Moments that make you realise you’ve grown ho

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When Ariel says “but daddy I love him!” And you find yourself agreeing with King Tritan

You’re 16 Ariel and you don’t even know him!

When I used the word "records" in a sentence and DD asked if I'd played them on a gramophone while dancing the foxtrot.

Seeing someone when I remember their mum or dad as a young person.

When "vintage hour" on the radio is what you used to dance to in the night clubs. Fucking vintage. "This isn't vintage!! It's not even old!!" Then had to Google when "hot in herre" was released...2002...I'll just let myself out thanks youth of today. 👋

When you watch films and say “ She’s dead ..he’s dead” re the actors. Mum and Dad used to do this all the time but I did it yesterday watching The Golden Girls!

Watching Mary Poppins, and wanting to applaud their mother for standing up for women’s rights. Then, when Mr Banks is fired, being concerned about the mortgage on that rather nice house.

A few years ago, going to the pub after watching a rugby match in my jeans, boots, rugby top and coat. Saw the queue at the cash machine of girls in their late teens / early twenties in shoes they couldn't walk in, tiny dresses, no coats, shivering away and thought "no night out is worth being that cold". I'm sure I thought it in my mother's voice 😂

Trying to explain to 10year old nephew that I used to record songs off the radio on a tape. He looked at me like this 😏 and asked if the world was black and white back then as it was a million years ago. He thought I was lying because the idea was so absurd to him, dsis had to tell him it was true!

Ooh when there was an advert at the sidetab for shoes .
One pair heeled l button front boots (like a Victorian High Class Prostitute would wear) .
Oh they look lovely I thought briefly but I'd never walk in them and they'd kill my feet and break my ankle . And I hope there's a zip

And next to them a flat lace up boot like a refined hiking boot
Oooh look , they're much better , really comfy

I like asking youngsters nearly everyone in my office if they know what the USSR was. My favourite answer Is it in the USA?

Trying to explain to my kids that I didn't use a computer at school. Or University come to that. And that the library used to order in books and journals for me. Yes, imagine having to wait for information to arrive! Oh, and realising that they've never seen a fountain pen.

Recalling to my 17yo the time our school first got CD ROMs and the librarian proudly showing us how many sheets-worth of information it could store in comparison to the floppy disk.

17yo "what's a floppy disk?"

Oh so many from PP's. I'm only 38! I feel positively ancient these days.

I was listening to the radio the other day and a new version of a song I know and love was on. I was really annoyed that it was taken from my late teenage years and that youngsters would listen to it now and think this new band had brought it out first.

Then I had an epiphany.

This must have been how my parents felt when re-released songs came out and we all lost our minds over it and our parents said that was done by so and so in 19-canteen and we were like whatever. With an eye roll added in.

Then I googled the song to see who the hell this new band were thinking they could steal my teenage song and make it their own.

Turns out the original was released in 1970 and it wasn't Toploader that came up with Dancing in the Moonlight first. Oops...

When talking to a 30 year old co-worker about Stevie Nicks and him saying "I don't know who he is". I died a little that day.

Realising that I am significantly older than 34 countries, and comfortably older than the internet.

@NotYourDawg

Recalling to my 17yo the time our school first got CD ROMs and the librarian proudly showing us how many sheets-worth of information it could store in comparison to the floppy disk.

17yo "what's a floppy disk?"

That's just as likely to be what is a cd rom

Explaining trying to record the top 40
Video tapes
DVDs
phone boxes and asking for collect call
not being able to use the internet and the phone at the same time
not being able to move from room to room on your phone
floppy disks
Amstrad
smoking indoors
smoking full stop

Saying if you wear it inside you won't get the benefits of it outside that was my dad

Had a student with me for mentoring on an Ambulance.
Asked her to look in a phone box to see what the phone number was as the patient was nowhere to be found.
She told me she had no idea where to looks as had never set foot in a phone box.
Ended up explaining about phone cards and reverse charge calls. She was horrified.
I'm only 33.
I died a little inside ☹

When you don't know what grown ho means?

Colleagues were discussing the first work night out post lock down and I found myself thinking what a lot time they waste thinking about nights out - they’re wishing their lives away. Then they were compiling pics of the last years worth of nights out and I had to tell them about taking cameras to clubs and trying to take pictures, prettt sure they were imagining one of those tripod things with the curtains from the reaction o got.

When I said to my eldest "when your dad and I were your age we didn't have x y and z" and I died a little inside for being the old lady that I remember my mum being.

Or when kisstory is playing and I'm like "that's not even that old!!!" Then I realise it is indeed, actually very old.

I mentioned a cassette tape to my husband over dinner and asked if he remembered taping the top 40 and my daughter asked what a cassette was.

I'm only 30 😭😭

Explaining to my DD how iconic, important and ground-breaking John Lennon was ..only to have her respond "Oh, like Harry Styles!" in a crowded Beatles exhibition in the centre of Liverpool, we left soon after that!

I don't listen to the radio usually, it was on at work the other day and I found myself saying "I couldn't tell you who this is singing, all male singers sound the same these days, weird voices and unintelligible words"
(it was Lewis Capaldi)

I'm a conveyancing solicitor. I now have clients who were born when I was at university.

When all the main stars in new films are way too young for you to fancy.

When you have to explain who Charlton Heston is to someone.

When you have to explain you grew up with no Internet, 3 TV channels that shut off at midnight and Saturdays were crap as sport took over the TV.

My (much younger) sister didn’t know who Victoria Beckham was. When I started explaining she went “wait, do you mean Brooklyn Beckham’s mum?”