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?
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
I'd say this is true for all of Europe. No idea how it is on the other continents though.
Load More Replies...Most people can drive stick, I think it is only in the US that most people can't drive stick.
Also a common thing in Canada. Even 18 wheelers are coming automatic now. Much to my husbands dismay
Load More Replies...Practically everybody outdside the US? Although this is a 6-gear-shift instead of the 5 gear you take your driving lessons with, so maybe some people would be a bit confused.
American woman here that can! I worked at a place where we had to park across a busy street in a not so great neighborhood so when it was dark or bad weather some of the younger guys would go grab the cars for the ladies. Unfortunately most of them couldn’t drive a stick which is what my truck was 😂
I learned on a manual, too. 1962 Plymouth Valiant, red, three-on-the-tree.
Load More Replies...If you can't drive that, you can't drive at all
Load More Replies...Where I live in Australia you must have a licence to drive to drive a manual, then you may drive either manual or automatic.
Same here in The Netherlands. 9.out of 10 with a license have a manual one though
Load More Replies...I have driven cars with manual shift transmission a total of about a half-million miles. My 2005 Pontiac Vibe has a 5-speed.
Many millions of people all over the world. Over 95% of the European drivers, young and old.
Fun was teaching my wife to drive this in a mountainous area. We are still married.
Never had the luxury of six, only four or five. Can drive with broken clutch!
I can! A male neighbor taught me how to do this with my 1985 Dodge Omni. I miss that nice four door car. I had to sell it as I was moving and changing insurance would have been costly.
I can, and I prefer it to the so-called "Automatics" that "save gas" by upshifting just as the engine gets into its power band...
US girl here. My dad made sure I knew how to drive one, even though my car was an automatic! Now that I live on a farm, I am so grateful. I can hop on a tractor and go!
I learned to drive on one. Can't do it now, my knee gave up.
Yep! Once I had a five speed on the column Peugeot. Picked up hitchhikers. You could see him relax after 4th. Got a "what the he-- you doing, lady?" I had to laugh!
I love driving a stick shift. A friend got a cool job in the Army because she could drive one.
I have a six speed manual Jeep Gladiator. I call it my millennial anti theft device
Automatic shift was a rarity when I learned to drive and four-in-the-floor was HOT stuff!
Most of us Americans have grown soft and simple but I can. AND I still damn do!
I drive this, i.e. manual. Can't drive an automatic though. Something must be wrong with me
I honestly don't know if I could after 25 yrs driving an automatic.
American woman here, took my driving test on a manual in the 90s. So glad I learned, most of my friends, guys included, never did.
99% new drivers in the UK learn manual (afaik). We do have auto, but they are the exception rather than the rule.
That's all I can drive. I can do things to automatics through misuse that car mechanics can't believe.
US here and I can do it...course Im 65 also I hear that stick shifts also qualify as theft deterrents in US also as the younger car thieves just cant figure it out
I do every day, in a 2019 Subaru, and have for the last 40 years. I’m sad I probably will never be able to buy another stick in the future.
I can drive pretty much any car with a manual. I first learned in an old Chevy with a three on the tree, and at one time had a Datsun 510 with a clutch that engaged about 1/8" off the floor. Because the Chevy didn't have synchromesh I learned to double clutch after having to come to a complete stop too many times while rolling up to a light at 10mph and having it turn green.
My first 3 cars were standard transmission; we weren't allowed to drive an automatic until we learned on a stick.
I ONLY buy cars with standard, and am salty MINIs will no longer be made with standard transmissions here in Canada. :'(
I still wouldn't drive an automatic. You don't have the same level of control as in a manual. I need to feel I'm in control of a deadly weapon.
Husband made me give it up after i broke an ankle. Now I just steer a car around rather than "drive" it.
I had to learn so I could valet park the cars at work. Seems that rich people like sports cars with manual transmissions
I learned (in the US) to drive in my dad's rail buggy that was formerly a VW Bug, it had that weird thing where you had to push the shifter down in neutral and slide it to the "2" position for reverse... if you were lucky. My previous car was a manual Mitsubishi Lancer. When I bought a Prius the main thing I missed was shifting...
I can, I just don't want to. A stick shift really sucks in heavy traffic.
I learned on a standard shift. I can still drive them, though I'd have to get used to it again.
I think it's just US. these are normal most places and if you pass a test on an auto in UK you cant drive a manual
Still usual in the uk. It’s annoying actually, having to rent an automatic when I go over there.
I still have manual. Drove few automatic. Still I prefer good manual over shoddy automatic.
I learned how to drive on a 6-speed (I'm 41, so pretty old I guess) and drove my friend to his driving test in the automatic his father bought him - dropped him off so he could get in line and went to park it to join him inside to wait. I pulled up the "parking brake" (as you do, or at least did on manuals 25 years ago) - he failed his first attempt because he went on to try driving without disengaging it. Oops.
I live in the U.S. - I drove a manual for 30 years up until just a month ago. I'm not sure how true it is, but anecdotally here in the US, you're far less likely to have your car stolen if you have a manual because most thieves don't know how to drive them. That's the story anyway.
US here, I have a stick fiat, and they can pry that from my cold dead hands lol
I have a 2000 Dodge Dakota P/U with a 5 speed NV3500 in it. Got it from another old fart who bought it new and only towed a little pontoon boat to the local lake on weekends. Only 94,000 on the clock! Got it cheap considering the very good condition it's in. Sweet tranny, but first & second are geared really low & she's kinda slow getting moving. My neighbor calls the stick "the five speed anti-theft device", and it boggles my mind how many shops have people that can't drive one. I have to drive it onto the lift for my oil changes. Love the mpg here in FL with the manual. 1,200 rpm in fifth at 40 MPH, just sips gas. Big problem is I can't find a shop that will work on it! Nobody does manuals anymore except the big chain shops, and I ain't bringing my truck to aamco.
