I must be getting old!

Ilik Urgee · 12-04-2013 01:31AM

Kids.....

They stay up so late these days:rolleyes:

guppy · 12-04-2013 01:31AM

Chucken wrote: »

22?

I have jumpers older than you.

I remember when I started my current job, a conversation at the lunch table went like this :

A : Mary, you've been working here 25 years now, really?! 25 years ago I was in college!

B : I had my driving test 25 years ago!

(I was keeping my head down)

C : I just started my first job!

(still keeping my head down)

D : I was starting college!

A : So guppy, what were you doing 25 years ago?

Me : Eh, I wasn't born then............

Cue uncomfortable silence all round.

Edit : I now have a son who loves pretty much all veg, spicy food and rare meat (where applicable). His palette is more varied than mine.

I put it down to me being able to educate myself better on his nutrition than my mother was on me (she thought I should use only bland baby rice when first feeding him, most nutritionists will tell you to start with stewed "sweet" veg first these days, to try and get them used to veg flavours). Plus, there is a much bigger range of herbs/ spices available nowadays that was unheard of (by the majority of Irish families) even 20 years ago.

jobeenfitz · 12-04-2013 01:42AM

I was born the year John F Kennedy was shot, but I didn't do it!

nbar12 · 12-04-2013 01:44AM

Funkfield wrote: »

Old?

I am older than Google!
I have seen the rise and fall of the CD!
I still have an original Playstation.
I have an original Xbox.
I have a Megadrive and a Mastersystem.
My first email address was "@lycosmail.com"

Good lord you must have an extremely wrinkly ball sack

Chucken · 12-04-2013 01:45AM

jobeenfitz wrote: »

I was born the year John F Kennedy was shot, but I didn't do it!

The kids will check your post history and pin it on you

Funkfield · 12-04-2013 02:02AM

nbar12 wrote: »

Good lord you must have an extremely wrinkly ball sack

Weirdest chat-up line ever.

MurdyWurdy · 12-04-2013 06:25AM

I enjoy going to bed early and worry if I think I won't get enough sleep.

My next door neighbour arrived home after a night out a few days ago at 9am without her keys so I had to let her in using our spare set. I was just getting up after 10 hours sleep. I felt very old

Apanachi · 12-04-2013 08:53AM

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

Yup I'm 22

Time to get out the zimmer frame then.

Why bother going healthy at this stage, at 22 you're over the hill, too late for change now...

..says me who did her Leaving Cert in 1992…

Chucken wrote: »

22?

I have jumpers older than you.

I actually still have a dress I bought back in 1990, I loved it so much and even though I rarely wore it (I felt it was too short for a woman of "my age", I couldn't bring myself to throw it away (it still fits by the way, so at least inbetween all this feeling old malarky, that's something I can hold on to) Now my 18 year old daughter wears it, she loves it

Mr. CooL ICE · 12-04-2013 09:53AM

I was a picky youngster and didn't eat tons of food. I didn't eat a steak until I was about 14. Didn't want to try apple tart til I was 15. 15 ffs! I ignored it because it had apple in it, but once I tasted the glorious mix of pastry and stewed apple, I wondered what I had been doing with my life.

I only started to eat proper veg when I started exercising and realised the difference in how I felt after eating ****e and after eating well. I then found out how to make veg taste nice: parboil for 2 mins and lather in butter, salt and pepper. Quick, easy, delicious and healthy.

OldNotWIse · 12-04-2013 09:59AM

The weird thing for me was looking at old scenes from Friends on Youtube, and realising that the season 1 episodes were so dated :eek:

OldNotWIse · 12-04-2013 10:01AM

I can't figure out if I am just in a weirdly good mood today, or if this thread is actually hilarious lol

Roger_007 · 12-04-2013 10:07AM

Spike Milligan used to say that the state of his health was like the census returns:- broken down by age and sex.

somefeen · 12-04-2013 10:11AM

Gave someone a lift the other day.

"Wow this car doesn't even have electric windows!"
The cars a 97, hardly a classic.

I remember when electric windows were the novelty!

