Mine was seeing a really nice cutlery set and thinking “thats a really nice fork”. Also the first time someone made an age joke about me was very tragic.
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Every time I think back to something that happened “recently” only to realize it was 10+ years ago.
I do that sometimes and im in my early 20s if it makes you feel any better. My sense of time was broken from covid though.
When I ran into a kid I had babysat as a teenager, and the dude was all mustachioed and bearded. Kid was a toddler when I sat for him the first time.
I run into him like that at my old high school. Dude was teaching there.
At one point I substitute taught high school and a kid I babysat was in the class.
I was buying beer at one of those places where the cashier had to input your birthdate into the register. The cashier said “Oops, I put a 9 instead of an 8”, and then handed me my beer. Suddenly realizing I could drink legally for over a decade made me feel old.
Edit: Now I’m realizing that this story is more than a decade old…
I finally stopped getting carded a few years ago (I’m 45). Now cashiers will just enter a random date… one person chose to put my birthdate as 1962.
If it makes you feel better, some stores have a policy not to ID people over 65, so cashiers just put people’s age as 65 when they don’t want to bother to card someone.
In my 30s I lived in China as an English teacher. Walking through the school to my apartment I passed two 10 year olds playing who stood up as I approached and bowed, saying “Hello grandfather”.
Just a couple of weeks ago a co-worker in his 20s said I have “dad vibes”. I am a dad, but still! 😡
Random kid greeted me like I used to greet old people.
You used to have a special greeting for old people?
Formal/informal. Most languages have that kind of separation. In English it would be something like the difference between “Hello” and “Sup fuckface”.
the difference between “Hello” and “Sup fuckface”
TIL I greet everyone as though they are old.
“Please, mister fuckface is my father. You can just call me fuckface.”
And such a polite youngster you are for doing so!
Literally yesterday. On a beach and see this guy watch his dog take a dump and then walk away. I’m not having that. So… ask if he needs a poop bag and he gets up in my face waving his own poop bag asking if “I know what this is for?” I replied “obviously not for picking up your dog’s poop in a timely manner” and things devolved from there ultimately ending with him yelling at me to “Shut the fuck up and mind my own business old man.” I picked the poop he was responsible for and today my back hurts a bit.
When I called my cousin to wish her happy 18th bday and I remembered she used to fall asleep on my belly as a toddler.
The day I realized how dangerous showering in a tub is if you were to slip and fall.
It’s the difference between falling and having a fall…
Wanting the kink party to be done by ten so I could be asleep by 11. On New Year’s.
The first time the Playboy Playmate of the Month was younger than me was kind of a weird moment.
Somebody told me they wished they were born earlier so they could have been an emo kid.
Wasn’t emo only a couple of years ago? 😳😳😳
The peak of popularity was the early to mid 2000s, so 15-20 years ago.
Original emo was in the 80s , got popular in 00s , but there’s been revival of it along with adjacent subcultures for awhile now
My boss joked that when you pass a certain age it’s not your left and right knee, but the bad one and the not so bad one.
And I realized, damn it, he’s right.
One of my most loved punk song since my late teens/early twenties just got a 20th anniversary re-recording.
I first noticed my body was aging when I jumped off a dock to go run forward and see if I could see the truck. It was something I often did. Not unusual at all. One day I did it and after landing I just stopped. Because I really felt it. It was no longer a nothing thing I would do casually. It was followed by many. Many more bodily awakenings.
I heard Linkin Park on local classic rock radio station…
