I actually graduated before that, so yeah, I’m getting up there 
but the date does have meaning to DH and I
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I enjoy telling kids in my high school that I’ve been working in the school as a teacher since '99, which of course, is well before they were born.
But yeah, it can make one feel rather old.
My oldest son was born in '92.
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Ah, my dad was in college in 1992.
Good times.
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I was at the Smithsonian with my kids about 6 or 7 years ago and we spotted a Walkman on display…they couldn’t believe that people (I) used to walk around with that clunker, when today, the kids just have tiny earpods!
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I have a shoe horn to put on my shoes. Turns out I like using it rather than wiggling into the shoes and pinching my finger.
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Hiking for me.
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This makes me laugh because when S23 was about 10 and saw Guardians of the Galaxy, I was the coolest mom ever because I still HAD a (knock-off brand) Walkman that worked, and headphones and actual mixed (and regular) tapes! For about a year, he was the envy of all the friends because he would walk around listening to original Elton John and Wham! tapes or a mixed tape (like Chris Pratt’s character) on the Walkman!
On a sad note, he did accidentally destroy my Wham! tape in the player. 
I feel old when I use really ordinary words or phrases, and no one under 20 knows them anymore even though I swear they were being used through my childhood for hundreds of years. (e.g. “be that as it may” “best go to bed early tonight”) I really disturbed a middle school class a few years ago by saying, “I don’t want to beat a dead horse here, but blah blah blah about punctuation,” and it was as if I should have given a trigger warning! They were not acting; they were upset about horses and confused and borderline traumatized when I explained the phrase, which was not at all the focus of the lesson.
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When I have to enter my birthdate on a website, and I have to keep scrolling and scrolling to select my birth year.
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I found my walkman a couple weeks ago when i was going through my parent’s storage unit 
This, this makes me feel old 
Honestly, other than pain I still feel young. We’re living our second college life, but this time without the hassle of classes and with more money. Yesterday was spring game here; we took the golf cart around campus, went tailgating, caught part of the baseall game, hit up our friend’s bar downtown, and went out on the boat for dinner and drinks. Not too shabby being “old.”
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Yes, I like being 60. We’re having tons of fun and our kids are not dependent on us. No grandkids yet, so we have no obligations to travel for family visits. We’re going to Spain and France this summer. We will recreate this photo of us from our 1989 trip.
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Pain?
You’re scaring me lol.
I don’t feel any pain or aches as a guy in my mid-20s - I’d like that to continue thank you very much 
it will hit you eventually.
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@DarkMatter565, that post made CC parents (aka “old people”) do a collective 
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General aches and pain come with age; nutrition, exercise and attitude play a huge roll in how much it affects your life. We’re generally healthy and active, but my type of pain is NOT the norm; I have a degenerative autoimmune disease. This is where attitude comes into play. I could sit around feeling sorry for myself and wallow in my fate, or I can have a positive attitude of hoping for the best and planning for the worst and make the most of my time here on earth. I’ve decided to do the later. Like many GenX, I refuse to “go gentle into that good night.” Age is but a number, a good sense of humor mixed with a heaping dose of sarcasm greatly helps 
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we watched the HBO show Succession this week, and there was a reference to Chuckles the clown. He knows that reference from Mary Tyler Moore show; and caught the significance. But when listening to the podcast about that episode, the younger hosts didnt have a clue. They could certainly dissect the Succesison episode, but missed that cultural reference. And. He. Felt. Old. 
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Chuckles the clown creeped me out as a kid 
it didn’t help that my parents had decorated my room with clowns as well. My mom still apologizes to me for the clown trauma they inflicted
My oldest son was born in 1970. His son, the youngest of my six grandchildren, will graduate from high school next month and start college in August. Many things make me feel old - then again, I am old.
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but kidzncatz - you have a great screen name! kids and cats will keep you young.
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I certainly hope so - though sometimes they seem to do the opposite.