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What makes you feel old?
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BeckyBloomwood wrote:I felt old when my partner was going through CVs of potential employees. I had a quick nosey and laughed at one person getting the year they were born wrong. I then noticed there were more and more... then I did the maths. People born in 1990 are actually old enough to work!!!!!
It's when you have T-shirts older than that..."Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
"We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
"Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky." OMD 'Julia's Song'0 -
aurora_borealis wrote:Oh, and I could now grow a Mallen streak.
Hands up who knows what I'm talking about (... you're old).
I'm 39 and I know what a mallen streak is
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Spendaholic_Chick wrote:When the youngsters at work don't remember Dallas, or Duran Duran, or Saturday Superstore!
I agree with that one. Or when I recieve a CV for a vacancy and the date of birth says 1991.:eek:DFW Nerd no 546
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When new employees ask you how long you've been in your job and you realise you've had the same job for longer than these employees have been born!0
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BeckyBloomwood wrote:I also feel old when people in supermarkets say to their kids 'watch that lady'
I was only about 15 when "kids" started calling me "Mister".
Old face..."Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
"We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
"Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky." OMD 'Julia's Song'0 -
People born in 1990 are actually old enough to work!!!!!
and next year they can legally drink!
I feel old when I work on a saturday (work full time in retail) with all the 16-18 year old saturday staff!! and Im only 26!(although they are lovely they say i dont look a day over 21 bless em! think they are just creeping!)
our manager has been in the company for 19 years, half of her staff are younger than that!!!finally debt free and want to keep it that way!!0 -
Yeah tell me about it. I've got a young girl working with me and I look after her as if she were my daughter. In fact she's so young she could well be!0
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i work with a girl who has never seen the goonies, no idea who fleetwood mac are and was born the year i started high school.
BUT i did get asked for ID on friday when buying alcohol in the ikea swedish shop. I'm 27!! :eek: my husband was stood next to me with the baby wetting himself!!0 -
i feel old when i realised 1997 was 10 years ago !!
and a couple of people i work with could be my kids ( i am only 36)
and I could feasibly be a grandfather .0 -
Seeing people who were in my class at school with their grandkids.
I'm 370
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