<p>I commented to a colleague that she was dressed in a beatnik look one day and she asked “What’s a beatnik?”</p>
<p>I heard the music that the kids were listening to and said “that’s not music, that’s just noise!”</p>
<p>That’s an easy one. The first time I concluded this was when I was older than the President (Clinton). I’m rooting for a revival of the real geezers so that I can be young again.</p>
<p>mack - My mother used to say she knew she was old when the guards at the baseball park (old Griffith Stadium in DC) looked young. This from a woman who was tossed out of the community swimming pool duriing adult swim. She was 44 and “adult swim” was for those over 16.</p>
<p>when I found out a colleague at work was born after I graduate from college</p>
<p>when I was first called “Mr.” by someone over the age of 5. I still HATE it.</p>
<p>Whenever I see the sign in a store that says you have to be born after a certain date to purchase alcoholic beverages (or tobacco products) and that date is after (i) the date I graduated from high school, (ii) the date I graduated from college or (iii) the date of my wedding anniversary.</p>
<p>I’m teaching college students younger than my kids…</p>
<p>jmmom, my wife was “revived” or rejuvenated by almost 40 years when she was “carded” at a local pub a couple of years ago. Some people have that “appear to be younger than you really are” look for life. Now if I got hold of some of that Grecian Formula, I think I might also fit that bill.</p>
<p>garland – that’s a good one, which I too have sometimes remarked.</p>
<p>when my daughter is a young women and not a girl (never mind not understanding how I ended up bald, driving a mini-van, and going to 3 soccer games every Saturday)</p>
<p>When I rode up to D’s middle school on a bright red loud sexy Italian racing style motorcycle , dressed head to toe in black leather and kevlar to pickup D and the kids said “OOH! Cool bike! Oh, never mind. It’s just some old guy.” I was crushed.</p>
<p>or ,Last week when I had to argue with the cashier who had automatically given me the super-senior discount on my lunch which I was steadfastly refusing to accept. She kept loudly proclaiming “That’s O.K. Sir, we give all of you Golden Age-rs discounts.” Grrrrrrr.</p>
<p>I was older than my colleagues parents.</p>
<p>Ouch Tsdad
Not to rub it in- 
but I felt very young when my book group was discussing where they were when Kennedy was shot,( JFK) and many of them were in college- I was 6 years old!</p>
<p>Good one, UMDAD. And let’s not start to think about what it will feel like when that date comes after (iv) the date we started receiving Social Security.</p>
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Isn’t there some im-acronym for “lol and falling off chair?”</p>
<p>ditto to you obiwon</p>
<p>at elementary school PTO meetings. When the children of your “earlier in your career” student workers work for you.</p>
<p>Oh well.</p>
<p>… I started wondering why they were hiring children to be policemen and doctors…</p>
<p>All of these gave me a smile, but kluge’s answer made me laugh out loud!!! Thanks for that one.</p>
<p>When you are called Mam, instead of Miss.</p>
<p>I drove on a 10th grade field trip yesterday and I was called both by the kids in my car!
Mam doesn’t bother me, but I hate being called Mrs so and so. Thats my mother in law.
It was really a great time- albeit where we went would not be on my top 10 places to go ( a regional waste treatment facility). My daughter wasn’t in the class so I didn’t have to worry about embarrasing her, and another of my notions that I didn’t realize I had about black inner city kids was blown out of the water. :)</p>