Monday, October 19, 2020

The Moment People Realized They Were Old


Feeling old is a new prospect for many of us. We tend to feel like ourselves most of the time, and it takes an outside reminder to help show that maybe we're not spring chickens anymore. An ill-timed back-ache or finding your favorite song used in a "throwback" compilation can make aging a too-close reality. To feel a little younger, here are some things that are older than people think.

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Text - splig999 386 points · 1 day ago Went to concert. Held up lighter. Everyone else held up cell phone.

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Text - nerbovig 36.1k points · 1 day ago · edited 1 day ago 22 3 28 & 2 More Coming around the corner of a department store and seeing my dad come around the corner at the same time. It was a mirror.

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Text - Vinny_Lam 30.9k points · 1 day ago · edited 1 day ago 8 & 2 More When I'm signing up for an account on a website, I have to scrollI back pretty far to find my birth year now.

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Text - jellybellymom 27.9k points · 1 day ago · edited 1 day ago O 2 3 9 2 & 34 More When I fell down at work and no one laughed. Instead three people came running over to make sure I was ok.

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Text - jahvidsanders44 23.5k points 1 day ago 220 2 4 Instead of growing facial hair to look older, I'm shaving it to look younger.

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Text - bigbysemotivefinger 23.4k points · 1 day ago S I saw a picture on Facebook of a friend from college and thought, damn he got fat and old. I immediately realized... I also got fat and old.

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Text - KushinLos 21.6k points · 2 days ago I used to drive for uber and one night I realized the college girls I picked up could have been my adult daughters

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Text - ThisIsToMarkResearch 20.0k points · 1 day ago They played Green Day and The Offspring on the "classic rock" radio station.

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Text - Ienjoywearinghats 17.8k points · 1 day a edited 1 day ago I had to explain to someone how we 3 e S 2 & 9 More used to organise meeting up before cell phones became a thing. That and having to use encyclopedias and other books to complete homework. I'm mid 30s. The reactions I was getting, It was like I was explaining how to split an atom using two sporks.

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Text - Siknutty 13.6k points · 2 days ago When I find myself grunting and groaning just to bend over to tie my shoes.

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Text - abeetzwmoots 13.6k points · 2 days ago When my son could outrun me

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Text - tenehemia 11.2k points · 1 day ago When I was in my late 20s I dated a girl who had a daughter. The daughter and I got along great, played a bunch of Katamari together, etc. Years later, that girl and I have long since broken up. I did some volunteer teaching at one of the local alternative schools with my wife. And one of students in the film class we taught was my ex girlfriends daughter, now 18 years old. At some point in your life, whether you have kids or not, you realize you're tech

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Text - Honic_Sedgehog 9.6k points · 1 day ago When I overheard my teenage niece and her friends taking the piss out of "things Millennials say."

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Text - the_monkey_of_lies 9.6k points · 2 days ago 3 When I went to a music festival and slept in a tent after five or so years of not doing so. My god. I need to get home and take a real shower.

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Text - I_hate_traveling 7.3k points · 1 day ago I was playing basketball alone and a bunch of kids smashed a beer bottle on the other side of the court just for fun. I shouted at them, told them to pick up the pieces and warned them not to do that shit ever again. They got scared shirtless and apologized. I had never felt older.

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Text - leafsblow 6.7k points · 2 days ago When I mentioned Mr. T to my wife's friend and she had no clue who I was talking about.

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Text - RRuruurrr 6.4k points · 1 day ago · edited 1 day ago . I was teaching a class last week and told my audience that they may need to MacGyver a solution if they come upon a certain problem. No one knew what that meant. Because someone asked, it was an EMT refresher course. These are the people you trust with your life!

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Text - cooler_user_name 6.1k points · 2 days ago Getting excited over things like a new vacuum, new water heater, or a not plastic silverware tray. Realizing the Lincoln Park album i like is 20 years old. Laughing when someone invites me out, especially if the start of the event is 9 pm.

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Text - Toadie9622 5.5k points · 1 day ago · edited 1 day ago 23 When my oldest daughter was in 1st grade, she brought a note home from the teacher, saying that my daughter had misbehaved. I had to sign it and send it back. My daughter was scared and tearful and it suddenly struck me: holy shit - I'm the adult here. I'm the authority figure who a little girl is scared to be in trouble with. To me, I was the same person I was when I was 16.

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Text - brownies671 4.5k points · 2 days ago · edited 1 day ago kids born in 2002-2003 are in college now. could've sworn they were always 8

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Text - jamhamster 3.4k points · 1 day ago 3 3 a I was at work and had a meeting with an ex Olympic gymnast. She was stunning and had cosmetic surgery to 'enlarge her frontage' She was also wearing quite a low cut top that had metal spikes in the shoulders. All (supposedly) very distracting stuff. My very first thought - 'I bet that jumper makes a noise in the tumble dryer' My second thought - 'Fuck I'm old'

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Text - _chrom_ 2.0k points · 1 day ago Today. Eminem is 48 years old

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Text - imk 1.9k points · 1 day ago · edited 1 day ago O When I took off my driving glasses and put on my reading glasses for the first time. But the worst one was when I saw a girl in a supermarket near me that looked exactly like a girlfriend I had a long time ago. I was about to go up and say something to her when this older lady grabbed her and said "Kaitlyn come here" and scowled at me. At that moment I realized that the old lady was my ex and the girl was her daughter. That was a low blow.

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Text - SocraticMethod24 1.7k points ·1 day ago I grew up watching Friends and remember an episode where Jack Geller (Monica and Ross's dad) talks about having to shave his ear hair. It was a funny, gross moment. I have to do that weekly now.

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Text - thatwontfly 1.7k points · 1 day ago When my new doctor looked like Doogie Howser MD. For those that don't know that reference, point proven.

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Text - pharmacylaw 1.5k points · 2 days ago When I learned what I've been referring as "pound + xyz" is actually “hashtag + xyz". I still don't know why it is called a hashtag instead of pound tho.

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Text - Cormie 1.4k points · 1 day ago S E When a kid said "What's a DVD". Not even VHS...

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Text - Red-7134 1.0k points · 1 day ago I was cleaning out the storage room and came across my old Gameboy. Said to myself, "wow, this makes me feel old. It's been like 10 years since this was made." Got curious and googled it. 1989. (ะด)

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Text - the_jessence 669 points · 1 day ago e O I loved American Eagle, especially their jeans. Went in one day and saw a t-shirt that said "Totes Amaze." Turned around and exited the store. Haven't been in the store or bought clothes from them since. I'm so old I just buy my clothes from Target.

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Text - mboian84 471 points · 1 day ago Teaching a class to soldiers and I mentioned "I joined the military because of 9/11, we all remember where we were when that happened right?" Soldier responds, "I wasn't born yet"

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