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?

Youngest son (12) asked me if I was excited when TVs were invented. I'm 38.

@Hufflepuff21

One of my senior pupils came to me at the end of class: "Miss, do you know how to use Facebook?" "Yes!" "Right, can you show me how to send a message? I just set it up to look at this page and I can't work it out. It's so old fashioned!"

Facebook is now old fashioned. 😐

Haha, it's been old fashioned for ages. Only middle aged and older use it!

@Bambooshoot

Tomorrow's World. All that cool, "space-age" shit that seemed soooo unattainable but is just part and parcel of everyday life now.

But...where's my bloody jetpack???!!!!!!

When one of my students called Nirvana 'vintage rock' 😑

Forget 91, people born in 00 are now 21 and officially adults. That's this millenium!

When my teenage children told me they were studying the miners strikes in history - it can't be history if I've lived through it 😂

And when school told smallest that some of her great ancestors might have lived through the war- she's 6, her grandad was born before the war!

My daughter asked me if I was a chimney sweep when I was a child

@camelfleas

When my teenage children told me they were studying the miners strikes in history - it can't be history if I've lived through it 😂

And when school told smallest that some of her great ancestors might have lived through the war- she's 6, her grandad was born before the war!

Do you mean that in her 6 yo eyes, grandad is so old he must have been born before "the war"?

Explaining to my little boy what a phone box is.

It was a phone box for me too.

In an ambulance, got a call to a patient in a phone box. Only, there are 2 phone boxes on that road. We've got the number so I say to our 20 year old student: Can you just hop out and check the number on that phone box.
20: OK. Where do I Look?
Me: it'll be under the receiver.
20: the what?
Me: the receiver.
20: what's a receiver?
Me: the bit you talk in to- the handset.
20: blank look
Me: .... you.... you have been in a phone box before yes?
20: Nope.
Me: well, its like a landline phone. Just look under the handset.
20: blank look.
Me: oh god.
20: umm, yeah I've never used a landlines.
Me to crewmate: put me down like a dog.
Crewmate: I will join you.

I'm only 34 and crewmate 32!

We then explained about phone boxes and phone cards and reversing the charges and hearing your mum sigh on the other end. Blew her mind.

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

Ha Ha, yes, my ds studied her era in his History A-level..... much of the same syllabus as my brother had studied in Government and Politics A-level

Depressingly, I am just seeking quotes to renew my car insurance, and the best buy has come back from SAGA Insurance

I think, a few years ago when we were chatting with an adult we consider to be a friend, and realised he wasn't born until after Live Aid was as pivotal a moment to me as when a colleague of my dh, in his first job, couldn't get his head round the fact that dh wasn't alive when England won the World Cup in 1966 I think you expect your dc to be of a different generation but when it is a colleague or a friend from a hobby, it hits harder.

My 7yo learnt the word calculator in French but didn't really know what one was. "I think it's like a phone but with buttons you actually press."

No school said that only great grandparents or older could have lived during the war but her grandad is 83 @HirplesWithHaggis - having a dad born before the war made me feel old

When one of my little granddaughters told me I had wrinkly skin but my hair was still nice and soft

Not quite from a child, but here goes. I joined a gym when I was 36 so I could get fitter before getting pregnant. The gym instructor said he thought he’d seen me in there a few days before with my daughter. Fair enough, but this is an adult-only gym, so that means ‘she’ would have to have been 18. I was seething inside at the thought I could have had an 18 year old daughter, until I did the maths and realised it would have been perfectly possible. I felt old.

A Gds (5) asked the other day whether there were any cars when I was young. To be fair I am a pretty old hag, though.

What young dds found utterly hilarious, was when I told them that when I was very small, the milkman came with a horse. For ever after it was, ‘Back in the very Olden Days, when you were little…’.

When I was about 28, door to door salesman asking if I have kids.
No, I replied.
Oh, have they left home? He says.
Errrr....No. They just haven't been born yet.

Also I was wishing a colleague a happy 21st birthday, feeling all happy for her until I realised she was born the year I did my GCSEs.

And my (now very much born) kids don't understand that you can't skip the adverts on proper telly. I try to explain that it was always like that until very recently.

Applicants for our PhD programme being born in 2000...

Explaining the pips and the speaking clock on landlines
We must seems really weird to children
I remember when Elvis died, I'm that old

I felt really old watching IAC last night when Matty Lee was practicing how to use the phone in the phone box!

@HairyScaryMonster

My 7yo learnt the word calculator in French but didn't really know what one was. "I think it's like a phone but with buttons you actually press."

They are still very much used these days in secondary schools and universities. Your DC will need a scientific calculator for GCSE maths.

When I realised I’d not been asked “could you be pregnant?” before being xrayed/prescribed drugs during a bout of I’ll health earlier this year.

I mean, it’s unlikely, and I don’t want to be, but could we just pretend, people, please?!

When I buy over 60s concession tickets for attractions, and no-one asks for any ID.

@CooDeGrass

When I realised I’d not been asked “could you be pregnant?” before being xrayed/prescribed drugs during a bout of I’ll health earlier this year.

I mean, it’s unlikely, and I don’t want to be, but could we just pretend, people, please?!

I had similar at a pre op appointment recently before an op - the nurse started to ask me if I could be pregnant and then laughed and said “probably don’t need to ask that”. Cheeky mare.

My daughter was telling me how old the queen was, then announced I was almost as old as the queen! I'm in my 40s!