Absurd things that make you feel old

[k3am]

I had to share this somewhere.. DD’s party is tomorrow. After wandering around looking for Pin the Tail on the Donkey (PTTOTD, for ease), I stopped the clerk.

Me: do you have PTTOTD or any similar party game?
Him: I’ve never heard of it. If we did, it’d be on aisle 5. (It’s not on aisle 5). Let me ask my manager. Hey Sue, have you ever heard of a game PTTOTD? This lady is looking for it.
Sue: I think so. I think my grandparents played it. But I’m pretty sure it’s only sold in specialty stores or in midwestern areas.

So apparently I’m an old Midwesterner?

[rere]

When my students talk about how old their parents are and I am older. I have kids the same age. Apparently I got a late start.

[sunbutter]

When I slip up and say “Indian style” instead of “criss cross applesauce”

[supertrooper1]

When I look at someone's driver's license and realize that I had already graduated from college when they were born.

[mae0111]

Mar 2, 2019 10:27:50 GMT -5 sunbutter said:

When I slip up and say “Indian style” instead of “criss cross applesauce”

Along these lines, when I played basketball, we had a running drill called “suicides” - start at the baseline, run to the foul line, back to baseline, half court, back, other foul line, back, baseline and back.

Now apparently they are called “lollipops”. 😳

[186momx]

k3am, DD has played this at multiple parties. Except it was pin the football in the end zone or pin the tail on a cat. Same parlor games we played as kids but with a fresh spin. Put up a poster of something and have the kids tape a decal of something cool looking onto it.

This is the opposite but I have a 92 year old client works 2 days a week at a vet clinic and I swear she doesn't look a day over 65. She is my spunkiest client and one of the oldest. Vet office keeps saying she needs to retire and she tells them no way this is the best thing for me and even if you fire me I will still come in twice a week because this is what is keeps me young. I told her I want to be her when I grow up

[vasc]

Teaching the 20-somethings how to use the fax machine.

[rere]

Now that I can finally go out anytime I want without a babysitter, I'm too tired.

[traveltheworld]

When your friends who don't have children suggest dinners at 8:30/9:00...and you try really hard to be flexible but end up suggesting 6:30.

[twinmomma]

When I talk about how I managed Myspace accounts for my first clients.

Or how my first real job after college meant I made enough money to add texting to my cell phone plan.

[mae0111]

I ordered new every day undies. I love VS cotton briefs. Ordered black, beige to wear under white pants, and a couple of pink for fun.

They all have stuff written across the butt. All the way across. My 43-year-Old wife a$$ does not need to be a billboard. It’s not cute anymore.

Just wanted boring cotton undies dammit. Get off my lawn.

[mommyatty]

When I was telling my six year old about the first time I saw a mouse for a computer and she asked why I didn’t just use the touchscreen.

[mommyatty]

Oh! And this week when I was looking for minimizer bras online. I remember when I would have killed for boobs.

[2chatter]

The kids lost the remote (AGAIN) and were incredulous when I told them my TV growing up was built into a cabinet and you had to get up to turn it on or off, change the channel or the volume.

When we moved into this house and DD asked why there were cords hanging from the ceiling fan. Had to show her how to adjust without a remote.

When I bought sardines because I missed my dad, DS said somberly “because in the olden days there weren’t other foods to eat. You could only have sardines or peanut butter on crackers. And only the saltine crackers, not good crackers, because they hadn’t invented machines to make food yet.”

[campermom]

My dad’s surgeon was about my age. That was weird.

[campermom]

Mar 2, 2019 17:39:55 GMT -5 mae0111 said:

I ordered new every day undies. I love VS cotton briefs. Ordered black, beige to wear under white pants, and a couple of pink for fun.

They all have stuff written across the butt. All the way across. My 43-year-Old wife a$$ does not need to be a billboard. It’s not cute anymore.

Just wanted boring cotton undies dammit. Get off my lawn.

So, we are gonna need to know what they say LOL

[sunbutter]

Mar 2, 2019 22:11:03 GMT -5 campermom said:

My dad’s surgeon was about my age. That was weird.

Yes! My kids surgeon last week was my age and his fellows were clearly younger than me. So weird.

