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 coworkersQuoteIn 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.
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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).
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)
That I have no idea on how to use modern technology.
1980s nostalgia replaced 1950s nostalgia.
Being born in the 1900's (with almost five whole months to spare!)
Quote from: 1 on December 01, 2023, 07:14:04 PM
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.
I left the youth group at church, went to college, came back home to church and saw the youth group.
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).
Coworkers whose parents are younger than me.
The point I realized the players who were drafted at the time I started watching sports were now all retired.
Hm. Having kids has helped me stay hip.
I feel older with every additional pill the doctor makes me take.
Reading posts from people 20-30 years younger than me thinking they qualify for this thread... :spin:
When I was face-down on the table and they were putting me under anesthesia for the hemorrhoidectomy.
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"?
The day vinyl records and phonographs returned to stores.
Cheezburger is still a thing?
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.
I realized I'm officially old when people started calling the Wii a retro console.
When I have to switch to a higher-numbered bubble in the "How old are you?" question in forms.
I think the first time I had to say, " I haven't xxxxx in twenty years."
When I realized I am now older than almost all of the co-workers in my division.
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.
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.
Related: Given a senior discount at Culvers without asking for it.
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.
Older rather than old since I'm in my 30s, but when I drove by the high school, saw some students, and realized that they looked more like kids than young adults.
Related: looking at all the fashion trends from when I was in middle/high school circle back around.
Also (sorta): The songs that were playing on Fly92.3 when I first moved here are now appearing on their "oldskool musicgasm" (OMG) playlist.
One that hit an older coworker: when he showed me some emails from the beginning of an effort that started in his time in that job (this was shortly after I was hired), and I looked at the date and remarked "I was in high school then!".
Not super old, but I definitely feel old when someone who's old enough to have a YouTube account (13+) comments about how they remember watching one of my earlier videos when they were in elementary school, lmao.
I can think of a variety of things that might qualify, but something that happened today would be either at or near the top of the list.
This morning I went to a memorial service for the mother of one of my college roommates. She died last month of pancreatic cancer. I saw my old roommate in the church lobby prior to the service and we realized that because COVID had led to our 2020 class reunion being cancelled, the last time prior to today that we had seen each other was July 2019 at my father's funeral Mass.
Realizing that you've reached the point in your life where you see certain people pretty much just for funerals is definitely something that makes you feel old.
(Edited to correct a missing word.)
Quote from: texaskdog on December 02, 2023, 03:41:49 PM
I turn 55 in May and it really doesn't help to see a senior menu 55+ at Dennys.
I have never ordered anything off a "senior menu". I'm not reluctant to take the discount off a regular meal though, and Denny's does offer a 15% discount off your Moons Over My Hammy when you show your AARP card at the cash register. There are a number of chain restaurants (https://www.aarp.org/membership/benefits/restaurants/) that offer those discounts. The AARP membership also comes in handy for discounted rates at hotels, and Hertz has special 50-and-over rates as well.
I realized I was old when I went to a local museum and saw gadgets from my childhood on display.
When I was looking at tweets on Twitter regarding my high school's football team, and there was a user whose username included my graduation year (so I thought he might have been a classmate) but it turned out he was an active player on the team, and the year was his birth year.
Quote from: gonealookin on December 02, 2023, 06:27:33 PM
Quote from: texaskdog on December 02, 2023, 03:41:49 PM
I turn 55 in May and it really doesn't help to see a senior menu 55+ at Dennys.
I have never ordered anything off a "senior menu". I'm not reluctant to take the discount off a regular meal though, and Denny's does offer a 15% discount off your Moons Over My Hammy when you show your AARP card at the cash register. There are a number of chain restaurants (https://www.aarp.org/membership/benefits/restaurants/) that offer those discounts. The AARP membership also comes in handy for discounted rates at hotels, and Hertz has special 50-and-over rates as well.
I decided when I turned 50 a few years back that I would forego AARP as long as my son is in school. Given what AARP lobbies for and by definition who they would lobby against, I felt that joining would be super hypocritical on my part. (my own decision, not trying to preach)
I probably will join AARP when that is no longer an issue for me.
I do have AAA membership which also helps with some travel things.
When I could no longer count the number of prescription drugs I take on one hand.
When my 17 year old daughter started listening to bands like Nirvana that first became popular when I was in middle school.
When my now 19 year old daughter began working at the same place I work at when she was 16, and I am now old enough to be many of my co-workers' father, many of whom are college students.
