You know you're getting old when....

[Krishna]

You know you're getting old when....

1. You realize that those babies you held when you were 6 or 7 are ready to graduate high school this year.
2. You move back to your hometown and immediately realize that nothing will be the same since all your friends have moved away.
3. Your roommate invites underage friends over for drinks, and you immediately leave the house because you dont want to be (and by extention damage your teaching/professional career) there if they get caught.
4. Dancing the night away at the bars has gotten old...a movie and popcorn at home are your thing now.
5. Grandma puts a picture of you and your significant other under the "grandchildren" pictures on her fridge.
6. You walk in to a classroom and your students have never heard of a record player, can't imagine life without the internet, and can't tell you where they were when the OJ verdict was born (because at best, they were 3 or 4 years old)
7. Similarily, your students fail to recognize and embrace the sheer genius of CCR, Billy Joel, Elton John, and Peter, Paul & Mary (though they'll sing Puff the Magic Dragon all day long)
8. You say "Gulf War" and your students automatically assume that you're taking about the current war in Iraq, because they don't remember the first Gulf War.
9. A slightly younger friend asks if you want to go out on a weeknight and you respond "Only if we're home by 10...I have to work early tomorrow"
10. That pink carpet you picked out when you were 7 looks a lot less alluring now.


These have all happened to me recently, but feel free to add to the list...

[CuranderaC]

You know you're old when no one cards you anymore.

[wordsmith]

[B]
2. You move back to your hometown and immediately realize that nothing will be the same since all your friends have moved away.

Or as in my case, they (or some of 'em, at least) are still there, but you realize that you were friends with them by proximity, rather than because you have anything in common but a mutual history. :neutral:

[PVD99]

I got carded the other night and I felt great! :)

I have one to add to the list:

You know you're getting old when people who were born in 1990 are getting their drivers license/going to be seniors this year. (my brother is! yikes!)

[Sanman111]

When the best/most common reason to get drunk is that you are attending a wedding.

[enigma]

When you tell your 16-year-old cousin says "WHOA" with huge eyes when you tell him that DMB's "Under The Table and Dreaming" record came out when you were in high school....

[PenforPrez]

4. Dancing the night away at the bars has gotten old...a movie and popcorn at home are your thing now.

I have never enjoyed doing this. Have I always been old?? :p

[Krishna]

I have never enjoyed doing this. Have I always been old?? :p

Not really. It was never high on my list, but it has dropped substantially farther down in the last 2 years.

[beeblebrox]

Not really. It was never high on my list, but it has dropped substantially farther down in the last 2 years.

same here. I now have more money for it, but I'd rather see a movie or something other than getting really drunk with friends. I feel old when I see younger girls dressed up for a night and looking to score and thinking damn you're stupid. Also, don't see "A Scanner Darkly" a horrible movie that made no sense whatsoever.

[Shenanigans?]

You know you're getting old when you start to think "I would NEVER let my daughter wear that." Even if you don't have kids.

[cheshrcarol]

A few months ago I went out with my roommate and some of her friends to a couple clubs downtown and at one point the DJ did a shoutout for everyone in college to wave their hands in the air. We were literally the only people not waving our arms. And I'm thinking "I haven't been a college student in YEARS", lol.


Mine to add to the list is, you know you're getting old when you enjoy looking at housewares, like pots and pans.

[Winter Storm]

I've said this before. Apparently, you're getting old when your almost 17 year old neice deletes your comments on her Myspace page cause she doesn't want her friends to see it. :sad:

[cheshrcarol]

WS, what did you say that was so bad? Or was just because you were "old"?

[wordsmith]

Mine to add to the list is, you know you're getting old when you enjoy looking at housewares, like pots and pans.

Hah, I've ALWAYS liked housewares. In fact, I probably cooked and baked a ton more when I was a teen and in college. Now I don't have the time.

[Winter Storm]

WS, what did you say that was so bad? Or was just because you were "old"?

Can't remember the exact wording but something to the effect that I loved her and was thinking about her.

[weary]

when you're in the car w/ a teen or teens and they start singing along to the song on the radio while you're asking, "who sings this?"

