When did you first feel 'old' (assuming you do)

[fred rosenberger]

I was teaching a 7th grade math class back in the '94-'95 school year. I don't know why, but I said something about the Mount St. Helen's eruption, and was met by a sea of blank stares. I started babbling about "You know - Mt. St. Helen's. That volcano that erupted in Washington State. Back in 1980... which was... 2 years before any of you were born...<i'm old>".

And it's only getting worse. My daughter doesn't understand what TV commercials are - she has her own Tivo. she's always had high-speed DSL internet (which will soon no longer be 'high speed'). She has never seen the World Trade Center buildings.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

I used to have fun playing with my daughter's misapprehension of time and space when she was small. There was a time when she firmly believed Daddy and the Beatles, when they were kids together, would spend warm Spring afternoons hunting for baby dinosaurs.

But to answer your question: I was born a grumpy old man. NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!

[Bert Bates]

The show "Life on Mars" (which we just discovered via iTunes), makes me feel old - when I was living in the 70's it didn't feel so primitive and dated

[Joe Ess]

I was watching [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_70%27s_show]That 70's Show[/url] and realized that I identify better with Red Forman than with any of the kids.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Joe Ess wrote:I was watching [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_70%27s_show]That 70's Show[/url] and realized that I identify better with Red Forman than with any of the kids.

Ouch!

[Monu Tripathi]

When I became an uncle a couple of years back, I realized how long I have lived!

Then I realized perhaps I am thinking too much...

btw, I turn 24 in a couple of months!

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Monu Tripathi wrote:
btw, I turn 24 in a couple of months!

I have socks older than you.

[Monu Tripathi]

Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:
I have socks older than you.

You're Vintage!

[Paul Clapham]

It was about 1976... I had been working for a consulting firm for a couple of years and they sent me off to Prince George (BC) to program an opinion survey in Fortran. I got to use the computer at the local community college for this work, and when I saw the students there I thought "Wow! These students are so young!"

[Jesper de Jong]

I remember one time when I was about 25 or so when the two daugthers of our neighbours (aged about 8-10 at the time) were visiting us and they didn't know what Barbapapa was. It's a children's cartoon which was on TV when I was their age, and I assumed that everybody knew it. When I heard they didn't know Barbapapa, I felt that I was old.

I also remember the time when there were no CD players, telephones looked like this, when a 33MHz 386 was a very expensive and super fast computer, when nobody had Internet and cell phones.

[Fantine Ponter]

Jesper, nevermind, you'll always be Young (tongue in cheek)

[ramesh maredu]

I was talking with a cute kid, she started saying uncle....., Then I felt, i am not kid any more, i was just in 20's at that time. Now I am 24

[fred rosenberger]

Jesper Young wrote:...they didn't know what Barbapapa was....
I also remember the time when there were no CD players, telephones looked like this, when a 33MHz 386 was a very expensive and super fast computer, when nobody had Internet and cell phones.

ok... i've never heard of Barbapapa either, and i'm 40. that doesn't mean you're old, just that you have strange taste in cartoons.

I remember when computers had 'turbo' switches to change the clock speed from 4 to 2Mhz, since some applications would run at a maniac speed and be unusable without. I can't get to that phone link from work, but my sister still has working rotary phone in her house.

[Fantine Ponter]

Age is simply chronological. I'm as old as I feel.. much less than as old as i am!

[Sujai Kaarthik]

whenever my juniors or someone calls me 'ANNA' (mother tongue) which means elder brother..

[Bear Bibeault]

I never feel old. But my body does.

[Amit Ghorpade]

Since childhood everyone tried to give me this feeling. Being the elder son, family members and neighbors would always say that " You are big(old) now, you should understand the little ones". But I will never be old, I know.

[Monu Tripathi]

Bear Bibeault wrote:I never feel old. But my body does.

I remember your T-shirt quote; it read: "Body by cheddar"

BTW to be honest, I think your pic on JR is one of the coolest I've seen

[Bear Bibeault]

Monu Tripathi wrote:I remember your T-shirt quote; it read: "Body by cheddar"

Truth in advertising!

BTW to be honest, I think your pic on JR is one of the coolest I've seen

Why thank you!

[rajen kumar]

I feel old when I try to tie my shoe laces and my belly comes in between

[Andrew Monkhouse]

fred rosenberger wrote:I was teaching a 7th grade math class back in the '94-'95 school year. I don't know why, but I said something about the Mount St. Helen's eruption, and was met by a sea of blank stares. I started babbling about "You know - Mt. St. Helen's. That volcano that erupted in Washington State. Back in 1980... which was... 2 years before any of you were born...<i'm old>".

I had an almost identical experience 2 years back. My mother and I had gone to Mt St Helen's and the following Monday I was talking about it at work. Not one of my immediate co-workers was alive when it erupted, and 3 of them were unaware that both it and Mt Ranier were active volcanoes. Since I could clearly remember the eruption (it was big news even in Australia) I definitely felt the age gap.

Andrew

[Frank Silbermann]

Jesper Young wrote:
I also remember the time when there were no CD players, telephones looked like this,

Don't be silly, that's a modern space-age telephone. The old-fashioned ones look like this:

http://www.telephoneart.com/antique/phone2555.jpg

or this:

http://www.telephoneart.com/antique/wepf.gif

[fred rosenberger]

Frank,

I HAVE a phone that looks a lot like your first link - except with the addition of a dial on the bottom. I used it in my dorm room in college. and it's in my office today.

[Karnati Sudhakar]

I really feel old when i see engineering students waiting for thier college bus where as me waiting for my company bus.I turned 23 couple of months back.

Regards
Sudhakar

[Jesus Angeles]

I feel old when I get reminded of now-obsolete things like: 5-inch floppy disks, beta max video tapes, etc.

[Sameer Jamal]

Karnati Sudhakar wrote:I really feel old when i see engineering students waiting for thier college bus where as me waiting for my company bus.I turned 23 couple of months back.

Regards
Sudhakar

At 23 you are feeling old comeon grow up

[Jhakda Velu]

I may feel old at times,but as soon as a beautiful gal passes by, i turn young again,really young.

EFH, your socks are made of plastic or are they mummyfied?

Jhakda

[Vikas Kapoor]

Sameer Jamal wrote:At 23 you are feeling old comeon grow up

paradoxical

[Peter Hsu]

When I am competing with people 6 years younger than me for entry level jobs....

[Mandar Khire]

When i filled form of Graduation exam at 6th time!
So i get fill whole mind with negative thoughts till now!
But still hoping i will pass this time & get admission for Masters Degree!