You know you are old when...

[Quagmire]

When you stop even trying to pretend you understand what teenagers are saying.

 

[Buttercup]

You know you're old when:

Your daughter who's 22 tells you about the great night she had out with friends at a dance club. In the middle of her story she suddenly remembered something and says, "OMG mom! There was this old lady at the club who I couldn't believe was there." Thinking this woman must have been 70 or so I said, "Well, how old was she?" Lauren replies, "Ohhh, she had to have been at least 40!".

 

[ChristineES]

I, personally, knew when I was old when I heard "Every Breath You Take" by The Police on an oldies station. So my next answer is this- when you hear songs that came out when you were a teen on an oldies station.

 

[misanthropic_clown]

I guess I don't qualify as old (19) but there was one time when I was waiting in the bank for a friend to sort something out, and there was a bored little kid opposite me in a queue being generally annoying as young children in queues generally are and so I stuck my tongue out at him. He stuck his tongue out at me back, and his dad saw and told him off. Obviously the kid retorted, pointing to me, that I had stuck out my tongue at him. His dad said "I don't care what the man did, I have told you not to stick your tongue out at people".

'The man'...as someone trying desperately not to grow up, that made me feel old. Still not looking forward to turning 20.

 

[rojse]

You know you are old when...

You have used the phrase: "back in my day" with earnest.
Whenever you go out at night, you keep an eye on the time because you have to go to bed at a reasonable hour.
You think that Bingo is quite an exhilarating game.
You remember when being a frubal whore was a rare achievement.

 

[whereismynotecard]

Jokingly, you ask for a senior discount and they give it to you, no questions asked. (This happened to Rick a couple of years ago when he was 45)

At my old job I gave a discount to anyone who asked. You got 10% off for being either a student or a senior (65+ years old) If someone asked, no matter how old they looked, I gave them one, just because I didn't want to argue with them. It wasn't my store... it wasn't my money being lost... So I didn't care.

 

[Lindsey-Loo]

When you go to your little brother's class party, and a small child walks up to you and asks, "Whose mommy are you?"

When the kids you babysit start calling you "Mrs."

Tehe, I'm sixteen. But kids are so funny, they do all this stuff, and I'm like dang...I'm kinda old to them...it feels weird.

 

[cardero]

You know you are old when...
your wife has to coax you into the bedroom with a Twinkie on a fishing pole.

 

[MysticSang'ha]

But I'm not old - I'm in my prime. I have no idea what you all are talking about. :ignore:

 

[BucephalusBB]

You know you're old when you start thinking that everything in the past was better and that past happens to be your youth.

 

[Magic Man]

You know you're old when you hear a year-and-a-half old song and think "Oh, hey, that's that new song by so-and-so". I did this on Sunday.

 

[rojse]

You know you're old when you hear a year-and-a-half old song and think "Oh, hey, that's that new song by so-and-so". I did this on Sunday.

I do that too, and I am in my twenties. My excuse is that I listen to news radio and the ABC.

 

[misanthropic_clown]

I sometimes turn on the radio and recognise nothing. That's how musically out of touch I am.

 

[rojse]

I sometimes turn on the radio and recognise nothing. That's how musically out of touch I am.

You've just described me.

Oh, occasionally, I will hear a song that featured in a game that I played recently, but that's quite rare.

 

[cardero]

You know you're old when you start thinking that everything in the past was better and that past happens to be your youth.

Which reminds me-
You know you are old when...
your son gives you his Playatation 2 and you try to recapture the First-Person-Shooter magic that you got from playing DOOM but the knobs on the double analog controller simply confound you.

A very sad but true story.

 

[Quagmire]

You know you're old when...

That little voice in your head says "don't", and you don't.

 

[mrscardero]

You know you are old when you can't eat certain foods and you have
to take Beeno so there will be no gas.

 

[Smoke]

You know you are old when you can't eat certain foods and you have
to take Beeno so there will be no gas.

Ha! You know you're old when you don't care anymore.

 

[Draka]

I sometimes turn on the radio and recognise nothing. That's how musically out of touch I am.

How about this? When flipping around the other day I came upon the beginning of the movie "Hackers" and heard this song and just had to go dig out my old Mortal Kombat CD so I could listen to it...over and over

YouTube - Orbital - Halcyon and On and On

 

[Smoke]

The other day at work, the young people were laughing at those of us in our forties and fifties, because we know all the words to all the songs on the oldies station.