(or worse...you change the station b/c you find the lyrics offensive/questionable)

[cheshrcarol]

Can't remember the exact wording but something to the effect that I loved her and was thinking about her.Eww, gross, how could you?? :p

My cousins don't quite know what to make of me, because I'm not quite a grown-up to them, and yet I'm not really a kid either.

[Winter Storm]

Eww, gross, how could you?? :p

Sucks ass. I've gone from the cool aunt she looked up to and wanted to be like to the aunt she doesn't even want to acknowledge.

Little heifer! :mad:

[wordsmith]

That's unfortunately how it goes with most teenagers. Eventually, she'll grow up a little bit and y'all can have an adult relationship.

[dengeist]

when you're in the car w/ a teen or teens and they start singing along to the song on the radio while you're asking, "who sings this?"

(or worse...you change the station b/c you find the lyrics offensive/questionable)


You mean you don't know the words to "Laffy-Taffy?" You don't know who the Franchise Boys are?

[LakeJay]

My cousins don't quite know what to make of me, because I'm not quite a grown-up to them, and yet I'm not really a kid either.

I'm the same way. I'm in between being a cousin, big brother and uncle because I am at least 18 years older than they are. My one cousin tells me all her 6th grade gossip...she is too funny.

[rocket333d]

1. Yes.
2. Yes.
3. Yes.
4. Yes.
5. Likely. His Grandma, not mine.
6. Yes! (It was my 11th birthday when OJ was found guilty)
7. Yes, yes, yes, and yes! But they all love the pop-punk of today. Yecch!
8. Yes.
9. Yes.
10. Yes.

Oh, ye gods...

[weary]

You mean you don't know the words to "Laffy-Taffy?" You don't know who the Franchise Boys are?

OMG...when that first came out i sounded SO like my mother. "what is this? is that ALL they say for the whole song?!" :redface: my worst quote: "this noise gives me a headache." (in reference to some dirty south rap song...don't ask me who it was, i have no idea! ha!)

[dengeist]

Don't feel bad, I said the exact same thing!! It's worse when it's so weird it comes out of your mouth. My kids last year kept singing that song "Lean wit it..." and one time they were saying it so much I said "Rock wit it!" instead of "Stop it!"

[wordsmith]

When I was a youth worker, I eventually banned the hip hop station from the van.

[weary]

Don't feel bad, I said the exact same thing!! It's worse when it's so weird it comes out of your mouth. My kids last year kept singing that song "Lean wit it..." and one time they were saying it so much I said "Rock wit it!" instead of "Stop it!"

LMAO! that's pretty funny.

my kid thinks i'm super old and out of it b/c i don't own or know how to use an i-pod. i remember thinking my mom was impossibly inept when i couldn't get her to understand the internet! :googly:

[rocket333d]

When I was a youth worker, I eventually banned the hip hop station from the van.

I have a rule in my car that my radio cannot play music from any bands or artists who weren't popular before 1990. This goes for any genre, but I mostly lean towards classic rock. This drives my little sister nuts. There are exceptions, however.

What stinks is when I linger on a station too long, and it starts playing an "unacceptable" song, and I start singing along, then realize I'm singing. I then have this violent moment when I'm almost screaming at myself for singing along with a song I hate.

[Illuminous]

...when you walk around the mall, commenting about those "damn kids."

I think/say it way too often. 16-year-olds now are way too sexual, let it all hang out and are loud and obnoxious. Problem is, I keep forgetting I was that way when I was 16.

[Winter Storm]

...when you go out dancing (which you do regularly) and your legs ache for days afterwards.

Damn. :neutral:

[Shenanigans?]

...when you walk around the mall, commenting about those "damn kids."

I think/say it way too often. 16-year-olds now are way too sexual, let it all hang out and are loud and obnoxious. Problem is, I keep forgetting I was that way when I was 16.

Everyone always says that kids are getting worse and worse by generation. I don't think this is true. Try to find a time in history when kids didn't piss of their parents.

Comic books, rock music, tv, video games, rap music, sex, drinking and drugs. All this stuff gets blamed for kids being screwed up. The fact is, kids have always been, and will always be screwed up.

[weary]

i don't know...at least fashions weren't so disgusting before. i mean, a tie-dyed shirt or a leisure suit or long hair on a guy is much less offensive than pants that hang off your butt to show damn near all of your underwear, or so much metal in your mouth it looks like you went to the guy who couldn't pass his boards for dental school.