'Merican here. I've had many sticks in my life but I would be most in the US cannot drive one.
Most Australian drivers over 40 would most likely be familiar with a manual floor shift. The only stick-shift I can recall using was an EH Holden station-wagon equipped with a Hydramatic four-stage auto.
In the US here...I got my license the day I turned 16 in 1999. In drivers ed, we learned on automatics but thank God my uncle taught me (in fact, INSISTED) that I learn to drive a manual. From the moment I learned, I loved it. Unfortunately, with my neurological problems, I can't drive much anymore. My brain just goes all wonky and I can't work the clutch like I used to.
I would if I had a license, since it's pretty much the standard to be taught in driving schools here
It was a requirement in my family that before you could get your license you had to learn to drive a stick sad to say no one in my family owns a stick so I could teach my daughter
My current car is a manual shift. I had an automatic once for about a year, and I hate myself for it.
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?
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Are You Old Enough To Remember When Wendys Had Cool Old Fashion Tables?
The Golden Age Of Education
Truth
It Really Wasn't Difficult
Have young people really never heard of maps?? What do they do in geography classes, it can't all be oxbow lakes and types of rock.
When You Were Thirsty
Remember What Show This Came From?
The 80’s Really Were A Different World
I See Your Big Wheel, And Raise You A Tonka Dump Truck!
Anyone Else?
These were like a train wreck. Everyone watched intensely waiting for a kid to fall, usually onto a 2-inch mat. Or the stupid kid that would slide down the rope too fast and get a huge rope burn. LOL, those were the days!
If This Brings A Chuckle To You... Then Yeah, You're Old
Remember These
OHHH my GODDD....the ABSOLUTE FEEL OF USING THIS UNIT.....that was the best part!!! STILL love going over to my folks house and using theirs to make labels!!!!
Old School Coffee Vending
Best Halloween Costumes Ever
LOL my parents let me and my brother watch those movies when we were about that age. We couldn't watch Robocop or Terminator, but Cheech and Chong were OK.
Who Remembers Being Fed This Delicious Pink Medicine With This Spoon As A Kid?
Who Remembers Him?
These Were Fun
If You Remember This Guy…
I'm Telling Them
If You Remember What Movie This Scene Is From, You Probably Cancelled Your Canoe Trip To Georgia, And…you’re Old
If Ned Beatty can't get down that river, how is a Frenchman in a Speedo going to make it? = J. Foxworthy. Deliverance was filmed on the same river used for Atlanta Olympics kayaking!
F**k, I’m Old
When You Looked Forward To A Bath
Unless you were a girl… https://www.glamour.com/story/rememer-mr-bubble
More And More With Each Passing Day!
He was a good guy, All he wanted to do was to warn us about the effects late stage capitalism would have on us, and he killed a Nazi sympathizer. D-Fense¡
If You Grew Up Back In The Day You Have A Definite Opinion On This Gum
If You Remember This Guy Yelling At You…
You Are Definitely Fecking Old If You Remember This Guy
You May Be Old, But Are You This Old?
Or the HP ones where you had to enter data in reverse Polish notation
Don't Mind Me, I'm Just Checking Out The Back Of The Store
Critics Didn’t Like It. It Bombed At The Box Office, But I Liked It. Who Else?
If You Know What This Is Or Browsed The Catalog, You Are Old Af
Never Forget
Wise Beyond His Years
But Are You This F**kn Old?
Anyone Else Have To Sell World's Finest Chocolate For School?
Who Remembers Bozo The Clown?!
Old Enough To Remember Smoking In Grocery Stores
Remember When Air Was Free?
My 27 Year Old Son Didn’t Understand The Significance Of This Place
Anyone Ate At The Woolworths Counter?
Definitely Mad Max
Are You Old Enough To Remember Getting "Rained On" At The Grocery Store?
Huh. I don't know about anyone else, but they still do this at all of the grocery stores I go to. My little brother gets "rained on" all the time.
Did You Know: These Spaceships Are Actually Guitars?
I Was 11 Years Old. A Much Simpler Time. I Really Miss The Hot Apple Pies
Deep Fried!!! When arteries were more under attack from Big Tobacco. So Mc'D's was golden!!! And yes they were better!!!
Who Remembers This Gem Of A TV Show?
Geeeeeez
Haven't Thought About These Since The 80s
Anyone Else This Old?
What Classic Shows Would Never Get Made Today?
Who Remembers?
Can You Hear It?
Well, that's now going to go around my head for the next week, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 do do do do
If You Ever Got Bogged Down By One Of These, You’re Old
Were You One Of These Kids?
My mom was an electrician in a nuclear plant, she bought this and taught me everything on it.
If You Know What This Small Half Circle Ring Is For, You’re Old
The horn ring and it looks like a column stick shift. Three on the tree! Did you notice the headlight bright beam switch on the floor?
This Stuff Smelled Like Heaven: Bike Chains, Skateboard Wheels, Baseball Gloves
Crazy How They’ve All Aged So Well… Well Most Of Them
Are You This Old?
Pew Pew! Pewpew
I See Your Pop Snaps And Raise You This.. Are You This Old ?
Are You So Old That You Participated In Hands Across America?
I See Your Cap Bomb & Raise You…
You Old Enough To Know Who These Guys Are?
If You Had One You Are Old
Are You This Old?
If You Have Opinions On These Guys You're Pretty Damn Old
Nah! You can still play this game today on the Switch. My 12 year old loves this game!
If You Get This You're Pretty Old
Who Remembers This Movie?
What Was That One Thing You Always Wanted And Never Got?
Gonna show my age here but I wanted the entire "Sylvanian" town and all the families
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.
