What Makes You Feel Old?

[CaptainErotica]

Telling people(mainly co-workers) that I have lived in Japan since 1994 and their reply is that they weren’t even born yet.

[The Lioness]

Re-vamping my request thread, only to see I've got updates on there dating back to 2013.

Oh yeah, and realizing I'm now approaching the age my mother was when I graduated high school.

[RedRose]

SO. TIRED.

[BlueOrange]

Re-vamping my request thread, only to see I've got updates on there dating back to 2013.

You remind me of the OOs and the request threads that start with “I’m new and still working things out” and they’re dated 2011. “Elliquy age” is definitely a thing.

[Lady Shadow]

Fake eyelashes, I think I am last woman that uses mascara.

[Silvered Sutures]

People born in 2005 can legally vote.

[Pink Duct Tape]

Twitter.

[varjue]

OH MAN. There's a lot of things that make me feel old.I think one of the things that makes me feel really old is when people don't know what a VHS is or like... a Gameboy. That's so wild to me! Someone also once called my DS ancient and that felt absolutely like astonishing.

[GhettoMedic]

Part of this might just be because EMS prematurely ages you both mentally and physically, but I'm only 28 and every new EMT at my service looks like a literal child.

[Pain]

I've been playing Kingdom Hearts since I was a kid and, although it's still a relatively popular franchise (Square Enix and all that) there are people who haven't played the originals or owned a PS2, which makes me feel really old.

And CDs.

[Silvered Sutures]

The fact I saw my niece at a club.

[Oniya]

I forgot that anything more than five years old is 'obscure' on the Internet.

[Lady Shadow]

Watching AI evolve when I remember the thought of it brings me back to the Terminator movies, which are becoming obsolete themselves.

[Silvered Sutures]

The fact there are currently 6 terminator movies, the last of which came out last decade

[IsabellaRose]

The fact I saw my niece at a club.

A kid I used to babysit for was bouncing at a local bar, which was weird. Weirder still when I went inside and ran into my nephew, who told me he'd been "coming here for years" ...

[Victoria Skye]

Thinking when Skyrim came out.

Also when people in their 20s call themselves old 🙃

[Observing Trifles]

I once told a 19-year-old intern in my department that I was 32. 

He looked me dead in the eye and said, verbatim, "Oh my god, what were the nineties like?!"

Damn, my dude. Damn.

[Starling]

Tik Tok. Instagram. Snapchat. 

I feel like a boomer for either not using them or really knowing how to. I mean, I know the basics, I just don't know how - you know what I mean? On a technical level, I'd manage just fine, but I don't know why people would, I don't know how to make the most of it, etcetera. 

Backpains. Granted, they don't just happen because of old age, but even though it's like a monthly occurrence for me... it makes me feel like I'm ready to lie down in a coffin, maybe permanently doze off. 

Or when I'm reminded that I'm like a million years old because the books/sites changed from saying that the dinosaurs died out 65 to 66 million years ago in my lifetime. xD (I know that's not how any of this works, but let me have this!) 

[Oniya]

Tik Tok. Instagram. Snapchat.

I feel like a boomer for either not using them or really knowing how to. I mean, I know the basics, I just don't know how - you know what I mean? On a technical level, I'd manage just fine, but I don't know why people would, I don't know how to make the most of it, etcetera.

If it's any consolation, Little Oni only views the occasional Tik Tok videos on her social feeds.  Neither of the other two cross her typical chatter. 

[Verasaille]

Playing in a MMO with almost everyone younger than me and hearing some of them boast they are the oldest one in the game. Sitting there snickering that if I tell them how old I am they would be backing away like someone told them they were rping with their Grandmother!

Also realizing that my grandkids are old enough to have kids and that would make me a Great Grandma!

[Pain]

Someone recently reminded me that the Wii is 17 years old.

[CaptainErotica]

Realizing that I’ve been here longer then many of the other members have been alive. Or that so many of the other “Old Timers” are gone- but never forgotten.

[yobo]

Subtracting my age from the year I was born and realizing that year (so far back) is as close to the year I was born as the current year...

[Oniya]

Subtracting my age from the year I was born and realizing that year (so far back) is as close to the year I was born as the current year...

*stares in mathematician*

[Lilias]

Definite beginnings of arthritis in the shoulder. Having to be slow and careful when wriggling out of a sports bra, in order not to pull anything that will have me in agony for days, is a new low.