Times you've felt old (or getting older)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 07-01-2017 05:19PM

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?"

07-01-2017 05:20PM

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 · 07-01-2017 05:20PM

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

A2LUE42 · 07-01-2017 05:22PM

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 · 07-01-2017 05:24PM

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 · 07-01-2017 05:26PM

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 · 07-01-2017 05:31PM

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 · 07-01-2017 05:35PM

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?

07-01-2017 05:40PM

Realizing Kurt Cobain would've been 50 this February

tomthetank · 07-01-2017 05:53PM

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

07-01-2017 06:04PM

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 · 07-01-2017 06:08PM

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.

07-01-2017 06:12PM

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 · 07-01-2017 06:12PM

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 · 07-01-2017 06:13PM

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

dinjo99 · 07-01-2017 06:14PM

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 · 07-01-2017 06:17PM

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 · 07-01-2017 06:27PM

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

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 07-01-2017 06:29PM

Noveight wrote: »

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

You just fücked my mind.

RayM · 07-01-2017 06:33PM

eviltwin wrote: »

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

It was just a few years ago. :mad:

07-01-2017 06:33PM

RayM wrote: »

It was just a few years ago. :mad:

We are similar you and I

foxy farmer · 07-01-2017 06:35PM

Yesterday. Failed to get up on the tail lift of a lorry to give courier a hand with a heavy parcel. Not too long ago I could throw my leg up the 4ft and not be bothered about jumping off either.

Jimbob1977 · 07-01-2017 06:39PM

When I told the lap dancer to cover up because she might catch a cold.

Agricola · 07-01-2017 06:39PM

When you started following a football team, the squad was made up of grown men with wives and kids, many many years older than you.

Now the team you support is made up of "kids" who were born after you'd left school!

Dr Crayfish · 07-01-2017 06:51PM

The older I get the less age matters to me. My dad is 66 and doesn't seem old to me in any way. I'm 36 now, but trying to stop worrying about the future and the past and just to live in the present. Age doesn't really matter then.

Mint Sauce · 07-01-2017 06:52PM

When you switch you listening from BBCR1, to BBCR2, or god forbid, BBCR4.

Bumping into kids in the pub that you used to babysit.

Speaking to people who don't remember Italia 90.

:eek:

Sam Kade · 07-01-2017 06:56PM

Think of it this way, every day you live is a day less of your life, happy new year

07-01-2017 07:04PM

My cousin and I got all excited when our Granny started hanging up Christmas Stockings over the fireplace. Then we realised none of them were for us, but for my brothers kids. We aren't 'the kids' anymore.

I feel old when I do things like bring home three months supply of loo roll because it was on special offer.

fineso.mom · 07-01-2017 07:13PM

About an hour ago. I dropped my son to a match and stopped to talk to a little boy who used to be in the preschool I work in. He was with a few other little 5/6 yr olds. As I walked away I heard another child say to him "was that your nana? ". A little piece of me died inside. I'm about 4 yrs older than his mum. I know 5yr olds are not great with ages but...why couldn't he have said "was that your aunty?"

Lt Dan · 07-01-2017 07:15PM

Tigger wrote: »

talking to people that dont rember the 1992 one

Auld fella swore that he would never watch Irish team again after blowing the qualifiers

All I personally remember is my county failing to do a 3 in a row provincial and Daniel O'Donnel going la la in Croker when Donegal won the AI.and making the first Holy Communion

Times you've felt old (or getting older)

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