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Posted: 6/24/2009 12:34:26 PM | Last night my two teenagers went to see the opening premier of "Transformers" and were shocked by the huge lines and the fact that about 3000 people showed up in our small community way up here in the north.
It got me to thinking about the first movie "premier" (i.e. opeing night) I ever went to see -- Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, and what a madhouse it was even back then. Of course back then it was Southern California and a drive in theater. But overall I am sure the atmosphere was akin to what they went through last night.
So, what are some of the things that you folks run into nowadays that remind you of how much age is creeping up on all of us? Doesn't have to be movies either. | |
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Posted: 6/24/2009 1:12:21 PM | | Please, some kid calls me Ma'am at the gym I go to. It makes me want to punch him in the adam's apple every freaking day. | |
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Posted: 6/24/2009 1:17:22 PM | If I ever hear a Black Flag song on any commercial radio station I'd drop dead of a heart attack.
Oh, the new Transformers movie was great :) | |
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Posted: 6/24/2009 1:22:55 PM | | When I was a teenager my boyfriend and I had to drive downtown Kansas City for the opening of the movie "JAWS". Back in the "old days" the theaters were more elaborate and bigger, some with balconys. The multi-complexes were not available then and would you believe people use to dress up to go watch a movie. | |
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Posted: 6/24/2009 1:37:28 PM | - When my friend's 14 year old was at a concert with us... My friend mentioned something about Def Leopard. Her child asked me who Def Leopard was.
- When I walk on Campus on a Friday evening and wonder "what is wrong with these kids now a days?
- Just remembered I saw E.T. on opening weekend when I was little. | |
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Posted: 6/24/2009 1:49:06 PM | I work on a college campus, so I'm reminded every day that I'm getting older. But the worst was walking across campus one day a couple years ago and overhearing a conversation between two young girls (my guess is they were fresmen). So help me god, one looks at the other and says "Did you know Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings??"
Talk about wanting to slap someone...lol | |
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Posted: 6/24/2009 1:51:16 PM | When my nephew asked me if there was a real person named Eddir Rabbit.
When people stopped calling me "miss" and started calling me "ma'am".
When I attend the wedding of someone whose diapers I used to change.
When I am on forums listing all the reasons I know I'm getting older and I can relate to everyone else's reasons  | |
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Posted: 6/24/2009 2:26:53 PM | | You know you're getting old when you remember being the age of those kids and watching both the cartoon show and the animated movie back in the 1980s. | |
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Posted: 6/24/2009 3:05:15 PM | | You return to your Alma-Matter for Alumni weekend to tailgate and catch up with old friends... When you run out of beer and go to the nearest liquor store that is packed shoulder to shoulder with college kids and bring a few cases up to the counter and fish around for your I.D the kid behind the counter says, "It's okay ma'am. I can tell you're old enough!" OUCH! | |
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Posted: 6/24/2009 3:53:50 PM | Whenever a Disney movie is re-issued on DVD and you think back on when you saw
it in a theatre or for the first time in 10 year spans (10, 20, 30 years ago).
I saw 101 Dalmatians at the movies when I was 4. | |
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Posted: 6/24/2009 4:34:15 PM |
So, what are some of the things that you folks run into nowadays that remind you of how much age is creeping up on all of us?
Ever increasing general intolerance. Especially in music.
Admiring fashionable socks in sandals and wondering if I could pull off that look.
Seeing baggy pants and assuming they haven't shopped for clothes in a long time either.
Forgetting not everyone goes to bed by 10 p.m. when I accidentally stay up too late and go to the store.
Having to constantly "go to the store."
Hating cell phones, palm pilots, dingleberries, myfaceblogs, just as much as my parents and grandparents hated computers and soap, respectively. | |
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Posted: 6/24/2009 4:54:51 PM | when i've gone into the ER and the attending Dr. looks like a kid to me
...then i realize that most people in their 20's seem like kids to me... and i had already left home, traveled to several different countries and married by the time i was 22...
so it dawns on me that it's really *not* that young... it's just that i'm *that* old...
