Post your "Damn, I'm old" moment.

Inspired by this GD:P thread, in which MonkeyFunk confesses his:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4305596

MY "Damn, I'm old" moment was when the last Formula One driver who was older than me retired.

What's yours?

He said: "That's a remake?"

(The Femmes did the original; Gnarls Barkley did a remake)

:(

it was over

and someone didn't love me anymore

i'm 46 years old

too old for this shit

fuck that

I knew I was older than I ever wanted to be.

although for me it was U2's "The Joshua Tree" - I was happily singing along with the radio one day, when it suddenly hit me that the CLASSIC ROCK station was playing music that was YOUNGER THAN ME. :wtf:

Also, when my little brother started driving. :scared:

Edited to add: Also also, when my little brother got a girlfriend...and when he wanted to buy her a "promise ring" or some shit (like a pre-engagement ring - he's 16 and she's 15, wtf?!). :scared:

was entertaining him with my music. He said,"Cool! This is the kind of music my Dad listens to!"

...happened to you as a kid" thread....

to be his mother... then I did the math and realized I was correct... damn... and that was seven years ago already!!

Out of the car and I couldn't catch them...

I was so out of breath...

That's when I knew I was getting old....

Adult guys, started calling me "Sir." x(

when my dog was a pup, I was walking him, and this just gorgeous young college kid was riding by on a bike and got so excited about the puppy. He played and played with him and I thought he was acting sorta flirty with me, and I guess I was a little flirty back.

A few months later, he saw me and the dog down at the coffee shop and again, was excited to see the dog. He told me I kept looking for you and the dog! I almost put signs up in the neighborhood: "Middle-aged man with puppy... please call..."

No, he wasn't flirting. It was just his "way".

But damn, he was cute.

I had an extra ticket to the Bowie/Nine Inch Nails concert. My friend asked if she could bring her newphew - he was about 14 - because he LOVED NIN. I said sure.

Bowie started performing "Life on Mars" and the little punk got all angry and looked at me and said "He's ripping that off from Nirvana!"

It was a lovely funeral.

that must have been a great concert!

NIN opened, then Bowie came out and they did a few numbers together, then Bowie did his set. It was great.

When they were onstage together, Bowie would run up to the microphone, sing his bit, then run to the back of the stage because Reznor kept throwing keyboards everywhere. They had a big stack of keyboards offstage, and every time he threw one, a roadie would run out with a new one and Reznor would throw water bottles at him.

:cry:

be a professional football player.

When he retired, I felt old.

I imagine he may feel a little bit that way now. His kid is playing for Purdue, just like he did.

and it was legal to take him up on it.

As asked by one of our goddaughters, now 15 and 13.

When they started making movies based on TV shows I grew up with.

When I hear college freshman talking about watching the Lion King, when they were five years old, while I, at that time, had just graduated High school.

Here's something that will make EVERYONE feel old: By the end of this year, all children born in the year 1990, will be old enough to vote.

I felt old when you pointed out to me that BTTF turned 20 years old. :P

That, and my little sister just started driving.

Oh, FYI, warn everyone in Orlando to stay off the roads. :)

I watched "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" with my son and when I was telling him when the movie was made and it just struck me how clearly I remember seeing it in the heather and how it must seem like ancient history to him.

"this would be better if there weren't so many sex scenes"

And they're sophomores in college....

Also, when I mentioned to someone that I saw Star Wars when it came out, and he said, "Wow, that was a LONG time ago!"


Eek.

Talking movies with a younger friend and telling him it was Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner and Sting in the first (and bad!) film adaptation of Dune, not the other way around. And I saw both movies at the theater in their original release. And an anniversary edition of Blade Runner just came out.

Sigh.

because of my hi-res and enjoyment of reading it with my feet kicked up on the table.

still.

(in all sincerity) "The Beatles were kind of famous, weren't they?"

I wanted to find a bowl of prunes and a cane. :)

Ouch! That hurts!

(I had to explain a band called "Paul McCartney & Wings"...)

I still can't believe sometimes that I've been out of school over 20 years!

ETA: also, seeing a cute guy and thinking, "He's too young for me!"

At least, that's what you should keep telling yourself :)

My moment comes every morning at about 5:30 when I wake up.

and see how old the musicians I like are, or get reminded they're dead.

When my kids started driving.