[Shenanigans?]

i don't know...at least fashions weren't so disgusting before. i mean, a tie-dyed shirt or a leisure suit or long hair on a guy is much less offensive than pants that hang off your butt to show damn near all of your underwear, or so much metal in your mouth it looks like you went to the guy who couldn't pass his boards for dental school.

That's just the good old creative process in the works. If kids did the same thing now that the kids did 20 years ago, no one would say there was anything wrong.

[wordsmith]

Everyone always says that kids are getting worse and worse by generation. I don't think this is true. Try to find a time in history when kids didn't piss of their parents.

Comic books, rock music, tv, video games, rap music, sex, drinking and drugs. All this stuff gets blamed for kids being screwed up. The fact is, kids have always been, and will always be screwed up.


Kids ARE getting "worse" by generation, though, and more screwed up, and it's because parenting is also getting worse and more screwed up.

[PenforPrez]

Speaking of kids, I know I'm old because I saw my six-year-old third cousin when I was up in Pennsylvania. She was running around incessantly, and I got tired just watching her run around.

I said "I wish I'd had THAT much energy at six years old!"

Paul

[coll214]

When you roll your eyes at seeing the obnoxious girls squealing over some idiot guys driving by in a parking lot on a random night...

and i've said it before but when the 'kids' I babysat for have also graduated HS and I see them at the gym, complete with tattoos!! :eek:

or when the bulk of the weddings/babye showers you start going to/being in are for YOUR friends, or cousins....

[Krishna]

...You catch yourself saying "when I was young, I never would have dreamed of <fill in the blank>"
...You look at your scrapbook and see pictures with gas signs that say $1.58 (or less)

[capella]

You know you're getting old when you start to think "I would NEVER let my daughter wear that." Even if you don't have kids.
LOL!!! This one is sooo true for me. I said this the other day, well, I actually said, "I would NEVER let my daughter out of the house looking that skankalicious." But, well, same idea. :rolleyes:

[wordsmith]

I turned around and snarled at loud little kids in the movie theater over the weekend...what's up, grumpy grown up lady?

But my sister actually told them to "SHUT UP!!" and she's only 22, so I didn't feel too crusty old man and "you darned kids" about it.

[capella]

I have another... when you move down 3 seats in the movie theater to get away from the teenyboppers squealing behind you talking about how they'll be 16, like, next week! Omigod!

During Pirates of the Carribean I actually turned to my husband and VERY loudly said, "Like, Omigod, Sean we need to move!" and we scooted down the row laughing our asses off. Good times.

[wordsmith]

I have another... when you move down 3 seats in the movie theater to get away from the teenyboppers squealing behind you talking about how they'll be 16, like, next week! Omigod!

During Pirates of the Carribean I actually turned to my husband and VERY loudly said, "Like, Omigod, Sean we need to move!" and we scooted down the row laughing our asses off. Good times.

These weren't even annoying teens, though. They were just little kids. But they kept getting up and shifting around and squawking and asking quesitons in outside voices.

[capella]

Mine were some skanky little muffintoppers trying to hit up some "college boys." Good golly. See little kids... I might have told them to use their inside voices.

[wordsmith]

Mine were some skanky little muffintoppers trying to hit up some "college boys." Good golly. See little kids... I might have told them to use their inside voices.

I might have, too. My sister, though, who is not a kid person at all, has no qualms about "Shut up, kid!"

[PenforPrez]

...You look at your scrapbook and see pictures will gas signs that say $1.58 (or less)

Hell, my father remembers the REALLY old days when you could get "ethyl" for 17 cents a gallon. I don't think my brother was even born yet, and that was 1953 or '54.

Paul

[WorkInProgress]

I might have told them to use their inside voices.

I have actually done this.

[lighthouse4life]

Mine to add to the list is, you know you're getting old when you enjoy looking at housewares, like pots and pans.

LOOL!! I was about to spill my coffee while laughing at this one! :)

[weary]

when you realize you have a friend or friends (usually from work, but still) that are closer in age to your parents than yours, and it's not at all weird.

[lighthouse4life]

Everyone always says that kids are getting worse and worse by generation. I don't think this is true. Try to find a time in history when kids didn't piss of their parents.