[mustardseed2007]

Mar 2, 2019 13:58:53 GMT -5 vasc said:

Teaching the 20-somethings how to use the fax machine.

Offices that no longer have fax machines. 

[mae0111]

Mar 2, 2019 22:12:21 GMT -5 campermom said:

Mar 2, 2019 17:39:55 GMT -5 mae0111 said:

I ordered new every day undies. I love VS cotton briefs. Ordered black, beige to wear under white pants, and a couple of pink for fun.

They all have stuff written across the butt. All the way across. My 43-year-Old wife a$$ does not need to be a billboard. It’s not cute anymore.

Just wanted boring cotton undies dammit. Get off my lawn.

So, we are gonna need to know what they say LOL

Some say Victoria’s Secret. Others say Just Sexy. Still another says Naughty and Nice.

Perhaps cute on a 22 year old perky butt. Not on my wide “thass”. Yes, my ass has melted into my thighs. I do not need to advertise anything on it.

[k3am]

Mar 2, 2019 22:11:03 GMT -5 campermom said:

My dad’s surgeon was about my age. That was weird.

The guy who did DDs 2nd surgery was also about our age. It was very weird because the guy who was SUPPOSED to do her surgery was in his late 50’s and just felt more reassuring than someone our age. He finished her surgery, did post op checks and told the PICU nurses that he’d be on the roof shooting hoops for a couple hours if they needed him.

[waverly]

When DD asks if there were showers back when I grew up.

I think she also told me I grew up in the 40’s.

[CrazyLucky]

DS was at a car show and asked what that thing was for. It was for rolling down the windows.

We have a brand new engineer, she's 22, literally young enough to be my daughter. She reminds me how old I am all the time. 9/11? I was in kindergarten. You have actual CDs? etc.

[covergirl82]

mae0111, DS's basketball coach refers to "suicides" as "gassers".

DS had a basketball tournament in the city next to my hometown, and we stayed in a hotel 1 mile away from where I grew up, so I took him on a tour of the 2 houses I grew up in (1st I lived in until I was almost 4, and the 2nd one I lived in until I was 18) and my elementary school. As were driving past the 2nd house (which is the one I really consider my childhood home), I realized it was built about 45 years ago now. It was a little over 10 years old when we moved in.

[justcheckingin73]

When people start to reminisce about their childhood in the 90s. I was in my 20s for most of the 90s so I usually can’t relate.

When people talk about major events that happened like 9/11 and I realize they were kids. Or I think about the Pope or Reagan getting shot or the Challenger explosion, Mount St Helen’s eruption and how many of the people who are now calling themselves old weren’t even born then 😬.

Anytime my (very gray) roots start to show. 

[mae0111]

Mar 2, 2019 20:24:37 GMT -5 mommyatty said:

Oh! And this week when I was looking for minimizer bras online. I remember when I would have killed for boobs.

I seriously don't understand how I went from an A cup to busting out of a C with only a small-ish weight gain.  But I don't like it.  Yay hormones?

[covergirl82]

So, not "absurd," but this makes me feel old... I just got a news notification that Luke Perry died (and he was 52).

[justcheckingin73]

Mar 4, 2019 13:32:57 GMT -5 covergirl82 said:

So, not "absurd," but this makes me feel old... I just got a notification that Luke Perry died (and he was 52).

I saw that too. It’s very sad. 

[2chatter]

Luke Perry plus the Prodigy guy - how are people from my teen/college life dying?

[mae0111]

Mar 4, 2019 13:32:57 GMT -5 covergirl82 said:

So, not "absurd," but this makes me feel old... I just got a news notification that Luke Perry died (and he was 52).

I'm so sad... so many nights watching 90210 in dorm rooms...

[rere]

Mar 4, 2019 13:48:44 GMT -5 mae0111 said:

Mar 4, 2019 13:32:57 GMT -5 covergirl82 said:

So, not "absurd," but this makes me feel old... I just got a news notification that Luke Perry died (and he was 52).

I'm so sad... so many nights watching 90210 in dorm rooms...

Well I certainly feel old now. My imaginary boyfriend from the 90s dies from a stroke.  How does a seemingly healthy 52 year old have a massive stroke.  I guess I am going back on my baby aspirin now.