Anonymous
Post 08/21/2023 04:42     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?

Anonymous wrote:Knife sharpening truck


I need that.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2023 01:18     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wearing my house key on a string around my neck so I could let myself in after school -- in the 4th grade. I was home alone till my parents got home from work around 6.

When I lost the key (several times) they didn't replace it immediately. Then I was free-range till they got home.


Ha, no big deal of course.




Unimaginable now. Similarly, parents would run late to pick you up from a junior high school dance and you could just be unsupervised out in the dark.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2023 01:15     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wearing my house key on a string around my neck so I could let myself in after school -- in the 4th grade. I was home alone till my parents got home from work around 6.

When I lost the key (several times) they didn't replace it immediately. Then I was free-range till they got home.


Ha, no big deal of course.




Same here! I would lose the key and had to just hang outside in early elementary school, including in winter. This was in Minnesota.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2023 01:02     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?

Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 23:19     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?

Anonymous wrote:Wearing my house key on a string around my neck so I could let myself in after school -- in the 4th grade. I was home alone till my parents got home from work around 6.

When I lost the key (several times) they didn't replace it immediately. Then I was free-range till they got home.


Ha, no big deal of course.


Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 22:25     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.


HaHa!!
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 22:18     Subject: Re:Something obscure that makes you feel old?

Anonymous wrote:Gong to a friend’s house to watch a slide show of their recent trip somewhere.


OMG -- Going to a friend (who we've never met) of my GRANDPARENTS' house (while on our regular two week summer visit as kids) to watch a slide show of their recent trip somewhere. Usually somewhere not particularly interesting! Arg!
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 21:49     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?

I was watching a rom-com last year and the heroine goes inside a house and says hey to a guy. I think he’s cute as the love interest, and it turns out he’s her DAD. He was around my age, 49.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 21:44     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?

Knife sharpening truck
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 14:44     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?

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.

I’m 50 and this happens to me all the time.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 14:34     Subject: Re:Something obscure that makes you feel old?

Gong to a friend’s house to watch a slide show of their recent trip somewhere.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 14:28     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?

Wearing my house key on a string around my neck so I could let myself in after school -- in the 4th grade. I was home alone till my parents got home from work around 6.

When I lost the key (several times) they didn't replace it immediately. Then I was free-range till they got home.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 14:12     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?

In college, my roommates and our next door neighbors shared a phone with a really long cord. We handed the phone through the window when someone in the next door room needed to use it.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 14:07     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?

When I asked my friend’s child to change the channel on the tv and her response was “what’s a channel?”
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 11:22     Subject: Something obscure that makes you feel old?

80s big hair. I see pictures and think, "that was 40 years ago"?