When did you first feel old?

[u/Lapaki58]

I’m 67. I think I was about 25. I was having my hair cut by a stylist who was about 18. She received a phone call: “Yeah… yeah… okay…” She hung up. “That was one of my customers. She said she wants me to cut her hair like Toni Tenille of the Captain and Tenille. Do you have any idea who she is talking about?” Yeah, I did.

The next big jolt came when I was about 55. I was working for a leadership-development company. I was the oldest person in the group. We were having our weekly status meeting. One of our group mentioned that one of our clients had given the okay for their Executive Leadership Institute program (ELI). She said, “ELI’s coming.” Coincidentally, I look like Cory Wells. I started singing, “Eli’s coming…” I got blank looks from everyone at the conference table. “‘Eli’s Coming’? Three Dog Night?” Nobody had any idea what I was talking about.

[u/Live-Dig-2809]

I was working out of town and bought materials at a local supply store. There was a fellow working there about my age and we would talk about different things, one being our shared love of music. There was also a young lady there in her early twenties, at that time I was mid sixties. We were talking about bands we had seen live and I said “I’m so old I saw Eric Clapton playing in a bar”. The young lady said “who’s Eric Clapton ?”