My hairdressers didn't know a spice girls song...when did you realise you were "old"?

[kingklong]

I'm 39.
She's 21
She said "oh yeah I've heard of them but not sure on songs they sang"

Spent the rest of the two hours feeling like a fossil and mentally singing every song from their first album 😂

Explaining to my 10yo that when I was his age that for me to play a computer game I had to put a cassette (okay google, show me a picture of a cassette tape) in a cassette player (okay google, show me a picture of a cassette player) and then hope it was set to the right volume (no, you couldn't just give it a volume, you'd have to spin a dial to adjust it and it was always getting knocked) and sometimes, sometimes, if the planets would aline - after 15 minutes of flashing and squealing - my zx spectrum would actually load it.

When you go to the doctors, solicitors, see MPs on the tv etc. and think "they're not old enough to do that job, surely?"...
Then you realise they're probably in their 30's, but everyone seems to look like they've just left school.
I'm generally getting quite bad at guessing people's ages when they're a lot younger than me.
That makes me feel old.
Am 51 and my kids think I'm ready for the glue factory ("you've been on earth for over half a century")...

A young person once asked me 'have you ever heard of Twin Peaks, it's a David Lynch TV series from the 90s?'

Work dress up day (teacher) for world book day. I made an apron type thing and wore a long dress to go as Cinderella.
'Ah Lights, you make a lovely Fairy Godmother' said my colleague.
I nearly cried.
I might look like the Fairy Godmother these days but I'll always be Cinderella on the inside!

A work colleague , aged 20, asked where another colleague was ,and my knee jerk response was ' she's gone to see a man about a dog ' so which the 20 year old replied ah , she's getting a dog, what kind of dog?
It was standard response in our house growing up when anyone asked where anyone had gone 😂

My first wedding was twin peaks themed!

I found youtube videos of Daley Thompson'#s Decathlon to show my kids

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When I took my daughter to a vintage clothes fair and it was full of stuff I’d thrown out at some point.

When your previous Brownies bring along their now 7 year old daughters to join my unit…. I must be a fossil 😂. (It is lovely that they have such great memories though and want their daughters to have the same)

And the dodgy 80's haircuts that are re-circulating.
I'm just waiting for crimped mullets to reappear 👀

Chatting to the 19 year old lad at work and I mentioned 9/11 as the anniversary was coming up.

'What's that?' Came the reply.

My jaw hit the floor.

And less morbid, he had never heard of back to the future either.

Someone literally seconds ago has given up his seat on a crowded train for me. I now cant make eye contact with anyone as hes super squashed and im conflicted between being very very grateful and mortified and OLD

The salons round our way are all beautiful and luxurious and staffed by talented pretty young things. And I have NOTHING to talk about with them.

All the older stylists seem to never gone mobile, but I really don't want my hair cut in my own home.

When I saw Kylie at Hyde park this summer, I was surrounded by several younger Kylie fans. All early to mid 20s.

We all sang along together to her recent stuff. I sang alone when she did a request section and Je ne sais pas pourquoi was sung from the stage.

Tbh, you've failed in your parenting duty if your son doesn't know who Kylie is, or any of her songs. I can guarantee my 20 yr old son will be singing the lyrics to her older tracks in his head as he's been surrounded by her music since birth. You need to step up as a mum 🤣🤣🤣

My brother in laws gf didn't know who John Lennon was , and when ' the Beatles ' were mentioned she said well they were way before my time . She was born mid 80s 🤦🏻‍♀️

That's crazy. My eldest is 14 now and although I would never want to burden him with unnecessary morbid history, that was the stand-out, major historical event/tragedy of my youth. I was 14 and its the only event where I have that thing people talk about where I remember exactly where I was and the shock I felt. My son likes to chat about history and that subject came up but it turned out he'd already read about it in a DK history book anyway. How you can get to 19 and not know about it is quite surprising to me.

It's pretty much the same in my big city-centre salon (apart from the owner is a man in his 50s, who only cuts short hair, so doesn't cut mine), but what strikes me is what dull lives the gorgeous young stylists appear to lead. I'm 52 and my plans for the average weekend are always rather more adventurous than theirs. One of them, a ravishingly pretty 25 year old, said to me last time she did my blowdry 'You always have so much going on!' Her boyfriend was going to come over, and watch the football, and they might go for a walk.

I always play 'guess the year' with the DS's when I'm choosing the music. They know it'll usually start with an 198...
Think I'm stuck somewhere in time 😬

😲😲 That’s incredible. I love Twin Peaks (I was only a nipper when it came out originally though).
A colleague of my brothers had never heard of the original transformers, the same guy also asked him if he remembered JFK being assisiated though- this would have been around 2012, and my brother wouldn’t have even been 30!

my Hairdresser was the year above my kids at school.

I went to an open day at sixth form with one of mine and they were talking about studying modern history. WW1 and WW2? Nope, the Troubles in NI, Falkland’s War and 911.

When people who were born after I saw Wham in concert started celebrating their 40th birthdays - and that was a couple of years ago. It just really brought it home to me.

When my German students, early 20s, had never heard of Steffi Graf or Boris Becker. I'm 55.

I recently complimented the barman in a local pub for the great music he'd put on.

He replied 'yeah, it's my Mum and Dad's playlist'.

I felt very old. 😁

• When there were people in my antenatal class who were born in the 2000’s. I still haven’t recovered from that one.
• A few years ago, I saw a poster for a Stephen King film (remake) and it was billed ‘from the writer of IT’. I didn’t understand why they didn’t just use his name, but it turned out that none of my colleagues in their 20’s had ever heard of him. This shocked me to my core!