Getting old?

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    Alright this isn’t about chastity, but made me laugh this weekend.

    We had a few people over, nothing formal, drinks on the patio, music, and a little fire. One couple was young and when a certain song came on, I listened and said “awe shit, I thought it was the original”.

    The young lady said “it is, it’s like super old”. The song was the sound of silence. I said there is no way this is Simon and Garfunkel. She said “who is that?!”. Oh my, where do I get a walker with fuzzy tennis balls?! Do they hand em out or do I have to apply to get mine?

    She was probably right that the song she knew was old to her, probably 10 years which would put her at 11. I had the same type of feeling when I was listening to “classic rock” and it was Alice In Chains...grunge metal can’t be classic rock yet!

    Anyway that’s my feeling old story, anybody else have an experience that earns you a walker application?
     
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    I love me some Simon & Garfunkel. I've always been a bit of an old soul for music. 40s & 50s blues guys, 60s and 70s rock. I will say though, Disturbed does an excellent Sound of Silence cover. And I think Disturbed might still be considered "old" by standards to today, where anything that wasn't created two hours ago is "old".

    My "getting old" stories seem mostly to have to do with tee shirts. I tend to hang on to them for a LONG time. I have some old cutoffs that I use around the lawn or working on cars. I had one on not too long ago and my boss's daughter was around. She commented on it and it occurred to me that at 15 years old, she was younger than my tee shirt...
     
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    My niece and nephew had no idea who Garth Brooks was. So for sure Waylon Jennings and Johnny Paycheck are out of the question. Hell they had never watched or even heard of the Goonies!!
     
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    Not music related, but I've been running a workshop today and been standing most of the time. My back is now aching like hell... I never used to be like that...
     
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    love the distrubed version of that song. My favorite getting old moment was when I was telling my 13yr old son about how we had a 19" tube tv on a stand and had only 3 channels. He says yeah but you still had your phone. I said nah the phone was attached to the wall with a chord. He just looked at me dumbfounded as to what that was lol.
     
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    WOW you had a 19" tv. The first one that I remember was a small black and white but I think we got 4 channels and the only remote control was one of us kids getting up to change the channel.
    No privacy on the phone because it only had a 6' cord on it. Try to explain what a party line was and most young people just can't believe there was ever something like that.
     
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    A colleague played a Beatles classic and a young colleague said, "Oh, I've heard that, who's it by?" The Beatles unrecognized!! That's when I knew I was old.
     
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    I had one to do with the tv as well.

    The show told us not to “turn that dial” , my son asked what a dial was. Then it hit me that all that he has seen were buttons on remote controls.
     
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    I thought I was old 30 years ago when someone asked me if I knew Paul McCartney had been in a band before Wings.

    Now I’m afraid it would be “Paul who? And you say he was in that old TV show Wings??”
     
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    yeah we had a party line too for a while lol.
     
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    that t shirt is new.hell I have one that I got in 1971 at a motorcycle rally
     
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    we still has a phone thats got a cord but its not on the wall its on a table. i got a mobile but there no money in it and Mistress says i dont need it.
     
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    Nowadays I feel my age when I am watching the younger ones type in the office. I am a touch typist having learned on a manual machine at school, I don't think any of them have seen a manual typewriter, never mind be a touch typist.
     
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    there was something on the BBC a while back about old cassettes. Giving them to young people and asking to figure out how to play them. They were trying to play them in their cases, among other ingenious techniques.

    Another one for me, as a former librarian, is when people start talking of Lord of the Rings as a film, apparently unaware it was once a book.
     
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    I had a funny conversation with my daughter the other day about crank calling. I had to explain that people didn't know who was calling them, because she thought we would be caught so easily when the number showed up on the screen.
     
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    Ugh and I thought this was the original!


     
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    Listening to the oldies station on the radio and your wedding song starts to play.
     
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    I remeber us first getting our party line we kids were not allowed to answer the phone it case it was work... we had a black and white telly with 2 channels. I was around 14 ish when we got our first colour TV. even the black and white stuff looked better because our old tv was 405 lines and the new one was 625. I can even remember that a lot of coulor tv looked wrong. damaged grass where was brown could look purple.

    I was to young to know or care who JFK was but it was all over the radio when he got shot.
     
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    Glad I’m not the only one to start feeling a bit old, it’s all relative I suppose. I am no where near being close to being around when jfk was shot, but I do remember crying when I heard about John Lennon over the radio. I kept on thinking “how could anyone hurt the person that wrote IMAGINE?”

    As far as tv, telephones, etc...it seems every generation has their “walk to school uphill both ways” stories. My great grandmother gave me a card once that had an old model t on it, on the inside she wrote, when I was your age we didn’t have cars yet. I guess I will hold off on my walker application for the time being, maybe just order the fuzzy tennis balls so I’m ready.
     
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    I was talking to a young woman (24 yo) in my office last month and she had never heard of Johnny Cash. I immediately sent her the YouTube (see, I'm hip too!) of Folsom Prison Blues and I Walk the Line.
     
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