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People are sharing the moment they realised they're old

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There's a point in everyone's life where something happens to make them realize, "Oh no, I'm old."

So, when Redditor u/Pred1949 asked the AskReddit community what that moment was for them, people responded with a wide variety of "I'm ancient" moments. Here are some of the best:

1. "Whenever I have to enter my birthdate in a drop-down menu."

—u/didfart

"You see me scrolling

I’m hating

Somebody trolling, tryna tell me that I’m past age 30."

—u/BoJackB26354

2. "Asked a young relative what music she was into, thinking I would be able to impress her with all I know about the 'cool' bands. She listed quite a few, and I had never heard of a single one, instantly humbled."

—u/greeenlander

3. "I was reading Rolling Stone at the doctor's office and realized I hardly knew any of the bands on the Billboard No. 1 singles list. Nineties music to my kids is like what '60s music was to me."

—u/wholesomeorgange

4. "I almost fell over when a local radio station called songs from the '80s the 'golden oldies.' No! The golden oldies are the '50s/'60s!"

—u/RichieNRich

5. "The first time the barber asked if I wanted my eyebrows trimmed."

—u/jgriss

6. "Viggo Mortensen is now older than Ian McKellen was when he played Gandalf in Fellowship."

—u/silox250

7. "At 44, I don't feel old, but when I'm going to do something nowadays, I think about if I could get hurt."

—u/Youhurtmypee

8. "Doing nothing became my favorite thing to do on the weekend."

—u/MooreDubs

9. "When celebrities would come on late night shows and they looked SO much older… then I would think, 'I guess I do, too…'"

—u/superdopeshow

10. "You know all the celebrities that die. I remember celebrity deaths to me for years were just always random people that might as well have been from Ancient Rome for how well I knew of them and how old they were. Now, every celebrity death is like, 'What?!??! She died?? But she was just in that movie!' But then you remember that for you, 'just in that movie' was a movie 30 years or more ago sometimes."

—u/BigMax

11. "The song '1979' by The Smashing Pumpkins is closer to the year 1979 than it is to our current time, and not inconsiderably so. Released in 1995."

—u/amsterdam_BTS

12. "My kid makes fun of me because I mix white milk with chocolate milk because it's too sweet. Just leave me alone and grab my Lactaid."

—u/camp-cariboo

13. "You know what's a totally not fun game to play with your younger coworkers? Asking them what cartoons they grew up watching."

—u/Civilized_Primate

14. "When my Mom moved into my mirror."

—u/hazelhas2

15. "My 'Check Knee' light turned on."

—u/SkewberDewber

16. "I was watching Derry Girls and thinking, 'Finally, they cast actual teenagers in a show about teenagers!' They were all over 25, and one of them was 31."

—u/wex52

17. "Spent my 30th birthday itching to go home and take my new cordless vacuum cleaner for a spin."

—u/SamCropper

18. "When the supermarket started playing the music I listened to in high school."

—u/thekillercook

19. "Getting annoyed when they rearrange the grocery store."

—u/tamarainspace

20. "Seeing athletes get drafted into the NFL that were born after 2000. Also, watching guys I saw get drafted now retiring."

—u/Well_thatwas_random

21. "I teach writing to college freshmen. I had a student writing about standardized testing who started a paragraph with the phrase: 'Beliefs about education at the turn of the century worked from the assumption that...' It took me two paragraphs to realize that the turn she was talking about was 1999 to 2000. This was two years ago. The resulting existential crisis is still unresolved."

—u/HGFuller

22. "I had to go to a Walgreens to get my passport photo taken. They use a digital camera. The clerk helping me was so young, she said something like, 'I’ve never used one of these old type cameras before.' I had to help her get the SD card out and put it in the printer."

—u/mmm_unprocessed_fish

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