Probably back in 2010, when I turned 38, when I found out a coworker of mine who was younger than me became a grandmother.
Quote from: tmoore952 on December 02, 2023, 10:18:41 PM
Quote from: gonealookin on December 02, 2023, 06:27:33 PM
Quote from: texaskdog on December 02, 2023, 03:41:49 PM
I turn 55 in May and it really doesn't help to see a senior menu 55+ at Dennys.
I have never ordered anything off a "senior menu". I'm not reluctant to take the discount off a regular meal though, and Denny's does offer a 15% discount off your Moons Over My Hammy when you show your AARP card at the cash register. There are a number of chain restaurants (https://www.aarp.org/membership/benefits/restaurants/) that offer those discounts. The AARP membership also comes in handy for discounted rates at hotels, and Hertz has special 50-and-over rates as well.
I decided when I turned 50 a few years back that I would forego AARP as long as my son is in school. Given what AARP lobbies for and by definition who they would lobby against, I felt that joining would be super hypocritical on my part. (my own decision, not trying to preach)
I probably will join AARP when that is no longer an issue for me.
I do have AAA membership which also helps with some travel things.
AARP has been hounding me to join since I turned 30.
The first time a clerk or server called me "sir".
The graying hair came first. Now it's the hypertension and the Losartan I have to take to keep my blood pressure down.
I don't know. My memory is gone.
Quote from: GaryV on December 03, 2023, 02:05:06 PM
I don't know. My memory is gone.
Took the blue pill?
Quote from: tchafe1978 on December 02, 2023, 10:24:58 PM
When I could no longer count the number of prescription drugs I take on one hand.
When my 17 year old daughter started listening to bands like Nirvana that first became popular when I was in middle school.
When my now 19 year old daughter began working at the same place I work at when she was 16, and I am now old enough to be many of my co-workers' father, many of whom are college students.
I made a co-worker feel REALLY old back on December 7, 2015 when we had the following exchange:
She: Can you believe that it is already December 7th?
I: Yeah, seems like just yesterday it was the 6th...
She: <chuckles> <to other co-worker> ... Do you remember where you were Pearl Harbor Day?
Other: <grumbles>
I: Do you know where I was on Pearl Harbor Day?
She: A little gleam in your daddy's eye??
I: My Grandmother was three months' pregnant with my mother!
For myself, it came in stages:
My first grey hair at 17
First balding evidence at 30
First grey pube at 33
First time I caught salespeople clandestinely discussing offering me a senior discount at 48
First experienced age discrimination at 54
First time I bought my stepson a legal beer at 58
Much younger brother died when I was 60.
Realized my miscarried child would be 43 and my stepdaughter with 3rd back ex is 45 at 62.
I'm 63.
Quote from: DandyDan on December 02, 2023, 11:30:17 PM
Probably back in 2010, when I turned 38, when I found out a coworker of mine who was younger than me became a grandmother.
I think that says more about her and her children than it does about you. :-o
When Tom Brady stopped playing (for good), as he was the last athlete in the 4 major sports older than me.
Quote from: michravera on December 03, 2023, 02:16:12 PM
Quote from: tchafe1978 on December 02, 2023, 10:24:58 PM
When I could no longer count the number of prescription drugs I take on one hand.
When my 17 year old daughter started listening to bands like Nirvana that first became popular when I was in middle school.
When my now 19 year old daughter began working at the same place I work at when she was 16, and I am now old enough to be many of my co-workers' father, many of whom are college students.
I made a co-worker feel REALLY old back on December 7, 2015 when we had the following exchange:
She: Can you believe that it is already December 7th?
I: Yeah, seems like just yesterday it was the 6th...
She: <chuckles> <to other co-worker> ... Do you remember where you were Pearl Harbor Day?
Other: <grumbles>
I: Do you know where I was on Pearl Harbor Day?
She: A little gleam in your daddy's eye??
I: My Grandmother was three months' pregnant with my mother!
Wait a minute, what am I missing here? To remember where you were on Pearl Harbor day means you were born 1935-ish or earlier. To still be in the workforce in 2015 means your co-worker was ~80 years old? :hmmm:
If that's the case, I think it might have been a bit late for an "I'm officially old" moment, especially a
first such moment (which I'm sure it wasn't!)
For a while when I reffed youth soccer, I had an Eisenhower dollar that I used for flipping. Sometimes I asked the captains if they knew who it was. Then I gave them a hint, "He was president when I was born." One day a kid answered, "Uh, Washington?"
Grrrr.
