What was your "I'm officially old" moment?

[ZLoth]

From Cheezburger:

'I had a young coworker not know how to write a check': 30+ Workers who realized they were "officially old" thanks to their young coworkers

In school, our teachers assured us that we'd need to know how to write checks in day-to-day life, write in cursive, and that we wouldn't always have a calculator in our pocket, so we had better study up on math. In reality, paper checks are something we use maybe once every three years, or they're the thing your grandmother might give you as a birthday present. Turns out most people can't read cursive, and we all text these days... and the calculator in your pocket thing? Our teachers were so wrong about that one.

FULL ARTICLE HERE

[hotdogPi]

That there are famous people younger than I am who aren't well known for being young (so e.g. Greta Thunberg didn't count).

[formulanone]

This occurs in stages:

1) hearing a song from the week you were born on an oldies radio station

2) hearing songs from your senior year in high school on a classic rock station

3) something which happened twenty years ago is now in your kids' history textbooks

4) I forget how to use my "new" TV set and ask the kids to help (I've had it four years)

5) spending more time grousing about "the good old days" instead of the present (not yet, for me)

[Big John]

That I have no idea on how to use modern technology.

[Max Rockatansky]

1980s nostalgia replaced 1950s nostalgia.

[webny99]

Being born in the 1900's (with almost five whole months to spare!)

That there are famous people younger than I am who aren't well known for being young (so e.g. Greta Thunberg didn't count).

On that note, since we're similar in age, being older than some major league sports players.

[74/171FAN]

I left the youth group at church, went to college, came back home to church and saw the youth group.

[tmoore952]

Seeing songs that you heard on the radio as a kid, go through the oldies phase or classic rock stage, and then age out of THAT. due to radio demographics. Although that particular thing isn't a lost cause for me yet, as I actually enjoyed much 90s music as it happened and am now glad to see that get its nostalgia moment.

Being older than every single professional player, and older than some coaches who you watched play when you were a kid. Same with players-turned-broadcasters.

I will always be 5 to 15 years younger than my siblings. And another one is being teased by them about things you did as a kid, when said things were more than half a century ago. But on the other hand, if they remember it and I either don't remember or barely remember, I'm not that old.

Co-workers (college graduates) born in the 2000s and do not remember 9/11 -- these groups are not one and the same (2000s group is a little smaller).

[Takumi]

Coworkers whose parents are younger than me.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

The point I realized the players who were drafted at the time I started watching sports were now all retired.

[Rothman]

Hm.  Having kids has helped me stay hip.

I feel older with every additional pill the doctor makes me take.

[Mapmikey]

Reading posts from people 20-30 years younger than me thinking they qualify for this thread...

[gonealookin]

When I was face-down on the table and they were putting me under anesthesia for the hemorrhoidectomy.

[Dirt Roads]

You mean like back in 1990, when the phrase "I don't do Windows" no longer had anything to do with "paper towels and Windex"?

[Henry]

The day vinyl records and phonographs returned to stores.

[LilianaUwU]

Cheezburger is still a thing?

[ZLoth]

When movies I saw first-run in the theater show up on Turner Classic Movies.

When the person who I interviewed for my team (a recent college graduate) was probably in early elementary school when I first started with the company.

[LilianaUwU]

I realized I'm officially old when people started calling the Wii a retro console.

[Bruce]

When I have to switch to a higher-numbered bubble in the "How old are you?" question in forms.

[JayhawkCO]

I think the first time I had to say, " I haven't xxxxx in twenty years."

[Ted$8roadFan]

When I realized I am now older than almost all of the co-workers in my division.

[dlsterner]

Probably in 2008 (the year I turned 50) ...

(a) Started being bombarded with postal mail from AARP.
(b) Realizing that the US President-Elect (Barack Obama) was younger than I was.

More recently ...

(a) Started being bombarded with postal mail about Medicare.
(b) Realizing that my high school class is starting to make some noise about an upcoming 50 year reunion.

[texaskdog]

When I worked at a gas station and we hired kids who were born after I graduated high school

I turn 55 in May and it really doesn't help to see a senior menu 55+ at Dennys.

[Big John]

Related:  Given a senior discount at Culvers without asking for it.

[tmoore952]

To respond to some recent posts (after my own post last night):

I am turning 57 early in the new year. I think it's about time there was a President younger than I was. The only one that is less than 20 years older than me has been Obama! And it isn't happening in 2025 unless something very unexpected occurs in the next year.

We have an IHOP in my town. I have not visited since before my 55th birthday. I'm just guessing, but I suspect that the discounted meals they give for 55+ might also be smaller meals. Wonder if it's the same for Denny's. Seeing menus like that doesn't bother me. What bothers me more is seeing 55 (and better) living communities. I don't think I would want to be the youngest in a place like that.