You Know You're Getting Old When...

[LilChibiusa]

Okay, I don't think that any of us are old enough to be on medicare or anything, but you have to admit that there are times that you feel ancient. This a place where you can share all of those fun stories if you can still remember them.

You know you're getting old when you look at high school students and a) mistake them for 7th graders, and b) call them kids before you even realize what you've said.

When you find yourself shopping for orthopedic shoes instead of cute, fashionable shoes.

When you realize that several of your favorite shows are now on TV Land, and you remember watching them when they first aired.

When you still consider a floppy disk to be a 5 1/4 diskette.

When you come to the shocking realization that you somehow survived your childhood without the internet because it wasn't available to the public yet.  

[Shoxide]

Lol. Yeah I just had a situation today where I felt old. I was talking with one of my friends at work and every subject we talked about he seemed to know everything about, I forgot how old he was and I asked him and he said 19. I laughed and said,"oh yeah I remember that stage well, thought I knew everything." he didn't laugh, but i thought it was funny. So anyway, yeah you know your getting old when you realize you might not know everything.  

[Delightfully Evil LordM]

When the newest hockey player on your favourite team is 6 (or more) years younger than you. gonk  

[LilChibiusa]

When you come to realize that you might be a bit too old to wear a Japanese school girl cosplay outfit at a convention... (Then again, I've seen guys wear them too. What do you think, is 25 too old to be wearing one?) sweatdrop  

[SeraphimDiablos]

LilChibiusa

When you come to realize that you might be a bit too old to wear a Japanese school girl cosplay outfit at a convention... (Then again, I've seen guys wear them too. What do you think, is 25 too old to be wearing one?) sweatdrop

Only if you have hairy legs. Uh, do you have hairy legs?  

[IEditYourWorld]

Recently, I helped a Girl Scout Troop earn their Video Production Badge. They got excited about the badge because they like watching a show called "iCarly." Myself and the other videographer who helped me with the Girl Scout Troop had never heard of the show, so we looked it up together. We sat there blushing at what we saw, comparing it to on camera interviews we do with brides and grooms on a regular basis (this guy and I work for a wedding video company, so we interview couples and guests all the time on camera.) I mean, WE could film better stuff than this, and yet IT gets its own show!

Now, it was at this point that we realized that youtube has had a big impact on media. This show looks like something you'd find on youtube, and it's marketed at young girls. If you all can remember being a young girl, all you want to do is be a big star on TV. It's marketed to make something like being a star look more accessible, which is what little girls dream of.

Aside from the fact that the changes in social media made me feel old, I got another rude awakening from the Scouts themselves. Now, I had just turned 26 when I did this, and I am an old Girl Scout myself. After mentioning how I was a Girl Scout at one point in my life and telling them my age, I had a chorus of "Wow! You're old Mrs. Wehking!" They didn't say anything to the guy I was working with (who's two years younger than I am and he's a good looking guy standing next to a short pudgy woman which probably helped him) but I got all the old lady guff because I'm older than Justin Beiber. Of course, the guy I work with likes to refer to me as grandmotherly in behavior, so that just adds to the old lady feel.

Getting old.
IEditYourWorld  

[LilChibiusa]

Agh! Those kids! stressed Nothing makes you feel old like being around kids. I remember asking one kid how old he thought I was, and this middle school kid says "35." >.<

As for iCarly, I've actually heard of that show although I don't watch it. I do know that it comes on the Disney Channel, and that my 52-year-old dad likes watching it for some odd reason. Anyway, apparently Disney is the big thing now with teenagers and "tweens." And, Justin Beiber? The kid doesn't even look like he's hit puberty yet! I would hate to be thought of as old just for looking older than him. blaugh When did this gulf between me and the teenage world appear anyway? I remember when Disney was actually cartoons, and the characters were the old recognizable ones you find at Disney World. It's hardly even recognizable anymore. And, when exactly did music videos disappear from MTV?

@Diablos - No, my legs aren't hairy. <.<  

[Lord Redtail Rathan]

I am guilty of a majority of these...and I'm only 22. DX

It's even worse being in the military. If you can legally drink, you're old. I see all these 18-19 year old kids and I wonder if the dye on their uniforms is still wet...  

[LilChibiusa]

When I was 22, I was at an all girl's college with a military school across the street. Most of the guys were 18 or 19, and I felt like a cougar trying to flirt with them. xp But, now, age differences don't bother me as much anymore. Now I'm just looking at maturity level, level of responsibility the takes, initiative, and other general good qualities.

I still have my Walkman. It's in the top right drawer of my dresser. Considering that the 80s are coming back, it starting to make me feel cool instead of old. I guess I'm just having a good age day. blaugh  

[LilChibiusa]

You know, I used to think that a three year age difference was a huge deal, and now I think three years makes little or no difference. Getting older definitely makes you look at different age groups and gaps in ages differently. I seriously can't tell the difference between high school kids and middle school kids anymore, and I'm only 25! xp  

[SeraphimDiablos]

LilChibiusa

I seriously can't tell the difference between high school kids and middle school kids anymore, and I'm only 25! xp

I just got OUT of high school and can't tell the difference most of the time xD There's a kid who ordered a grape cigarillo from me at my place of work just the other day - couldn't have been older than 14. Yet when we scanned his ID, everything went through perfectly fine - he turned out to be like, 23. Wtf.  

[Oranoriel of Tir na NOg]

Well, let's see...Hmmmmm. I know I am getting old because I start into a room with a definite purpose in mind and when I arrive, I can't for the life of me remember what the devil I went into that room for! Oh, and there are times when I cannot think what the name of something is and have to resort to Charades to figure it out with some help from family and/or friends! Oh, yes...one more thing...now what was that?