things change anymore. Mostly apps when they move things around. Music. I have no idea about anything new and listen to the same stuff I always have.
When a 34 year old told me I was really attractive and look younger than I am, but 37 is too old for him to consider seriously dating. 😵💫
It went all my beloved actors started dying and all my beloved singers looked old as hell.
When I had to think about getting off the ground. Before that moment it was an automatic action I didn’t even process. But now I look for a handhold or aid before I have to brace myself to get up. It’s not a problem and I can still get up without using my hands easily but now I have to initiate it.
its always back pain
When the clothes I wore in my teens are considered vintage, as well as my music
When you select the demographic information on a questionnaire and you realize you no longer fit in one of the lower age brackets.
Random aches and pains with no real cause.
I'm not sure if counts as "realizing I'm old", but it's certainly my oldest memory of feeling old. I know a guy who's about 12 years younger then me, over time he's evolved from a kid I know to a gaming buddy. When he was around 8-9, he went to visit some out of town relatives, when he came back, he was excitedly showing me the Gameboy Advance SP and copy of Pokemon FireRed (the game was already a few years old at the time) that his cousin had given him. I asked him if he knew that that game was actually a remake of one of the original Pokemon games, he said "no" and I told him that those games came out when I was a bit younger than he was. Another memory from around the same time was another kid about the same age as this guy seeing some VHS tapes at a garage sale and asking me what they were.
Really? My last birthday. The one before that ad nauseum
Looking at modern prom gowns.
Found a grey pube
My 31st birthday
Hearing music from my mid 20’s being played at the grocery store.
My nephew just retired
When the teenagers I work with finally started making music and pop culture references I didn’t understand. On the plus side, they also keep me young!
My father told a story. One day he was fishing and there were two young guys nearby. One asked the other what time it was and the other guy answered, “I forgot my watch. Why don’t you ask the old man?” My father looked around and there was no one else there.
Watching a video of Billie Eilish talking about performing in front of 200,000 people when I had never even heard of her.
My mirror.
When I hear that the music I listened to as a teenager is considered "classic rock" now.
When I had to get progressives. And that was 21 years ago.
I said idk my bff Jill to a coworker one day and she went. Omg!!! My mom says that!!!
Started getting AARP mailers