something that makes me feel old

[Barbershopman]

I heard something on the radio about a week ago that makes me feel old.

Now I was just about four months old when Apollo 11 landed on the moon, so now I know how those of you old enough to remember that event feel.

This years' incoming high school freshmen will study the events of 9/11 strictly from a history standpoint as about 98% of them were not alive when it happened in 2001.

Barbershopman

 

[Bugman]

I heard something on the radio about a week ago that makes me feel old.

Now I was just about four months old when Apollo 11 landed on the moon, so now I know how those of you old enough to remember that event feel.

This years' incoming high school freshmen will study the events of 9/11 strictly from a history standpoint as about 98% of them were not alive when it happened in 2001.

Barbershopman

I hear you. I was 14 when Apollo 11 landed, and 9/11 seems like it happened yesterday. My parents must have felt the same way about those of us who only learned about Pearl Harbor from books and film.

 

[milagros317]

Welcome to the club of 20th century fossils, Barbershopman.

 

[BlasterMaster]

Something that makes me feel old eh? Okay! The movie Happy Gilmore came out about twenty years ago yet I can clearly remember seeing it with my sister that one day in the theater.

 

[chicago]

I was 14 when 9/11 happened. It was my third week of freshman year and I was in my Computer Graphics class. We just watched CNN the whole time. We watched live as the 2nd tower was hit, but I really couldn't wrap my head around it at the time. My mom took me and my sisters out of school later that day.

 

[Aeveirra]

WOW. That's so surreal.... It still seems like it happened fairly recently. i was 8 years old at the time, I remember watching it on the news. I'm only 23 now, but I remember it clearly.


But yeah, the fact that there are teenagers applying for their learners permit now, who were born in the 2000s,
Makes me feel pretty old. :/
Imma 90s kid

 

[paracarl44]

I was in the USAF when Apollo 11 landed on the moon.

 

[milagros317]

I was 11 years old when John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth. Now almost nobody has heard of him, except as a late 20th century Senator from Ohio.

 

[paracarl44]

I was 14 when 9/11 happened. It was my third week of freshman year and I was in my Computer Graphics class. We just watched CNN the whole time. We watched live as the 2nd tower was hit, but I really couldn't wrap my head around it at the time. My mom took me and my sisters out of school later that day.

^Maybe your mother was worried about your city coming under attack.^

 

[chicago]

^Maybe your mother was worried about your city coming under attack.^

We had moved to the suburbs then and the town was relatively small but very near Chicago. I know she was pretty scared and just wanted us all together.

 

[ISUmark]

AMC. When I was a kid AMC was pretty much a skipover when channel surfing. Always black and white movies. Now its movies I remember coming out and its creepy. Also listening to the 80's station on satellite radio and realizing it was 30 years ago.

 

[Barbershopman]

Welcome to the club of 20th century fossils, Barbershopman.

I wouldn't call myself a fossil just yet, Milagros. I'm still on the young side of 50 by a few years!

Barbershopman

 

[milagros317]

I wouldn't call myself a fossil just yet, Milagros. I'm still on the young side of 50 by a few years!

Barbershopman

Look forward to this: Within a week of your 50th birthday, you will receive an invitation to join AARP.
http://www.aarp.org/