Comic books, rock music, tv, video games, rap music, sex, drinking and drugs. All this stuff gets blamed for kids being screwed up. The fact is, kids have always been, and will always be screwed up.

Who said "Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food and tyrannise their teachers. " ?? None other than Socrates! :surprised

[wordsmith]

when you realize you have a friend or friends (usually from work, but still) that are closer in age to your parents than yours, and it's not at all weird.

I've always been friends with people my parents' age. My best friend at work is actually a year younger than my mother and went to the same high school, though they didn't know one another.

I think it goes back to being an oldest child, and at family and social gatherings, while all the kids were playing together, I'd be sitting with the "other" adults. Hah. At like 6 or 7 years old. I was always more comfortable talking with the adults than kids my age. Probably because I spent a ton of time with my parents.

[shimma]

- Your teenage cousins aren't sure if they should ask if you'll buy them beer cause you're "a grown up"
- Your baby sister doesn't need you to buy her beer because she is old enough to buy it herself!
- When the sweet little baby girl you used to babysit for sends you a SENIOR PICTURE and asks if your baby bro has a gf or not! :eek:
- You look back on how much coffee/alcohol you drank in college, and how much you used to run, and wonder how the hell did you not die.
- All the home decor in Urban Outfitters looks fugly.
- Ditto most of the "funky" makeup in MAC that was sooooo cool a few yrs ago.
- Brown/tan/cream decor schemes look "tasteful"
- You go into a bar and wonder what the eff is wrong with everyone.
- Some elements of pop culture shock and offend you morally.

[lighthouse4life]

I think it goes back to being an oldest child, and at family and social gatherings, while all the kids were playing together, I'd be sitting with the "other" adults. Hah. At like 6 or 7 years old. I was always more comfortable talking with the adults than kids my age. Probably because I spent a ton of time with my parents.

OMG, you're describing my childhood!

Another reason for this behaviour, at least for me, is that my parents never spoke to me using babytalk. They taught me the "real" words right away. So, unlike many kids, I did not have to learn a new vocabulary in order to understand adults. Even now, it bugs me when i hear relatives talk babylike to my 1 year old nephew. I feel that they are selfishly doing that so they can enjoy having a baby around instead of training him for the real world.

[lighthouse4life]

- You look back on how much coffee you drank in college, and how much you used to run, and wonder how the hell did you not die.
- Brown/tan/cream decor schemes look "tasteful"


YES!!!!! And how often you stayed up late and did all-nighters with a pot of java!

[mishl982]

- All the home decor in Urban Outfitters looks fugly.
- Brown/tan/cream decor schemes look "tasteful"
Hahah that's funny. Last night my cousin (who is in college) and I were at Urban Outfitters. I used to love that place in college and of course last night I couldn't stand a single thing in that store yet my cousin was all over it!!

And I just painted my bedrooms a light beige. Hey, it matches everything! :huge:

[shimma]

Hahah that's funny. Last night my cousin (who is in college) and I were at Urban Outfitters. I used to love that place in college and of course last night I couldn't stand a single thing in that store yet my cousin was all over it!!

Oh, and SHE made me feel ancient awhile back on some myspace survey; one of the questions was "where were you when the challenger blew up?" and her answer was "what was the challenger?"

I was thinking, WTF, she didn't strike me as that ditzy... till I realized she didn't know what the challenger was because SHE WASN'T EVEN BORN YET. And now she's old enough to hang out with

[shimma]

YES!!!!! And how often you stayed up late and did all-nighters with a pot of java!

try "needed an entire pot to get going first thing in the morning." :redface:

[wordsmith]

OMG, you're describing my childhood!

Another reason for this behaviour, at least for me, is that my parents never spoke to me using babytalk. They taught me the "real" words right away. So, unlike many kids, I did not have to learn a new vocabulary in order to understand adults. Even now, it bugs me when i hear relatives talk babylike to my 1 year old nephew. I feel that they are selfishly doing that so they can enjoy having a baby around instead of training him for the real world.

My parents NEVER EVER EVER EVER used baby talk. EVER. When I started to talk (when I was just a touch over two), I talked in adult words and sentences. My mom has recordings of me (on cassette, we had no video camera in 1979)...it's eerie...a little baby voice saying adult sentences.

