You know you are getting old when:

[V.C. Brunswick]

When half the cast of a movie you first saw in the theatre are now gone.

 

[2jakes]

You know you are getting old when....
You don't recognize most of the actors at the 2017 Academy Awards.


BTW:
My sympathies to the cast of La La Land, also to Warren Beatty who was given
the wrong envelope.
Faye Dunaway took the envelope from Beatty and assumed the Oscar went
to La La Land when she saw the name Emma Stone on the card.

 

[Bushman]

Was watching Big Little Lies last night and I saw a child watching a cartoon that I watched when I was his age. I recognized the episode, too.

 

[green papaya]

When your talking with a group of teens or millennials and they dont know who John Wayne was or any other of the Legends from the Golden Era like Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, others

I was talking to a tourist at a place where a movie was filmed in San Francisco with a young tourist, and mentioned a movie starring actor Clint Eastwood was filmed in this exact location, and the tourist asked me if I was Clint Eastwood? he had no idea who I was talking about?

 

[2jakes]

The bill was $10.10.
I paid with a twenty dollar bill and also added a dime.

The young person made a comment how unusual it was
to be paying with cash.
And I had to explain why I added the dime.


Another location:
There was a jar by the register with a label, "TiPS".
It was a self service place.
I asked the young clerk what was the reason for the jar.

The reply:
"I don't know for sure sir...but that's where some folks
put a dollar or coins in."
And he wasn't kidding, but sincere.

 

[Fading Fast]

When your talking with a group of teens or millennials and they dont know who John Wayne was or any other of the Legends from the Golden Era like Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, others

I was talking to a tourist at a place where a movie was filmed in San Francisco with a young tourist, and mentioned a movie starring actor Clint Eastwood was filmed in this exact location, and the tourist asked me if I was Clint Eastwood? he had no idea who I was talking about?

To be fair, that person is a bit out of touch with even recent pop culture as Eastwood's has some popular attention with several of the movies he's directed and / or stared in the last ten or so years and, also, that odd chair thing / speech at the Republican convention.

Edit add: but as to the others, I know exactly what you mean as those names feel vibrant and common to me - as a huge old movie fan - but when I flip them into conversation today, I will get plenty of blank stares. Although, some people - young people - are right there with you on them.

 

[Bushman]

When your talking with a group of teens or millennials and they dont know who John Wayne was or any other of the Legends from the Golden Era like Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, others

I was talking to a tourist at a place where a movie was filmed in San Francisco with a young tourist, and mentioned a movie starring actor Clint Eastwood was filmed in this exact location, and the tourist asked me if I was Clint Eastwood? he had no idea who I was talking about?

It's times like this I'm thankful to have a mother that's addicted to TCM.

Here's another:
I had my 7yo little cousin over and he didn't know what a VHS was. I showed him one (yes, I still have a VHS player), and his face got the most confused expression.

 

[Fading Fast]

It's times like this I'm thankful to have a mother that's addicted to TCM.

Here's another:
I had my 7yo little cousin over and he didn't know what a VHS was. I showed him one (yes, I still have a VHS player), and his face got the most confused expression.

If you have one of the early ones from the '80s, ask him to record a TV show on it if you want real confusion. Remember the convoluted steps you had to go through with those early VHS units to record a show? The instruction manual for doing so looked like the plans for the Apollo moon shot.

 

[vitanola]

To be fair, that person is a bit out of touch with even recent pop culture as Eastwood's has some popular attention with several of the movies he's directed and / or stared in the last ten or so years and, also, that odd chair thing / speech at the Republican convention.

Edit add: but as to the others, I know exactly what you mean as those names feel vibrant and common to me - as a huge old movie fan - but when I flip them into conversation today, I will get plenty of blank stares. Although, some people - young people - are right there with you on them.

Be happy that you don't favor pictures which star Francis X. Bushman, Bebe Daniels, or Charley Chase...

