Has anyone made you..?

Question

feel old? My son has just asked me about the "olden days" when i was little..Im 38 !!

Answer 1

I'M ALSO 38,
I HAD THIS EMAIL SENT TO ME AND BOY DID IT EVER MAKE ME FEEL OLD.
I HOPE EVERY ONE ENJOYS IT.....

Under age 40?
You won't understand!
You could hardly see for all the snow, Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.

Pull a chair up to the TV set,
"Good Night, David. Good Night, Chet."
My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.

My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e.coli.

Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.

The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.

We all took gym, not PE and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.

Flunking gym was not an option, even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.

Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.

We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.

I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.

I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.

Oh yeah and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!

We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked.

Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.

We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, we got our butt spanked there and then we got butt spanked again when we got home.

I recall the kid from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.

To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that?

We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes? We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we ever survive?

LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA, AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T, SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING.

For those of us who remember fondly this era. I hope that you enjoyed your trip down memory lane.

Answer 2

Like you - my Son made me feel really, really old.

I was in my early 30s when my Son (about 4 years old at the time) asked me "In the olden days, did they try and burn you as a witch?"

Answer 3

Bus drivers have been asking to see my (elderly person's) bus pass for the past five years .... I'm 41.

This is not a wind-up. They call me 'dear' I work in an old people's home and I call my ladies 'dear'.

Is it my fault I started going grey at nine years old. I had a Mallan streak when I was a teenager and have been totally grey since I was 28?

Elflaeda has brown hair because I dyed mine in February - it's my birthday present to myself but when it's washed/grown out in a couple of months, I'm going to change her hair colour to reflect the trueness that is me.,

Answer 4

Yes _ I was taken to a student night out on York last week by a friend from work, theyall made me feel ancient and I'm nearly 37

Answer 5

waiting made clothing. the purely project i have chanced on is that a length 8 gown continually appears to be like a touch tight around the chest and shoulders yet except that each and everything is nice.

Answer 6

Yes,when I am listening to certain music that I still like and someone younger hasn't even heard of them,then I realize it's been out for almost 20 years.

Answer 7

i have just turned 30 but my step-children are teens. felt old on bank holiday sunday when i missed an all day girlie drinking session to take the kids school uniform shopping .

Answer 8

I'm 24 so not yet. But it inevitable isn't it? I used to think 30 was old when I was a teenager - but it's getting closer.

Answer 9

I feel younger now than for years, I think it starts to happen once you get to 50, as long as you don't start to behave, dress or wear your hair like an old fogey, and of course you need to keep your friends young. Helps to keep me young!

Answer 10

People make me feel old all the time and i am only 23!! How bad is that! Ha!