[shimma]

My parents NEVER EVER EVER EVER used baby talk. EVER. When I started to talk (when I was just a touch over two), I talked in adult words and sentences. My mom has recordings of me (on cassette, we had no video camera in 1979)...it's eerie...a little baby voice saying adult sentences.

hehe, my parent's first cassette recording of me goes like this:

(noise)
My mom: Shimma, stop yelling.
Me: I wasn't yelling, mommy...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHH!

That was yelling. :huge:

[wordsmith]

Hah, I'm reciting the Robert Louis Stevenson poems I was always read, from "A Child's Garden of Verses," in mine. Somewhat calmer child, from the looks of it.

[shimma]

Hah, I'm reciting the Robert Louis Stevenson poems I was always read, from "A Child's Garden of Verses," in mine. Somewhat calmer child, from the looks of it.

Well, she really shouldn't have egged me on like that.

:lol: You'd have been my mom's wet dream.

[wordsmith]

My mom always says I was the model child.

Unfortunately, two years after me came rambunctious twin boys, and my mom thought they'd be like me. :googly:

[coll214]

I turned around and snarled at loud little kids in the movie theater over the weekend...what's up, grumpy grown up lady?

But my sister actually told them to "SHUT UP!!" and she's only 22, so I didn't feel too crusty old man and "you darned kids" about it.

Haha, my sister does this often. I'm waiting for her to get arrested for screaming at some one day, she'll get right up in their faces. There's been a few times I actually thought she may hit them!

[lighthouse4life]

lol, your sister is gutsy! I admire her! I'd actually like to be like her except that now I am making myself become more moderate, in case I become a mom myself!! eeeeeeeeeeeeek!

[SmilesSoSweet]

You go to Vegas to celebrate your little cousin's 21st birthday and she was born in 1985! :eek:

[yankeeyosh]

You realize that there are teenagers who weren't even alive when you were in high school.

When you've dealt with the same list of tropical storms four times already.

When going back in time, your birthdate is closer to December 1949 than it is to today.

[Krishna]

-You remember when the Berlin Wall fell, Nelson Mandela was released, and the completion of the Chunnel.
-You mention how you used to go to the roller rink to roller skate, and kids think you're nuts
-You used the Nintendo running pad to master the art of video game "triple jumping"
-You once typed your school reports on a typewriter

[beeblebrox]

-You used the Nintendo running pad to master the art of video game "triple jumping"

my brother and I had Track and Field and loved it to no end. I was good at that.

[yankeeyosh]

You thought Minnesota was an "odd" state because it was the only one colored blue during the 84 election.

You remember when there were only THREE networks and PBS.

You got spooked by the tri-colored PBS logo

You still have a grudge against Doug Flutie from his Boston College days

[Winter Storm]

When you find out that Haley Joel Osment (the little boy from the Sixth Sense) is now 18 and you think 'goddamn, when did that happen!'


Check out his pic:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/news/bal-artslife-osment0720,0,3687658.story?coll=bal-entertainment-headlines

[WorkInProgress]

When you find out that Haley Joel Osment (the little boy from the Sixth Sense) is now 18 and you think 'goddamn, when did that happen!'


Check out his pic:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/news/bal-artslife-osment0720,0,3687658.story?coll=bal-entertainment-headlines

NO! :eek:

[lighthouse4life]

-You remember when the Berlin Wall fell, Nelson Mandela was released, and the completion of the Chunnel.

Yes, I remember...

-You mention how you used to go to the roller rink to roller skate, and kids think you're nuts

Hihih, it was in!

-You once typed your school reports on a typewriter

OMG, I Soooo did that !!! And when I had to erase, I would press the backspace button. I could see the machine head move back a notch, and retype the same letter in what seemed like white ink. Reminds me of this new "liquid paper as tape fad"

[lighthouse4life]

I was listening to a Motown radio station online. Marvin Gaye, the Supremes, 60s 70s etc when all of a sudden, they played Boyz II MEN (Motownphilly) !!!


:eek:

That made me feel old.

[coll214]

I was listening to a Motown radio station online. Marvin Gaye, the Supremes, 60s 70s etc when all of a sudden, they played Boyz II MEN (Motownphilly) !!!


:eek:

That made me feel old.
Speaking of Boyz II Men, when you hear that they'll playing a FREE concert on the New Haven green this weekend...

