People Are Sharing The Moment They Realized They’re Old
1. “Reading Rolling Stone at the doctor’s office, I realized I hardly knew any of the bands on the Billboard No. 1 singles list. Nineties music to my kids is like what ’60s music was to me.”
2. “Viggo Mortensen is now older than Ian McKellen was when he played Gandalf in Fellowship.”
3. “At 44, I don’t feel old, but when I’m going to do something nowadays, I think about if I could get hurt.”
4. “Doing nothing became my favorite thing to do on the weekend.”
5. “The song ‘1979’ by The Smashing Pumpkins is closer to the year 1979 than it is to our current time, and not inconsiderably so. Released in 1995.”
6. “My kid makes fun of me because I mix white milk with chocolate milk because it’s too sweet. Just leave me alone and grab my Lactaid.”
7. “You know what’s a totally not fun game to play with your younger coworkers? Asking them what cartoons they grew up watching.”
8. “When my Mom moved into my mirror.”
9. “My ‘Check Knee’ light turned on.”
10. “Spent my 30th birthday itching to go home and take my new cordless vacuum cleaner for a spin.”
11. “Realizing that the ’90s were 30 years ago.”
12. “My son called one of my old CDs a ‘giant MP3.'”
13. “When I mentioned ‘The Breakfast Club’ to my teenage niece and she thought I was talking about a cooking show.”
14. “When I got excited about buying a new washing machine.”
15. “The first time I heard a young person complain about not understanding how to use a cassette tape.”
16. “Realizing I can’t relate to any TikTok trends.”
17. “When I caught myself using phrases like ‘When I was your age…'”
18. “I caught myself saying, ‘Kids today will never know the struggle of having to wait for the dial-up internet to connect.'”
19. “When I started preferring documentaries over reality TV.”
20. “I referred to the ’90s as ‘back in the day’ to my niece, and she asked if that was when everything was in black and white.”
21. “The moment I realized I’ve become my parents.”
22. “When I saw someone wearing a band shirt for a band I saw live in concert.”
23. “When I started going to bed earlier on weekends than weekdays.”
24. “Asked my niece what a ‘floppy disk’ was. She said, ‘Is it like a 3D-printed save icon?'”
25. “Realizing I no longer understand half of the slang my younger coworkers use.”
26. “When my favorite childhood cartoons started airing on ‘retro’ channels.”
27. “The first time I said, ‘They just don’t make movies like they used to.'”
28. “When I realized my favorite childhood toys are now considered ‘vintage’ and worth a lot of money.”
29. “When I received an invitation to my high school reunion and thought, ‘Has it really been that long?'”
30. “When I found out that kids today don’t know what it’s like to wait for a photograph to be developed.”
31. “When I overheard teenagers discussing fashion trends and realized I had worn the same styles when I was their age.”
32. “When I received a discount at a store for being a senior citizen and thought, ‘Wait, that can’t be right…'”
33. “When I caught myself saying, ‘Back in my day, we had to rewind our movies before returning them to the rental store.'”
34. “The first time I had to explain to someone what a ‘mixtape’ was and how we used to make them.”
35. “The first time I saw my childhood video games being sold as ‘vintage’ in retro gaming stores.”
36. “When I noticed that my favorite childhood snacks were now marketed as ‘nostalgic treats’ for adults.”
37. “The first time I saw a teenager wearing a t-shirt featuring a band I listened to in high school and thought, ‘Wow, they’re still popular?'”
