@gouf78 I did the same and I grew up in a less than affluent urban area.
You remember when it would take two strong men to carry a 25" color TV…now I can carry a 32" TV in a box with one hand…even at my age!
…when you think you walked into the wrong event because everybody there is old and gray and then you begin to recognize your friends and oh, yeah…there’s my husband…ooops! How’d THEY all get that old?
and who the hell is that in the hotel bar mirror staring back at me… OH NO!
You know you’re old when…
You are in the process of decluttering and you come across handwritten letters…
A store clerk kept calling me “dear” the other day. I wanted to walk out.
One of my congregations where I pastor still has a rotary phone as our only phone.
When the annual birthday party for our friend whose birthday is just after New Years used to include lively discussions of what wild things you did for new years, and now the discussion revolves around Medicare registration, illnesses and surgeries.
Our kid was totally raised this way. It’s not 1972 anymore?
you know you’re old when you just put two handwritten notes in your mailbox for pickup
you know you’re old when, you use a photo of you & a friend as a FB profile photo in tribute because he just passed away & realize that another friend that just passed away clicked that they liked it (just 2 yrs ago)
We used slide rules in chemistry and physics when I was in high school.
My friends were envious when my prize for winning the high school science fair was a calculator!
When you find out you need reading glasses even though you have your contacts on.
The music you hear in the elevator is actually a rendition of “Like a Virgin” by Madonna.
When the movies that you stood in line for are now “classics” on TCM.
In my 39th year of teaching–for several years I have been educating the children of former students, and former students are now colleagues!
When gridded paper was used for hand-plotting graphs
And you have to look at the year of the movie to see if it the original, the remake, or the new remake.
My kids make all these YouTube references that every other kid knows, but I have no idea.
S2 called someone younger than me an “old lady.”
When you can out-think most millennials playing Angry Birds 2 Arena… Many of us are vain enough to use our real name as our player ID (from Facebook) and old age really helps out-think them youngsters every time.
10 Channels? 4 channels? In Elbonia we had 2 TV channels back in the 1970’s, evenings and weekends only.
When you take a class, and your assignment partner asks you about a specific date, like when you moved to the area, and you realize that the partner was not even born on that date!!! Yikes.
You visit your in-laws in a senior community, and someone asks if you are a new resident!