Times you've felt old (or getting older)

Father Hernandez

I'm mid-late twenties and consider myself young.

However, heard Wyclef Jean - Perfect Gentleman (lyrics below) this morning, bit of an 'old skool' tune but didn't think it was 15 years ago.

Googled it and remembered I bought the single when it was £5. (Pre-Euro, pre-Spotify, the single had 3 songs)

Many might have memories well pre dating 2001, but anyone else lately had a 'jesus, that was a while ago, feeling old' moment?

2Mad2BeMad

When young lads use to say to me youngfella when wanting a smoke. Now it's Mr or sir if they really want it

Noveight

When I think that we're as far from the year 2000 as 1983 was. Jaysus.

Infernum

My body feels all old and stiff. Also, everybody naturally talks to me as if I'm well past my youth.

The_Valeyard

Talking to people who dont remember the 2002 world cup

Poochie05

Reviewing CVs from people born in the 90s

KERSPLAT!

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Talking to people who dont remember the 2002 world cup

Ran out of a JC exam as soon the 30 minutes were up to watch one of those matches

KERSPLAT!

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

Ran out of a JC exam as soon the 30 minutes were up to watch one of those matches

Now I feel old

The_Valeyard

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

Now I feel old

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super_furry

Realising that every time I shave, there's more and more grey stubble in the sink.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

When a friend's child referred to me as the grey haired old man they had met.

But generally I don't feel old. I'm 73 next month and currently consider 75 as old. I'm hoping that goalpost will get pushed further out in a few years.

Winterlong

When Justin Bieber was in his pomp a few years ago someone point out to me that I am older than his mother. That was a sad moment.

suicide_circus

When I saw a strange looking guy pull out a gun in the middle of the precinct office, I tackled him and ended up with his foot on my chest and his gun in my face. Turned out he was actually my new partner.

Loveinapril

Messiah Chilly Ogre wrote: »

When a friend's child referred to me as the grey haired old man they had met.

But generally I don't feel old. I'm 73 next month and currently consider 75 as old. I'm hoping that goalpost will get pushed further out in a few years.

I want to be you when I grow up!

Graces7

My body is old but my spirit is young,, 18 looking out!

Clarebelly

suicide_circus wrote: »

When I saw a strange looking guy pull out a gun in the middle of the precinct office, I tackled him and ended up with his foot on my chest and his gun in my face. Turned out he was actually my new partner.

Was his name Lee Thalweapon?

Agricola

Noveight wrote: »

When I think that we're as far from the year 2000 as 1983 was. Jaysus.

Yep, that crossed my mind recently. When I was 19 back in 2000, 1983 seemed like another planet of terrible dress, terrible music, terrible technology. Now, that is what 19 year olds think about the year 2000!

If that doesnt make you feel old, nothing will.

reason vs religion

Also mid-twenties. But the fashion of today's teens utterly confounds me. Tight track suits and jeans, platform trainers, garish colours. All things that would have been ridiculed only a few years ago. Of course, each generation reshapes fashion to create their own identity. But the change in the years since I was a teenager seems more radical, and therefore alienating to predecessors like me!

Tigger

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Talking to people who dont remember the 2002 world cup

talking to people that dont rember the 1992 one

One_Of_Shanks

Xmas night in the in-laws house and her Dad asked me to stay up and have a few whiskies with him.

Worst mistake of my life but anyway....... There was a point where I told him that a friend of ours had called his daughter a MILF.
And we had laughed about it and she thought it was funny herself.

As soon as I said it I knew it was a disaster.

So he said to me "What does that mean?"

So in my drunken state I can only remember back-peddling and trying to think what to say back.
It was only a fortnight ago and I still get flashbacks but no clue what my eventual reply was.

Pure paranoia ever since. Still no idea what I said back.

sadie06

When I went to Daft Punk in Marley and was asked more than once if I was an undercover guard. I was 32...so not ancient, but I'm tall and was wearing a navy rain jacket, as was my friend, so we looked like we were on the beat apparently.

Pun intended.

Anesthetize

Tigger wrote: »

talking to people that dont rember the 1992 one

Because there wasn't one :P

maudgonner

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

Ran out of a JC exam as soon the 30 minutes were up to watch one of those matches

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

Now I feel old

Unless you were the bloody exam supervisor you have no business feeling old :mad::mad:

tupenny

Being a mam I feel old most of the time. Til the odd day Im off work and can pick her up from school and see I'm the cool young mam 😎😆 I'm 30 and I did always consider 30 a frightening prospect, really old.. but I think definition of old changes the older we get

5rtytry56

my spirit is willing but my flesh is weak

Heckler

When I read the Dumb Facebook thread and have no idea what the hell people are talking about. When I hear my 12 year old niece talking. Like a different language.

I'm 43 and am absolutely mind f*cked as to how people carry on on social media.

Oh god its happened i'm an oldie.....

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Loveinapril wrote: »

I want to be you when I grow up!

But you'll have to wait until I grow up first.

5rtytry56

sadie06 wrote: »

When I went to Daft Punk in Marley and was asked more than once if I was an undercover guard. I was 32...so not ancient, but I'm tall and was wearing a navy rain jacket, as was my friend, so we looked like we were on the beat apparently.

Pun intended.

consider it a compliment they thought you might be a guard and not a bouncer.

