Anonymous wrote:Coin operated laundry machines, coins to buy newspaper, and pay phones and subway tokens.

Men used to jingle when they walked and play with coins in pocket

Coin operated cigarette machines!
Ashtrays in cars and airplanes
Washing your hair after the bar because you smell like smoke

Pervasive smoking wasn't that long ago and it's amazing how we have pretty much wiped it out publicly.
I'm amazed at that with the chokehold lobbies on everything else.

Anonymous wrote:I recently started using Apple pay on my phone to make purchases because I started to feel old swiping my actual card.

I’m similar to this. I still don’t use Apple Pay, not because I can’t figure it out, but because it’s too much to keep adapting. That’s when the horror sets in.

Coin operated laundry machines, coins to buy newspaper, and pay phones and subway tokens.

Men used to jingle when they walked and play with coins in pocket

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Anonymous wrote:I see people walking down the street and I think it's someone I know and then I realize that's what they looked like 20+ years ago and not how they look today. It's amazing how many younger doppelgängers are out there.

My wife and went to visit a friend of hers from elementary school. As we pulled up to the house, a woman our age came out and waved.

For some crazy reason, I totally thought "That must be Larla's mom."

I was away for a year and returned home. At the airport, my father was there standing next to an old lady. My mother had stopped dyeing her hair apparently.

I was born in the sixties. Films that were 20-30 years old looked very old - black and white, over the top acting, violin music.

Maybe I'm wrong, but a nearly 40 year old film like Ferris Bueller's Day Off looks more like the world of today, except for technology like no cellphones, his computer etc. As for Matthew Broderick - I'm sure he's aged more than me, but others might have a different opinion.

Anonymous wrote:I see people walking down the street and I think it's someone I know and then I realize that's what they looked like 20+ years ago and not how they look today. It's amazing how many younger doppelgängers are out there.

This happens to me too!

I recently started using Apple pay on my phone to make purchases because I started to feel old swiping my actual card.

Anonymous wrote:I watched Caitlin Jenner win a lot of gold medals as a guy.

Wow. Now THAT is a crazy comparison!

I watched Caitlin Jenner win a lot of gold medals as a guy.

Anonymous wrote:When my then-young DC called our elderly neighbors’ sedan an “old fashioned car” and looked on in wonder every time he saw it go down our street. It was similar to the first car I drove in HS in 1989.

I told my son about how we used to crank car windows open and shut. The look on his face was this priceless mix of horror, disgust and pity. It was like I told him about not having indoor plumbing or something.

I’m not sure why but suddenly we are seeing a lot of families we knew from my kids’ preschool and haven’t seen since. It’s been at soccer games mostly. 8 years have passed. Those other moms look so much older than I remember them! Sooooo much older! And I know I look completely different to them, too. “Aren’t you Larla’s mom?” they ask like they can’t believe I’m the same person. And we were a close knit group-we knew each other. It’s depressing to think how much we’ve aged in what seems like a short time. It definitely makes me feel old.

The other thing is being called ma’am by someone who is not a southern child. When a 30 year old man calls me ma’am I just want to punch him.

When my then-young DC called our elderly neighbors’ sedan an “old fashioned car” and looked on in wonder every time he saw it go down our street. It was similar to the first car I drove in HS in 1989.

I made a comment about something looking like it was from the video for Take on Me and all my younger coworkers had no idea what I was talking about.

Anonymous wrote:I see people walking down the street and I think it's someone I know and then I realize that's what they looked like 20+ years ago and not how they look today. It's amazing how many younger doppelgängers are out there.

My wife and went to visit a friend of hers from elementary school. As we pulled up to the house, a woman our age came out and waved.

For some crazy reason, I totally thought "That must be Larla's mom."

DH is in his late 40s. I am several years younger than him and we're done having kids.

In his small town, we were talking with someone about how DH's younger stepbrother was recently dating someome with an unusual name , like Mandy, who is now pregnant. DH commented he wondered if this was the same Mandy he knew while growing up.

This was with a lot of drinking so I didn't point it out but just thought not so likely if these people are 48, especially not in that part of the country.