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The first time I actually really started feeling old was when I was on my high school campus (don't ask) and really noticed that all the kids there (sign #2: calling them "kids" and feeling it's appropriate) really looked noticeably younger than me.
I figure I'll really start to feel old when I pick up a history textbook and see that things that occurred in my lifetime are starting to appear in there. Like, I figure any recently written history book would have the Gulf war of the early 1990s in there. That was when I was 12, in the 8th grade. Congratulations, I'm getting old.
A side comment on that - I remember being required to make a daily entry in a journal in English class in the 8th grade. When I was 12 I was too young to really have my own opinions on the war that was going on in Kuwait and Iraq and so the entries were basically parroting of conservative bitching that I was hearing at home (both my parents are Republicans). It's kind of morbidly amusing to look at them now that I growed up into one-a dem darn liberals.
I figure I'll really start to feel old when I pick up a history textbook and see that things that occurred in my lifetime are starting to appear in there. Like, I figure any recently written history book would have the Gulf war of the early 1990s in there. That was when I was 12, in the 8th grade. Congratulations, I'm getting old.
A side comment on that - I remember being required to make a daily entry in a journal in English class in the 8th grade. When I was 12 I was too young to really have my own opinions on the war that was going on in Kuwait and Iraq and so the entries were basically parroting of conservative bitching that I was hearing at home (both my parents are Republicans). It's kind of morbidly amusing to look at them now that I growed up into one-a dem darn liberals.