Things that make you feel old

ZombieNates

I loved how when you read Choose Your Own Adventure, if you hit something you didn't like, you just started over or you would peak ahead to see where you'd end up. Way to prepare us for real life, jerks

I loved the Super BSC books that came out where all the girls randomly went on a cruise or to summer camp together. And how many of you tried to create your own BSC with your friends?

I remember getting too old for the Fear Street books when part of me was like, "All of these things happen on ONE street? How long is this street?"

maratea

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Things that make you feel old : I remember watching "Stand By Me" and "La Bamba" on Betamax. In fact, my first crush was on Gordie (Wil Wheaton) in "Stand By Me". Now that he's all grown up and a certified nerd, I still find him very attractive lol. Our love is everlasting, it has survived nearly 25 years of infatuation.
Posted by mehgank[/QUOTE]
Did we just become best friends??!

I have loved Wil Wheaton for so long. Stand By Me is my favorite movie ever.

baystateapple

Oh man, Sweet Valley.  Those books were horrendous if you look back on them.  I thought both of the twins were pretty awful.  Jess is a sociopathic skank and Liz is so holier-than-thou.  I liked Lila.  She was a biiitch but at least she had a soul, unlike Jess.

jcg98

My 25 year old cousin is proposing to his GF soon. I babysat him and changed his diapers. Yeah, feeling old, party of me. My 15 year COLLEGE reunion is next year.

azdancer8

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[QUOTE]I loved how when you read Choose Your Own Adventure, if you hit something you didn't like, you just started over or you would peak ahead to see where you'd end up. Way to prepare us for real life, jerks I loved the Super BSC books that came out where all the girls randomly went on a cruise or to summer camp together. And how many of you tried to create your own BSC with your friends? I remember getting too old for the Fear Street books when part of me was like, "All of these things happen on ONE street? How long is this street?"
Posted by ZombieNates[/QUOTE]

This. It's like you're in my head!

I felt really old when a girl I babysat graduated from college. And this was like 5 years ago now!

mehgank

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Things that make you feel old : YES!  My mom read my sister and I every single one of the original books (before the ghostwriter ones came out, although I think we read some of those, too).  My sister and I used to pretend we were Violet and Jessie living out in the woods.  Loved those books.
Posted by baystateapple[/QUOTE]

Looking back on it, I read a shiiit-ton of books when I was growing up. I remember reading all of the Anne of Green Gables books, then moved on to the American Girls books, but those aren't as much fun without owning at least one of the American Girls dolls. My favorite was Molly, the one with glasses and bangs with pigtail braids. I liked her school bag and lunchbox, and the fact that her story was set during WWII (IIRC).

dmiller9274

The fact that so many of you were still in school when 9/11 happened.

I had to explain to my almost 13 (yeah that too) year old nephew that when I was growing up, you actually had to get up to change the channel, on a little box, that sat on top of the t.v.

baystateapple

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Things that make you feel old : Looking back on it, I read a shiiit-ton of books when I was growing up. I remember reading all of the Anne of Green Gables books, then moved on to the American Girls books, but those aren't as much fun without owning at least one of the American Girls dolls. My favorite was Molly, the one with glasses and bangs with pigtail braids. I liked her school bag and lunchbox, and the fact that her story was set during WWII (IIRC).
Posted by mehgank[/QUOTE]
We would have been reading buddies as kids.  I read all of these!

I think my favorite stories were Felicity's.  I loved her clothes and the Revolutionary War era.  They were really well-written; I definitely developed my love of history from reading those books.

anna.oskar

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Things that make you feel old : Did we just become best friends??! I have loved Wil Wheaton for so long. Stand By Me is my favorite movie ever.
Posted by maratea[/QUOTE]
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ski2play

Having my kids turn 21 and 20 this year.

knowing what an 8 track tape is when they don't,

knowing what a typewriter is when they don't

mehgank

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Things that make you feel old : Did we just become best friends??! I have loved Wil Wheaton for so long. Stand By Me is my favorite movie ever.
Posted by maratea[/QUOTE]

I think we just did! I can recite every line from that movie. I watch it when I'm sick and want to feel better. I watch it on Sundays when I'm bored (it's the perfect Sunday afternoon movie). They did spot-on casting for the roles, too. I love Corey Feldman as Teddy.

