Surprising things that shock you into realizing you are old…

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Using pantyliners after menopause.

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Anonymous wrote:The Oldies stations from when I was a kid (in the 80s and 90s) are all gone now...because all the people who listened to that music are dead or almost dead.

Well... XM no longer has the 60s on channel 6, and 50s on 5. That changed about five years ago?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Oldies stations from when I was a kid (in the 80s and 90s) are all gone now...because all the people who listened to that music are dead or almost dead.

Well... XM no longer has the 60s on channel 6, and 50s on 5. That changed about five years ago?

It did???

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Thank God my son is a software engineer or I wouldn't understand anything that's going on with AI (and how it's going to eat his job, but I digress).

My kids in their 20s know ALL the songs I grew up with. They have very different tastes (indie and rap, respectively) from me, but somehow (how???) they know all my 1980s favs too. So it's all good.

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My long marriage. How is it possible I've been married this long?

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This has been almost a decade ago now, but I was in a training course with people much younger than me.

The instructor played a clip from The Hunt for Red October (this is in the defense/IC space so not weird) to demonstrate a point.

I knew I was old when the plot had to be explained to most of the class and one woman asked, "Is that the guy from 30 Rock?"

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I had a very similar epiphany a few weeks old. I used to listen to the oldies station with my parents. Now, at 50, the oldies are 80s music.

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I was talking to a friend about where I was during the Sept. 11 attacks (finishing preparations for my wedding that weekend), and she replied "I was in preschool."

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Anonymous wrote:I'm 49 and about half my doctors are YOUNGER than me. How in the Doogie Houser can they possibly be old enough to know anything?

I'm not 49 yet but even when I was in my thirties I wouldn't trust a doctor who was my same age. I always prefer a doctor who's at least 10 or more years older than me. Preferably in their 50s or '60s

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Anonymous wrote:I was talking to a friend about where I was during the Sept. 11 attacks (finishing preparations for my wedding that weekend), and she replied "I was in preschool."

Ouch.

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Last year I was chatting with a new hire and she asked how long I'd been with the company. I said I started there in 2002. Her reply .... "oh, wow. I wasn't even born yet!".

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I’ve always had trouble with the ear phones with no wire. It just doesn’t make sense to me. Don’t you want people to know you can’t hear them when they talk to you? And today’s a birthday (sigh).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm 49 and about half my doctors are YOUNGER than me. How in the Doogie Houser can they possibly be old enough to know anything?

I'm not 49 yet but even when I was in my thirties I wouldn't trust a doctor who was my same age. I always prefer a doctor who's at least 10 or more years older than me. Preferably in their 50s or '60s

I'm late 40s and most of my doctors are either around my age or older still. However last week a specialist (who is my age, which I like, because we have good conversations and relate well to each other), came in with a med student and I was literally thought it was take your daughter to work day. She was perfectly nice but her scrubs looked oversized and she was so babyfaced, it made me feel a million years old because I'm sure she's a normal age for a med student but she just looked like a young child.

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When students I taught are old enough to get married and have careers and children.

When I go to conferences and I see people half my age who think they know everything.

[Anonymous]

My kid asked “what’s a pay phone?”