Anonymous
Post 05/27/2026 11:44     Subject: Surprising things that shock you into realizing you are old…
The first time I looked at a Playboy centerfold and realized she was younger than me.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2026 11:42     Subject: Surprising things that shock you into realizing you are old…
There are professional athletes now whose parents are younger than I am.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2026 11:17     Subject: Surprising things that shock you into realizing you are old…
I remember my grandmother, then in her 80s, talking about the shock of seeing an old person in the mirror.

We're not the first generation to be surprised by our own aging.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2026 11:12     Subject: Surprising things that shock you into realizing you are old…
I'm in the military.

New guy, or should I say Kid, checked into the command. I had to sign some of his paperwork and he was born in 2007. WTF.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2026 10:22     Subject: Surprising things that shock you into realizing you are old…
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Heard a professor of American History giving a talk about the mysterious and strange phenomenon of drivers using something called "CB Radio." And the strange codes, like "10-4!" He was going to publish a paper in an academic journal about it.


This is hysterical. My HS boyfriend had a CB radio in his car.

I feel old when I realize I can’t run up and down stairs carrying heavy loads like I used to.


It's still in use today.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2026 10:09     Subject: Surprising things that shock you into realizing you are old…
Anonymous wrote:Heard a professor of American History giving a talk about the mysterious and strange phenomenon of drivers using something called "CB Radio." And the strange codes, like "10-4!" He was going to publish a paper in an academic journal about it.


This is hysterical. My HS boyfriend had a CB radio in his car.

I feel old when I realize I can’t run up and down stairs carrying heavy loads like I used to.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2026 09:51     Subject: Surprising things that shock you into realizing you are old…
Anonymous wrote:When I hear Ozzy over a supermarket speaker.


Yeah, Publix has a great playlist, if you're a certain age which I am!
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2026 09:45     Subject: Surprising things that shock you into realizing you are old…
It's a privilege to grow old. Not everyone gets to experience that.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2026 09:43     Subject: Surprising things that shock you into realizing you are old…
Heard a professor of American History giving a talk about the mysterious and strange phenomenon of drivers using something called "CB Radio." And the strange codes, like "10-4!" He was going to publish a paper in an academic journal about it.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2026 09:43     Subject: Re:Surprising things that shock you into realizing you are old…
I have a much older sister. Her eldest daughter just retired.

I am still working.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2026 09:36     Subject: Surprising things that shock you into realizing you are old…
Anonymous wrote: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.


My kids know all the old songs, too! Surprises me every time. Even songs that weren’t that popular. Just goes to show that 80s music was the best.

Also, OP, there are still radio stations that play the 80s, 90s and today music in dc.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2026 09:20     Subject: Re:Surprising things that shock you into realizing you are old…
Anonymous wrote:I recently showed my son and his fiancé our wedding album and so many of the guests - including my parents, in laws and many family friends are now dead!


You could have stopped at wedding album. Physical media.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2026 09:10     Subject: Surprising things that shock you into realizing you are old…
Years ago I went into an antique store and saw things that were common in my childhood home: “vintage” Pyrex, the wooden sleds with steel runners, a harvest gold water pitcher, etc.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2026 07:42     Subject: Re:Surprising things that shock you into realizing you are old…
I recently showed my son and his fiancé our wedding album and so many of the guests - including my parents, in laws and many family friends are now dead!
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2026 06:44     Subject: Surprising things that shock you into realizing you are old…
Anonymous wrote:
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???


AI says:

As of November 3, 2021, '60s on 6 has been renamed '60s Gold and moved to channel 73, while '50s on 5 has been renamed '50s Gold and moved to channel 72 on Sirius XM.