 *sigh* | |
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Posted: 6/24/2009 5:31:13 PM | You know you're getting old when ...
your child can't believe that not everyone has a cell phone and some people actually do use this ancient thing called a public telephone. | |
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Posted: 6/24/2009 5:55:57 PM | | I remember being a young boy watching "Smokey and the Bandit" and thinking when I grew up I was gonna have a girl friend that looked like Sally Fields...now she's doing commercials for osteoparosis products! | |
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Posted: 6/24/2009 6:00:58 PM | My date asked me if i ever heard a record.
I asked what record {figuring even though its a cd or a mp3 it would generically be called a record}.
She then asked if i ever heard a record.
I than told her that I used to buy them in stores and she was amazed like a 5 year old being told by their grandparents about the old country. | |
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Posted: 6/24/2009 6:35:07 PM | My brother had a New years party. He decided to get out the record player for the music. Are then 14 year old nephew was going to play the music. But we had to teach him how to use it. And that was 9 years ago.
Oh! And my son having computer class in Kindergarten. We didn't even have computer class in high school. | |
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Posted: 6/24/2009 6:37:45 PM | | The music really makes it stand out to me. I'm still shocked to realize that all the great 80's music (my high school years) would probably not have been heard by most who are now in their early 20's while growing up. | |
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Posted: 6/24/2009 7:06:37 PM | 1.when your child's teacher is way younger than you..lol
2.when you have to explain what's an 8 track is.
3.when Michael Jackson song Thriller was cool.
4.when your child said you played with wooden broom sticks as horses..lol
5.when a hula hoop was fun to play with.
6.when your asked what a Atari is.
8. when rainbow suspenders were cool.
9.panter pants
10.parachute pants .
11. the big 80's hair styles. | |
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Posted: 6/24/2009 7:46:29 PM |
Oh! And my son having computer class in Kindergarten. We didn't even have computer class in high school.
At the last preschool I worked in, the 3 year olds knew how to work the computer. I brought some of my son's old babyish computer games for the class and was surprised when they all knew how to load the games and what to click on. It's amazing how advanced kids are these days. | |
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Posted: 6/24/2009 7:54:08 PM | Music is the thing for me . Whenever , I start talking about music I grew up with & someone younger doesn't really know what I'm talking about . Then I realize it came out 20 years ago .
Maybe to a point , I feel older because I don't care what I crank up in my car & what looks I get . 5 years ago I would play the new , hip stuff I was into , so I would look " cool " . Now I play whatever I feel like .
Yeah , music is definitely our downfall ...lol | |
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Posted: 6/24/2009 9:03:38 PM | Saying... "In my day we..."
- Thought going outside to play was the best thing ever! And no one wanted to stay inside.. . for anything!
- Pretended that George Micheal was straight.
- Thought Christopher Reeve was Superman and we can't imagine anyone else even aspiring to achieve that role!
- Thought Bo Duke was the hottest guy on tv!
- Remember when Tom Cruise wasn't crazy.
- Remember actually getting out of your chair to turn the knob on the TV.... for the 5 channel selection. And our parents' volume remote was the kids.
- Remember Pepsi and Dr Pepper in glass bottles. | |
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Posted: 6/24/2009 9:24:13 PM |
- Remember actually getting out of your chair to turn the knob on the TV.... for the 5 channel selection. And our parents' volume remote was the kids.
Mystie, this one made me laugh lol.. Just today my son and his little "girlfriend" were watching TV and during a commercial complained it was so loud. I said "So lower it" and he says they can't find the remote. So they're looking all over my bedroom for it rather than doing it manually and when I went to the TV to lower it on the actual set while they look for the remote, my son turns around and says "You found it?" I say "No, I lowered it myself" and they're both like "How'd you lower it?" I told him back in the ancient days when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, people had to use the little buttons on the TV to operate it! I mean, they're not stupid kids, they're aware the buttons are there, but in this day and age it simply does not occur to them. | |
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