Tell me you are getting older without saying you are getting older?

[KrakenAttackin]

I'll go first. Just started receiving spam emails about setting up a prepaid cremation plan.😏

[Lliam]

I had a transistor radio for years, even in high school.

We had this kind of phone when I was growing up:

And public phone booths were everywhere.

I was a year old when Disneyland opened.
https://images.ctfassets.net/f60q1anpxzid/asset-6c36dc0bc0457deb30e76bc8af876a2a/907b34cf6700699dfe85ebe2dc0670be/disneyland-opening-day.jpg?fm=jpg&fl=progressive&q=50&w=1200

JFK briefly shook my hand when he drove by in his convertible limo in Long Beach, Ca.

I watched Star Trek from its first episode.

[KrakenAttackin]

@Lliam. Shook JFK's, hand, now that is cool.

[Lliam]

I was 9 years old. I managed to get to the front of the police barrier.

[KrakenAttackin]

@Lliam My man!

[Pete671]

Someone offered me their seat on the bus last month,,,

[KrakenAttackin]

@Pete671. Oh, that's brutal!

[Pete671]

ta, I wondered who they were talking to at first!!!

[Sonorous]

I'm thinking about getting minoxidil and finasteride 🤣

[DarkWinterNights]

The former is pretty safe, but careful with the latter. Some guys get some weird sexual side effects on it.

[Sonorous]

Ahh yeah I've heard! I wouldn't mind though. It would keep the addiction at bay 🤣

[Truthatanycost]

I used affirmations to grow my thinning hair back but you can also use scripture. So many don't realize the power of scripture!

[Sonorous]

pause wut

[KrakenAttackin]

@Truthatanycost You waste God's time with hair growth?

[Truthatanycost]

Matthew 10:30

'But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.'

Matthew 6:26

'Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?'

[Truthatanycost]

There is a book called the Power Of The Subconscious Mind and there were accounts of people being healed through affirmations and visualization. So I adapted the affirmations from that. Then after a week without any progress it started to grow back.

[Apple1996]

Only thing that makes me feel old are my kids. My 1st son is gonna graduate high-school in 2032 and that really doesn't feel to far away 😳

[Screenwriter]

The endless onslaught of senior life insurance policies that cost of fortune once you're past your 40s. AARP materials, though I've been a member since I was in my late 40s and how can they not know this. I've lived at the same address forever.

Invitations to join senior-only communities (how incredibly boring to join any blank-only community... I like people of all ages). Old folks homes insurance and invitations. EXTRA health insurance. Accidental death policies.

Not worried about "accidental" death. It's assured death from a hundred things that is the big issue!

But you'll have fun reading through all the offers. You might even find something worthwhile. So laugh at your impending "old" life. And rage, rage against the dying of the light!

[ChiTown33]

Pop bottles were glass when I was younger. VCR's were fairly new (in fact we had an expression when you were too stupid to figure something out we said "you look like my grandpa trying to figure out the VCR"), now I've outlived that expression due to the VCR being obsolete. I'm pre-internet (Though you don't really have to be that old to be pre-internet I don't feel). A "hashtag" used to be a label for your weed back in my day

[KrakenAttackin]

@ChiTown33. Ah, the perpetually flashing "12:00" on the VCR clock.

[Sour-rose]

"GOD, WHAT DA HELL DID I EAT? What do you mean I'm lactose intolerant? What kind of bullsh-"

"WHAT THE HELL YOU MEAN I SHOULD WATCH WHAT I EAT THAT INCLUDES GLUTEN?"

*feels a slight fire in my belly, and it's not a child*

*uses a walking stick to do my job because it's a steep hill*

*gets happy when folks say "you're 21 right?"*

[Raaj4you]

I lost interest in Hollywood action movies and animation movies. I lost interest in hanging out with friends and partying. I was a reckless car driver. Now, I am driving it carefully. I used to hate girls, love, dating, romantic movies in school and college. Now, I love Romantic movies, hot girls and dating. I don't why I transformed suddenly?

[Unit1]

*cough cough*

*cough cough cough cough cough cough*

*cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough*

*COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH*

I'm too young to kick the bucket already. I booked me the hospital visits already but they are taking their sweet time.

