"I’m a preschool teacher. It’s been a TRIP to watch parents go from Soooo much older than me, to the same age as me, and now they’re younger than me!?!?"
"Had a co-worker ask me, “Back before cell phones, did you just have to wait around at your house for a call?” Uh, yeah, pretty much."
"In trade school, we were doing introductions, saying a little bit about ourselves. One kid says “yeah, I’m really into classic cars, I have a 1997 something or another. Me, the other couple older folks, and the instructors all made audible groans of horror."
"When i fell down the last couple of steps on a stairway. No one pointed and laughed like I expected, instead they helped me up and asked me if I was okay. That’s when I knew."
"They were complaining how hard and awkward it is to meet women on Tinder. I asked if they ever had to call a girl at home and her Dad answered the phone. They were horrified.Another time one of my guys asked what a payphone was. We worked at a phone company."
"They started calling me “mom” or “Mama bear” on the walkie-talkies. I find it kind of endearing, actually."
"Various colleagues were debating whether the Concorde had been real. They couldn’t fathom that supersonic civilian aircraft used to exist and now they don’t anymore.
The Concorde last flew in 2003, when these colleagues were toddlers."
"We were talking about where we were on 9/11, and my coworker went quiet. He wasn’t even born.
We also had a band that was famous in the 90s stay at the hotel, and he had no idea who they were, meanwhile I was so star struck as they were my entire childhood!"
"I’m in IT. Co-worker needed to borrow a serial cable. The cable was older than the co-worker."
"Had an intern refer to the 90s as ‘the late 1900s’wtf. its true, but it makes my teenage years sound like the oregon trail or something"
• Don't insult other visitors. Offensive comments will be deleted without warning.
• Comments are accepted in English only.
• No swearing words in comments, otherwise such comments will be censored.
• Your nickname and avatar are randomly selected. If you don't post comments for 7 days, they both are reset.
• To choose another avatar, click the ‘Random avatar’ link.
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.