We did a work happy hour last night. On numerous iterations of the invitation, the organizers listed the location simply as the name of a hipster building in DC without an address. I felt like an old crank - “people, I’m in my mid-forties, I don’t know where that is! I need actual street coordinates!” 😅
DS2 was watching me type a work email the other day and asked me how I learned how to type since they didn't have computers when I was in school (ouch #1). When I told him we had to take a typing class with a typewriter, he asked me what a typewriter was (ouch #2).
I'm 40. I refuse to admit I'm old.
I'm 40 also and in kind of surprised that you used typewriters! My typing class was all about Mavis Beacon.
DS2 was watching me type a work email the other day and asked me how I learned how to type since they didn't have computers when I was in school (ouch #1). When I told him we had to take a typing class with a typewriter, he asked me what a typewriter was (ouch #2).
I'm 40. I refuse to admit I'm old.
I'm 40 also and in kind of surprised that you used typewriters! My typing class was all about Mavis Beacon.
DS2 was watching me type a work email the other day and asked me how I learned how to type since they didn't have computers when I was in school (ouch #1). When I told him we had to take a typing class with a typewriter, he asked me what a typewriter was (ouch #2).
I'm 40. I refuse to admit I'm old.
I'm 40 also and in kind of surprised that you used typewriters! My typing class was all about Mavis Beacon.
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I’m 42 and definitely took typing in middle school! Then we got AOL which solidified my typing skills for life, ha!
Post by donutsmakemegonuts on Jun 23, 2023 7:08:43 GMT -5
I had an episode of the show Reba on in the background this morning and in the show (on this episode at least) she is supposed to be 42 which is how old I am.
I just remembered something worse! When my son got his Switch he said" Imagine if people from the 80s could see this!!" WTF?? I said, "I'M STANDING RIGHT HERE."
This is especially funny to me because I had a game boy in the early 90s. Obviously games and graphics and hardware have come a loong way since then but “handheld video games” is not a foreign concept to us olds 😂
Post by midwestmama on Jun 23, 2023 7:50:18 GMT -5
Maybe not really a reference, but now all the members of NKOTB are age 50+, and that has me feeling old. I just turned 41, and I was a younger original fan back in the day.
The very first time it really hit me hard was several years ago (maybe around 2010). We were really busy at work and I said to two younger co-workers, "It's like Lucy and Ethyl in the chocolate factory." And they had NO IDEA what I was talking about.
I watched reruns of "I Love Lucy" growing up in the 80s and 90s. Love(d) that show. In general, I watched most of the 50s/60s rerun shows on Nick-at-Nite, since I wasn't allowed to watch BH 90210, Melrose Place, etc.
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.
This statement made me feel old, but since it led me to listen to nothing but awesome 90s music for the next hour, I'll allow it.
DS2 was watching me type a work email the other day and asked me how I learned how to type since they didn't have computers when I was in school (ouch #1). When I told him we had to take a typing class with a typewriter, he asked me what a typewriter was (ouch #2).
I'm 40. I refuse to admit I'm old.
I'm 40 also and in kind of surprised that you used typewriters! My typing class was all about Mavis Beacon.
I’m 43 did it on typewriters too! My school had a big computer lab but they didn’t “waste” it on typing classes. Which made sense, they had a ton of electric typewriters, why tie up the computers to do the same thing when other students could use the lab for computer classes? But it does seem very old timey and did at the time. My brother is five years younger and they were still in use when he was there for about half the sections but they had become a magnet school and got a second computer lab.
When DD asked me what the "funny looking plugs" were at a recent open house. They were phone jacks. She gave me the blankest stare when I tried to explain.
My last house is old and needed some updates to it before we moved in. The contractor Drywalled over all of the phone jacks because he said no one used them anymore. I still had dial up at the time. So I felt like a fossil.
DS2 was watching me type a work email the other day and asked me how I learned how to type since they didn't have computers when I was in school (ouch #1). When I told him we had to take a typing class with a typewriter, he asked me what a typewriter was (ouch #2).
I'm 40. I refuse to admit I'm old.
I'm 40 also and in kind of surprised that you used typewriters! My typing class was all about Mavis Beacon.
Damn it, now I'm going to spend all day trying to remember the name of the typing program we used in elementary school. It wasn't Mavis Beacon. All I remember is you got trophies after each level, and there was like a little trophy room that you went to...I think there was a frog? Someone please know what I'm talking about.
I just remembered something worse! When my son got his Switch he said" Imagine if people from the 80s could see this!!" WTF?? I said, "I'M STANDING RIGHT HERE."
