When I had to google the definition of "YOLO" last summer.
Or when I have to google song lyrics and figure out the new pop stars of the day.
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I was telling someone about dial-up internet.
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This totally goes with the snap chatting. I don't get it and everyone about 10-15 years younger than me uses it.
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@mrsjyw: omg I had to do that too! Haha! I also had to look up what twerking was.
When I realized that songs I like are from the 90s and early 2000s and that some of those songs are 20 years old!
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When my students use slang and I have to ask them to define it in real people words.
Me: ...Yeah, but, what does it mean??? I don't understand...Can you explain it in real words? -
@Applesandbananas: hahahahaha!
Whenever I'm at the store and see the updated year of when you had to be born to buy cigarettes/liquor
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Oh yes, I don't know any of the songs they sing on the voice anymore...
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When my niece told me a few weeks ago that Iggy Azalea is Caucasian. I hear "fancy" from time to time on the radio but never knew what she looked like or cared enough to google it. Hahaha. The niece was like " Oh she is the female version of Eminem."
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When I talk to my grade 9 students about something in my past and they say things like, "Oh yeah, my mom talks about that, too!"
What? YOUR MOM???
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When you all post about things on this thread and I think, "What the hell are they all talking about?"
Oh, and "what year were your born in" threads.
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One of the kids I teach at Sunday school really wanted a FB page. She told her mom, "I bet Tchr Yeprpie's mom let her have a FB page at my age (she's 12)." Her mom told her to ask me. I said, "Sorry to break this to you, but FB was created when I was a...junior in college." Oh the look on her face....and wow, did I feel old. Haha.
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@Rubies: a lot of my students from my first year teaching have more kids than I do!
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@yerpie110: agh! I feel really old now.
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@sandy: ugh yes, this too. I remember taking a picture of the sign on my birthday, many moons ago
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I was talking with some students about how I met Al Gore once. They had not a clue who that was.
Also, the girl next door who I used to babysit as an infant is starting college in the fall. Crazy.
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I feel old when I realize 1999 wasn't in the last decade.
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My 18 year old cousin just graduated from high school and they sang the Kelly Clarkson song "Breakaway." They thought it was old and had never heard it.
I made a Seinfeld reference to some girls I worked with at the job I just left. They've never seen Seinfeld. I don't know if this makes me old or if it makes them uncultured.
I can't recognize 70% of the people they talk about on E! News.
I realized there are no radio stations that cater to my taste in music. This evening I told my husband that I figured out why "oldies" are a thing. Everyone just wants to listen to the music from when they were young. Thank god for Pandora.
I went to Subway over the winter a few years ago and the kid at the counter asked me if I was that girl who used to lifeguard at the pool "a really long time ago." (This made me feel both good and bad. Props to that kid for recognizing me in my huge winter coat approximately 6 years later.)
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@Kimberlybee: WHUT.
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When kids I used to babysit graduate college/get married/give birth
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When I went shopping with my younger sister, and asked her why the store sold kids' tshirts.
They were crop tops.
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I just did a background check on an intern. He was born in 1994.
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The girl who babysits my son went to Cabo for spring break and I said "I went to Cabo for spring break ... 15 years ago."
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@Mrs. Jump Rope: lol, YES. I still feel like 1999 just happened!
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This was a couple of years back, but I was teaching and offhandedly said something along the lines of "You remember when the Berlin Wall came down and..." and then realized that none of them had even been born when the Berlin Wall came down.
When I started teaching, my students were definitely old enough to remember.
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Last week I felt old when I was in bed at 8pm on Saturday night watching a movie and my friends were getting ready to go drinking and then go clubbing later. I was asleep by 9.30
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@jessibear: haha in my area they recently started a new radio station that specializes in 'throwbacks' and it's all R&B and hip hop from the 1990s and early 2000s. I of course love it, but my little cousin was like, 'oh that's like an oldies station, they don't play any good songs'.
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@mrsjyw: when talking to college-aged kids about Dawson Creek, and they had no idea what I was talking about!!! One girl even said "I've heard of her" (Katie Holmes) omigosh!!
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I told one of my kids to roll down the window on a hot day in my old 91 beater. He looked at the window and was like "..... but how? Where's the button?"
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I was telling my younger brother about a song by Deadmau5 that I liked, except that I pronounced it, "dead-maw-five." He's like, "Um, it's pronounced 'dead mouse.'" Really???
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@Kimberlybee: another bee asked me if I knew the song 'fancy' and I was like 'hell yeah! I love Reba!' Wah-wah....
I run background checks and I'm like 'are these kids old enough to have a job?!' Then I realize they're 20, married, and have a kid.
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@coacheswife123: bahaha I didn't see your post at first
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@Aria: my mom is babysitting the CHILD of a girl I babysat in high school....waaaaah!!!
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@Kimberlybee: I don't even know who that is!
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@babyjmama: Reba!!! Lol!!
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This thread makes me feel old.
My husband makes me feel old
He can't rent a car or buy a timeshare without me (not that we do/have but if he wanted to...he can't!) My students made me feel old when they would say things like "that's so beast" or "fire"
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I was watching a YouTube clip where Ricky Gervais made a gerbil joke about Richard Gere.
I looked at the comments, and someone said, "I think most people are probably too young to get the Richard Gere gerbil reference." I felt pretty old.
Then someone posted, who is Richard Gere?
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When I see signs at the grocery store checkout that say, "you need to be born in 1993 or later to purchase alcohol"..... Whatttt?
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@mrbee: I do not know the Richard Geere gerbil reference!
I do not think I have ever had an "I feel old" moment.
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Hahaha when I posted a question asking 'which Breakfast Club character would you be' in a thread and hardly anyone knew what I was talking about.
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I'm currently working with a teacher that tells me it's his first year of teaching and ours is his first class ever. He acts like a younger brother, which is weird because we work together! I'm starting to think he may be one of my old students. I know of another previous student that IS a teacher now, so it might very well be the case. Damn, I. am. old.
He can't rent a car or buy a timeshare without me (not that we do/have but if he wanted to...he can't!) 
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