I feel old when people call me “m’am”. And when I get carded at the store, I usually ask the clerk how old their mother is. Sometimes my age is closer to their grandmother! And I feel old when a 20 something posts in the parent cafe here!
Adding my senior discount story:
I was at the local grocery store, flashed my store card (which I now have on my iPhone, thankyouverymuch) and the (young) cashier (politely) asked me “are you eligible for the senior discount”?
To which I not so politely replied (I may have yelled a bit): “I’m 39”!!!
That reminds of why I never, ever, ever ask someone when their baby is due. I’ve erred too many times. And you can’t walk that back.
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Yes! Years ago, when my son was a newborn, I asked the check-in person at the airport counter 'when are you due?" - She looked puzzled and said ‘I’m not pregnant’
I didn’t need a plane to fly home, I flew (away from the check-in desk) all by myself!!!
I can’t believe I am saying this but my oldest son is 43 today. Yep. Old. But glad to be here, sane and healthy.
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Damn, your ‘kid’ is nearly as old as my Dad lol.
Time flies.
We are a multi-generation forum!
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My D is 37 today. I was telling her that on that day I had to track down my husband who was working in New York at the time. He was at a conference at a hotel there and I couldn’t get in touch with him directly. I called his office. The office called the hotel. Someone at the hotel tracked him down and gave him one of those pink memo slips which told him to call me ASAP. He then had to find a pay phone to call me. He had to find his way back him via public transportation and FINALLY we went to the hospital. Texting should would have come in handy back then.
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That reminds me of my second pregnancy. My first, I had delivered at only 34 weeks, so we knew I was at high risk of premature labor with my second. My husband was a journalist who was covering the US Open, so we decided to get him a pager that I could call if I went into labor. This was very high tech at the time! We tried it out when we first got it, and BOY, was it loud!! We were both afraid that I’d call it during some critical point during a game and we’d totally mess up the players’ concentration. (Didn’t happen. I delivered a week after the Open ended.)
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That looks like mine; little do they know I’m going to be cremated and ashes spread in blue water somewhere. My mom wants to be turned into a diamond and my dad wants to be turned into a Purdue garden gnome holding a glass of cabernet. He did ask that we set him high enough that our dog couldn’t pee on him though 
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Maybe that’s what we should do. So many shows/movies have reading someone’s text messages as a part of the plot. I can never see them on my 36 inch TV that I though was HUGE when we bought it!
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