Thing kids say to make you feel old as f***

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Lighthearted thread.. but I can’t get out of my head what one kid said to me a couple weeks ago.

For context I run an after school club and it’s great and their a wonderful bunch.. however during snack one child was inspecting her crisps.. then looked to me and asked “Miss.. did they have crisps back in your day or did you just eat bread and porridge?”

I’m not even 30 yet 🤡

When they say “in the olden days” and are actually referring to the nineties.

A couple of years back I suggested to DS13 that we could watch The Full Monty. I explained that it was set in the city where I and DH had met at university, and that it had been filmed quite soon after we'd graduated. DS asked "Oh, is it in black and white then?"

I teach and one of the kids actually called me a fossil the other week. I couldn’t stop laughing!

Dd aged about 7 was doing the Victorians st primary school and asked me solemnly what it was like in Victorian times! Ffs I was born in 1974!

I referenced Christina Aguilera to my 25 yr old hairdresser and she looked at me blankly.

When my DS was small he asked me if I had electricity when I was a child ...

A friend who is nearly 20 years younger than I had a Dark side of the moon t-shirt on. I was so thrilled. Was that her favourite Pink Floyd song/album? She didn't know who they were ...

The DDs had never heard of Princess Diana.

DD1 was stunned that I could remember the fall of the USSR because she’d been learning about it in history class, and it made me have a flashback to the 90s and my nan being stunned that we were learning about the Vietnam war in history because “it’s hardly history yet, more like current affairs”.

My daughter asked me if I'd ever heard of this really old singer called Britney Spears.

To be fair, I am fairly ancient, but my DDs thought it utterly hilarious when I told them that when I was very little, the milkman came with a horse.

So I used to get. ‘Back in the really olden days, Mum, when you were young…’.

Gds once asked whether cars had been invented when I was young!

Our daughters (11 and 9) often say things along the lines of “….yeah but that’s clearly the opinion of someone born in the 20th century!”

In my 40s and my 5yo is worried I’m going to die soon because ‘every day you look older and older and have more and more wrinkles’.

I mentioned how significant the fall of the Berlin Wall was recently and some millennials sniggered behind their hands like I was so ancient they found it funny they were even working in the same office as me.

I remember telling a couple of the apprentices during a lunch time yap,that Northern soul 45s go for stupid money.
What's a 45?
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My teen DD started talking excitedly about shipping then stomped up the stairs with a lot of eye rolling and God you're so OLD when I checked if we're talking about boats. She actually speaks in a different language since starting secondary school. I feel about a hundred years old.

Yes the shock when young people don't know who Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera or Justin Timberlake are!

It feels like just yesterday that Britney Spears was the most famous women in the world.

Now she is in history...

@ConflictofInterest out of curiosity, what is shipping?

I didn't know what a 45 is when you wrote it. I had to look it up!

I am 41!

When you buy something online and the company sends it to you. How they send it to you is called "shipping".

So online especially in the USA you have to pay for the goods and then also pay for shipping

🤣🤣🤣🤣well that's official I'm a 🦖if someone is 41 and didn't know.👍🤣

A mid 20s relative had no idea who Bono was (she is Irish)

But mostly I just love the fact that the 90s seems to be the equivalent 60s for Gen Zs - they are v envious of my youth 😍

Ok I get that no problem,I thought it may have been some obscure teen reference.
Thanks you 🙏

I got the opposite recently when I visited an octogenarian friend in her nursing home. I think she's octogenarian but she can't remember so I don't know.

Anyway, I was wearing sandals and she looked down and said "OMG look at your beautiful feet!". She then spent ages looking at them they way people look at newborn babies. It was very nice because I am 50 and have extremely ordinary feet.

My DS now 17 was amazed when younger when I talked about getting my first work mobile phone in my 20s - he said my parents were mean not to buy me one and make me wait till I was working

It's what they used to call "postage and packing" and it used to take 28 days.

Now if it takes 28 days it means you've bought something from a dodgy company and you are going to have to contact your bank fraud department.

My parents bought me a mobile phone for when I left home, but it was too big to fit in my handbag so I left it at home when I went out. LOL.