Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 11:20     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?
Anonymous wrote:Telling my DC about the FCPS-approved outdoor Student Smoking Lounge. Provided so that students wouldn’t smoke their cigs in the bathrooms. The Cool Teachers would stand out there with students instead of smoking on the Teachers Lounges inside.

Gone by 1985.


I graduated in 1993, and the kids and cool teachers were still smoking right outside the school's entrance.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 11:16     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?
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 still writing checks. Haha JUST KIDDING. But venmo is my bugaboo. I can't get around the idea that it's very unsafe and not secure. My 80 year old parents have never had a debit card. They still go to the bank every month to withdraw some cash and use cash and checks, and their credit card for everything. I am now my parents.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 11:10     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?
I’m 48 and I have no clue what an air card is.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 11:09     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?
Anonymous wrote:I'm 52, and have no idea what "air cards" are, either.

At any rate, what makes me feel old is putting numbers of years in context with respect to pop culture. For example, music popular in the year 2000 was popular 23 years ago, right? I graduated high school in 1989, and the music from 23 years before that would have been from the 60s -- which I would have considered ancient. Yet 2000 feels like yesterday. I have the same thoughts about fashion, often -- how totally "out" something from 1979 would have been in '89, yet I'm probably wearing things from way more than 10 years ago and looking ridiculous and just not aware of it.


Yes yes yes!

I took sometimes wonder if what I'm wearing looks horribly outdated to a young person. Kind of like when I was 21 and saw some aging hippie still wearing tie dye at a bar or a show. Am I that person now?
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 10:51     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?
PP 10:41.


- elderly male ES principal wore a suit and tie even on Field Day when he used a starting gun to open each track event! We had ribbons and a homemade wooden winners stand for 1st/2nd/3rd placers. Grades/class tug o’war!

- Teachers playing dodgeball or Red Rover with us at recess

- forgot something at home? Ok to climb the fence at recess while you run back to your house to retrieve whatever.

- hearing the monthly air raid testing drill
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 10:41     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?
Telling my DC about the FCPS-approved outdoor Student Smoking Lounge. Provided so that students wouldn’t smoke their cigs in the bathrooms. The Cool Teachers would stand out there with students instead of smoking on the Teachers Lounges inside.

Gone by 1985.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 10:14     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I tried to explain bench seating in the station wagon I learned to drive on to my kids yesterday (Dodge Aries station wagon, anyone?). Let alone how big the stick shift was and how I had to move the entire bench seat forward to reach the foot pedals. They had no idea how even to imagine what I was saying. They also have no idea what cassette tapes are (and how we had to fast forward through songs we didn't like or to get to the end to get to the other side).


I had an 8-track of the Doobie Brothers that I knew exactly when to switch tracks in the middle of one song to start my favorite song on the next track.


I mentioned this reference on another thread : Columbia Record and Tape Club!
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 10:13     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?
I brought nothing but a suitcase to college.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 10:13     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?
Anonymous wrote:I tried to explain bench seating in the station wagon I learned to drive on to my kids yesterday (Dodge Aries station wagon, anyone?). Let alone how big the stick shift was and how I had to move the entire bench seat forward to reach the foot pedals. They had no idea how even to imagine what I was saying. They also have no idea what cassette tapes are (and how we had to fast forward through songs we didn't like or to get to the end to get to the other side).


I had an 8-track of the Doobie Brothers that I knew exactly when to switch tracks in the middle of one song to start my favorite song on the next track.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 10:10     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?
I tried to explain bench seating in the station wagon I learned to drive on to my kids yesterday (Dodge Aries station wagon, anyone?). Let alone how big the stick shift was and how I had to move the entire bench seat forward to reach the foot pedals. They had no idea how even to imagine what I was saying. They also have no idea what cassette tapes are (and how we had to fast forward through songs we didn't like or to get to the end to get to the other side).
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 08:52     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?
Anonymous wrote:
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 only recently started scanning my card on top of the device rather than pushing and pulling it out of the slot.

My son has Apple Pay as he doesn’t have a credit card. What’s the benefit to me using that instead of a credit card? Easier because my phone is already out?


You can link credit cards. So it’s just an easier way to checkout.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 08:47     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?
Anonymous wrote:I turned 50 this year and despite the enormous amount of time that's passed, I still feel 'young'. I'm watching this Netflix documentary about this crime ring and they're spending a fair amount of discussing air-cards. I remember when they came out and how game-changing it was for work and now they are no longer. I think that hit me more than CDs and landlines because the lifecycle was so short in reality. Just a random observation.


? I don't even know what an air card is and I'm your age.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 08:45     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?
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 only recently started scanning my card on top of the device rather than pushing and pulling it out of the slot.

My son has Apple Pay as he doesn’t have a credit card. What’s the benefit to me using that instead of a credit card? Easier because my phone is already out?
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 08:32     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I watched Caitlin Jenner win a lot of gold medals as a guy.


Wow. Now THAT is a crazy comparison!


Yup and wanting to eat Wheaties cuz they were on the cereal box.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 08:30     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?
I still don’t have a venmo/PayPal/whatever else account because it’s just another thing to set up, and it’s tiring. Can’t I just give you cash and call it a day? Do I really need to venmo money to buy a cookie at the PTA bake sale?