Crossed the generational divide....

[blacktmmm]

I thought of something that might be fun......it might really show our age, too! :D

Finish the following statement:

I knew I had crossed the generational divide when.....

(I'll start.)

...I told my daughter that the game she was playing looked just like a modern version of Pacman.....and she asked...."What's Pacman??" What a forehead slapping moment! :D

[lilibetd]

my 5-year-old granddaughter said we needed to start the car to roll up the windows

[JenFoot]

...when I realized that I now reminisce about stuff I did 20 years ago - the way my parents do!!

[sweetscraps]

when some youngun at a fast food establishment gives me the senor discount. :eek: :-X

[livingoutloud]

When my daughter was shocked to hear that "I'm A Believer" was first recorded by the Monkees, not whoever it is that sings it on Radio Disney :-)

[Sillykitty]

when some kid asked me - Who's Paul McCartney? :eek:

[sharpli]

When I explained to my 11 your old grandson that I had watched my first TV programs when I was about his current ago. And they were in black and white.

[sweetscraps]

When you go to the Dr and you wonder if he/she is old enough to drive.

[scrappinmimi123]

When my son found out we didn't have tv when i waqs small and when we did it was black and white

[blacktmmm]

when I was putting a band-aid on my little one and started singing.."I am stuck on band-aid..." and she thought I made up the song right then!

[sgewatson]

When I told a group of teenagers (I was 20) that we didn't have VCRs when I was there age. I was so embarrased!

[dreamerpaula]

This one isn't funny - but it is true for me....

When you are no longer just a mother - but also a mother-in-law!

[nanasharp]

when my young grandaughter asked if we had lights, when i was little.

[happyluckyme]

Whenever I have to tell my daughter not to do anything!!! When did I become a mom?!

[delisyus]

when i scold my nephew for drinking soda and eating salty potato chips... :D

[AMBERL25]

My Mom Always Told Me That If You Hung Onto Your Clothes Long Enough They Would Come Back Into Style. Oh My Gosh. Bell Bottoms, Hip Huggers, Daisy Dukes

[woogiebop]

When I recall that my first computer had a 20 MB hard drive I didn't think I would ever fill, and it cost more than my 100GB laptop I now have.

[KJ31]

When someone on Big Brother talked about the 80s as if it was decades ago - oh yeah - it was!

[larkd]

When an E ticket was no longer a great ride at Disneyland.

[maryellen]

When I think back to my first computer and recall that it did not even have a hard drive but ran from 5 3/4 inch floppies

[loki2828]

when my son and i went to a yardsale and they had an old atari with all the cool games with it that we played when we where his age and he asked me where you put the cds!! lol

[juliemarie]

when I had to explain to my teenager that we had corded phones when I was her age, and I was "lucky" enough to have one in my room.

[int0x8n]

when I shared with my younger friends that back in my very youngER days we didn't have CDs/Players/ETC...that we had cassettes or even 8-tracks, well my mother had the 8 tracks but good golly do I remember those...I'm STILL young *ahem* LOL

[kristmess]

loki2828 : when my son and i went to a yardsale and they had an old atari with all the cool games with it that we played when we where his age and he asked me where you put the cds!! lol ....

.... when you HAVE the yardsale and still have the atari with all the cool games at the end of the day and wonder why no one wanted to buy it!!!!!

[Digital Dolly]

... when your co-workers complain about getting old and you're old enough to be their mother !

[Che4Grafx]

I knew I had crossed the generational divide when.....

...watching the Yoplait commercial that uses the song, "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka-dot Bikini," I continued singing the song after the commercial was over and 2 of my daughters (19 & 24 years old!) thought I made it up on the fly! They had NO IDEA that it was a real song lol.

An added note: They always told me, when they were younger, that they didn't like "my" music, yet everytime I turned on the radio I would hear one of "their" groups covering and remixing "my" old songs and they'd be singing it as if it were brand new. The joy I got when I could ask them why they were singing one of "my" songs as if they liked it lol. The really ironic thing is that NOW they love the "old" music from "back in the day". Go figure!

