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 🤡

That people born in 2007 have turned 18 this year! 2007 was only like 3 years ago max wasn’t it 😂😂 😭😭

One of the 30 year olds at work put a sign up in the office saying
“we’re closer to 2074 than we are to 1974”
that makes me feel old

My dd waited until the silence between wedding speeches to turn to my MIL and ask "Grandma, do you remember the Great Fire of London?"

We hadn't even briefed her. 🤣

I don’t consider myself old but clearly am. When I started a new job and asked where the compliment slips were, not a single person had a clue what I was talking about.

One of the women I work with didn’t know who sang Eleanor Rigby. I told her it was the Beatles. Her reply… oh yeah, I don’t know anything they sing.

I remember a visit to the science museum in London with my then late teen/young adult children.

We saw displays of phones through the ages, right from the very earliest contraptions up to modern mobile phones. It also included the old bakelite phones with circular dials that used to be either wall mounted or would sit on a side table in the hall/living room. My DDs looked at DH and I as though we had just sprouted three heads each when we both told them that we used to have those at home when we were growing up. Ditto when we said that we remembered seeing people with the original mobile phones, which were a large brick shaped thing with a great long aerial that was extended and a wire to a separate power pack that took up a whole briefcase sized container to carry it around.

It did really bring home to us the staggering pace of technology in our lifetimes. I suspect the DDs thought we were walking, talking pieces of history. God knows what they make of my 90 year old mother. She was a child during the Second World War and to them that must seem like another world. Positively prehistoric as my mother jokes.

Why thank you,I'm 59 and felt old when someone 41 had to look it up let alone the 20 something apprentice's.👍

In the car "I love this old music Mum". It was Tiesto!

Check out this Northern soul record by NF Porter.
Keep on keeping on.😁
Your username caught my eye.👍

My youngest DS (24) plays for a football team, they have a new player with the same Christian name (let’s say Bobby) so “young Bobby” making my son “old Bobby” 😭

My dd did a History Degree and was always sending pics from lectures where they covered things that happened within my lifetime, some where i was an actual adult, e.g. fall of the Berlin Wall. Most disconcerting.

My DS at the age of 7, 4 years ago: "Mum, did you take part in WW1 or WW2?"
My elder boys were born in the late 90s, and younger boys in 2006 and 2014. The youngest tells me and his older brother: "But what can you know about it? You were born in the last millennium!"
Even our 19 year old said to.me and my husband a couple of years ago: "you are so old and.. and ..and ancient!"
We started laughing and he took offence!

My dds then boyfriend mentioned he loved 'vintage music'

He was on about take that

Yes this was also my thought about what the teenager meant by shipping!

When DD was about 6 I remember playing her some Spice Girls and explaining that they’d been a big group when I was younger, and Dd looked wistful and said “the sad thing is that now they must all be dead” 😭

My youngest straight up asked me if I was on the Titanic.

My eldest told me I was used to wearing trousers that weren't "soft" because when I was his age they were probably made out of wood.
No idea from what time period he thought people used to whittle their own trousers, but it didn't sound like he thought it was a recent thing...

Well thats always going to happen though isnt it.

Anything of note that happened in the past is taught in history.

The fall of the Berlin wall was taught to me in school and Im not young!

I love the idea of wooden trousers! 😂
I teach teens and when we do work on the computers and I say 'click on the disk to save your work ' I often see them looking totally lost! I showed them an old VHS cassette once and they were fascinated!

Oh this has tickled me 😂😂😂

DD11 and DS7 love watching Come Outside together. The other day DD said she still enjoys watching it because "I like seeing what it was like in the olden days" aka the 90s...

DS had a test at school and they separated the desks into individual ones. I said oh, like the Victorians? He nodded, paused and then asked if that's what DH and I had when we went to school. We're 36!

"No, she didn't say Ipad, she said ipod, because she's so old she had one!"

Just today, discussing Patrick Swayze and Dirty Dancing with my 22yr old son and his 19yr old girlfriend. They’d never heard of Patrick OR DD - I said one of the best movies of the 80’s to which my sons gf replied oh I don’t watch old films like that! 😳🫣😳
Old???? DD is not old 😂😂😂😂😂

We listen to a local radio station in the car whose tagline is “Retro 80’s, 90’s and more!”.

Its mostly classic rock - think Queen, AC/DC, Bon Jovi etc - all the greats!

Then the other day on the way to school pick up, I hear the intro to Nickleback’s “How You Remind Me” 🫠🫠🫣🫣🫣

Thats now classed as “retro” music?!! 😳🤯

Cat burns on celebrity traitors didnt know who Helen Mirren or Judi Dench were.

5yo DS proudly told me that he knew pictures (photographs) used to be on paper in the ‘olden days’.

3 years behind you aged 33! We had laptops about year 4 in primary school and white boards
Definitely the 'victorian' era!