50 Funny And Relatable Posts By People Who Just Realized That They’re Old Now (New Pics)
As you're growing up, politicians, teachers, and pretty much everyone around you keep repeating that you are the future of this world. The person who will shape the way it looks tomorrow. But before you can take it all in, it's already the day after, the echo of those words has faded, and the only thing you're left with is that annoying back pain that doesn't go away no matter what mobility exercise you're doing.
But don't worry, this realization is part of maturity. To make it easier to accept, the subreddit 'Heck I'm Old' shares posts from people who are in the same position and choose to reminisce with smiles and giggles. So let's scroll through what they have to offer and maybe, just maybe, knowing that the past is still alive in our collective memory is exactly what we need to feel better about our wrinkles and graying hair.
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Who Is Old Enough To Remember All Of These?
I Feel Personally Attacked
While the inevitable passage of time certainly takes a lot of things away from us, it does provide quite a few as well. One of its most important contributions is to the way we feel.
Positive and negative affects (mood) seem to operate independently of each other: you can have a lot or a little of either or both.
"High affect" people score above average on both positive and negative mood levels, while "low affect" people score less on both.
No matter which type you start out with, you can expect your affect levels to change in a favorable trajectory over the course of your life.
Nuff Said
“Billy Jean is not my lover and the CHAIR is not my son!” This lived in my brain for far too long! 🤣
Let's Start Telling It Without Telling Your Age LOL Let's Who Will Win
Yall Remember
According to research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, both men and women see an increase in positive affect as they get older (women, in particular, see a greater and accelerating increase).
On average, negative affect does not change for women predictably with age, but it decreases for aging men (with the caveat that the decrease is more pronounced for married men; for unmarried men, negative affect is elevated at every stage of life).
Are You This Old?
They rock until you need to roll down the passenger side window.
Load More Replies...Borrowed a friend's car the other day with this in it. My 4 year old was mind blown "was this before electricity was invented?"
Some new cars still have this in the back! At least in Europe, I almost got a new Yaris with it.
My Mitsubishi Space Star does, too. 10 years old basic (aka cheap) version - so basic there isn't even a side mirror control *inside* the car - no mechanic lever or toggle stick, no electric button, nada! I was totally flabbergasted. I have to lower the window (that one IS electric 😂) and manually push the mirror face up, down, sideways to where I want it. Curiously it DID come with an AC.
Load More Replies...My son bought me a 1966 AMC Cross Country Classic station wagon for my 60th birthday. I took my (then) 6 year old granddaughter out for a spin. Out of the blue, she asks me "Baba, (Ukrainian for grandmother) what are those things sticking out of the door." Didn't know what she meant at first, and then I realized she was asking abouth the door handles, window cranks and door locks. Didn't want her to feel bad, so after explaining what they were, I almost peed my pants trying not to laugh!!
I remember when they were metal, not plastic. And so hot in July!
Yup. And that little triangle piece of glass that if you turn it just right will bring in cool hair without lowering the window.
What about the side vents? I loved those things, if I could unlatch them!
What do you do in a modern car where everything is electric if you need to get out or open the windows when the electric system is broken? For example if your car is in the water and sinking!
Pull out the head rest and use it to break the window
Load More Replies...Yes, but are you old enough to remember the chenille seat covers that would leave waffle marks on your face if you fell asleep in the back seat?
Even with power windows, would still use this as the universal motion for "roll your window down"
Yepper--it's the 4/40 AC k*n*o*b--roll down all 4 windows & drive 40mph! (BP is now censoring k**b??? wtf)
Yup, I leaned to roll it down left handed while digging in the ashtray for 35 cents in change with my right hand, while holding the steering wheel of my 1974 Volkswagen Dasher with my knees as I approached the toll booths on the expressways in Chicago.
Yep. I'm this old and remember when cars and houses didn't have a.c.
22 Years ago. The Family and I have just returned from a 2.5 year missionary trip to Africa. Need a second car fast but funds are low. Found a old used car at a dealer. Only $2K and bare bones. It has one of these knobs like the one pictured. I figure once the wife and I can get jobs, we can get something newer. I get home with the car and my 13 year old daughter comes out to the car. Daughter: Nice car, dad! Me: Want a ride? Hop in. Daughter gets in car and we drive off. It's a warm summer day. Daughter is scanning around the door area looking for the button to open the window. Daughter: How do you open the window? Me (pointing): You see that k**b over there? You turn it. Daughter (Rolling her eyes): You've got to be kidding. Daughter begins to scan around the dashboard area. Daughter: How do you turn on the air conditioning? Me (pointing to the same k**b): You see that k**b over there? You turn it. Daughter silent but with a look of total shock.
Not only am I this old, the car is so old the window won't crank down.
I remember being in a car where in my effort to get the window down, I broke one of these right off its handle. That was kind of an awkward moment and we still didnt get the window down so my friend's fart could escape.
I still have it in the garage, a 1981 Firebird w/ rotary hand-cranked windows!