This is especially funny to me because I had a game boy in the early 90s. Obviously games and graphics and hardware have come a loong way since then but “handheld video games” is not a foreign concept to us olds 😂
That is really what he meant. How much better everything is than our primitive Pong like adventures. LOL UT did he think everyone from the 80s was dead and gone? Haha!
I'm 40 also and in kind of surprised that you used typewriters! My typing class was all about Mavis Beacon.
Damn it, now I'm going to spend all day trying to remember the name of the typing program we used in elementary school. It wasn't Mavis Beacon. All I remember is you got trophies after each level, and there was like a little trophy room that you went to...I think there was a frog? Someone please know what I'm talking about.
I remember Word Munchers...is that it?? It kinda had a frog looking thing.
DD is in a theatre camp. They're performing High School Musical the Musical. She was cast as a "Skater" in the ensemble. We had a two-day argument about what 90's skater aesthetic was. I LIVED IT. I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. I finally had to show her google images of old Delia's catalogs to try and make my point. I showed her pictures of JNCOs too and she refused to believe me.
Also, I just hired someone who was born in 2000. I wasn't ready for that. She's only 10 years older than my daughter. Woof.
Not me, but my H (47) regularly comes home from work complaining that the younger hires don’t get his references to Seinfeld and other older TV shows. It’s so funny. He has one coworker who is his age who gets them but the others juts smile and nod.
He’s lucky tho. I work with a bunch of men in their 60s and I’ll take that over the casual sexism any day.
Not me, but my H (47) regularly comes home from work complaining that the younger hires don’t get his references to Seinfeld and other older TV shows. It’s so funny. He has one coworker who is his age who gets them but the others juts smile and nod.
He’s lucky tho. I work with a bunch of men in their 60s and I’ll take that over the casual sexism any day.
LOL I had to read this a couple times to figure out what words you meant to use! I was like "coke shine" ??
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.
I really want to see this concert but no one wants to go with me
Maybe not really a reference, but now all the members of NKOTB are age 50+, and that has me feeling old. I just turned 41, and I was a younger original fan back in the day.
I'm eating lunch and I literally stopped chewing when I read this. It shouldn't surprise me - I'll be 45 in August, some of my friends are over 50 already, and my husband is 47. But damn.
I'm reviewing resumes and came across one with the last name Lindberg and giggled that my manager could be named Lindberg... and then had to explain what Office Space was.
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.
I really want to see this concert but no one wants to go with me
I’d go by myself - they were wonderful! I’ve been playing all their albums on repeat since we saw them.
Not me, but my H (47) regularly comes home from work complaining that the younger hires don’t get his references to Seinfeld and other older TV shows. It’s so funny. He has one coworker who is his age who gets them but the others juts smile and nod.
He’s lucky tho. I work with a bunch of men in their 60s and I’ll take that over the casual sexism any day.
LOL I had to read this a couple times to figure out what words you meant to use! I was like "coke shine" ??
Opp and now I see you fixed it hahaha
I know! Man the autocorrect on my phone is terrible. It will randomly change real words I typed into gibberish. Drives me insane!!!
I just remembered something worse! When my son got his Switch he said" Imagine if people from the 80s could see this!!" WTF?? I said, "I'M STANDING RIGHT HERE."
This is especially funny to me because I had a game boy in the early 90s. Obviously games and graphics and hardware have come a loong way since then but “handheld video games” is not a foreign concept to us olds 😂
DH still has his original Gameboy. Not only does it work, but DS will play with it sometimes. He's often amazed at the graphics between the original Nintendo (which we also have) and his games on the Switch.
My first "wow, I'm the older person now" moment was 7 years ago. I was interviewing a younger colleague for a role. His resume said he grew up in a beach town and I was like "oh, my parents lived there when I was born. After we moved, we used to go there for drives in the summer. I still remember seeing the wreckage from the fires of '87."
He had no expression on his face and continued to listen to me. That's when it hit me.
Me: "oh, you weren't alive in 1987." Him: "no, I was born in 1989."
I'm reviewing resumes and came across one with the last name Lindberg and giggled that my manager could be named Lindberg... and then had to explain what Office Space was.
Yeah I can handle people not getting Seinfeld, but the day I work with people who don’t get Office Space references will be a sad day indeed.
The very first time it really hit me hard was several years ago (maybe around 2010). We were really busy at work and I said to two younger co-workers, "It's like Lucy and Ethyl in the chocolate factory." And they had NO IDEA what I was talking about.
Recently, it's that my niece turned 30. She feels young for her age sometimes, but still. 30.
Oh, and my older sister is now ready to start receiving Social Security.
Crap. I really AM old.
My BFF at work and I, we refer to ourselves as Lucy and Ethel almost daily because we get into all sorts of crazy ass situations and we just laugh and laugh.