I also loved their campfire discussions. "If I could eat one food for the rest of my life? That's easy - Pez. Cherry flavored Pez". And "Alright, Mickey's a mouse, Donald's a duck, and Pluto's a dog. What's Goofy?"/"He can't be a dog; he wears a hat and drives a car".

midgetthemighty

Talking about my dad's Intellivision that my brother and I played all the time. Burger Time and Tron being two of the best games ever.

The first computer I remember was a DOS with the huge floppy disks and games like Qbert and Digger (I rocked that games world).

ski2play

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[QUOTE]Our first video game was Pong.  That was fun.  (not really)
Posted by jcbsjr[/QUOTE]

But we thought it was fun at the time.  Also, space invaders, and pac man. 

Hey jcb, where are you going on vacation?

eta: never mind, I saw, Seattle.  That should be fun!

baystateapple

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Things that make you feel old : I think we just did! I can recite every line from that movie. I watch it when I'm sick and want to feel better. I watch it on Sundays when I'm bored (it's the perfect Sunday afternoon movie). They did spot-on casting for the roles, too. I love Corey Feldman as Teddy. I<strong> also loved their campfire discussions. "If I could eat one food for the rest of my life? That's easy - Pez. Cherry flavored Pez". And "Alright, Mickey's a mouse, Donald's a duck, and Pluto's a dog. What's Goofy?"/"He can't be a dog; he wears a hat and drives a car".</strong>
Posted by mehgank[/QUOTE]
"I knew the $64,000 question was rigged.  There's no way anyone could know that much about opera."

LesPaul

I was watching the day MTV went on the air.  They had 3 or 4 videos they played in an endless loop

ZombieNates

My kids don't get Stand By Me.  They're always like, "Where are their parents? How did they know how to make a fire? Why couldn't the parents just drive them?"  I have to explain that even when I was a kid, kids just ran out from morning until dinner time and my parents didn't know half the stuff I was up to.

LesPaul

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[QUOTE]Our first video game was Pong.  That was fun.  (not really)
Posted by jcbsjr[/QUOTE]

My BFF had this.  I was SO jealous they had a video game and we didn't.

baystateapple

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[QUOTE]My kids don't get Stand By Me.  They're always like, "Where are their parents? How did they know how to make a fire? Why couldn't the parents just drive them?"  I have to explain that even when I was a kid, kids just ran out from morning until dinner time and my parents didn't know half the stuff I was up to.
Posted by ZombieNates[/QUOTE]
That's why it's one of my dad's favorite movies.  He says it reminds him of when he was a kid and he used to just vanish all day, from right after breakfast until dinnertime, and nobody freaked out or came looking for him.  I didn't have that when I was a kid because we lived about two streets away from a major road, and my dad was terrified we'd wander into traffic or get abducted or something.

LesPaul

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Things that make you feel old : Hiya.  We're headed to Seattle!  Neither of us have ever been so we're super excited. Arcade games:  Centipede, Galga (something like that), <strong>Pac Man, Lady Pac Man, Baby Pac Man, Tron, Donkey Kong.
</strong>Posted by jcbsjr[/QUOTE]

I used to play pinball at the bowling alley.  It was a big deal when they got Asteroids.

Ski - I had one of these!

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AllAboutTheBenjamin

My ten year reunion is this year, but we aren't going.  Kinda bummed about it actually.

I've been out of college SIX DAMN YEARS.

My baby sister also just took her senior pictures and when she posted them on FB I was like... wtf.  YOU ARE A BABY.  Now you're all grown up and absolutely gorgeous.  Feck.

It doesn't make me feel old - just kind of, behind the times - when I go back and harvest for my dad.  I haven't been yet this year but last year I did, and he was showing me all the stuff in the cab of the combine.  Wtf, I thought I had it easy when I was like 12 and 13 running those things (and it was easy back then)?  Nowadays - they literally run themselves.  All you have to do is turn a corner, and then push a button.  The machine does the rest.

