How to feel old in 2 seconds flat

[Captain Colonial]

After 17 years of faithful service, my 05-plate Volvo S60 with 145k miles on it finally developed a fault that was potentially more expensive to fix than the car was worth, so it was off to the great breaker yard in the sky.

 

Fast forward a few days and I’m negotiating a deal for a 20-plate Skoda Octavia at a dealership.  The salesman is professional, respectful, intelligent, not smarmy and a painfully young 23 years-old.

 

As the car will be registered in Lady Colonial’s name for total avoidance of Road Fund Duty (she has a blue badge and therefore gets a full break from it), he needs to speak with her by phone (she’s home, not wishing to be bored stupid by cars).  I give the young salesman my home phone number and he calls her, uttering the immortal words as he does…

 

”I’ve never dialled a landline number before.”  Twenty-three freaking years old!  My heart sank.

[Blatman]

The pound coin was introduced in 1983 so there is a good chance that most people under about 35 have probably never seen a pound note, except in a museum... Gulp...

[stephenh]

Good lord! Next you'll be telling me that they don't know what a ten bob note is!!

[dvd8n]

The son of one of my workmates was trying to get him to buy him his first mobile phone as a Christmas present.  My workmate thought that he was a bit young.

 

In desperation his son turned to me and asked "how old were you when you got your first mobile phone?".

 

His face was a picture when I said "about 30".

 

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[Kingster]

Then you show them what your first mobile looked like - here’s what I had in ‘84

[Blatman]

Yeah, got my first one of those in '92...

[corsechris]

15 hours ago, stephenh said:

Good lord! Next you'll be telling me that they don't know what a ten bob note is!!

Let alone the phrase 'bent as a nine bob note'....which hasn't aged well to be fair.

[stephenh]

6 hours ago, corsechris said:

Let alone the phrase 'bent as a nine bob note'....which hasn't aged well to be fair.

A phrase I often use.

[Labrat]

I tried to explain the attraction of a 1991 Gameboy to my 9 year old this evening. She thinks I am mad. "Mario looks like a square with two squares for legs and it has't even got colour graphics!" I didn't even know what graphic were when I was 9 let alone whether they were any good.

 

[stephenh]

And what about Sonic the Hedgehog? Wasn't that great?

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

"Bent as a two-bob watch" has almost become redundant with cheap watches from the Orient being very nearly that cheap! 

[Nick Algar - Competition Secretary]

13 hours ago, Kingster said:

Then you show them what your first mobile looked like - here’s what I had in ‘84

I had the brick with a normal handset on top, cost a fortune every month to run,

[Alex Gaskin]

As one of the resident young people (Also 23 years old) of the club, it's insane that they've never rang a landline number before!

[Mark Stanton]

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And that certainly doesn't help either, especially being an old fart that remembers you being a wide eyed youngster accompanying his Ma, Pa and young sis around Curborough paddock 🤣

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

I vaguely remember being at either Goodwood or Silverstone and being told (not quite accurately I believe) by my uncle that the driver who had just roared past had only one arm. Archie Scott-Brown. Elders may know about AS-B and when he was active.