What reference has recently made you feel old?

[fangoriagurkel]

The Bangles merch question in today’s randoms got me thinking, what’s got you feeling old?

I will be 38 next month and feel youngish, until I took my cousin’s son to see the new Transformers movie and when C.R.E.A.M. started playing, he had zero idea who Method Man was, let alone how how to sing the chorus in a “Method Man” voice.

Crushed heart, party of one.

[starburst604]

DD makes me feel old all the time. The 90's are to her what like the 50's were to me, so everything that she thinks is from forever ago is from the 90's. Yesterday it was "Did credit cards exist in the NINETIES?"

[nsl]

We were at the amusement park last week, and they started playing "Tom's Diner." Like any normal adult I started singing along at the "da da DA da, da da DA da" part, and after he told me he wanted to die of embarrassment my 12 year old revealed that he'd never heard the song before.

[Patsy Baloney]

We saw matchbox twenty last weekend and it was not very kind of Rob Thomas to remind the audience that Yourself or Someone Like You came out 27 years ago.

[eb777888]

Last week David assumed there were no automatic doors in my childhood/teenage years. I hear a lot of "wait, did you have that when you were a kid?"lol

[krystee]

We were telling DS1 (8) about video games we liked when we were kids, and he said, “Wow, video games were invented that long ago?!”

Thanks, child.

[mpm]

My 6yo asked me last week if indoor plumbing had been invented yet when I was a kid. 🤨

[dontlook]

Music! So many songs are remakes from my high school years.

[sent]

I was volunteering at the 4th grade send-off party earlier week. There was a DJ and he started playing some Taylor Swift circa 2008. I started singing along and suddenly had to stop when I saw that the 4th girls also knew all the words. That's when I remembered that she is immensely popular these days and just had a huge tour etc. so of course these kids know her music. But I remember singing along to her tunes when they were on the country music stations and she was technically a senior in high school trying to figure out how to attend prom.

A lot of things make me shake my cane these days but that moment really made me pause since 2008 wasn't as long ago as 1980. I love telling DD anecdotes about the 80s. Then I think back to how I used to wonder what it was like living through WWII as a kid and it's the same amount of time difference.

[CurlyQ284]

We are watching The Goldbergs every evening with DS. So basically everything in that show 🤣

[fangoriagurkel]

Patsy Baloney You fib! (Because lie is an ugly word!) 27 years? Two massive old thumbs down!

[bcv513]

I was explaining to C that when I was her age the hit movie was the animated version of The Little Mermaid. She said “when did they switch it to color?” Good thing she’s cute

[sadlebred]

Jun 22, 2023 14:48:07 GMT -5 starburst604 said:

DD makes me feel old all the time. The 90's are to her what like the 50's were to me, so everything that she thinks is from forever ago is from the 90's. Yesterday it was "Did credit cards exist in the NINETIES?"

This makes me feel old.

Babies--All of you! I worked at a grocery store BEFORE they accepted credit cards. Not even debit cards. Checks or cash only. I don't even think today's kids know what a check is. We started accepting debit cards around the end of my junior year at UNIVERSITY. You could use a credit card at most stores that had one of those manual things where they would put your card on and make an impression/copy of it.

To this day, "cash" math is about the only math I can do in my head.

[meanie]

DD asked me if my tv was black and white back in the "olden times" when I was a kid soooooo.....

I am also 38 and still feel young, like who put me in charge?! But then I will see a group of 20-somethings and feel very much my age

[fangoriagurkel]

Jun 22, 2023 14:55:03 GMT -5 mpm said:

My 6yo asked me last week if indoor plumbing had been invented yet when I was a kid. 🤨

As a former WV resident, potentially a legitimate question.

[rubytue]

Jun 22, 2023 15:11:17 GMT -5 sadlebred said:

Jun 22, 2023 14:48:07 GMT -5 starburst604 said:

DD makes me feel old all the time. The 90's are to her what like the 50's were to me, so everything that she thinks is from forever ago is from the 90's. Yesterday it was "Did credit cards exist in the NINETIES?"

This makes me feel old.

Babies--All of you! I worked at a grocery store BEFORE they accepted credit cards. Not even debit cards. Checks or cash only. I don't even think today's kids know what a check is. We started accepting debit cards around the end of my junior year at UNIVERSITY. You could use a credit card at most stores that had one of those manual things where they would put your card on and make an impression/copy of it.

To this day, "cash" math is about the only math I can do in my head.

Now I’m trying to remember if we took cards when I was a grocery cashier. I don’t have memories of dealing with a pin pad this, but I do have memories that we could run your blanket check through tha machine and it would write it for you, you just had to sign. 

And now, some late embarrassment at one scene that popped into my head, and I pressed a guy to put his actual signature (not just an X) on said check, and he had to explain to young, sheltered, me that he could not read and write. This is the kind of thing that will keep me up tonight as my brain refuses to shut down and the scene plays out and how I was a horrible 17 year old. 