Turtyturd

Same as others, realising how long it's been since 2000. Gets amplified when you see footage of it and it makes you feel how you used to feel when you saw footage from the 80's....did we used to look that bad?

Omackeral

Ŵhen seemingly everyone in the 18-35 bracket was going around trying to catch imaginary Pokemon last year I felt old as f*ck.

One_Of_Shanks

Omackeral wrote: »

Ŵhen seemingly everyone in the 18-35 bracket was going around trying to catch imaginary Pokemon last year I felt old as f*ck.

To be honest. Even if I was 18 I'd still think anyone chasing pokemon is a tool

clintondaly

When I was talking to my ten year old about being in school and having to go up and write on the blackboard and how scary it was,the response I got "Whats a blackboard ?"

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

clintondaly wrote: »

When I was talking to my ten year old about being in school and having to go up and write on the blackboard and how scary it was,the response I got "Whats a blackboard ?"

I gave a talk at a primary school a few years ago about games and toys when I was young. Among the questions afterwards was "Where there dogs when you were a boy?"

Omackeral

clintondaly wrote: »

When I was talking to my ten year old about being in school and having to go up and write on the blackboard and how scary it was,the response I got "Whats a blackboard ?"

Probably known as an African Americanboard now or a Rainbowboard.

blaze1

Going bald @ 18 was bearable, but starting to find grey chest hairs and other places mid 30's is making me feel old

A2LUE42

5rtytry56 wrote:

consider it a compliment they thought you might be a guard and not a bouncer.

Ended up in a niteclub after a work night out a few months ago and we were so out of place that one of the lads commented that we were sticking out like sore thumbs in the place. We probably looked like undercover guards. Someone else replied that we looked more like their Det Sargents keeping an eye on them.

clintondaly

Omackeral wrote: »

Probably known as an African Americanboard now or a Rainbowboard.

She uses an Interactive Caucasian Web Enabled Learning Tool,whiteboards I think is a common name for them

Owryan

Said i had to use the "pass machine" and i got weird looks off everyone. Then a few weeks later a college lecturer also mentioned pass machine and then it dawned on me just how much older than most of my fellow students i was.

That and one day in college i was talking about a trip to the leb and one young wan pipes up with "ohmagod i wasnt even born then!"

DoozerT6

When you see the children of celebrities all grown up now, and you remember them as babies, or when their parents were famous before they were even born!!

Edit: also when you see celebs that you remember as kids/teens themselves, now married with their own families.....especially when they are a LOT younger than you!

And when you remember waaaaaay back, when it was rumoured that Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were an item.....

When you worked the checkouts in a supermarket as a summer job and had to be shown how to use those machines that you put people's credit cards onto, with the carbon paper on top, and swiped the cover type-thing across it..

One_Of_Shanks

DoozerT6 wrote: »

When you see the children of celebrities all grown up now, and you remember them as babies, or when their parents were famous before they were even born!!

Nicole? Papa?

Realizing Kurt Cobain would've been 50 this February

Loveinapril

Messiah Chilly Ogre wrote: »

But you'll have to wait until I grow up first.

My da says I can't grow up until he does... he is 63!

tomthetank

When a new girl started at work and her date of birth is 1993.

I have some issues around getting older. It's mostly because I'm petrified of death I was chatting with my dad the other day, he's 73. Says I "daddy are you afraid of dying"? He looked at me as if I had ten heads. "Sure Jaysus Perse not at all, that's something which comes to everyone".

Seeing the kids I used to babysit makes me feel old. They are about 20/21 now. It rarely being the case that I look at a man and go "he's a bit old", now it's that he's too young. When my gynae asked me if I were planning on having kids because at almost 35 I should be.

Inside of me I'm about 24

Hellrazer

When your 19 year old daughter is drinking in the same pubs and clubs that you frequented!!!
I met my wife in Fibber McGee's in Parnell Street in 1994.
Now my daughter's there every Saturday.
To me that is really,really scary.

Hellrazer

Hellrazer wrote: »

When your 19 year old daughter is drinking in the same pubs and clubs that you frequented!!!
I met my wife in Fibber McGee's in Parnell Street in 1994.
Now my daughter's there every Saturday.
To me that is really,really scary.

I was 12 in 1994. Thanks for making me feel young

tomthetank

Oh that's reminded me of another one. Being 28 and at a gynaecologist exam and she tells me that I'm at peak fertility and now is an "optimum time" to have children. I laughed and thought about how funny that was, as I was still a kid myself with no boyfriend in sight and feck all to my name.

eviltwin

When I see things from the late 90's or early 00's I still think it was just a few years ago.

dinjo99

when the young sales girl in Woodies gave me a 10% reduction and explained it was a special offer for pensioners on a Wednesday.

I had just turned 50!!!!

Rubberlegs

Hellrazer wrote: »

When your 19 year old daughter is drinking in the same pubs and clubs that you frequented!!!
I met my wife in Fibber McGee's in Parnell Street in 1994.
Now my daughter's there every Saturday.
To me that is really,really scary.

When you go out for a drink and you see kids your 23yr old went to school with at the bar. When you repeatedly don't recognise one of them on the street as he has grown a beard.
Hearing mention of the Junior Cert, it was the Inter Cert in my day.
I have recently found that Lyric FM is very relaxing, particularly when driving.

TheDriver

I teach leaving certs who were babies when the 9/11 attacks happened