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Moments that make you realise you’ve grown ho

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Soubriquet · 24/06/2020 15:30

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!

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FlamingoAndJohn · 27/06/2020 14:30

@Soubriquet

Oh god reverse calling!

Who remembers saying “mum pick me up at train station” as quickly as possible before it cut you off?

Or doing three rings.
KatherineJaneway · 27/06/2020 15:19

Or doing three rings.

Yes, I remember that. They charge now Sad

FlamingoAndJohn · 27/06/2020 15:33

Do they? They charge even if someone at the other end doesn’t pick up?

In fairness I haven’t had a landline in ten years and I don’t recall the last time I used a phone box.

DisaK · 27/06/2020 15:35

My DN interrupting constantly when we're watching any older tv programmes and asking what things are or why they're like that - cassettes, CDs, fax machine, pager, landlines, chunky TVs etc. There was a lad with a Sony Discman on something we watched and she said "that's so old fashioned" - I cringed as I still think they're neat little gadgets and remember how chuffed I was with mine.

I still think Freddos are 5p

I look for food items in shops and realise they've been discontinued for 20 years

I keep saying "do you remember when we used to go to [shops that have long since closed down]"

Saying "there used to be a [shop/restaurant/pub] there not so long ago" and realising it was 25 years ago

When I see photos showing what "young people" are wearing these days, I often feel a bit baffled

Choosing clothes and buying things that feel soft and are comfortable.
Seeing the party dresses and thinking "it's pretty, but where would I go to wear that?"

MikeUniformMike · 27/06/2020 15:38

Never mind remembering when it was Woolworths, I remember when it was C&A.

DisaK · 27/06/2020 15:42

Also, explaining to DC what an Internet cafe is/was, when one was shown in a tv programme.

CoffeeBeansGalore · 27/06/2020 15:44

When I started preferring radio 2 to radio 1 . . .

My daughter came home the other day & said so & so who had been in her primary school class was now a policeman.

An outside contractor came to look at the boiler at work & I asked to see his registration card and said he looked too young to be qualified (he laughed and was flattered, as he was 26 and definitely qualified).

I'm in my 40s & feel ancient at times!

Graphista · 27/06/2020 16:11

When I find myself thinking of things that seem "new" to me (films, music, tv shows) and they're actually 20 years old or not far off! Seriously anything post 2000 seems "new" to me

Looking in the mirror and seeing not my mum...my gran!!

I've been dressing for comfort for years now.

When you can no longer be arsed to make the effort to learn certain new things - snapchat, tik Tok... I'm so not interested Facebook & Twitter are my limit

Not "recognising" current pics of old friends on fb (ones you don't see often, I was an army brat so many of mine are scattered worldwide) because in your head they're still the age they were when you last saw them or were spending a lot of time with them. I've had friends make similar comments re how I look now too.

When friends are becoming grandparents! We can't possibly be old enough - then you do the maths and sadly we are!

I like asking youngsters nearly everyone in my office if they know what the USSR was. My favourite answer Is it in the USA? I still find myself reminding myself that Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia no longer exist! I find all that area of geopolitics very confusing

Realising that I am significantly older than 34 countries, and comfortably older than the internet. oh fuck! How'd you check that? (And how old are you? I'm hoping older than me but doubt it somehow)

Reading posts on mn by posters who are clearly mothers, even to teens but who were obviously born after I left school so in my head they're "just kids" - then - again - doing the maths and having to accept they're in their 20's and 30's and a perfectly normal age to be mothers.

@BillywilliamV I'm amazed you weren't lynched!

I had a conversation with a call centre worker recently which made my heart sink when he actually said "yes I grew up with iPhones so that's what I'm used to I've never tried an Android" - I got my first mobile phone in my 30's!!

Totally agree re Gilmore girls! Lorelai basically threw a 14 year tantrum! Because not unreasonably her parents weren't best pleased she got pregnant at what? 16?

The episode/scene that breaks my heart is when Emily sees the HUT she and Rory were living in when Rory was tiny and says something like "my god she really must have hated us!" When all they really wanted was for what was best for lorelai and Rory in the circumstances.

Re the 80's "not being history" while I sympathise consider:

1989 was 31 years ago.

When I was in school ww2 was being taught as history this would have been from 1983-1988 ww2 was 38 years before that and I well remember my parents and certainly my grandparents making the same argument!

@MsAwesomeDragon I have friends my age that are teachers, they started to feel old when they found themselves teaching the children of our peers - they're now teaching the grandchildren and feel VERY old!

Arguments when a sibling taped over your favourite show with theirs!! Looking at you bro constantly taping bloody sport over quantum leap!! Angrygetting blank tapes for Christmas as a stocking filler and the first thing you did with them was put your name on to try and prevent the former (didn't work as little brothers ignore such etiquette - unless you're taping over his tape!)

