We've had a thread like this a long time ago, but I thought we might as well do it again:

What has happened lately (or ever) that has made you realize you're old.

To be clear, I know very few of us would be 70+ or whatever you might consider really old, but things that have made you realize you're not a kid anymore.

Latest thing for me was looking up when HL2 came out.
Second latest was my 25 year old friend complaining about how old she'd gotten (I'm 30)
Before that is when my nephew got a job at KFC, I still remember when he was a baby I held in my arms

Hearing Closing Time by Semisonic on the oldies station.

Realizing that I mostly enjoy listening to the 93.3 station on "throwback weekends" cos it's what I listened to in high school and college.

Edit: And it was new then. :/

Ouch!

Not getting Id'd in the pub.

[I still look about 16 though. :P]

I feel old around younger people that are in their early 20s and say that they are old. I'm 25 and it's not old at all.

Though I think I felt "grown up" a few years ago playing poker with guys I worked with. 50 year old guys still making dick jokes.

I expect I'm one of the youngest members in this forum, but I feel ancient compared to the freshman who live on my floor. Everybody in 10 & 11 is an architecture major, but most of the upperclass get apartments separate from the res halls, so I'm one of the few non-RA upperclass living there. I take a glance at what the freshies are doing to their projects in the lounges, and I wonder, "did I whine that much when I had that much time before deadline? Why did nobody b*tch-slap me?!"

...then I visit some of my senior buddies, and I wonder how they find time to inhale; I stop feeling 'old' and start feeling stark raving terrified. Lucky for me, it passes quickly. :-/

EDIT: This is my post #42. Having read everything Douglas Adams put forth in English publication, I know that 42 is old hat to the average sci-fi lover. Even so, I couldn't comfortably let it pass without small commemoration. Yay, jokes in Base13.

I'm only 22, but... bleh. With the people I worked with, and the people I hang around with online, I'm by far one of the older ones. There's only a few years in it, but... it feels weird being the one to have gone through everything while all the others are just starting their degrees, or what have you. And then I get depressed because at this point my life will not amount to anything worthwhile in the slightest.

And then I go and buy cheap whiskey.

Yesterday, in Brooklyn I watched the NYPD and Port Authority fish out a dead body from the waters between Red Hook and Manhatten, apparently this guy was float-wait this doesn't make me feel old.

My "girlfriend" is 5 years older than me, kinda makes me feel young. All of my life, my friends have been older than me, so I always "felt" young but usually I'm the most mature as well.

mature enough to put girlfriend in quotes

ha, well it's "unofficial"

i "see what you mean" wink;)wink

I realized I was getting old when it was ten years ago that Kurt Cobain killed himself. Now that I realize we're getting closer to the point that it's 20 years ago, I feel really ****ing old.

I could mention so many other examples, but most of that **** is just too personal. Someone put me out of my misery.

Expecting my third child at some point today....
Letting my kids play my super nintendo and they point out that the controllers have "cords"

Ñigga u old

You win the thread

Wow...

Jedi Knight was released the same year that I graduated from high school.

Halo 3 setting a record in sales was brought up in my Strategic Management class. Feels like yesterday.

It was late 2007.

The cousin I remember holding as a baby is turning 18 today.

No one laughs at my dick jokes.

Telling people you suck them isn't a joke

(That was)

Generalized that for you

Seeing people in "class of xxxx" shirts and realizing they were still in elementary school when I graduated.

Teaching students who are surprised when I know what youtube and hulu are.

I just turned 29.

Reading this

I've yet to feel "old" (I'm currently 27) and I honestly think it's silly for anybody under 40 to feel that way on average. Yes, sometimes I'm amazed that things I remember thinking wasn't long ago were in fact long ago, but I'm certainly not pining for times when I was younger.

For me it's been the recent revelation that some of the football players I've been watching earning a fortune every week are actually my age (23) or younger. Especially since I'm stuck in a call centre wondering what I'm doing with my degree.



I think the "feeling old" part for people under that age is more of a "holy ****, where did the time go?" kind of "feeling old". I know it is for me, at least.

working with people whose birthdays were after 1990.

I've been on this site 10 years this month. A freaking decade. I remember signing up, back when I still dabbled in Jedi Knight editing. I don't feel any different than I did back then, even though I'm now 24 and not 14, and despite all the stuff I've experienced since then... first kiss, first girlfriend, first job, relationships, breakups, going to university, flunking out of university, going to a different university...

It all goes so fast. In a few months I'll turn 25 and I'll be closer to 30 than I am to 20. I know I'm an adult. I pay taxes. I do adult things. But I'm still really that same kid who signed up for a video game editing website over a 56k connection on a shiny new Pentium III computer.

Dammit, I'm old. Why did you have to go and make me feel old?

Seeing a group of high school girls walking down the street and having dirty thoughts run through my head until I remember that when I was in high school they were toddlers.

Which makes it so much hotter.

I've been on this forum half of my life. That means soon I will have been here longer than I haven't.

I love high school girls, I keep getting older they stay the same age

Talking about throwback PBS shows I watched as a kid and having the younger kid stare at me like "lolwut".

Wow, that was a rather touching post. I also started at massassi years ago at age 12-13. I am now 21 and have endured a lifetime of experiences since then.

This whole site is, to me, a phenomenon. We were all gathered here by this one series. This game that hasn't been relevant for years is still awesome. This site is still fully operational, as well as thriving. People are still posting as well as joining.

Massassi is my favorite miracle.

Yeah, you've missed the point of the thread.