What Was Your “Wow, I’m Getting Old” Moment?

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[heartroll]

I’m 27.

I helped kids in kindergarten to grade one in high school.

I recently saw a graduation plaque with all the kids I helped. They are all just did their first year of high school.

I feel proud I helped them at such an early age. Kinda felt like a parent.

[Kayenne]

Heard my son (17) discussing with his younger sister the "awful behaviour of kids in her class on the school bus". (They were both at high school at this stage). I queried what he meant, and he went into a rant about the younger generation and their manners. Lmao. So apparently, even five years had become a generation gap.

[hiroshi]

> Be a teacher
> See one of my students have a Naruto agenda
> Look and say "Oh, that's a nice Naruto agenda"
> "Wow sir, you know Naruto?!"

I'm 23.

[tegantalks]

I coach swim club and also still swim and I’ve had a few I’m old moments this season:
1. When I realized over half the club is closer in age to my children than to me.
2. When I realized I was the only swimmer registered in my club, aside from my dad, whose birth year starts with 19.
3. When I realized that most of the swimmers in the club were born after I started swimming. My first year of swim club was 2006.
4. When a swimmer in their 40s came up to me and said, “I must be in the right lane because you’re the only other old swimmer here”.
5. When I reminisced with my dad and step mom about how different things were in regards to how the meets were set up and what technology was used when I first started vs now.

[AdamBorseti]

I'm 32

-Watching the hair on my head slowly migrate to my back and shoulders.
-Not being excited for new games anymore or having much fun with them.
-Not wanting to go out and be social with people anymore.
-Accepting my own mediocrity and finally putting naive dreams to rest.
-Pulling a muscle and it actually taking longer than 12 hours to stop hurting.
-Needing to take stool softeners just to take a good shit, despite eating healthy.
-My prostate enlarging nice and early on so I always have to piss but have difficulty pissing.
-Generally feeling like I've seen enough of this shit.
-Paying medical bills.
-Seriously considering suicide over relatively minor inconveniences like accidentally dropping something or catching the same red light twice.

[chiapets]

Im 32. And people in there mid to late 20s tell me I feel old makes me cringe

[parisgreen]

We had a dial telephone. It was so heavy you could knock out a burglar with it. Also an actual phone book. There were no answering machines yet, much less voicemail. And the phone came with a stylus so the 'lady of the house' could dial without ruining her nails. The stylus had a magnifier so you could read the phone book...

[brapcast]

This video is from a 6 year old thread

[friendlyneighbourhoodbridg]

I'm a foreign language teacher in my 20s. A few weeks ago my students were reading an article about technological changes in the past 20years and there was a line that NOBODY could understand because it roughly translates to "DS is no longer just a car brand". My students asked me what that meant and I said "DS, you know like the Nintendo DS?"

They looked at me and said "Miss, what's that?". I died a little inside, exclaiming "OMG I *HAD* ONE OF THOSE GROWING UP!"

[esmooth]

0:06 boomboxes still exist. They've just taken the form of Bluetooth speakers. Lol

[esmooth]

When people call you sir or ma'am, that's just straight up manners. That doesn't mean they think you're old

[lili_]

If someone gave me a vacuum as a gift, I'd cry tears of joy! I'm 31, have a shitty vacuum and no money to buy a better one.. :/

[namelessghoulette]

Overheard a little girl having an ugly cry tantrum in the supermarket. Her mum sounded like she had had it with her that day. She finally snaps and yells "what is wrong with you?". The girl mumble-cries something that I can't understand yet the mother was able to translate. It turns out that the girl was having a tantrum over sushi. Not sweets. Not toys. Sushi. Mum huffs saying that this place didn't sell any before storming off to the next aisle with her still crying daughter.

This happened in the UK where sushi started becoming available and popular in supermarkets. All I remembered when I was that girl's age was that kids would throw fits if they couldn't get their precious Haribo or the newest trending toy. Yes, that still is a thing. But nine year olds flipping out over not having sushi was something that I had to let sink in for a while.

[robertusa]

You know you have gotten old when you find your self back in diapers

[BlueDart]

When your conversations with others consist of talking about doctors and health.

[odralebazerimar]

Jumped from a certain height and felt my knees hurt

[stanford-nfjk]

When I started to feel like I’ve wasted the day if I’m not up and about by six a.m. is one. Another was when I stopped liking cream and sugar in my coffee. There are others, but they’re all along the lines of what people in the video said.

[sephtisglitch]

im almost 18 and ive not only heard of ghostbusters but ive watched the original 2 movies

[Tommy-zhko]

When I was 20 I did an IT internship at a local high school. To be called sir by 12-13-year-olds kinda hit hard NGL😂

[josephmoore]

I had my midlife crises/depression at 30.