you get the "that sweater really brings out your eyes" comment at work...while eating a bagel

instead of at the bar...drinking alcohol

2/3/2010 12:07:16 AM

People who were born after the September 11th attacks will be entering the 4th grade this fall.

2/3/2010 8:29:36 AM

Geez, I used to talk with my 7th graders in a way that had them remembering the attacks, now I can't take that for granted anymore.

2/3/2010 1:37:30 PM

^^ That's depressing.

2/3/2010 1:54:29 PM

In less than a year there are people who were born in 1990 that will be able to drink legally.

The fact that people at grocery/liquor stores ignore my stated birthdate when I get to 198.... is sign enough.

2/4/2010 12:34:29 AM

People who are 18 years old now:

-Probably didn't use dialup
-Probably don't remember CDs
-Definitely didn't use cassette tapes
-Probably don't remember VHS or didn't even use it

2/4/2010 8:31:14 AM

yo no longer have any desire to be a ninja

2/13/2010 3:00:31 PM

You talk about the times when NC State sports were good and people look at you like "WTF"?

2/14/2010 11:55:15 PM

Quote :

"-Probably don't remember CDs"

Ummm...Ok.
Maybe they should go to just about any mall in America or Best Buy store and open their eyes then.
Considering CD is still included in pretty much every computer, car, and home stereo sold in America; I don't think this is really true.

2/15/2010 8:52:07 AM

This is taken from a Dave Barry book:

Quote :

"The way I picture it, adulthood is a big, sleek jungle snake, swimming just around the bend in the River of Life. It swallows you subtly, an inch at a time, so you barely notice the signs: You start reading the labels on things before you eat them, rather than to pass the time while you eat them; you find yourself listening to talk radio because the hit songs they play on the rock stations (can this really be you, thinking this?) all begin to sound the same. Before you know it, you have monogrammed towels in your bathroom, and all your furniture is nice. And suddenly you realize it's too late, that you'd rather sit around on your furniture and talk about the warning signs of colon cancer with other grown-ups than, for example, find out what happens when you set one of those plastic milk jugs on fire. And if your kid sets a milk jug on fire, you yell at him "Somebody could get hurt," and really mean it, from inside the snake."

2/15/2010 6:23:14 PM

its 11:15pm and its all i can do to stay awake.

4/10/2010 11:15:23 PM

Just found these again, trying to explain what they were to girls in my grad program who have never seen/eaten them before. I felt old as hell when I told one that I used to eat these 25 years ago!

4/15/2010 11:53:07 AM

^For a second I thought those were just raspberries and blackberries and I was like "wtf? Who doesn't know what those are?" Then I saw that they were those sweets. They have them at Fresh Market btw.

4/15/2010 12:02:10 PM

Quote :

"You talk about the times when NC State sports were good and people look at you like "WTF"?"

Oh dear

4/28/2010 4:12:17 PM

gunzz lets you post in the old school thread

5/2/2010 11:45:19 AM

EMCE lets you post in the old school thread

and my knees do not like it the day after a soccer game

5/2/2010 11:41:17 PM

I hate walking past Abercrombie at the mall because it's just so damn loud.

6/10/2010 1:34:11 PM

^^has nothing with being old. i hated that when i was in high school

6/14/2010 12:14:12 AM

It's father's day, and you realize how many of your friends are fathers.

Some of whom have kids in elementary school

We won't even talk about the discussion about future progeny that this realization sometimes spurs.

6/20/2010 8:18:23 PM

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6/21/2010 11:58:05 PM

Quote :

"This is taken from a Dave Barry book:"

you read a Dave Barry book.

6/22/2010 8:00:14 AM

... you're repeatedly going back to your hometown to fix stuff at your parents houses, even though you never understood why they did the same thing for their parents.

6/22/2010 10:54:04 AM

your younger friends call you at 12:30am on a Friday to come hang out... and your initial response is "wtf why are you calling me so late?!"

7/3/2010 1:43:18 AM

.... you wake up to your 3yr old and 1 week old child in bed with you and you are excited about the new washer and dryer coming at 11am.

7/3/2010 8:01:51 AM

you start asking your dad for yard tools and such instead of video games for bday and xmas

7/4/2010 11:45:55 AM

Road trip/vacation event:

It's time for dinner, you decide on pizza, get excited, get there...and eat one slice of pizza. You do, however, get excited that the add-on salad bar has straight spinach available, and not just shitty iceberg.

And when you say "You and [bro] should do that!" in regards to a food challenge, your spouse goes "Sure...five years ago"

7/4/2010 1:03:25 PM

i crossed my legs today

7/13/2010 4:08:21 PM

someone i was riding with asked me to "go back a couple seconds, i wanna hear that again" when listening to a CD

I made a joke about "Be kind, Please rewind" and the guy had no idea what I was talking about

I felt old then

7/24/2010 5:46:29 PM

im 27, many of my friends are 22-23. they often do not get my jokes

[Edited on July 24, 2010 at 5:59 PM. Reason : amazing what 5 years can do.]