I had a Toyota pickup with 200,000 miles. The teeth on the window quadrant wore out so the driver's window wouldn't go all the way up. The cheap and easy fix was to get a whole used door
Yes, I am that old. I don't think my family had a vehicle with power windows until I was about nine years old.
The back windows of my car still feature these, got my car 4 years ago for £850 a cute Kia picanto. I never do see the point of getting a big expensive car 🤨
I miss the triangular side windows the driver and front passenger could turn sideways…I can still feel that wind. AC might be cooler, but it will never match the feeling.
It's perfect. You can wind it down to the precise level you want. Not way to much or right back to the top. You don't have to have a trigger finger to get the ventilation you need. Perfect control.
I drive a 2006 5 door version of my car that has manual windows, which turned out to be a really good thing. My brother bought a 2007 4 door version with automatic windows that he has had to replace the motor in the driver and passenger front doors. I've always worried that if something happened I would get stuck in my car, so at least this way I have 5 different exits that I can use.
I was just driving a ford cutaway bus that was electric. It had roll-down windows, probably to save power.
Fun fact. Lotus - the car company obsessed with weight savings - changed manual windows to electric on Elise MK2. The purist went bananas, until the press release -.electric windows were lighter as there were less mechanical components.
when the rubber gasket/track holding the bottom edge of the window glass inside the door is starting to disintegrate, you want a manual window. because you can roll it down slowly enough to keep the window in the track (sometimes you gotta pause and jiggle the door if the window sticks). a power window will drop your glass inside the door and then you have to take the door apart to get it out. i had a LOT of practice.
F*ck those things! You could never sit comfortably in that car because one of your knees were always pressed against it. I drove a 1979 Camaro for 20 years as my daily driver, starting in 2000, and preferred having to hotwire the windows to work than to deal with a crank window.
Does Anyone Remember This Movie?
If You Can Tell What This Is, You Might Be Old
Many theories have been proposed for why this happens. But a 2013 review of research indicates that older people develop at least three distinct emotional skills: 1) they react less to negative situations, 2) they are better at ignoring irrelevant negative stimuli than they were when younger, and 3) they remember more positive than negative information.
Basically, it's like knowing your negative emotions won’t last so you disregard them when they do arise and get a head start on the good feelings.
You May Be Old, But Are You This Old?
Someone's fancy with their wall phone. Mamaw had a desk telephone you could use as a weapon.
You’re Old, But Are You This Old?
Never Failed
Some Of You Can “Feel” This Door In Your Mind
Pfft, please, that belongs to a 4 door. Only us real ones know the weight of a 2 door, the door was taller than you and weighed more than the engine....
Arthur Brooks, who is a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Business School, where he teaches courses on leadership and happiness, thinks that when we're talking about growing old, we also have to mention changes in personality.
"Personality is generally separated by psychologists into five parts: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism," Brooks writes, discussing a paper by two researchers in which they summarized ... a voluminous literature on how these dimensions of personality change as we move from childhood to old age.
You’re Old But Are You This Old?
Driving Stick
How Many Of You ‘70s Kids Can Feel This Picture?
Not a 70s kid, but yes... Just because it wasn't red did not mean it wasn't hot
Haha
"Some of the changes are not necessarily either good or bad. For example, people tend to become less gregarious after their mid-50s; they become more assertive from adolescence through their mid-30s and stay at this higher level; their openness to experience rises into early adulthood, stabilizes, and falls after their mid-50s."
But other changes are unambiguously positive. "Agreeableness tends to rise throughout adulthood, probably as we see its benefits and establish more emotional equanimity," Brooks adds. "Neuroticism usually falls, at least until one’s late 60s. And conscientiousness rises continuously. If you follow the typical development, you can expect to be nicer and kinder, and less depressed and anxious, when you are old."
Who Else Made Their Own Popsicles?
Remember When You Opened A Band Aid By Pulling A String?
This Always Seemed To Appear On My Parents Coffee Table Between Thanksgiving & Christmas
Who Remembers Changing A Channel By Turning The Knob
Our self-esteem also tends to rise as we move through adulthood, all the way to age 60.
It usually stays at a high level until about 70, then slightly declines. This last downward section could be connected to the accumulating death toll of elderly friends and spouses, but even so, we can expect it to be better at age 80 than 30.
I Loved These And Used To Read Them At The Dentist's Office. It Was Standard Waiting Room Stuff For Kids
If You Remember Seeing This Machine You're Pretty Old
And getting them as a kid for your parents/grandparents and NO ONE CARED!!!
If You Ever Operated One Of These You're An Old Sob
Who Dares To Admit That They Liked These Guys?
So now that you know things are likely to get better as you age, we invite you to dive deeper into 'Heck I'm Old' and fire up our earlier publications on the subreddit 50 Painfully Funny Pics Of People Who Are Getting Old Faster Than They Expected and 40 Funny Posts Of People Grasping The Reality That They’re Old Now.
Anyone Else Grow Up With These?