 

[tonyb]

Smart money would be on the average Millennial being better versed on popular entertainers of my and my parents' generations than I am of this recent crop of celebrities.

I don't know who these people are, and I don't care to know. It isn't that I disrespect them. I'm confident many are famous for good reason -- they're extraordinarily talented, and likely have worked hard at developing that talent.

But it's just entertainment. Movies. TV. Music. Sports. It's fun. But that's all it is.

 

[GHT]

I had my 7yo little cousin over and he didn't know what a VHS was. I showed him one (yes, I still have a VHS player), and his face got the most confused expression.

You get a similar reaction to working finger dial telephones.

 

[Trenchfriend]

The bill was $10.10.
I paid with a twenty dollar bill and also added a dime.

The young person made a comment how unusual it was
to be paying with cash.
And I had to explain why I added the dime.


Another location:
There was a jar by the register with a label, "TiPS".
It was a self service place.
I asked the young clerk what was the reason for the jar.

The reply:
"I don't know for sure sir...but that's where some folks
put a dollar or coins in."
And he wasn't kidding, but sincere.

Will the kids ever comprehend, that cash-payment means PRIVACY, instead of electronic movement-profiles?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Smart money would be on the average Millennial being better versed on popular entertainers of my and my parents' generations than I am of this recent crop of celebrities.

I don't know who these people are, and I don't care to know. It isn't that I disrespect them. I'm confident many are famous for good reason -- they're extraordinarily talented, and likely have worked hard at developing that talent.

But it's just entertainment. Movies. TV. Music. Sports. It's fun. But that's all it is.

Today's kids don't think of entertainment in terms of "Eras" the way we do. It's all one big plate of hash to them, to be eaten or not eaten as the mood strikes them. One of the kids at work is a big fan of Fats Waller records and Danny Kaye movies, another enjoys listening to Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald mixed in with Lady Ga Ga and Nicki Minaj.

I don't listen to rock-era music myself, not because of any prune-faced moral distaste for the personalities involved -- there were many jazzmen of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s who were every bit as dissolute and disreputable as the most extreme rock star of today -- but because the beat itself bothers me. It makes me tense and agitated, and I'm already tense and agitated enough just from existing to want to add to it.

 

[Bushman]

I acknowledge that the eras exist, but like Lizzie says, I prefer to take music like my movies: as a sampler platter for tasting, testing, and trying out different types. Sure there are some I prefer (rock, classical, showtunes), and some I rarely touch at all if ever (straight country, metal, rap/hiphop), but I don't mind trying just about anything. I was raised with the motto "how do you know you don't like it if you've never tried it?" and I still put that into practice.

The bill was $10.10.
I paid with a twenty dollar bill and also added a dime.

The young person made a comment how unusual it was
to be paying with cash.
And I had to explain why I added the dime.


Another location:
There was a jar by the register with a label, "TiPS".
It was a self service place.
I asked the young clerk what was the reason for the jar.

The reply:
"I don't know for sure sir...but that's where some folks
put a dollar or coins in."
And he wasn't kidding, but sincere.

How odd. You'd think anybody would know what a tip is, self service or not.

And I always add in change to get whole bills back. I've never gotten a funny look about it, but then again I always explain that I'm doing it prior to leaving the money on the table.

 

[Hambone87]

You know you are getting old when the first thought about a headache or pain is "Am I having a stroke"

 

[2jakes]

You know you are getting old when you mention a group and you get
an odd look.

 

[2jakes]

You know you are getting old when you find this size
comfortable to read.

When in earlier times, you felt as if they were shouting!

 

[2jakes]

You know you are getting old when you have a conversation with
yourself and enjoy it.

And older still when you don't care if someone can hear you or not!

 

[2jakes]

When a young pretty gal smiles at you and you look at the
mirror and realize they are being polite.

 

[2jakes]

When a gal winks at you in a flirting manner and you think:
"Where were you when I was younger?"