Quote from: GaryV on December 03, 2023, 06:47:22 PM
For a while when I reffed youth soccer, I had an Eisenhower dollar that I used for flipping. Sometimes I asked the captains if they knew who it was. Then I gave them a hint, "He was president when I was born." One day a kid answered, "Uh, Washington?"
Grrrr.
Kid's a smartass, but at least he's funny :)
Quote from: webny99 on December 03, 2023, 06:12:26 PM
Quote from: michravera on December 03, 2023, 02:16:12 PM
Quote from: tchafe1978 on December 02, 2023, 10:24:58 PM
When I could no longer count the number of prescription drugs I take on one hand.
When my 17 year old daughter started listening to bands like Nirvana that first became popular when I was in middle school.
When my now 19 year old daughter began working at the same place I work at when she was 16, and I am now old enough to be many of my co-workers' father, many of whom are college students.
I made a co-worker feel REALLY old back on December 7, 2015 when we had the following exchange:
She: Can you believe that it is already December 7th?
I: Yeah, seems like just yesterday it was the 6th...
She: <chuckles> <to other co-worker> ... Do you remember where you were Pearl Harbor Day?
Other: <grumbles>
I: Do you know where I was on Pearl Harbor Day?
She: A little gleam in your daddy's eye??
I: My Grandmother was three months' pregnant with my mother!
Wait a minute, what am I missing here? To remember where you were on Pearl Harbor day means you were born 1935-ish or earlier. To still be in the workforce in 2015 means your co-worker was ~80 years old? :hmmm:
If that's the case, I think it might have been a bit late for an "I'm officially old" moment, especially a first such moment (which I'm sure it wasn't!)
She died in 2021, aged 84. We were both mind games officials. The average age of members of the American Contract Bridge League was about 68 at the time. (It's about the same now).
When you first went to an unfamiliar bar and did not get 'carded'?
Mike
Quote from: kkt on December 03, 2023, 11:01:27 PM
Quote from: GaryV on December 03, 2023, 06:47:22 PM
For a while when I reffed youth soccer, I had an Eisenhower dollar that I used for flipping. Sometimes I asked the captains if they knew who it was. Then I gave them a hint, "He was president when I was born." One day a kid answered, "Uh, Washington?"
Grrrr.
Kid's a smartass, but at least he's funny :)
Nah, he had no clue who it might be, and just picked an old president.
I haven't had it yet.
Quote from: mgk920 on December 04, 2023, 03:02:04 AM
When you first went to an unfamiliar bar and did not get 'carded'?
There are bars that card in Wisconsin? :-D
I got one:
You tweak a muscle from just standing up.
When candidates I am interviewing for open positions at work are younger than my youngest child . . .
Gray Hairs I guess.
When I can remember a time when you just had to buy a game console and a disc and you actually got the whole game.
Struggling to figure out the touchscreen of my roommate's new 2024 Toyota Corolla. I'm not quite 30 yet and have had no problems adapting to new technology in the past.
Quote from: CometTheMountainLion on December 05, 2023, 02:15:37 PM
When I can remember a time when you just had to buy a game console and a disc and you actually got the whole game.
I remember games coming across multiple floppies.
For that matter, I remember computer games requiring you to flip the cassette tape, or that came on ROM cartriges.
Quote from: MikeTheActuary on December 06, 2023, 07:47:02 AM
Quote from: CometTheMountainLion on December 05, 2023, 02:15:37 PM
When I can remember a time when you just had to buy a game console and a disc and you actually got the whole game.
I remember games coming across multiple floppies.
For that matter, I remember computer games requiring you to flip the cassette tape, or that came on ROM cartriges.
Nowadays there are updates, expansion packs, and micro-transactions which add/subtract/edit the game.
Console gaming has disinterested me for the last 15+ years; for the one time a week I might want to play, a console insists on an update and then the game might patch as well. It seems to be designed for the "daily gamer" instead of a casual one, so I'd long since decided that I'm not going to waste time with that.
Heh. I bought a Missile Command cartridge for my Atari 2600 a couple of years ago.
Quote from: Rothman on December 06, 2023, 10:53:18 AM
Heh. I bought a Missile Command cartridge for my Atari 2600 a couple of years ago.
One of my old college roommates just bought an Atari 2600+ (https://atari.com/products/atari-2600-plus), which is an updated version of the original console that supports HDMI connections. The downside, from what I've read, is that the joystick cables are not any longer than they were on the original machine, so you wind up sitting far closer to the TV than you would prefer with modern TV sizes. When I was over at my mom's house a week or two ago I found old Atari cartridges in her basement, so I'm tempted to buy one of these, but I don't know whether I'd play it enough to make it worthwhile even though the cost is pretty minimal.
