What Has Made You Feel Old?

When I received an early retirement offer from my employer last Fall.

Our next door's neighbor's daughter got married, latter I baby sat her infant daughter ( even bottle fed her)

When I heard she( the baby) got married I felt old. When she had her first child I felt ancient but now THAT child has had her first baby and I think I need to check out nursing homes while I can still distinguish them from the post office.



As for references I figure I don't know who all the Kardashians are or the names of the Real Housewives of ___________. or Cardi B ( OK she was on SNL but I won't remember in a day or two) so I jess shrug and call it even.

Imma gonna lie down in my Trunk now with my Memories.

I feel old when I read a script for a period movie-- set in the 90's.

Born in the 50's here-- my milk glass as a kid was a Howdy Doody jelly jar (google it-- it was a 50's TV show with puppets.) Yes, there was a time when kids grew up watching TV pre-Sesame Street. Anyone else out there remember Romper Room?

Sparkle Neely said: "I keep trying to convince myself I’m not that old, but these children aren’t helping matters! It constantly baffles me that with information more accessible than ever, people seem to know less and less about things that happened before they were born.

What’s happened to you that’s made you feel older than dirt?"

To be fair, most of the references you cite are a bit dated for a 40 y/o. I mean, Pretty Woman was in theaters in 1990, when you were 12. Anything Can Whistle was 1964, before you were born. Sondheim's heyday, arguably, was in the 70s and 80s.

Many years ago I was browsing in a record store and two teenage girls were across from me. One pulled an album out of the rack and said to the other one: "Hey did you know Paul McCartney was in another group before Wings?"

I was on an episode of romper room in 84 but by that time it was Miss Molly. I still have a copy of it but when I show it to people just a few years younger than me they have no memory of the show.

Sparkle Neely said: "Haterobics - Pretty Woman was still very much in the public consciousness when I was a teenager and in my 20’s. It’s on television enough and so associated with Julia Roberts that I would assume most adults these days would know it.

Exactly. It was mainly in the public consciousness when the people you think should know about it now were in diapers...

I recently saw the play "Now That We're Men" by Katie Cappiello. She work shopped the piece with the five high school boys who star in it. They're meeting before the prom to discuss things like fetish porn, sexual assault and the ethics of trading their girlfriends nude photos on their phones. My high school experience was unpleasant enough without these problems and the show reminded me how out of touch I was, and am, with straight male youth culture.