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You use the word hip
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They play your prom song on the oldies station
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The baseball stadium you went to as a child no longer exists
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Forget about the cops looking young, the chief of police looks as young as your paperboy
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You know what a paperboy is
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You like classic rap better
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You think Frank Lautenberg and Arlen Specter have a few good terms left in them
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They try to find a place without too many stairs for your high school reunion
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In your day, TV was free and long distance phone calls were expensive
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You remember when cars made in Japan were lower quality than ones built in America
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You still refer to George Steinbrenner as the new owner of the Yankees
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You used to let your fingers do the walking
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You bought into Phase I of Boca Del Vista
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You had to hide under your desk during Cold War air raid drills
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Chuck Taylors were cheap sneakers, not a fashion statement
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You assume the word “hip” is always followed by “replacement”
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Your teachers told you that the United States would be on the metric system by 1980 (that must have been another unfunded government mandate).
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Americans didn’t care about the World Cup (oh wait, that hasn’t changed)
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You know what WYSIWYG means
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And along those lines, you remember typing after a C prompt
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You are tempted to finally open the AARP membership junk mail instead of immediately tossing it
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The President of the United States is younger than you
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Being invited to a tea party event meant an afternoon of old ladies and bite-sized sandwiches
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You start to forget things
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I can’t remember the last one
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