Tuesday, November 3, 2009

you know you're old when...

~ There is a drop-down for the year you were born, with a huge selection of years in the visible box, and still you must scroll down, down, down to find your year.

~ You used to call your friend who works in a doctor's office to ask for valium. Now you call to ask for eyedrops to treat pinkeye.

~ The librarian at your daughter's school starts talking about that Bon Jovi song, Dead or Alive, and you say, I remember when that song came out -- it was so popular, and she says, How old are you?

~ You find yourself trying to explain to your kids what a tape recorder is.*

~ You find yourself trying to explain to your kids that Drake and Josh did not write Here Comes the Sun.

~ You find yourself trying to explain yourself to your kids, period.

~ You actively promote the notion that Because I said so is a reasonable explanation for why a child must do whatever you say.

~ You take detours that allow you to show people all of the places you used to live, and you find yourself saying This wasn't here a lot.

~ You can't remember if you've already done a blog post just like this one before, and that's okay.

~ You can neither spell nor define familiar words without consulting a dictionary.

~ You squint for no apparent reason. (You do not need glasses. Nope. Not you.)

*Seriously, though -- tape recorders are fun.

5 comments:

Allison McClendon said...

Alas. Yes.

josh said...

Eh? What? Talk into my good ear.

Julia said...

Tape recorders are total fun! We still have one, and the kids drag it around crooning into it and then listening to the results. Minutes of entertainment, minutes I say!!

MamaHen said...

aahh, and I'm older than you! love the label on that post too!

countrypeapie said...

It's 6:15 on a Saturday night, and I am already lying in bed.

Old. ;)