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Post by cakemonkey on Mar 16, 2016 4:34:06 GMT -5
... You're at work and a 20-something asked you to sign something. You see it's a carbon copy pad and ask for the card to rest under the sheets so not to sign all copies. In return you get a blank stare.
She had no idea what a carbon copy pad was and had completed the form without adding the card under. She looked really confused.
Please share your stories so I don't feel so old.
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Post by brodiebruce on Mar 16, 2016 5:24:10 GMT -5
You jokingly say to your 17 year old apprentice "So, this is a fax machine and this is how you send a fax" (it was the NHS......) and they reply "I wondered how these worked. I've never seen one before".
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Post by kingcnut on Mar 16, 2016 5:46:43 GMT -5
Seven of the eight jobs you've had over your career no longer exist, and nor do the companies you did them for.
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Post by tortuga on Mar 16, 2016 5:49:33 GMT -5
Heh, my colleague saw my Kindle last week and asked me what it was!
It's one of those older Kindles, with buttons, no touch screen, black and white, not the modern flashy ones that look like a tablet.
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Post by treehugger on Mar 16, 2016 5:57:07 GMT -5
You're discussing moments you'll never forget, mention when the Berlin wall came down and everyone else in the room stares at you blankly. You suddenly realise that you're teaching university students that were born after you graduated.
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Post by libbyh on Mar 16, 2016 6:05:13 GMT -5
You're watching a TV quiz show and a 20-year-old doesn't know some blindingly obvious answer. 'But EVERYONE knows that' you scream at the TV. Nope, not if they're 20 they don't. (Trying to think of a specific example, but my mind's gone blank, maybe because I'm not 20 any more.)
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 16, 2016 7:12:54 GMT -5
You still have carbon forms! Wow.
Realizing that Nirvana, a band you still think of as "new," was popular before some of your colleagues were born.
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Post by wombatrois on Mar 16, 2016 7:43:30 GMT -5
You ask for half a dozen slices of something at the deli section of the supermarket and have to repeat yourself (and say 6).
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Post by Q-pee on Mar 16, 2016 8:12:12 GMT -5
You take cake to a group meeting and one of the young guys at the meeting says "can you be my mum for like one day a week?"
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Post by brodiebruce on Mar 16, 2016 8:26:03 GMT -5
You're stopping off on the way to a meeting to sort an issue with a pc and the person having problems laughs at us running XP (to be fair, that makes me cry) and says I don't remember anything before Vista and then comments she was born in 1994.
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 16, 2016 8:27:10 GMT -5
Realizing that you are now about the same age your grandparents were when you were a kid....
When your young colleague finds a floppy in some ancient file folder and seeing that it has YOUR handwriting on it....
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Post by kraken on Mar 16, 2016 8:33:16 GMT -5
You need to explain who U2 are to otherwise fairly well rounded 21 year olds when talking about music. And they genuinely have no clue, eventually saying something like 'oh I think my parents might have one of their cds...'
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 16, 2016 8:35:29 GMT -5
You just have to tell them that U2 is that dinosaur band that put out that album that everybody was trying to figure out how to get off of their iPhone.
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Post by kraken on Mar 16, 2016 8:37:27 GMT -5
You're stopping off on the way to a meeting to sort an issue with a pc and the person having problems laughs at us running XP (to be fair, that makes me cry) and says I don't remember anything before Vista and then comments she was born in 1994. I'm currently interviewing candidates in their early 20s for a it-ish role and most of them have only used 7 and above on their own machines --understandable when you do the maths and realise they would've been in their early teens if that when it came out. Meanwhile, I had 3.11 on my first computer. |
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Post by Q-pee on Mar 16, 2016 8:49:26 GMT -5
Realizing that you are now about the same age your grandparents were when you were a kid.... Realising you're the same age your grandmother was when she died... |
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Post by snowwhite on Mar 16, 2016 9:10:24 GMT -5
You're discussing moments you'll never forget, mention when the Berlin wall came down and everyone else in the room stares at you blankly. You suddenly realise that you're teaching university students that were born after you graduated. I still can't get my head around the idea that there are adults who don't remember the first time Prince Charles got married... and I'm married to someone who wasn't born until about a year later! Next someone will be telling me there are grown-ups who were born after Diana died. Or after Tony Blair got elected in 1997. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2016 9:23:09 GMT -5
1. When I ask bf if he likes a certain song and he hasn't heard of it... then realising he was 3 at the time  2. When I'm out with friends (who happen to be 23) and they are talking about how old they are and that they need to start settling down. |
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Post by brodiebruce on Mar 16, 2016 9:34:58 GMT -5
Ha.