[weary]

this makes me think of how when, you are listening to a new song and you can recognize what the original song was that they took the sample from.

try being w/ a kid who hears the original song and is like, "they stole this from so-and-so" and you're correcting them that "NO, THIS is the ORIGINAL!" :eek:

[dengeist]

When you remember Beatstreet, Breakin', or Purple Rain because you saw them in the theater.

You remember record albums and/or cassette tapes and still own a few.

You have pictures of yourself wearing something that's "back" but you're wearing the original. Like: Vans, t-shirts with rips in them with a different colored t-shirt underneath, a big belt buckle, ringer t-shirts with GI-Joe on it, etc.

A Hi-end computer was a Commodore 64 or a Tandy.

You remember when you could get a slice of pizza and a LARGE soda for $1.25.

You remember when penny candy actually cost a penny and a dollar's worth could get you sick.

You remember when the only two types of bikes were: BMX or ten-speed

Phones had a real dial

People had black and white TV's

Remote control? Oh that big thing with two buttons on it that makes a clicking sound?

Madonna in her "Like a Virgin" days and girls dressing like that.

The "Who's better Micheal Jackson or Prince?" debate

The "Who's better Gary Coleman or Webster?" debate

The "Who's better Madonna or Cyndi Lauper?" debate

When Nickelodeon went off around 7pm and only had about 4 shows: Pinwheel, You can't do that on Television, Today's Special and Enter the Labrynth.

Pop-rocks and soda killed Mikey

V the mini-series, then later V the series.

You know the original TGIF line-up

You went rollerskating EVERY weekend

[ScottyTheBody]

my brother and I had Track and Field and loved it to no end. I was good at that.

Ha I used to cheat at it. For the long jump I would just run and then jump off the mat, go eat dinner and then jump back onto the mat and get like an insane jump distance.

[mishl982]

You know the original TGIF line-up
Those were my favorite!! Full House, Family Matters, Step by Step and I could never remember the fourth one.

[coll214]

Those were my favorite!! Full House, Family Matters, Step by Step and I could never remember the fourth one.
It was either Mr. Belvedere which I THINK was then replaced by Just the Ten of us :huge:

How's that for stupid TV trivia?

[Shenanigans?]

You remember when Mr. Roders had a panda bear on the show. It' got pulled off the show because it gave children nightmares.

I remember it because it gave me flippin' nighmares. (this may or may not have been 5 months ago, but I'll never tell)

i think the other T.G.I.F. show was "boy meets world"

[SmilesSoSweet]

You remember when Mr. Roders had a panda bear on the show. It' got pulled off the show because it gave children nightmares.

I remember it because it gave me flippin' nighmares. (this may or may not have been 5 months ago, but I'll never tell)

i think the other T.G.I.F. show was "boy meets world"

Boy Meets World wasn't a part of the original TGIF. That was in the new TGIF.

I believe Mr. Belvedere was on Tuesday nights with Growing Pains and Who's the Boss?.

And I can never remember the fourth show on either days. LOL I think it was always a show that never stuck around long enough to catch on.

[weary]

Boy Meets World wasn't a part of the original TGIF. That was in the new TGIF.

I believe Mr. Belvedere was on Tuesday nights with Growing Pains and Who's the Boss?.

And I can never remember the fourth show on either days. LOL I think it was always a show that never stuck around long enough to catch on.

i can't remember the 4th one either...but i think it's b/c that was my bedtime!

[mishl982]

Ok with a little help from google Ifound the lineup. Now I feel really young seeing how there were several other shows on TGIF before the ones I love!

The original in Fall '98
* 800 Perfect Strangers
* 830 Full House
* 900 Mr. Belvedere
* 930 Just the Ten of Us

The rest are here:
http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/TGIF_(ABC)

[dengeist]

I'm thinking that was '88 instead of '98....but that is the correct original TGIF!!!

[sundaycomics]

Perfect Strangers made me want to be a flight attendant when I grew up.

[beeblebrox]

Ha I used to cheat at it. For the long jump I would just run and then jump off the mat, go eat dinner and then jump back onto the mat and get like an insane jump distance.