Soubriquet · 27/06/2020 17:50

No Freddo’s are 15p now

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FlamingoAndJohn · 27/06/2020 18:16

@MikeUniformMike

Never mind remembering when it was Woolworths, I remember when it was C&A.
I still miss Timothy Whites
PolloDePrimavera · 27/06/2020 18:38

I realised DS7 has never watched terrestrial TV and didn't really understand the concept when I explained it.

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 27/06/2020 19:24

@MikeUniformMike

Never mind remembering when it was Woolworths, I remember when it was C&A.
I'm the Woolies poster also remember when it was C&A, I loved C & A.

See also Etam, Mark One, Dolcis, Bay Trading, Miss Selfridge, Athena, Our Price Grin

42andcounting · 27/06/2020 22:28

Oh dear, I still have a Mark One dress in my "hot weather" clothes. It gets packed for every holiday. It must be at least 20 years old. Maybe it's time to upgrade..... Blush

Borris · 27/06/2020 22:35

When a much younger work colleague asked who Linford Christie was.
Me: He won 100m gold at Barcelona olympics. How old were you in 1992, you might not remember?
Her: Erm... I wasn’t born until 1995
Me:Shock

SnugglySnerd · 28/06/2020 06:37

I loved C&A too!

Last night watching Pulp at Glastonbury from 1995 all I could think was that it would be awful being in that big crowd and what if you needed the loo. I went to see Pulp the same year aged 16 and was right at the front on the standing part of the arena, I loved Pulp and would not have missed a second of it to go for a wee and I'd have given my right arm to go to Glasto back then!

MikeUniformMike · 28/06/2020 09:36

Timothy White's. I can remember as a child wondering why my mother called Boot's Timothy White's.

I miss Woolworths - they sold everything.

The town centre is full of empty shops. It's so sad.

When the lockdown was still quite new, it was really good that the few shops that were open were there as you couldn't get things in the supermarkets. I don't normally shop in Iceland but I did when I wanted eggs.

backintimeweekender · 28/06/2020 09:58

I was the mum in a 'back in time' BBC documentary series. We spent a whole summer with our family remembering and using all of the old stuff. Our kids were shocked by the dial up internet, and the stinky phone boxes especially: ' what's this?' Asks Giles , pointing at a phone box. 'Isn't it somewhere people go to wee?' responds my DD Grin. Clearly she was paying attention to my stories of yesteryear.

Re-living it all was amazing and yes it made me feel my age. The one thing that makes me feel my age now though is saying the same anecdotes on repeat, and having no clue whatsoever that I've told them before. Grin

FlamingoAndJohn · 28/06/2020 10:05

Oooh. Which one, @backintimeweekender? (Although your username does hint at it!)

I love those programs but I do feel the women tend to get a rum deal with having to cook with unfamiliar food using unfamiliar equipment.

CrowdedHouseinQuarantine · 28/06/2020 10:13

i was watching Coldplay at Glastonbury,
wondering if I could feasibly manage going, people of all ages do go, I wass invited once, back when I was 22! Why on earth i turned it down i dont know, it was an ex bf

but now! eek. i would be so ill through lack of sleep

CrowdedHouseinQuarantine · 28/06/2020 10:15

@backintimeweekender
love your family, what an amazing experience it must have been, although i must say your sons friend looked a little uncomfortable sometimes, bless him.

2020Rainbow · 28/06/2020 10:21

Watching Dirty Dancing. There is no way I would be happy for my teenage daughter to hang out with a 20something year old dance teacher and his grown up friends.

Younger me absolutely loved Johnny!

ItsLeviooosar · 28/06/2020 10:56

I just bought an extra freezer for the basement and it's amazing. I can batch cook now! Im 29..

Iwalkinmyclothing · 28/06/2020 10:56

I nearly cried at work this week; we were talking about the sorts of events where you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing when you heard the news and I said to my colleague B, "remember when Kurt died?" and she said Kurt who?, and then wondered whether she had been born when it happened.

Mind you, at least I don't go into a flapping panic when the systems go offline and walk around the place saying how it is impossible to do any work like this.

AlCalavicci · 28/06/2020 12:33

@Graphista
exactly this constantly taping bloody sport over quantum leap!! except it was my dad. I had a huge crush on Sam Becket and loved the whole show ( see user name, I had Sam before this one ) and still would not say no to Scott Bakula Blush.

SnugglySnerd · 28/06/2020 13:15

@backintimeweekender

I was the mum in a 'back in time' BBC documentary series. We spent a whole summer with our family remembering and using all of the old stuff. Our kids were shocked by the dial up internet, and the stinky phone boxes especially: ' what's this?' Asks Giles , pointing at a phone box. 'Isn't it somewhere people go to wee?' responds my DD Grin. Clearly she was paying attention to my stories of yesteryear.

Re-living it all was amazing and yes it made me feel my age. The one thing that makes me feel my age now though is saying the same anecdotes on repeat, and having no clue whatsoever that I've told them before. Grin

I love those series! What an amazing thing to do!
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