"God I'm old" moments

[Shakomaru]

Every time I think anything starting with "Kids these days" I'm sixteen, that doesn't even begin to make sense.

 

[uzo]

... hmm .. because I remember that I used to do this to load a game:

1) CGA
2) EGA/VGA
3) SVGA

Followed by this:

1) PC Speaker
2) Adlib
3) Sound Blaster
4) MIDI
5) No Sound

Followed by this:

1) Keyboard
2) Joystick

Or even, sometimes, this:

3) Paddle

 

[Jonbahamut]

I'm 20. My 8 year old cousin recently asked me what a VHS cassette was.

 

[Evil Smurf]

When I think about the fact that I used to watch movies on VHS, and trying to explain what a VHS is to kids

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Pffft they are missing out, the original star wars is not on DVD only VHS

 

[snow]

When I look at all these people who still have the word "Teen" in their age complaining about being old. XD!! YOU KNOW NOTHING GOOD MA'AMS AND SIRS!

Jokes of course, but I realized I felt old when I was talking to my nephew, telling him I was creating a D&D character. He said "Oh cool!" The next day he asked if I was still making that character, and I said "No I'm drawing the map now." And he seemed excited over it, so I asked if he's ever played before.

He replied "What's D&D?" I nearly flipped a table...

 

[scorptatious]

When I realized how old Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon is. That game came out on the year of the dragon (hence the title) which is now THIS year.

That game went through an entire Chinese Zodiac Cycle this year! Where the hell did the time go?

X(

 

[trooper6]

I've been watching The Secret Circle on my TiVo. The main characters are high school students...and witches! dum Dum DUM!

Anyhow, in this one episode the female lead is doing some research on her now dead mom. The research involved going through her dead mom's high school yearbook. Her dead mom? From the class of 1995. Me? The class of 1990. I did some quick math...I could have kids who were 21 years old!

I'm 39. I teach college. This means I'm old enough to be the father of all my undergrads.

Man. This makes me feel really old.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

I'm 23, and I'v started realising that I am beggining to look quite good and a lot less awkward in a suit...

Spoiler: Legen-wait for it-dary

 

[Berenzen]

I was on skype the other day and ended up thinking to myself- when I was a kid, the video phone was considered science fiction. Then I felt old.

Also, any time I'm around my 7 year old sister and she's doing something that I did when I was her age.

I'm 19 btw.

 

[SneeringCanuck]

Found out my 10-year old niece has a cell phone.

When I was ten, no one in my family had wireless phones, let alone cell phones.

 

[Akimoto]

I mention Windows ME/98 and my friend stares

 

[DanielBrown]

The worst case was when I was playing around on the beach with a friend a few years ago. Think I was 19 then, am 22 now. Anyways; when we were gonna drag ourselves up on the... pier-bridge(no English word for it >.<) we both got about halfway up and then fell back into the water. No matter how hard we tried we just couldn't pull ourselves up.
Along came some kids who got up like it was nothing.

 

[OutcastBOS]

I've had back pain, and I've found myself saying "when I was a kid" and not meaning it as a joke...I'm 18. :c

 

[FalloutJack]

Can I switch this to "God, you're old" moments? I have parents you wouldn't believe.

 

[General Vengeance]

When boys began to wear makeup and dye their hair black. To this day I still have no idea what the hell an Emo is?

 

[ZeroMachine]

I'm turning 23 in 3 days.

Someone I graduated with is teaching at our old high school.

A girl I had a crush on in high school is engaged, and it isn't one of those "well, that'll never last, they're too young" things.

One of my best friends got into my high school after I graduated, and graduated last year. When I was showing Chrono Trigger to her boyfriend (another one of my best friends), she accused it of "looking like the old Pokemon games". She was trolling, but it still made me think "this is how some of them think..."

Last, but not least, I basically have arthritis in my neck.

FUCK I'M OLD.

 

[SirDeadly]

I nearly dislocated my shoulder reaching for a shoe underneath my bed... I'm 18 and it made me feel like I was 40.

 

[Arkvoodle]

Having to explain to my younger cousin what a "cartridge" was while playing video games.


I was only 23 at the time.

 

[Ectoplasmicz]

Every time I think anything starting with "Kids these days" I'm sixteen, that doesn't even begin to make sense.

Also 16. Exactly the same as you. I know i shouldn't have those feelings, im still young, but i hate most kids younger than me. They seem ignorant and full of s**t.

Pardon the language :3