"God I'm old" moments

[jackknife402]

When I realize that kids born the year I got my very first cat are allowed to smoke, and in the winter was when I visited Disney World.

When I mention how lazy children are, they can just go in the internet and find answers to math problems, I had to work them out by hand, without a calculator; and if the batteries were dead I'd have to walk 15 miles through the snow up-hill both ways to the nearest general store to buy new ones.

That kids these days are taught algebra in fifth grade when I didn't learn it until seventh.

When I can remember when cell phones gaming options were either "Brick" or "snake."

I can remember when cameras had to be mounted on your shoulder.

I can remember when people used to walk around with boom boxes on their shoulders instead of a tiny little ipod.

I remember an old analog TV set my parents owned that was older than I am and broke when I turned sixteen, and this thing was bigger than a computer desk. I am now 23.

I remember when someone picked up the phone, you lost the internet.

 

[tippy2k2]

El Snip

I'm in the same place you are, 25 years old, and these little pains that hurt, but don't make me drop the ground are coming left and right.

My finger joints are in pain as well as the lower part of my back. I seem to be going steadily worse in my eyes. As for a story.

I was climbing trees tying off the top of them so I could cut them down safely. Well, I messed up my back on it and spent the rest of my Saturday laying in bed and watching tv instead of playing video games.

From what I've been told these pains are foreshadowing what you get to look forward to in the future except by the time you hit 50 those pains will drop you to the ground. I'm not sure if there is a way to counter it, but I know sitting in the computer chair all day doesn't help your back. ...Doesn't help any of our backs.

Good luck man, just remember when we get to the point of being shoved in a home we're going to make damn sure they have internet.

God I hope it's not a sign of what will hurt later and just me being stupid doing physical activities. I play in a winter soccer league (first game was last night...didn't go well) and everything hurts now...

And you're damn right they'll have internet in my old folks home! You gotta show those young punks whose truly 133t (kids still say 133t nowadays, that's cool right? But I don't care if it's cool...which makes me cool, right? Not caring makes me cool? Also note, assuming I didn't screw it up, if you get that reference, you're probably old too)

 

[Baralak]

Found out my 10-year old niece has a cell phone.

When I was ten, no one in my family had wireless phones, let alone cell phones.

My ten-year old niece and twelve-year old nephew both have iPhones. Yeah, when I was their age I don't think I had even memorized the land-line number, nowadays my dad is about the only person I know who even has a land-line.

I mention Windows ME/98 and my friend stares

My last desktop had Windows 98 SE.

OT: Well, touching on the earlier paragraph, the fact that my niece and nephew don't understand references from films . . . well, that came out before 2000. Most recently noted by me was "The Karate Kid".

Fondly remembering the days of booting up games like "Star Wars: Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight", "Sonic the Hedgehog", "Banjo-Kazooie". . . and how excited I was when my dad finally let me play Final Fantasy VII for the first time, now remembering that game is just about fifteen years old.

Seeing my younger brother, who is fourteen years younger than me.

Being unable to throw away a combination DVD/VHS player that may not even work anymore because it's ridiculously difficult to even find VHS players anymore.

Whenever I note that both of my laptops are technologically superior to the last desktop computer I owned.

Being almost completely unable to find any of the television shows I watched as a child on television anymore.

For the incredibly stereotypical one, every time I remember that I'm going to turn twenty later this month makes me feel old.

Go to Goodwill. I work there. We put out no less than 5 VCRs a day. No less than 20 various VHS tapes, too. Everything from good movies like John Q to those stupid "Kartoon Kollections"

OP: When I realize that Super Mario is only 3 years older than I am. That all of the PS2's best games are 5+ years old, and it really doesn't seem like it.

I also feel old when I realize there's no anime on TV anymore. I remember being about 13, and I would be STUCK to my TV watching everything from .hack//SIGN to Knights of the Zodiac, all on Cartoon Network. Heck, I remember when CN Never showed anything newer than "Pirates of Dark Water". God, I even remember spending a ton of time playing games on Cartoonnetwork.com... I need something to make me feel young again.. I'm only 22.

 

[vidirg]

last year I hurt my back and couldn't stand straight, I had my hand on my back trying to get it straight but couldn't. It's ok now I'm 17.

 

[Blow_Pop]

Looking around at elementary schools and seeing little girls in short skirts and halter tops and going "well fuck. when I was that age, my mum wouldn't of let me out of the house in that. and I sure as hell wouldn't of been allowed in school like that"

Every time someone says "Oh Daft Punk did a great version of Kanye's song" when referring to Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

Every time someone says "Who is Daft Punk? Are they a new band or something?"

Listening to people say "Oh my god I'm so old! I'm turning 18 or 21. And then realising that in a week I'm turning 27"

Girls saying they're fat when they are thinner than I am, and then when I mention that being fat isn't bad because it use to be a sign of wealth them telling me I'm spouting bullshit because the schools around here are teaching less and less especially historically speaking.

People saying that spanking your kids for acting up is cruel and unusual punishment. I just want to go up to them and say "***** please, I had to cut my own switch as a child so don't start" and slap them.

And finally, people going "OMG I'm gonna be without [electronic device] for a day(or few hours) my life is over!" And then think "Gee, you wouldn't of survived when I was a child then"

EDIT: Also, I threw my back out when I was in 9th grade and my knee and ankle on my right leg are both bad now and feeling the cold/rain in all three before it even happens.