There was that incident where I amazingly pulled in a pub , met her for a drink the following weekend and was then told by a mutual friend that I was old enough to be her dad.
Didn't see her purposely after that. Weirdly according to one of my cryptic Facebook updates it's a year since I saw her in a pub. Took me a second or two to place the face......
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Post by treehugger on Mar 16, 2016 9:38:59 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2016 9:43:17 GMT -5
Ha. There was that incident where I amazingly pulled in a pub , met her for a drink the following weekend and was then told by a mutual friend that I was old enough to be her dad. Didn't see her purposely after that. Weirdly according to one of my cryptic Facebook updates it's a year since I saw her in a pub. Took me a second or two to place the face...... Hahaha  I remember the first time I saw a group of people at a nightclub and couldn't work out where i knew them from... turns out I taught them in Year 2... yup no more clubbing after that! |
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Post by brodiebruce on Mar 16, 2016 9:45:02 GMT -5
A mate wants to go clubbing over Easter (I think you can guess which one).
I'm not sure I want to. The last time we did that I had some young 'un grinding up and down against me and apparently I just had a look of completely horror on my face.
I'm getting old......
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2016 9:47:06 GMT -5
Hahahaha OMG i can imagine the look on your face! Mind you there is not much chance of that mate growing up.. he's like an eternal teenager! It'll keep you young |
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Post by Webs on Mar 16, 2016 10:14:05 GMT -5
You are listening to get nostalgic for the music of their childhood and they whistfully talk about "Bye, Bye, Bye".
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Post by Q-pee on Mar 16, 2016 10:41:16 GMT -5
A mate wants to go clubbing over Easter (I think you can guess which one). I'm not sure I want to. The last time we did that I had some young 'un grinding up and down against me and apparently I just had a look of completely horror on my face. I'm getting old...... At lunch on Sunday friend suggested we go clubbing sometime adding "I haven't been out dancing in ages" I had to tell her that (a) the cool kids don't call it dancing and (b) the party starts an hour after she normally falls asleep. |
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Post by Webs on Mar 16, 2016 11:27:39 GMT -5
When I was young someone told me that the party didn't start until 10. Then it moved to 11. Then midnight. And as I've gotten older it seems that the party starts later and later. I figure at some point the party will start a new, reasonable hour, like 8am and I can eventually join in at a fashionably late 10am, after a proper sleep, shower and breakfast.
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Post by shilgia on Mar 16, 2016 11:38:02 GMT -5
I'd be all in favor of 8 am clubbing.  |
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 16, 2016 11:44:43 GMT -5
I'm up for the 8 a.m. clubbing idea too. I'd also like live music to start at 7:00 or 7:30 p.m. at the latest, thanks.
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Post by Phoenix on Mar 16, 2016 11:58:04 GMT -5
When you talk about registering for university courses in person because telephone registration didn't start until the following semester.
When you're with a group talking about favorite childhood TV shows and they've never heard of Mr. Rogers.
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Post by tigress on Mar 16, 2016 12:15:39 GMT -5
You know you're old when you reminisce about the year you started working in a kindergarten, and one of your coworkers says "I graduated from kindergarten that year.".
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Post by Webs on Mar 16, 2016 12:30:17 GMT -5
I'm up for the 8 a.m. clubbing idea too. I'd also like live music to start at 7:00 or 7:30 p.m. at the latest, thanks. If I go to a concert, I'd like the main act to take the stage by 8pm. I don't care if you have 4 preview acts, main act mounts the stage and gets started by 8am. Also, it would be good if these things didn't cost hundreds of dollars. |
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