That's right you could do that. I remember now. For me, my brother and I would play it and make so much noise jumping in our sort of den. I also remember the Duck Hunt game where we would put the controller up to the tv and shoot to get a perfect score. Those games were so easy to cheat on but fun and memorable.

[hello_kitty83]

I also remember the Duck Hunt game where we would put the controller up to the tv and shoot to get a perfect score. Those games were so easy to cheat on but fun and memorable.

I cheated on that game a lot, ha ha!

[RealDeal]

when you start sounding like your mother.

[Winter Storm]

Ok with a little help from google Ifound the lineup. Now I feel really young seeing how there were several other shows on TGIF before the ones I love!

The original in Fall '98
* 800 Perfect Strangers
* 830 Full House
* 900 Mr. Belvedere
* 930 Just the Ten of Us

The rest are here:
http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/TGIF_(ABC)

Ohmigosh, yes! Soo used to love Friday nights because of this lineup. In fact, there has not been a greater Friday night lineup.

[shimma]

You remember when Mr. Roders had a panda bear on the show. It' got pulled off the show because it gave children nightmares.

I remember it because it gave me flippin' nighmares. (this may or may not have been 5 months ago, but I'll never tell)

Apparently when I was like 3, I met some Monsignor who was trying to make conversation with me. He asked if I liked Mr. Rogers and I said:

"I'm not allowed to watch him. My daddy says he's a &%$#! fairy."

except I didn't actually say "fairy"...

[yankeeyosh]

You remember when Mr. Roders had a panda bear on the show. It' got pulled off the show because it gave children nightmares.



You remember Mr. Hooper from Sesame Street...I remember the special around Thanksgiving '83 when they broke the news to Big Bird that he passed on...that was the first time I ever learned about death...and I think in retrospect that that episode did a wonderful job in teaching that.

[bluup10]

I got carded the other night and I felt great! :)

I have one to add to the list:

You know you're getting old when people who were born in 1990 are getting their drivers license/going to be seniors this year. (my brother is! yikes!)

I got carded a year ago...It got me upset but I also felt pretty great afterwards...
And, when I used to be a waitress, I obviously had to wear a uniform. People said I looked 16 in it! :huge: I'm 23, unfortunately.

[PenforPrez]

One thing I realized the other night that is very unique for me.

I know I'm getting older because of the realization that my favorite old country songs are now closer to 40 years old than 30! :googly: 40 year old things just seems so much more antiquated than 30, somehow. That just makes me feel old. :p

Paul

[Cole]

oh lord... is DMB coming out when we were in high school really that old?

And I've also experienced the one where kids are singing to a song and they don't even realize it's either a) not the original or b) made up of samples of other songs. I was driving with a 10-year old and Gwen Staefani singing "If I were a rich girl" came on. I started singing the Fiddler on the Roof version and she thought I was making it up!

And I work in a specialty kitchen goods store, so I'm constantly oggling nice glassware, gadgets for obscure cooking needs, and gourmet pastas.

Things that have made me feel old in the past year:

- my little brother graduated from college and is looking into buying property
- my roommate is nannying some kids and they've never even heard of the smurfs
- I've forgotten how far in advance I need to call to get a keg
- more often dating guys who pay mortgages instead of rent (though not currently...)
- we went camping and I was cooking tofu and broccoli over coucscous on a propane stove
- When referring to "junior year" you have to specify whether you're talking about high school or college.
- I commented the other day, "I remember when gas was 89 cents!"
- Most big reunions with friends take place at weddings

[The Happy Hodag]

Several years ago, a girl I've known for quite a while was passing out senior pictures, and I said to a friend of mine, "I remember when she was only this high."

I also hear a lot of songs I grew up with on these "classic" radio shows and radio stations and the like.

-The Happy Hodag!

[ocd_lass]

Moments I Feel Old:

- Puking my guts out after a night of drinking, and saying "I just can't drink like I used to without consequences..."

- Being called 'Aunty' by my boyfriend's nieces and nephews

- Processing applications for graduate school of people who are actually YOUNGER than me at my office job

Moments I Feel Young:

- When my mother-in-dating told those same cute l'il children "You listen to your aunt! She's *like* an adult!"

- When my co-workers compare my countdown until I go back to school with their 5 year countdown to retirement

- When I use one of my Harry Potter band-aids. The best defense against getting old and crochety ever!