 

[Jonluw]

Thinking about the fact that the 360 came out something like 6 years ago makes me feel old even though I'm not.
In my mind, I bought it yesterday.

The me of my memories was playing Star wars Jedi Academy until just recently. Turns out I haven't played that game in seven years.

 

[Blow_Pop]

Oh also, realising I'm older than the internet, I still know how to run DOS, and my car having a tape player makes me happy. And the fact I can drive a manual. I know very few people who can drive my car since its manual. Still having all my old VHS tapes, and a VHS/DVD combo player attached to an older tv in my room, having a N64 still in my room that works well. My gameboy colour and the games on it. Remembering going over to my best friends house two houses down and either playing atari, building lego stuff, or playing on the NES and him introducing me to Final Fantasy and playing the first 3 American released games and then realising how old they actually are. The Konami code. Having as many books in my room as I do. And cds. And tapes. And my walkman. And portable cd player. And my boom box. And yes, at one point or another it all does get used. Though, the books more so. Also remembering doing really well in class so I could go to the computer lab and play The Oregon Trail. I also graduated high school 8 years ago and most of my graduating class is married/has children. And I'm still single.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

El Snip

I'm in the same place you are, 25 years old, and these little pains that hurt, but don't make me drop the ground are coming left and right.

My finger joints are in pain as well as the lower part of my back. I seem to be going steadily worse in my eyes. As for a story.

I was climbing trees tying off the top of them so I could cut them down safely. Well, I messed up my back on it and spent the rest of my Saturday laying in bed and watching tv instead of playing video games.

From what I've been told these pains are foreshadowing what you get to look forward to in the future except by the time you hit 50 those pains will drop you to the ground. I'm not sure if there is a way to counter it, but I know sitting in the computer chair all day doesn't help your back. ...Doesn't help any of our backs.

Good luck man, just remember when we get to the point of being shoved in a home we're going to make damn sure they have internet.

God I hope it's not a sign of what will hurt later and just me being stupid doing physical activities. I play in a winter soccer league (first game was last night...didn't go well) and everything hurts now...

And you're damn right they'll have internet in my old folks home! You gotta show those young punks whose truly 133t (kids still say 133t nowadays, that's cool right? But I don't care if it's cool...which makes me cool, right? Not caring makes me cool? Also note, assuming I didn't screw it up, if you get that reference, you're probably old too)

For some odd reason I'm cooler with kids now than when I actually was considered legally a kid. -Shrug- Maybe I have a peter pan complex. I generally plan on getting old, shouting at people as well as inanimate objects. Oh and lots of shoplifting, because I'm crazy and don't realize I'm putting it in my pocket.

 

[theravensclaw]

I'm 20 and I think kids are more foul mouthed, less disciplined and have worse taste in music than they did when I was in elementary school. Yup, I feel older than I should.

29 here. i just want to smack the belligerent little shites on a daily basis. i was considered one of the outcasts at school and we were never such foul, loathsome creatures.

 

[Floggo]

When someone thinks that ADSL internet is slow, and don't know what an Atari is.

 

[JLML]

I've had back pain, and I've found myself saying "when I was a kid" and not meaning it as a joke...I'm 18. :c

This. Quite this. Though in my case, we can also throw in having the joints of a 60+ year old. I'm 18. D:

 

[otakon17]

Watching showings of Tail Spin. That was a good bit of my childhood there, the Disney Afternoon.

 

[otakon17]

You guys too? God allmighty, I thought I was the only one with that problem.

 

[Idlemessiah]

The fact that I'm 21 means some stuff in my life happened a decade ago. Its only 10 years but the word "decade" makes it sound a lot longer. Thats a little depressing. Also heavy smoking, drinking ale and eating crap makes me physically feel about a decade older than I am. My dad bought a Wii fit the other day and I dare not try it out for fear of being physically older than a 60 year old man.

 

[mcnally86]

I woke up too late and almost missed school. This is bad because I have to get there early and turn homework in, I work there.

 

[spartan231490]

21 years old. Seeing my neices and nephews makes me feel old. My family has a history of probably the worst knees that have ever been burdened upon a poor soul, so when I kneel for 20 seconds and standing up sounds like the beginning of WWIII that makes me feel really old.

 

[Toaster Hunter]

I want to know when Nirvana and Stone Temple Pilots became Classic Rock.

 

[Ed Classified]

I'm 19 and a random kid at the local McDonald's walked up to me and started pulling my coat yelling daddy, it was kind of cute but it did make me feel old. Apart from that I have back problems and the stamina of an 80 year old smoker with a collapsed lung breathing through a straw, neither of which bother me because it hardly matters when you sit on your ass all day long.

 

[badpun]

Remembering the original gameboys and how cool they were, buying pokemon blue when it was fairly new and all the rage.

Renting vhs tapes and the impatient waiting while rewinding to watch again from the start.

When mobile phones started to become common and being jealous of people with ones with colour screens.

Playing wonderboy or echo the dolphin on the sega master system.

Installing games on the computer via several floppys and running the command prompt in DOS.

Using my 34cm tube tv and thinking it was the best and that it came with a remote!

Tamagotchis

Waking early on school days to watch the first few seasons pokemon and dragon ball z as they came out.

Getting excited to use the school computers in the library and getting to play the goosebumps game on cd rom.

Thats about all i can think of right now.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

So in tribute to my upcoming 26th birthday, does anyone else have a fun story about feeling old?

Nope, just lots of funny stories about everyone else getting old.

I'm still in my childhood