Being with Ben makes me feel old sometimes.  We met when we were 12.  My SIL was talking about her oldest daughter getting more interested in boys but how she's only 12 so she's not TOO concerned yet.  I was like... uh... SIL?  Your brother and I started "going out" at that age.  Ya never know. 

ZombieNates

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Things that make you feel old : That's why it's one of my dad's favorite movies.  He says it reminds him of when he was a kid and he used to just vanish all day, from right after breakfast until dinnertime, and nobody freaked out or came looking for him.  I didn't have that when I was a kid because we lived about two streets away from a major road, and my dad was terrified we'd wander into traffic or get abducted or something.
Posted by baystateapple[/QUOTE]
When I was a little kid, we lived right outside of NYC, in a not so great neighborhood with a YMCA down the block. My mom was convinced it was full of pedophiles and kidnappers, so I never got to play outside. Then, when we moved to my hometown, it was all, Be free!

did you guys get afraid of a white van that supposedly drove around abducting kids? Someone heard that a white van was driving around and once we would see one driving through the neighborhood, everyone would run screaming.

mehgank

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[QUOTE]<strong>My kids don't get Stand By Me</strong>.  They're always like, "Where are their parents? How did they know how to make a fire? Why couldn't the parents just drive them?"  I have to explain that even when I was a kid, kids just ran out from morning until dinner time and my parents didn't know half the stuff I was up to.
Posted by ZombieNates[/QUOTE]

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But...but...but... Stand By Me is just so awesome. It's so carefree. "I don't shut up, I grow up. And when I look at you, I throw up. Blaaaahh!". Come on. Kids these days give me the sads.

LesPaul

The damn thing would change tracks in the middle of a song.  Cassettes were such an improvement!

midgetthemighty

When "new" movies come out that are really just remakes of older movies and people not much younger than me have no idea it's a remake.

ski2play

I am jealous Les, I wanted one of them so bad!  And yes, recording stuff of the radio onto cassette tapes was the bomb! 

AllAboutTheBenjamin

When I was a little kid I had my own vinyl records - I had Sesame Street ones, a few with stories on them.  And they were scary ass stories, too.  I think Pandora's Box, there was one about a girl who couldn't speak for 7 years or something because of a curse and was almost burned at the stake.  And I would put all the records on myself and listen to them.  When songs came on I'd just run around the room in circles, lol.  I couldn't have been older than 3 or 4 when I started doing this.

I still get that Sesame Street song in my head - "There Ain't No Road Too Long."  Man, Big Bird was the shiiit.  And considering we had only like four channels, I really loved using my dad's record player.  They still have that thing, too.

ZombieNates

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[QUOTE]My brother or I had a ViewMaster and we thought it was cool that we could "watch shows" even when our parents were watching something else.  <strong>Now I know a lot of kids who would be like "That's what the youtube app on my iphone is for..." </strong>Oh, and people talking about their 10 year reunions coming up make me feel old. As well as still being in school for 9-11.   I feel like I should preface every post from now on with "Back in my day, you young whippersnappers....."
Posted by djhar[/QUOTE]
Or their own televisions in their rooms :P

How old are you, if you don't mind me asking. I always thought you were a year or two younger thna me.

lbarr088

I still have some cassette tapes buried somewhere in my piles of ish.  I remember I used to record songs on the radio and have them on tape.  I was a winner.  

I had Kirsten for an American Girl Doll.  Her head was messed up.  Like, her hair was in shambles when I got her.  It was one gigantoid knot.  We could have sent her back and got a new head but I think the whole thought of doing that freaked me out when I was younger so I sat there and tried so desperately to brush that darned hair.  I loved Molly and Felicity too.  I LOVED the little babies that the AGD company came out with.  I got the little "hispanic" baby.  I loved that doll to pieces.

AllAboutTheBenjamin

I always did that, Duds!  LOL!

And yeah jcb - when I was really little, none of my dad's and grandpa's machinery had cabs.  They were all just blowing in the dust and wind all the time.  And my grandpa would roll all his cigarettes out in the open on those things.  One handed.  Because he was a bad ass.

dmiller9274

I had a carebear record player. My first record that wasn't a kid record was Run DMC. I will still rock shell toe adidas and dance around my house to "It's Tricky." At the ripe old age of 7, I already knew the importance of rap music and break dancing.