Society & Culture Things that Make You Feel Old

[Pakenhamsaint]

You stopped before midnight?

I did.

Only had 5 cans left and there's **** all chance I'm opening the good wine

 

[Chicago1]

This year is the 50th reunion of my university graduation class. Late August is also the 50th anniversary of my arrival in Australia.

I found out over the weekend that 18 of my high school graduating class of about 190 are known to have died, including one of my best friends who died five years ago. I've not kept up with any of the class since I went to my 30th class reunion in 2000 after I had moved back to the US. I realised then that I had little in common with them after living in Australia for 25 years. Most who attended that evening still lived in the Chicago area and few had been overseas.

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[Billy ray]

I remember 2024 like it was yesterday

 

[JackOutback]

Invited to a colleague and mate’s 60th bday.

 

[troybe]

Watching a movie and they guy runs past a servo the price of petrol 67.9c in 1993

 

[GreyCrow]

While I dont think its exclusive to the old but I am finding it difficult to keep track what day it is over this holiday period

I am using my pill box to remind me what day it is

 

[Xtreme]

While I dont think its exclusive to the old but I am finding it difficult to keep track what day it is over this holiday period

I am using my pill box to remind me what day it is

I'm having one of those weeks where I'm a day ahead. Tuesday felt like it waxs Wednesday, Wednesday feels like Thuraday, Thursday felt like Friday. Today feels like Saturday.

 

[Mofra]

In the car:
Why do we say "wind up the window"?

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

In the car:
Why do we say "wind up the window"?

Left over from when cars had a winding handle? “Close the window” doesn’t seem quite the same in a car.

 

[raskolnikov]

I say "put up" or "put down" the window.

 

[Mofra]

Left over from when cars had a winding handle? “Close the window” doesn’t seem quite the same in a car.

That's the point - it was asked by someone too young to remember anything other than electric windows

 

[raskolnikov]

I remember 2024 like it was yesterday

I remember one night when I was little I said goodnight to my dad and he said something like, "I'm not going to see you til next year now". I got upset asking why. He then told me that tomorrow was a new year.

 

[Gough]

That's the point - it was asked by someone too young to remember anything other than electric windows

Part of owning your first shit box was learning to hot wire it otherwise you couldn't start it. These arts are dying now.

 

[Ivelisse]

Year I turned 34 (2021) noticed 18-to-early 20s girls who are thin and have a face with everything where it should be had become automatically attractive. When I was 18-to-early 20s and beyond it wasn't like that and I remember nitpicking.