Surprising things that shock you into realizing you are old…

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Some guy bumped into my car in my apartment complex’s parking lot and I ran inside my house complaining…..”Oh my gawd…..!!…..Some old dude just hit my car!!!!”

Later on, I checked his DL and his DOB is actually two years after mine! 😂

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I rented a car a few weeks ago when my 2013 was at the shop. Sometimes I wonder if all new cars have no CD player - would miss that.

But here was the shocker: Instead of a stick to shift gears (manual car), it had a ROUND KNOB to turn from park to reverse and so on. When I picked up my 17YO DS in the rental and commented on this, he said, “Oh. My friend has that in her new car.” Totally nonplussed.

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2 words: chin hairs

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I have a 30 year high school reunion this year. I remember one girl was pregnant at graduation so her kid is now 30.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a 30 year high school reunion this year. I remember one girl was pregnant at graduation so her kid is now 30.

You are at the end of being young. Get ready. Around my 35th HS reunion is when the first round of bad diagnosis started hitting people.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a 30 year high school reunion this year. I remember one girl was pregnant at graduation so her kid is now 30.

Yikes! 😱

I have my 40th coming up!

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Watching my sister-in-law teach my 4-year-old niece recently how to use a landline phone to call for help in an emergency. She's only ever known the smartphones of the adults around her and watching her amazement and confusion about how the handset worked made me feel ancient.

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Anonymous wrote:Watching my sister-in-law teach my 4-year-old niece recently how to use a landline phone to call for help in an emergency. She's only ever known the smartphones of the adults around her and watching her amazement and confusion about how the handset worked made me feel ancient.

I don't get it. What's so different about the landline? Do you have a rotary phone?

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Anonymous wrote:Hearing that Lenny Kravitz is 62 today. He has always been older than me but when I was young he was also pretty young, so now that he's old, well.

Having a urologist.

Walking through the neighborhood I lived in during my 20s and realizing suddenly that the building I lived in, which was pretty new when I lived there, is being gutted and replace.

+1 One of the buildings they tore down in downtown Bethesda for the Purple Line construction was built when I was in high school. That stung. I’m 53.

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Anonymous wrote:Watching my sister-in-law teach my 4-year-old niece recently how to use a landline phone to call for help in an emergency. She's only ever known the smartphones of the adults around her and watching her amazement and confusion about how the handset worked made me feel ancient.

I don't get it. What's so different about the landline? Do you have a rotary phone?

On a landline, you have to listen for the dial tone before you can "dial" a number. Push-button or rotary doesn't matter. With a cell phone you just start typing in the number.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Watching my sister-in-law teach my 4-year-old niece recently how to use a landline phone to call for help in an emergency. She's only ever known the smartphones of the adults around her and watching her amazement and confusion about how the handset worked made me feel ancient.

I don't get it. What's so different about the landline? Do you have a rotary phone?

On a landline, you have to listen for the dial tone before you can "dial" a number. Push-button or rotary doesn't matter. With a cell phone you just start typing in the number.

I have never done that. I pick up the phone and start dialing.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a 30 year high school reunion this year. I remember one girl was pregnant at graduation so her kid is now 30.

Yikes! 😱

I have my 40th coming up!

50th here

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DH needs a nut bra. The sheer size and weight over the years is causing them to hang low. I like it…

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Anonymous wrote:Some guy bumped into my car in my apartment complex’s parking lot and I ran inside my house complaining…..”Oh my gawd…..!!…..Some old dude just hit my car!!!!”
Later on, I checked his DL and his DOB is actually two years after mine! 😂

Sometimes it’s not the year, it’s the mileage!!

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Anonymous wrote:I have a 30 year high school reunion this year. I remember one girl was pregnant at graduation so her kid is now 30.

I missed my 20th because I was pregnant (near the end, so I couldn't fly), and one of my classmates posted that she had to miss because she was on college tours for one of her kids. My mouth dropped; nothing wrong with either approach, but I couldn't fathom having kids that old yet.