EDIT: And I'm not even old!!!

Valetta · 12-04-2013 10:17AM

It cost 3d when my aunt brought me up Nelson's Pillar.

Roger_007 · 12-04-2013 10:21AM

Valetta wrote: »

It cost 3d when my aunt brought me up Nelson's Pillar.

What was Nelson's Pillar, (or 3d for that matter).

12-04-2013 10:22AM

Funkfield wrote: »

Old?

I am older than Google!
I have seen the rise and fall of the CD!
I still have an original Playstation.
I have an original Xbox.
I have a Megadrive and a Mastersystem.
My first email address was "@lycosmail.com"

Bitches dont know bout my colecovision

Mr Tibbs · 12-04-2013 10:29AM

jobeenfitz wrote: »

I was born the year John F Kennedy was shot, but I didn't do it!

I remember the year JFK was shot. I was siting on a grassy knoll minding my own business when these guys wearing sunglasses told me to scram.:D

Mr Benevolent · 12-04-2013 10:34AM

You're feeling old at 22? Good god, I wonder what you'll feel like at 88.

minotour · 12-04-2013 10:35AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Bitches dont know bout my colecovision

You must have had it Rust proofed....

Apanachi · 12-04-2013 10:47AM

somefeen wrote: »

I remember when electric windows were the novelty!

Not to mention central locking (WITHOUT a remote!!!)

Three Seasons · 12-04-2013 10:53AM

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

Yup I'm 22

Sound medical advice there, ill be sure to get that checked out. I've heard that alright, well considering my childhood and teenage diet I'm glad my body has finally woken up to the vast amount of nutrients it was seriously deprived over the last 22 years!

If you think you are getting old at 22 you need to go back and do some junior infants maths. Get yourself an abacus, by the sounds of it, you'll need one.

meoklmrk91 · 12-04-2013 11:58AM

Three Seasons wrote: »

If you think you are getting old at 22 you need to go back and do some junior infants maths. Get yourself an abacus, by the sounds of it, you'll need one.

While I have been pretty much self sufficient since I was 16 this is the first year that I actually feel like a proper adult, kids I used to baby sit started college this year, some of my friends have had kids, my little cousins are taller than me and my aunts and uncles are really getting on. I now get what my parents meant when they said the years fly.

So yes I am not old at all in the grand scheme of things, but I feel old when I see the little girl I used to babysit out getting drunk.

MurdyWurdy · 12-04-2013 12:00PM

I also know I'm old because myself and some other friends/relatives got pregnant and it was on purpose!

When I told one of my friends her first reaction was oh god, what did your parents say? until she realised we're almost 30 and we're all married now

The guy · 12-04-2013 01:28PM

Funkfield wrote: »

I had a .TK website

Touché

I'm a year older than OP and I had a .tk site.

Irish Guitarist · 12-04-2013 01:29PM

I'm 37. I'd love a Rice Krispie bun and a Coke soda now.

Latchy · 12-04-2013 02:01PM

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

I have recently noticed how much I am craving healthy food, particularly fruit and veg, I would eat neither as a child and its a wonder I didn't get scurvy or something.

I was the opposite as a child in that giving the option of a piece of fruit like an apple or pear over a piece of chocolate , I would (9 times out of 10) take the piece of fruit ...but I was a strange child :pac:

So AH, how did you know that you were getting a bit of sense in your old age?

growing old disgracefully does it for me .

Pherekydes · 12-04-2013 02:37PM

Amlid. Says it all, really.

Agricola · 12-04-2013 02:42PM

This is one of those times when the comfortable delusion that everyone on boards is your age or older smashed to pieces.

22 pft, I had gone on my first school tour when you were born kid! :rolleyes:

kylith · 12-04-2013 02:44PM

I didn't have my usual salad for lunch today, instead opting to treat myself to some pasta carbonara. I don't have the 'happy belly' I get after a feed of salad, and I get the feeling that my digestive system will get its own back on me for depriving it of its vegetables tomorrow.

It's a sorry state of affairs when your own internal organs gang up on you.

I must be getting old!

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