[fangoriagurkel]

sadlebred The last time I opened a checking account (maybe 6ish years ago) checkbooks cost extra / weren’t standard issue anymore.

Granted I only use them for utilities, tax and HOA, etc… but it still stung!

[starburst604]

Jun 22, 2023 15:11:17 GMT -5 sadlebred said:

Jun 22, 2023 14:48:07 GMT -5 starburst604 said:

DD makes me feel old all the time. The 90's are to her what like the 50's were to me, so everything that she thinks is from forever ago is from the 90's. Yesterday it was "Did credit cards exist in the NINETIES?"

This makes me feel old.

Babies--All of you! I worked at a grocery store BEFORE they accepted credit cards. Not even debit cards. Checks or cash only. I don't even think today's kids know what a check is. We started accepting debit cards around the end of my junior year at UNIVERSITY. You could use a credit card at most stores that had one of those manual things where they would put your card on and make an impression/copy of it.

To this day, "cash" math is about the only math I can do in my head.

Oh I'm with you - I was born in 75 and when I worked at McD's in the 90's they didn't take cards at all. I was responding from the viewpoint that CCs did exist, they just weren't used the way we use them now. But she seems to think that the 90's is like when time began or something lol. 

[underwaterrhymes]

My niece, who was born when I was 34, is almost 15 and learning to drive.

[rootbeerfloat]

DD and I are watching The Crown. Every episode, she asks "Were you alive yet? Do you remember that?" Ugh, no, I wasn't alive when JFK died.

[bex1973]

Jun 22, 2023 15:11:17 GMT -5 sadlebred said:

Jun 22, 2023 14:48:07 GMT -5 starburst604 said:

DD makes me feel old all the time. The 90's are to her what like the 50's were to me, so everything that she thinks is from forever ago is from the 90's. Yesterday it was "Did credit cards exist in the NINETIES?"

This makes me feel old.

Babies--All of you! I worked at a grocery store BEFORE they accepted credit cards. Not even debit cards. Checks or cash only. I don't even think today's kids know what a check is. We started accepting debit cards around the end of my junior year at UNIVERSITY. You could use a credit card at most stores that had one of those manual things where they would put your card on and make an impression/copy of it.

To this day, "cash" math is about the only math I can do in my head.

The "ca-chunk" sound of that machine was so satisfying! 

[bcv513]

My coworker was telling me her teenaged daughter is working at a supermarket for the summer. An elderly person wanted to pay with a check and the daughter had never seen one before. She thought the person was trying to scam her

[jinkies]

I ran into my 10th grade English teacher last month. I made a comment about not expecting her to remember me, since it had been 20 years. My mom was standing there and made a big exaggerated thing over how it wasn't TWENTY years, I've been MARRIED twenty years, it was WAAAY more than that. Uh, thanks Mom?

There was an article in Slate recently about how 20-somethings used to organize hanging out before cell phones were so common. And it is everything I remember and it hurt my feelings that this is considered a piece of history worth documenting. slate.com/human-interest/2023/06/life-before-cell-phones-internet-after-work.html

[eb777888]

Jun 22, 2023 15:32:39 GMT -5 bcv513 said:

My coworker was telling me her teenaged daughter is working at a supermarket for the summer. An elderly person wanted to pay with a check and the daughter had never seen one before. She thought the person was trying to scam her

Ok now this is making me feel old, lol. 

[wise_rita]

I just turned 40, and made a friend who just turned 30 (since we both have kids the same age). She mentioned liking SNL so I started going on about the golden era of Chris Farley and Adam Sandler, which she really knew nothing about. Wilted rose.

[beerlover]

Mainly some Peloton instructors classifying bands like GNR and Def Leppard as "classic rock".

[abs]

DD is obsessed with the pineapple mango smoothie from McDonald’s and when I got her one a few days ago the cup was celebrating Grimace. She’s all who is Grimace? I tried to explain early 80’s McDonald’s to her with party rooms and characters and awesome playgrounds. She was not impressed.

[abs]

Jun 22, 2023 15:56:54 GMT -5 beerlover said:

Mainly some Peloton instructors classifying bands like GNR and Def Leppard as "classic rock".

Seriously but I think anything older than 20 years can be considered classic rock so….😭😭

[bex1973]

Jun 22, 2023 15:59:32 GMT -5 abs said:

DD is obsessed with the pineapple mango smoothie from McDonald’s and when I got her one a few days ago the cup was celebrating Grimace. She’s all who is Grimace? I tried to explain early 80’s McDonald’s to her with party rooms and characters and awesome playgrounds. She was not impressed.

All this has brought back to the surface of what in the world Grimace actually is! 

[Jalapeñomel]

I teach high schoolers. They make me feel old on the regular. 🤣🤣🤣