Am I Old?
Some reasons why I know I'm getting older:
1) I'm obsessed with NPR. If I could, I would listen to it all day.
2) I'm someone's mother.
3) I have to have a cup of tea every day.
4) The music in Abercrombie and Fitch is entirely too loud.
5) Speaking of music, I really do think a lot of it just sounds like noise.
6) People who were born the year I graduated from high school can get a driver's license.
7) When it's damp out, I get achey.
8) People call me ma'am.
9) I like to watch 60 Minutes, Sunday Morning, and Jeopardy.
10) I honestly think kids today have it easy.
11) Most of the time, I'd rather sit at home and read a good book than go out.
12) I can't believe how kids today dress.
13) I once yelled at some neighborhood kids to get off my lawn.
14) I couldn't recognize a Jonas Brother, Taylor Swift, or Miley Cyrus sound if you paid me.
15) My dream car is a mini van.
16) I found a gray pubic hair.
Some reasons why I know I'm not THAT old yet:
1) I don't refer to everything in the possessive- "I have to have my cup of tea", "I have to watch my stories".
2) I feel weird when I wear a one piece bathing suit.
3) I wear my pants below my waist. In other words- no mom jeans.
4) Sometimes I still feel like I'm playing grownup.
5) I think bodily functions are funny.
6) I think words like poop and boobs are funny.
7) None of my friends have died. Yet.
8) When I'm sick, I want my mommy.
9) I can get away with not wearing a bra.
10) I still wear pig tails.
11) I am reasonably adept at using a computer.
12) On the same note, I can use a remote control, a DVD player, and a cell phone.
13) I don't scream in to the phone.
14) I know the difference between an MP3, DVD, CD, and JPEG.
15) I don't eat dinner until around 8pm.
16) I still watch cartoons- The Simpsons, Family Guy, and South Park.
Comments
I'm just 25 (OK, 26 in a few weeks!) and I'd have to agree with every point on BOTH lists! (Except for the Taylor/Jonas Bro/Miley thing, because I am, after all, still a teenybopper at heart!)
Posted by: Camels & Chocolate | January 7, 2009 05:55 PM
As long as poop is funny, you will never be truly old.
Posted by: Bucky Four-Eyes | January 7, 2009 06:01 PM
Just wait until your baby is 15,taking Drivers Ed, and most of the things on your second list is still true (Like me...)
Posted by: melissa Gaul | January 7, 2009 06:01 PM
So, I have always been obsessed with NPR. Maybe I have been an old soul since I was 14?
You gotta get on the Taylor Swift thing, though. She's awesome!!
Posted by: NGS | January 7, 2009 06:20 PM
If it makes you feel any better, I'm five years younger than you, but I can still relate to numbers's 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, and 16 from column one. And once a teenager called me "lady", as in "watch out, this lady needs to get off the bus" and I nearly started crying.
Posted by: Georgia | January 7, 2009 06:21 PM
This is only the beginnning. Wait until you look at teenagers and realize you could be their mother. You find it harder and harder to find a store with clothes you like. Then you realize it's because now you are in the age group that isn't marketed to.
But none of that will matter if you can still laugh at the word poop.
Posted by: Cindy | January 7, 2009 07:42 PM
i can top you...a girl I graduated with? She is a GRANDMA. I am 35. Now that would make me feel old.
Posted by: jana | January 7, 2009 08:22 PM
I've scolded teenagers in lines at fast food places... "Are you right?" I think that's the 'oldest' thing I've done.
That may come from being a teacher, though.
But, I'm sitting here bra-less, wear my pants low, and wear a bikini while surfing.
Posted by: alivicwil | January 7, 2009 08:25 PM
haha, i Love this post!
i totally lol'd at some of it.
i also could say a lot of the same stuff about myself. i don't know if i'll ever stop wanting my mommy when i'm sick. and yeah who the heck are these jonas brothers my little cousins keep talking about.
of course, i've never been the right body for a two-piece no matter how young i was.
Posted by: corinne | January 7, 2009 09:06 PM
Oh yes. Substitute 'Radio National' for NPR (they often play NPR stuff) and 'nanna nap' for 'cup of tea' and you have me in one.
I'm putting in labour epidurals for women- well, ok girls- who were born the year I did obstetrics as a medical student. I could have seen them BORN! I'm old enough to be a grandmother by many people's standards.
No grey pubes, yet. Not that I can see past 26 weeks of baby belly.
Posted by: jen | January 8, 2009 12:28 AM
Old: I took a "quick nap" on New Year's Eve only to wake up three hourse later, right before midnight and too late to go anywhere.
Not THAT old: The next night I got drunk with The Boyfriend learned how to play poker the dirty way.
Loved the post ... lists are fun.
Posted by: Krissi | January 8, 2009 10:42 AM
I can almost agree to everything on list one. When I start thinking "who let her out of the house in THAT" I think, wait, that used to BE me.
I can agree to most of list two, too! Roller coasters and rides would be added to my list. I run around a theme park like a child! :)
Posted by: Bryna | January 8, 2009 10:58 AM
I actually can't wait until I'm old enough to get away with calling them "my stories." I think it's so funny, but other people look at myeweird when I use it. ;-)
Posted by: bellacantare | January 8, 2009 03:27 PM
If only by two months........I'm older than the President
Posted by: Shari from Ohio | January 8, 2009 05:05 PM
I don't know if you're old or not old yet, but I do know that you're funny and really, that's what counts.
Posted by: Phatchik (Jamie) | January 9, 2009 02:19 PM
This cracked me up :)
Posted by: Sarah | January 9, 2009 04:43 PM
Is the person you see in the mirror older or younger than you? ;)
There's this chick I saw in the news, get this -- she's three years younger than I am and has a grandkid already. Oh yeah, she's also Governor of Alaska. The President of the United States is only two months older than I am. Hey, it's all a state of mind.
Here's a Latin song for you. Find the translation yourself:
Gaudeamus igitur, iuvenes dum sumus.
Post iucundam iuventutem,
Post molestam senectutem,
Nos habebit humus.
Hint: "Let us be merry, therefore, for we are young . . ."
None of the 32 things you cite involve quoting stuff in Latin, so I guess you're ok!
Posted by: Ron | January 23, 2009 05:52 PM
Ha! Yes! You are not old by any means!
I agree with everything on list#1(except for grey pube. I have a ton of grey hair in my head though). And I love NPR. And the kids dress ridiculously for sure.
But #2 and #9 in list #2 just make you a weirdo. After having a kid being able to wear a bikini and NOT a bra is just not fair.
But I will console myself by laughing at my baby's farts.
Posted by: Joy | January 27, 2009 11:51 AM
Hey the day I went to the DR and he was younger than me I was thouroughly depressed.
Posted by: Rebekah | January 29, 2009 10:50 PM