I work at the health department, so seeing patients born in the mid-2000s and realizing they're not little kids probably did it for me.
I've had gray hairs since I was 18, so definitely not that.
Of course, there's the coincidence of me getting an invitation to our neighborhood's seniors club on my 39th birthday, plus the fact I just started getting AARP mail despite being 16 years away from even considering that...
Quote from: 1995hoo on December 06, 2023, 10:58:51 AM
Quote from: Rothman on December 06, 2023, 10:53:18 AM
Heh. I bought a Missile Command cartridge for my Atari 2600 a couple of years ago.
One of my old college roommates just bought an Atari 2600+ (https://atari.com/products/atari-2600-plus), which is an updated version of the original console that supports HDMI connections. The downside, from what I've read, is that the joystick cables are not any longer than they were on the original machine, so you wind up sitting far closer to the TV than you would prefer with modern TV sizes. When I was over at my mom's house a week or two ago I found old Atari cartridges in her basement, so I'm tempted to buy one of these, but I don't know whether I'd play it enough to make it worthwhile even though the cost is pretty minimal.
I lucked out in that my current flat screen still had the old ports along with HDMI. I am hoping I will be able to find a TV with the old ports when I need a replacement.
Still ticked that Nintendo's light gun doesn't work with flat screens. Saw a way to modify things so it would, but far beyond my capabilities.
Quote from: vdeane on December 03, 2023, 03:22:32 PM
Quote from: DandyDan on December 02, 2023, 11:30:17 PM
Probably back in 2010, when I turned 38, when I found out a coworker of mine who was younger than me became a grandmother.
I think that says more about her and her children than it does about you. :-o
Probably, but there are people in my family tree who became grandparents earlier than average as well.
Quote from: Rothman on December 06, 2023, 11:49:32 AM
Quote from: 1995hoo on December 06, 2023, 10:58:51 AM
Quote from: Rothman on December 06, 2023, 10:53:18 AM
Heh. I bought a Missile Command cartridge for my Atari 2600 a couple of years ago.
One of my old college roommates just bought an Atari 2600+ (https://atari.com/products/atari-2600-plus), which is an updated version of the original console that supports HDMI connections. The downside, from what I've read, is that the joystick cables are not any longer than they were on the original machine, so you wind up sitting far closer to the TV than you would prefer with modern TV sizes. When I was over at my mom's house a week or two ago I found old Atari cartridges in her basement, so I'm tempted to buy one of these, but I don't know whether I'd play it enough to make it worthwhile even though the cost is pretty minimal.
I lucked out in that my current flat screen still had the old ports along with HDMI. I am hoping I will be able to find a TV with the old ports when I need a replacement.
Still ticked that Nintendo's light gun doesn't work with flat screens. Saw a way to modify things so it would, but far beyond my capabilities.
What type of output does that video game unit utilize? There are converter and upscaling boxes available.
Quote from: formulanone on December 01, 2023, 07:24:07 PM
This occurs in stages:
2) hearing songs from your senior year in high school on a classic rock station
I get this every time I hear Pearl Jam or Nirvana on classic rock stations.
When not only your boss, but his boss, are younger than you. (I got that this year.)
When you worry about your one living parent's health and wind up calling him once or twice a week to check up on him.
And more recently, when there are only three or so radio stations you can tolerate, and you find yourself gravitating to the classic rock station. (And that station's longtime DJs that put it on the map, have retired.)
When you have no living parents or grandparents.
Quote from: kkt on December 10, 2023, 09:51:37 PM
When you have no living parents or grandparents.
That was my situation by the time I was 34. Both my parents were gone by the time I was 32.
Quote from: kkt on December 10, 2023, 09:51:37 PM
When you have no living parents or grandparents.
Nor (in my case) any living aunts and uncles. Lost the last one in 2019. I'm now part of the oldest generation in my family (both paternal and maternal sides). Which is a valid "officially I'm old" moment.
Also, realizing that I have now lived longer than my father and his father.
On a lighter note, seeing posters young enough to be my kids - or grandkids - contributing to this thread.
Quote from: epzik8 on December 05, 2023, 04:16:48 PM
Struggling to figure out the touchscreen of my roommate's new 2024 Toyota Corolla. I'm not quite 30 yet and have had no problems adapting to new technology in the past.