I don't even smoke 🚭

[laraWM]

A guy called me Madam, I wasn't expecting it 😂

[havingfun2023]

Ma'am, thank you for sharing that 😁

[KrakenAttackin]

@laraWM. "Madam", not "ma'am"? That's unusual, but it is still a sign of respect.

[laraWM]

Yes of course, I just thought that's how people talked to my mom 😂

[KrakenAttackin]

@laraWM. Its actually a good thing, it shows respect.

[spartan55]

I received email and written solicitations to enroll in AARP.

[KrakenAttackin]

AARP is persistent AF.

[spartan55]

Really? Great. 🙄

[ManOnFire]

I've already got a few silver hairs, and not even 40 yet😂 I look much younger than my age since a lot of people think I'm still in my 20s so having silvers will probably look pretty weird lol

[4ngelic]

thats lowkey hilarous

everyone is starting to look younger and younger. like people 18-19 dont look super grown anymore and instead look like babies

[HiveBee]

When I joined the military they would essentially call us new guys kids.

Then later on when I was not so new, and the new guys came in, they DID look like little kids.

And they act like little kids too. And they're shy and shit lol.

You join as a kid but you quickly grow out of that I guess.

[007kingifrit]

when i was a toddler i would think of 13 year olds as "super grown up" and picture them as like 20 year olds omg that's funny

[musicbrain5]

Some of the parents of my students are younger than me, it’s such a trip thinking about that. That started a few years ago.

[WhiteSteve]

No kids, but I’ve definitely entered the “dad noises” phase of life, lmao

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ayq3CxfB0Ak

[Sparkie460]

I used a pay phone, I got up to change the channels on the TV, I checked my messages on an answering machine, I listened to music on 8 track

[spartan55]

Got me on the 8 track. Other than that... yep!

[Sparkie460]

My dad had an 8track player in the car and the house. It was the only way I could listen to music so I bought some 8tracks of my music

[spartan55]

I had some LPs, but cassettes were the main medium until college. Then CDs were it. I remember some older cars having 8 track players, but never saw one in a home.

[KrakenAttackin]

@sparkie460. Me too (I'm 54 not 44), we also drank from hoses, were told "be home before the street lights come on", and did shit that would never be allowed today 😁

[Sparkie460]

My dad had the 8 track player until the day he died. I actually sold it to a collector of old electronics

[KrakenAttackin]

Do you remember the magazine ads where you could get something like 10 8-tracks for a penny (with a subscription if course).

[Sparkie460]

Yes I do, Columbia house. They also had cassettes

[Sparkie460]

The stuff we did back then wasn't allowed either but there's no proof that we did it because it was never recorded

[KrakenAttackin]

Columbia house, that's it!

Yes, no recording, those were the days..

[Sparkie460]

Now if you sneeze wrong it gets recorded

[KrakenAttackin]

@sparkie460. Truth.

[BlissfullyCurSed]

people around me are all getting laid but I'm not so yeah I have grown up. I'm not getting older but I'm definitely more mature than I used to be. However, a bit different than my peers.

[Anonymous]

I still have a DVD/CD collection in my living room even though I haven't watched one in a decade.

[KrakenAttackin]

Anon... Don't dump them, they might come in very handy some day.

[Opinion Owner]

Yeah when the Internet breaks

[BadApple69]

When I was a kid we used a real potato when we played with Mr. Potato head!

[007kingifrit]

where did you get the ears and eyes

[BadApple69]

The ears and eyes came in the “Mr. Potato head” box. That was the whole toy. Ears, eyes and I believe mustaches.

[007kingifrit]

oh i thought you were joking lol but i guess it really was an actual potato

[BadApple69]

From 1952 until 1963 Mr Potato Head was meant to be used with real vegetables. In 1964 government regulations concerning children playing with their food caused Hasbro to include a plastic vegetable.

[Anonymous]

Not having the patience to put up with stupidity at work anymore.

As a teen / youth I didn't have the experience / education to do or say much.

Now as an expert that's been headhunted for work in my field I can just... walk out. As I've done. My resume is such I don't need to include a moron businesses in the CV.

[MzAsh]

Went into Forever 21 the other day… found most of the clothes hideous. A lot of their selection looked like clothes you’d find in an adult store. One outfit looked like aluminum foil. Guess the leftovers look is hot right now.

[sage2021]

That's funny🤭🤗. Of course a cremation plan is pre-paid. You couldn't pay for it if you were dead. Duh!🤗🤭🤔