Friends told us The Rolling Stones concert they attended was sponsored by AARP too!
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Flashback to freshman year of college. I brought a stereo, and my roommate had that album.
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My 20 year old son called out from his room last year to say “Mom! I’ve found this awesome thing that lets me play music from my phone really loud and it sounds great! I don’t know what this thing is, some kind of amp maybe? But listen to the great sound it’s getting! I can play music SO LOUD now!”
It was my stereo that I bought freshman year of college. We had it in a corner on a counter in the playroom and I guess just never really used it. He swore he’d never seen it before (it was in front of his face for years). But he could apparently plug the phone into the microphone jack on the stereo and blast. He had no idea what a “stereo” was - I guess we played music in the car and on little devices in their bedrooms, but not the big thing anymore.
So I’ll say it, I felt old when my kid didn’t know what a stereo was and thought my 30+ year old stereo was some kind of magic.
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Good story!
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When you are having trouble reading signs at a distance right after having your prescription updated and you wonder if it is time to get that cataract surgery your optometrist said you would need “some day”.
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I feel old when the “new style” clothes I see younger people demo on FB reels remind me of clothes that I (and my mother) wore decades ago. I know styles come and go, but the return of body suits did surprise me - not interested in wearing them again. Other resurrected styles could be ok, especially if I happen to still have them stashed away.
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100%
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… when your wife walks by while you are sitting at the kitchen table and says, “Not only is your hair more grey, but your bald spot is growing”.
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When you fully appreciate the meaning of the phrase “take a load off”.
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When you are in a room full of people and there is a large mirror on the wall, and you think “who’s that older dude in the reflection there?” and realize that it’s you…
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oops. duplicate post
Or when you think it’s your grandfather.
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1 point for no Myspace. Too old for it, lol.
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2 pts—no MySpace, and never had an AOL address
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3.5 pts - no myspace, AOL, walkman, or boombox (though might have been in the same room with someone who had a boombox, can’t remember though so .5 point)
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Same, except had a boombox.
Zero for me too!
one for myspace but maybe I was just behind