The day it occurred to me that my son is a couple of years older than his mother was when I married her (yes, you CAN get married too young - learned the hard way)

But the one that really got me: A couple of trips ago, on a layover, the copilot showed me some anniversary issue of Playboy he'd been carrying around. In it, they re-ran the pictures of Joan Collins posing nude. I think she was in her 50s at the time. I looked at them and thought, "wow...pretty hot." Then I remembered when they were first published, when I was in my 20s. At that time, I remember thinking it was just wrong to look at naked pictures of someone that old.

Guess everything is relative.

I was 26 and one of my students asked me; "Did they have cars when you were growing up"?

instead of 'enter'. And I felt the need to explain what a typewriter was. duh

my ship was loading cargo in Pensacola, and as was standard practice, a few of us went out for some adult beverages at the end of the work day. I'm looking at the juke box and not recognizing many of the artists, when one of the (really good looking) barmaids comes by and asks me what I'm looking for. I mention something about some old rock, maybe some Moody Blues or something like that. The barmaid said
"My mom really likes them."

I was purchasing some other cds too. So I asked the girl behind the counter how much the Boss was. She said "Who?"

I aged 20 years in that moment.

gah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

to try to give a sort of "antique" feel to the restaurant ambience :wtf:

I own two of them.

My 20th high school reunion happens next year.

Fifteen years ago.

Going down when the car stopped halfway to the ground floor, and a pre-teenish boy and his sister got on with their rafts. I held the door as they worked their way in, and asked them if they were going to the ground floor.. "Yes, sir," they replied. At the time, I don't think I was even close to 30 so it took me aback... Nice, polite kids they were, yet I wanted to kick them off of the damn elevator!

and i thought "Omg since when did i start thinking about fiber content, who the hell am i?"

my undergraduate alma mater, and I told her that I was a graduate. She asked what year I graduated, and I looked at her, judged her to be of typical undergraduate age (18-22), and replied, "About ten years before you were born."

25 years ago.

when I was like...25. x(

I saw her ! A kiddle with a strawberry on her head that comes in a little coke shaped bottle. After I excitedly told my daughter of the countless hours I had played with that very same tiny doll as a little girl, my daughter pointed to a big sign:

Please do not open case or handle dolls, they are VERY OLD.

Been going there for years. Anyway, I usually get it's "breakfast burrito," but with egg substitute and without sour cream for health reasons. Now, I could just not eat the sour cream (it comes in a little bowl) but I don't like to waste food either, so I make certain I specify "no sour cream, please."

Well, for some time now the check has been coming with a 10% reduction marked "SR," and I think, "How nice, they're not charging me for the "SouR cream!" They could just charge me full price. Recently, however, I decided to order something different. I ordered another meal that didn't come with sour cream, but when the check came it was marked "SR and I thought "What? This meal didn't come with "SouR cream!" "What's up?" Suddenly I realized, the "SR was for "SenioR citizen!

I've always been a little slow on the uptake but had a good laugh over this! :rofl:

The logo for Motion Night Club is one of those plastic inserts you used to have to in the middle of a vinyl single... Two nights ago, I had to explain to a co-worker what it was.

I can't remember the first time I noticed that.

And my knee pops loud enough to startle the dog.

I'm still in my early 40s! What's up with that?!

... and the bathroom was suddenly filled with the sound of my Dad, up in the middle of the night, blowing his nose... when did my nose start to make that glorious honking trumpet sound?

Then there was getting back into bed with a friend. We were making lots of noise... but it was "oof ugh argh" trying to get comfortable. We looked at each other and said "When did we start making these old man noises?"

the fact that 10 teachers are retiring this year. I was around the corner and they started guessing who it could be. My name was the first one they guessed. UGH.....I am getting old.

Yup, I'm the only old person there.

:cry:

you arent old! You're HAWT!

Flirt- Flirt- Flirt- :loveya:

Good Afternoon, you :)

:hug::loveya::hug:

Then, yesterday, when one of my co-workers asked if I wanted to be on the company soccer team, I replied, "that's very flattering but I through my back out years ago and now it's only running for me now", then I realized. I threw my back out 10 years before my co-worker was born! LOL

the first, I wasn't even that old - in my twenties - and working at this restaurant which had a rotary phone. Some kid walked in and asked to use the phone, so I pointed at it and resumed cooking. He stared at it, completely confused, for about a minute or two then asked me how to use it.

others:
hearing songs on the oldies station that I remember being on the top 40. Ouch.

having some of my younger friends ironically be into some band that was cool 20 years ago and which has not been cool forever. Ouch.

there are more, but I am forgetting them all. double ouch.

so was 21 and I felt bad when she didnt know anything about music from the early 1990's

That was the same year I was born.