"My childhood cat lived to 21.5 so teaching (freshman biology lab, so students were ~18) became very weird when I realized my cat was older than my students"
"When they say “you look great for your age” like DED"
"Went grocery shopping and I thought, “Hey, they’re playing some pretty good music.”"
"Years ago, before I retired, when I met a new young troop and realized I’d been in the military longer than they had been alive…"
"Younger dude said his first gaming console was the PlayStation 4, first computer ran windows 8, and had no idea what we meant by dial up or rotary phones. Had to stop and reevaluate my age lol."
"When that guy from SmashMouth died."
"When they absolutely love a “new” song and then I tell them it’s a re-make of a song from 25 years ago. They almost always try to tell me I’m wrong, until I pull up the evidence and then it’s shocked Pikachu face lol."
"Our payroll company went under (luckily not with our money), so for that month, we got real live, honest-to-goodness paper checks. Several co-workers didn’t really know what they were or how they could turn them into money."
"I made a Half Baked reference to a bunch of stoner kids and they didn’t get it"
"A coworker and I were talking and they said “say less”I replied “oh… Okay.” And I walked away confused.I had to google what that meant after."
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Our lives did not revolve around our phones as it seems to do today; our lives belonged to us, not someone else demanding our immediate attention.
I'm so old that my answering machine were my parents.
I was in 2nd grade when my parents got their first answering machine, but I didn't know about it and in fact had never even heard of such a thing. I called home from school because I was sick and I thought my dad was answering the phone, but wouldn't talk to me for some reason. It was a bit traumatizing.