I Bet Future Generations Won't Understand This Immensely Frustrating Experience At All
This Takes Me Waaay Back
Did Anyone Else Sleep In One Of These? I Think I Would Have To Be Helped Out Of It Today
The Kids Have No Idea
Really I'm Old Enough ,who's With Me
How Old Are You… This Old
The F**k Is This?
These Guys Were The Best -
Ah, but how many of you remember 'Spy vs Spy vs Spy', with the lady Grey Spy playing Black and White off against each othet?
Dont Even Try To Tell Me You Dont Know These
Who Had One Of These?
You Can’t Hear A Picture?
I See Your "Tales From The Crypt," And Raise You Elvira
I’ll See Your Paddle Ball And Raise You A Cheap Airplane
Could This Movie Be Made Today?
Who Was Around When These Two Became Famous And Then Infamous?
This Is What 30 Year Olds Looked Like In The 80s
The Older I Get, The More I Identify With These Men
If This Was Your First Live Action Joker, You're Old
If You Get It, You Get It
If You Remember This Boat
Did You Ever Win Anything Other Than A Free Pop?
Today: Please enter your email, phone number, Facebook, Twitter, social security number and name of first born child, and you might win a free Pepsi.
Are You Old Enough To Remember When Wendys Had Cool Old Fashion Tables?
The Golden Age Of Education
Truth
It Really Wasn't Difficult
A bit too American for me. So many of those never made it to Europe, where every country had their own stuff. Different now with mundialization, I guess.
I feel like we deserve it because we always take a beating on here.....just let us have this one thing, LOL.
Load More Replies...I'm in another part of the world where the majority of these wasn't part of my childhood despite me being an old millennial. So, nope, don't understand either.
Most of these were gone by the time that even the oldest the USA Millennials were old enough to play with them. Most are Gen-X, older Gen-X, and there are even some younger Boomer stuff. Back To The Future was from 1985, Elvira's Movie Macabre started in 1981, The Village People released "Y.M.C.A." in 1978, etc, etc, etc.
Load More Replies...There's like at least 3 generations of old in this list. Plus a few things are still very much around.
Yeah, calling Napster and Windows 98 old makes me feel REALLY old! My first music was on 8-track tape.
Load More Replies...So we’ve got another negative BP post about the U.S. that Americans want removed and then we’ve got this lazy piece about ‘you are old if…’ but it’s so American that it’s painful. What do you want to be BP?
Excellent, BP. At least 80% of the items on this list made it to my country, Australia, so not too American. And no specific decade which is a big plus for the list as well. Nothing on the list is too old for me to recognise, and it brings back almost a dozen things from my childhood that I haven't seen in many decades. A really good list.
How could they leave out mercurochrome (otherwise known as monkey blood)?
The real question you ask of Brits is, do you remember eating fish and chips out of real newspapers!
Alas, I remember when many of these things were brand new.. I be really old.
I just relived my entire childhood. Yep. A last of the Boomers for sure. Thank you for some great memories!
Well, as baby boomer, I remember most of it. Apart from strictly American stuff. Windows 98? I remember DOS. Call directory.
Label me both American and older than dirt because all of these were familiar, lol.
There are things called maps, people used to be able to read them to decipher directions.
A bit too American for me. So many of those never made it to Europe, where every country had their own stuff. Different now with mundialization, I guess.
I feel like we deserve it because we always take a beating on here.....just let us have this one thing, LOL.
Load More Replies...I'm in another part of the world where the majority of these wasn't part of my childhood despite me being an old millennial. So, nope, don't understand either.
Most of these were gone by the time that even the oldest the USA Millennials were old enough to play with them. Most are Gen-X, older Gen-X, and there are even some younger Boomer stuff. Back To The Future was from 1985, Elvira's Movie Macabre started in 1981, The Village People released "Y.M.C.A." in 1978, etc, etc, etc.
Load More Replies...There's like at least 3 generations of old in this list. Plus a few things are still very much around.
Yeah, calling Napster and Windows 98 old makes me feel REALLY old! My first music was on 8-track tape.
Load More Replies...So we’ve got another negative BP post about the U.S. that Americans want removed and then we’ve got this lazy piece about ‘you are old if…’ but it’s so American that it’s painful. What do you want to be BP?
Excellent, BP. At least 80% of the items on this list made it to my country, Australia, so not too American. And no specific decade which is a big plus for the list as well. Nothing on the list is too old for me to recognise, and it brings back almost a dozen things from my childhood that I haven't seen in many decades. A really good list.
How could they leave out mercurochrome (otherwise known as monkey blood)?
The real question you ask of Brits is, do you remember eating fish and chips out of real newspapers!
Alas, I remember when many of these things were brand new.. I be really old.
I just relived my entire childhood. Yep. A last of the Boomers for sure. Thank you for some great memories!
Well, as baby boomer, I remember most of it. Apart from strictly American stuff. Windows 98? I remember DOS. Call directory.
Label me both American and older than dirt because all of these were familiar, lol.
There are things called maps, people used to be able to read them to decipher directions.