I don't know that it's people our age's fault so much as it is that UI design has gone to complete shit since phones came out and everyone started treating everything like it was a Web page and programming it in JavaScript knockoffs.
From this post (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=26000.msg2890415#msg2890415):
A hard drive from the early 1980s was $2,000 (not inflation adjusted, that would make it $6,360) and had only 5 MB of storage space. I regularly work with log files and packet captures that are much larger than 5 MB.... ZIPped. In addition, a little over $2,000 would pay for eight 14TB drives in my NAS server (at $260 each... I couldn't find any new drives for $250) that would give me approximately 75TB of effective storage in a RAIDZ2 configuration.
I also remember in the early 1990s when I ordered a 305MB drive for $300 to replace a 105MB drive. Again, you can purchase 128GB USB Thumb drives for as little as $13 (https://amzn.to/41gaEXL).
Quote from: ZLoth on December 12, 2023, 11:13:18 AM
From this post (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=26000.msg2890415#msg2890415):
A hard drive from the early 1980s was $2,000 (not inflation adjusted, that would make it $6,360) and had only 5 MB of storage space. I regularly work with log files and packet captures that are much larger than 5 MB.... ZIPped. In addition, a little over $2,000 would pay for eight 14TB drives in my NAS server (at $260 each... I couldn't find any new drives for $250) that would give me approximately 75TB of effective storage in a RAIDZ2 configuration.
I also remember in the early 1990s when I ordered a 305MB drive for $300 to replace a 105MB drive. Again, you can purchase 128GB USB Thumb drives for as little as $13 (https://amzn.to/41gaEXL).
Remember that the government's own 'inflation' numbers are absurdly low and in real terms, that early 1980s price could well be in the five figures by now.
Mike
Quote from: ZLoth on December 12, 2023, 11:13:18 AM
From this post (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=26000.msg2890415#msg2890415):
A hard drive from the early 1980s was $2,000 (not inflation adjusted, that would make it $6,360) and had only 5 MB of storage space. I regularly work with log files and packet captures that are much larger than 5 MB.... ZIPped. In addition, a little over $2,000 would pay for eight 14TB drives in my NAS server (at $260 each... I couldn't find any new drives for $250) that would give me approximately 75TB of effective storage in a RAIDZ2 configuration.
I also remember in the early 1990s when I ordered a 305MB drive for $300 to replace a 105MB drive. Again, you can purchase 128GB USB Thumb drives for as little as $13 (https://amzn.to/41gaEXL).
We had a problem with one of the first 500MB hard drive that I ever worked with (they had two, plus four drives for all of the removable spin packs). I was working as backup System Manager when the technician came in, opened up the cabinet and started to pull out the drive controller. I was like "Where is your groundstrap?" "I don't need one on these new machines", he replied. An hour later, his boss called in and reported that the fellow had indeed zapped the controller, which cost about $1,000,000. (I was shocked, pun intended, because we only paid about $1.25M for the entire Intergraph VAX 11/785 system). That's not what makes me feel old. The machine it replaced was a twin PDP-11/30 that was the third unit ever sold by M&S Computing (predecessor to Intergraph).
Wow. I hope that technician went into a different line of work. (Maybe he can be a surgery assistant and see what the surgeon says when he skips wearing gloves.)
Another one. I was taking grad classes in IT about a dozen years ago. The topic was sorting techniques, one of which is "perk up". I had to explain a coffee percolator to the class.
Quote from: GaryV on December 13, 2023, 07:22:18 AMAnother one. I was taking grad classes in IT about a dozen years ago. The topic was sorting techniques, one of which is "perk up". I had to explain a coffee percolator to the class.
Aren't those the coffee makers which "squirt up" coffee to a clear handle while it's brewing?
One that a wide range of ages may be able to relate to...
- When a young kid dislikes a food or drink item and you tell them "it's an acquired taste"
The second time within a half-year that I had an injury but absolutely no idea how it happened.
Quote from: GaryV on December 13, 2023, 07:22:18 AM
Another one. I was taking grad classes in IT about a dozen years ago. The topic was sorting techniques, one of which is "perk up". I had to explain a coffee percolator to the class.
"There was a fish in the percolator!"
Quote from: webny99 on December 13, 2023, 04:26:50 PM
One that a wide range of ages may be able to relate to...
- When a young kid dislikes a food or drink item and you tell them "it's an acquired taste"
I tell my kids that with medicine...
"You'll get used to it."
"No I won't."
"You'd be surprised what terrible foods or inedible things you'll eventually try."