[Lavenderrose]

Hubby's nephew stayed with us for about a year. He was playing a MArilyn Manson song. I knew the words and started sining it!

He says woa! Aunt Jenna! You know the words to this? (Marilyn Manson is a hard metal goth singer, if you can call him that).
I said yeah, it was origionally recorded by the Eurrhytmics! (Sweet dreams are made of these....)
He says WHO???

LOL

[saudiscrapper]

When i talk about my high school memories like it was yesterday and when i calculate the time i discover they r more than 14 years ago!

[katlen124]

Any time "When I was your age ..." comes out of my mouth.

Actually, I was teaching a college class about computers and was doing the computer history part. We were talking about the first home PCs and I looked out over the audience and said " But that was before most of you were born, wasn't it?"

[paperlady]

When you remember going on vacations with your parents before Interstate highways and they just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the beginning of them a few days ago.

I can also so relate to the computers with the college kids Katlen & others. I remember when a 10MB hard drive was huge and 256 KB of RAM was all you could possibly need. I remember teaching an adult community education class at the high school where the "state of the art" computers there had dual 5 3/4 inch floppies & you booted from one of them & used the other for your data - no hard drive at all.

And on a side note about the Ataris, I understand that it is cool with some of the high school kids now to go retro & they are hunting down those old Ataris and the cartridges. So another case of what's old is what's new.

At my age, there's lots more, just don't want to bore everyone.

Joan

[lisanoel03]

when I realized that my nieces where getting the newest high tech gadgets before I was even able to...i still only have an Ipod shuffle while my 12 year old niece has a 6G Ipod...

[beckykiessling]

when I started making comments like he looks too young to have a driver's license

[beckykiessling]

when I took my sister and her friend to 80's night at a local bar, and they had never heard a single song before!!

[cindiaskew]

My Mom Always Told Me That If You Hung Onto Your Clothes Long Enough They Would Come Back Into Style. Oh My Gosh. Bell Bottoms, Hip Huggers, Daisy Dukes

but she forgot to tell me they couldn't fit, cuz my body changed! lol>:D

[cindiaskew]

when we were cleaning to move and my son-in-law asked why I was keeping all my old
"vinyls"

[quantumjuj]

I knew I had crossed the generational divide when.....

the 11 year-old son of a friend wanted to know what is a MacGyver, after I told his dad "I'm going to have to MacGyver this a bit" when referring to fixing a dvd player that suddenly died.

[twoboyz00]

when I complained about "those kids and their loud music"

[LEIdee Q]

when I complained about "those kids and their loud music"

OMG! That's me too! My husband says I'm too old when it starts getting too loud! LOL

[illinimom]

LOL...one moment I remember clearly. My DS went to the same university I did. When I was there, they had 'midnight movies' at several places on campus, since there was only 1 movie theater in town. (And it had only 1 screen...do they even DO that anymore???)

I asked her if they still had midnight movies, and she basically said 'huh?' So I explained that they were necessary since there weren't theaters, etc. But that it probably wasn't as necessary today because they can just pop in a DVD in their apt. Her response was...'Oh. The didn't have video stores either?' Ummm...noooo...the didn't have VIDEOS!!!!

GENERATION GAP!!

[mommy2kadin]

I'm not as old as some on this board, but I feel old when I go to the grocery store and see on the calendar thing that if they were born in 1990 they are old enough to buy cigarettes. (I was born in the 80s.)

[Lizzerd]

When I think back to my first computer and recall that it did not even have a hard drive but ran from 5 3/4 inch floppies
me too, my Apple //e came with one 5-3/4" drive for both running programs and for saving your data... gah!

[Kristin Aagard]

My mom gave my 3 year old a toy telephone I used to play with when I was little (the kind with a coiled up cord hooked to the phone) and she had absolutely no idea what it was.