7/24/2010 5:59:35 PM

...Bruce Willis's next role has him living in a senior citizen's home.

7/24/2010 6:06:16 PM

you have acid reflux

and you get snotty about air travel and will only consider flights on your preferred airline, even despite price differences...gotta love comfort & preferred treatment

i seriously had anxiety while flying southwest recently.. i could not handle all the people everywhere!

7/24/2010 7:20:57 PM

There is no domestic airline that is worth being a preferred airline. They are all sh$tty.

7/25/2010 9:39:43 PM

"old enough to know better, but still too young to care" no longer applies.

You care.

7/25/2010 9:44:42 PM

you grew up wondering why all your dad liked watching on TV was the news

and now all you like watching on TV is the news.

7/25/2010 11:50:22 PM

i avoid the news like the fucking plague.

7/26/2010 12:05:05 PM

I listen to NPR.. and then WKNC to make up for it

7/27/2010 4:31:08 PM

"Back in my day, you only had 151 Pokemon and you only needed two cartridges to catch 'em all."

7/27/2010 5:02:46 PM

Quote :

"There is no domestic airline that is worth being a preferred airline. They are all sh$tty. "

Yeah I have to agree. I am only concerned about trying to get emergency row seating and a power outlet for my stuffs.

7/27/2010 10:10:17 PM

Quote :

""Back in my day, you only had 151 Pokemon and you only needed two cartridges to catch 'em all.""

Okay, I LOLed.

And you also get aggravated at all these new-fangled pokemon. The 151 were good enough, goddammit

--
Your NOSE HAIRS are going grey

10/23/2010 1:18:51 PM

1) When most of the students in your nursing classes are a decade younger than you and don't get when you talk about things like work, bills and getting along with your parents.

2) ... why they were out partying till 2 a.m. on a Thursday night when they had an 8 a.m. class the next day. And you realize you can't really stay up past 12 anymore, even when you want to..

3) .. but can't even on the weekend because you have to be up at 8 a.m. on a Saturday.

4) get excited about getting a new vacuum cleaner for the house

5) actually get the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables per day and care about things like blood pressure, cholesterol and sodium levels

6) laugh lines

10/23/2010 7:20:46 PM

I actually put the roll of TP on the bar properly instead of just setting it on top.

I'd been doing that for 20+ years when I noticed that I never do it anymore.

11/16/2010 7:31:47 PM

You have memories from the birth year of the current Playboy Playmate of the Month

[Edited on November 16, 2010 at 8:04 PM. Reason : a]

11/16/2010 8:04:20 PM

I got excited when I saw the awesome cedar suit hangers at the new Container Store.

11/20/2010 11:25:54 PM

You discuss planting bulbs and shrubberies with your Auditing professor, rather than whatever non-sense your classmates are discussing.

Quote :

"1) When most of the students in your nursing classes are a decade younger than you and don't get when you talk about things like work, bills and getting along with your parents. 2) ... why they were out partying till 2 a.m. on a Thursday night when they had an 8 a.m. class the next day. And you realize you can't really stay up past 12 anymore, even when you want to.. 3) .. but can't even on the weekend because you have to be up at 8 a.m. on a Saturday. 4) get excited about getting a new vacuum cleaner for the house 5) actually get the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables per day and care about things like blood pressure, cholesterol and sodium levels 6) laugh lines "

haha! Although it's nice when the professor and students are thrown off when they think you are about 10 years younger than you are in reality.

[Edited on November 21, 2010 at 11:45 AM. Reason : ]

11/21/2010 11:43:29 AM

the guy behind the counter at moe's assumes the 10year old kid in line behind you belongs to you and rings both of your orders up together.

[Edited on November 21, 2010 at 3:14 PM. Reason : .]

11/21/2010 3:14:13 PM

Undergrads call me "sir".

11/23/2010 5:03:45 PM

^^ I do get highly amused when the kids ask me what dorm I live in on campus, and I want to be like "Seriously? I'm old enough to be your professor" ...and then I realize one of my instructors is actually as old or younger than me (I'm 27) .

Conversely, I also have had people ask me a) where the law school is (I hear ~50% of NC Central's law students are white) b) what department I'm in and what classes I'm teaching (assuming I'm faculty) or c) actually been mistaken for the professor in my classes in the beginning of the semester (I don't wear super-dressy stuff to class, although I will wear neater-looking attire to my evening class).

One of these days I might just grab the book and start lecturing!


[Edited on November 25, 2010 at 2:57 PM. Reason : boo]

11/25/2010 2:45:57 PM

I can fuck the kids of some of the people I grew up with and it would be legal

11/25/2010 9:23:11 PM

a distant cousin i met at thanksgiving tonight was shocked when he asked how old i was and i said 27. i asked how old i looked and he said his age, 22

uh, thanks... i think? 5 years doesn't really seem like that long. guess im aging well

11/26/2010 12:11:33 AM

you get a gray nose hair

on the upside, i got carded at a restaurant the day before my 30th bday last month

11/26/2010 8:01:10 PM