It's official - im old now

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Ds who has just turned 8 was doing his homework which was a book report type assignment. He asked me "Mum have you heard of Harry Potter? This book is so old it was made in 1997." I was born in 1991 and Im only 30 next month but in my son's eyes I am now older than Harry Potter and this means I am the oldest person alive.

His dad is 35.

Fucking Harry Potter.

When did your kid first make you feel old?

DH turned 36. I realised he has now lived half his life as an adult. (I'm still young at 34 ) When I talk to the new starters at work and realise they were born the year I went to secondary school. I no longer cool!

I work at a University. When I realised students I work with were not even born at the millennium I felt very old.

Also turning 40 made me feel old, I remember my parents being in their 40s so it has always sounded old!

@beeswain

I grew up in the 1970's. When ds was 10 he quite seriously asked if we had indoor toilets!

I grew up in the 70s and we didn't have an indoor toilet.

Ours was outside the back door, only a couple of steps but still outside and bloody freezing. We also used to have those hard old Cresco toilet paper sheets. Like rough tracing paper. My dad eventually build a porch effort connecting the toilet to the house, which at least meant you didn't get wet when it rained crossing the gap, but it was still technically outside.

We had pots upstairs. I forget what you can them now. You know under the bed to pee in, if you needed to in the night!

When I got asked by the office junior what a fax machine is.

' the radio is really cool as you don't need WiFi and you get to discover new songs'

7 year old DS.

Don't worry, when he's 20 and it dawns on him all his mates parents are aged 50-60 and you're 42 you'll feel young again

When one my nurses at Moorfields said she was 2 when I walked in for the first time 22 years ago. Now that did make me feel old. When you realise you’ve loved Duran Durans early stuff for 40 years. The same with favourite songs they’re 40 years old or just under.
When your older than the actor playing James Bond.

Ds was rushed to hospital in an ambulance in the middle of the night. Was all rather traumatic, but it was truly an out of body experience when the dr rushed in after the nurses and looked like a teenager because I found myself demanding a dr who didn’t look like a scared school boy and could answer my questions. In my defence it was his first month as a “real” dr and ds was in a bad way. He took it like a champ.

When chatting with my brother and we mentioned hanging around the local phone box, it was a functioning social centre. Cue niece asking what's a phone box?

Working with people who like above are adults who were VERY young or weren't born on 9/11

Similarly, young adults with no idea of what a big deal Princess Diana's funeral was in the UK and the Absolute Scenes that went on for weeks

I remarked to a colleague in 2008 "If my father was still alive, he'd be 100 today." She nearly fell off her chair!

DD's school did history day and each year group got given a different decade to dress up in a costume from. She got... the 1990s.

I was outraged and sent her in wearing an X-Files Tshirt. She didn't know what it was but it made me feel better.

DD13 saw the Ariana Grande music video "Baby I" (which evokes 1990s Mariah Carey vids) and became intrigued about The Time Before. I reassured her that we DID have tech then -- it was just different. And yes, we managed. If I were suddenly transported back 30 years, I would cope. I quite enjoy being the cool Gen X mum who has awesome vintage know-how.

Did they have cows when you were little?
I would be tempted to say no!

Well they had concrete ones in Milton Keynes in the olden days

My dc studied Thatcher for history A level. That's current affairs to me...

Did you have cars when you were growing up

He didn't stop there

What about Nana in the olden days

My eldest (19) once asked "did you use Facebook when you were my age", I think he was about 12 or so at the time.

I said to him, when I was your age, the bloke that created it wasn't even born!

He responded "god, you are really old then!".

I loved to freak out work colleagues by telling them that my Gran was 6 yrs old when Queen Victoria died.

Don't have kids of my own but I'll never forget trying to comfort a very sad cousin who hadn't been invited to a party, when I picked her up from school.

After some discussion while we got ice cream to make it better she looked at me through tears and said "well it's not like you'd remember what it's like, you're double my age!"

I was 28

I was sorting through a box of 'old' things when my dc came in to have a look.
They were amazed to see cds, dvds, cassette tapes even some 90s childhood toys and books. We spent a good while looking through it all and at the end dc who is 10 declared ' who needs a museum when your mums this old!'
Made me laugh at the time but was a bit cheeky.
I'm early 30s btw.

When I took my then five year old granddaughter to visit my M.I.L and she noticed her old fashioned bt dial telephone and asked me what it was.
After examining it she asked how to swipe it to see photos.
On saying that, my daughter as a little girl asked her dad if he had to go up chimneys to clean them when he was a little boy.

I’m a conveyancing solicitor born in the 70’s. I felt old the first time I had a client born in the 90’s.

My DD (16) calls me "old lady" because I call her my baby (I call all my kids babies including the DS who's over 6 feet tall at 14, I can't break the habit and they don't actually seem to mind as long as I don't say it in front of their friends ) - affectionate revenge

They don't actually seem to think we're "old-old" though, even though we had all the kids through our 30s. I asked DS (11) whether his new maths teacher was the young one with long blond hair or the older one with similar hair and he said "they're both quite young I think, I think she's maybe your age" - or perhaps he just knows which side his bread is buttered

DD (16) seems to have a very arbitrary cut off around 50, between young and old when she's talking about/ describing people I haven't met, so I'll be tipping over the edge in just a very few years...

When my DSS refused to believe that you can call and text someone when he didnt have any data left and I had to explain what a phone is.

Not my children (although they do it on a regular basis) but you. Born in 1991. That makes me feel old as that was when I was doing my A Levels!