Yep....yep. Had that same shock happen to me.

I was waiting for a massage chair @ the gym, guy behind me was on an arm machine talking real estate to his buddy, I looked over...they included me in the conversation....I said real estate was a GREAT investment for when they're on Social Security and you'll have a house that's paid for. The one guy said, "SOCIAL SECURITY!" He had to be ....maybe 45. His friend nodded, pointed he chin towards me....friend said, "NO WAY!" Guy nodded yes...I was THAT old...so was he!

I just purchased a Tag Heuer watch, been wanting one since 1985. I found a deal on a Woman's Link...peal face....gorgeous! Perfect! It's considered Vintage collectible. Year made...2000.....and they still make them.

I am trying to get over reading that The Wizard of Oz movie will be 100 years old in 14 years. What does that say about me?

Our newspaper runs a daily column about What Happened on this Date in History. There may be 15 entries. I can go as little as halfway back in time before I run out of events I remember.

“That's just a few years back! No f'n way!“

I can sure relate!

I miss the 90's, back when I wasn't so close to being 90 :-(

I had a moment when I realized 50 years ago was the 70's. Yikes!

Its frightening to think that people born after 1999 are grown adults and may have children of their own.

I thought about that on the 11th, thinking all those little kids who were orphaned are grownups with maybe kids of their own.

A lot of these books are self-published by paying vanity publishers. They don't care much care what is written nor accuracy or what it sold as as long as the author pays them the fees. The author pays them and they're done after maybe a month of promotion. Then the author has a pile of books to sell. I know a person who pretty much got her journal from spending a semester in Korea during the same period as above getting her "book" blurbed as a "coming of age Korean historical culture "yada yada. LOL

wildchild...huh? Is this posted on the right thread?

Here's one way of looking at it. I'm 80, born in 1945. Yeah, a long time ago, but not really that long, right? But just 80 years before I was born....the Civil War had just ended--1865. Another world entirely.

This was over 20 years ago when I wasn't officially old. I was taken a back learning to be considered antique meant older than 25 years!! Heck 25 years ago I had been out of high school for longer!! Nate B has an entire bit on old/ancient/irrelevant being anything from the last century!!! Gotta watch out for that 1990s stuff!!!

I thought antique was 100 or more years, not 25.

I personalize history by imagining how my family members experienced events and how they adapted to them. My own life seems pretty calm by comparison.

My maternal grandmother is my most recent immigrant to America. She was 17 in 1895 when she arrived in NYC on a sailing ship from Glasgow with her mother and brother. They had *nothing*. She was 90 when she died in comfort at her daughter's home near Chicago. Her husband was born in Missouri, the great-grandson of a Scottish immigrant. He was in NYC after being discharged from the army at the end of the Spanish American War. My mother was born in 1905 in her great-aunt's boarding house on a NYC block where the UN now stands.

My French ancestors and their extended families came to America from small plots in rural villages near the Swiss border. (One youngster delayed the party when he broke his leg falling from a ship's mast.) They traveled the then-new Erie Canal to settle areas from which Indians had recently been 'removed'. (That was a major factor in their decision to come.) They liquidated everything in France to make this gamble.

How events changed peoples lives!

I remember a time when I thought it would seem very strange to have doctors, dentists, etc., be younger than I was. Now my baby is a doctor.

It’s also strange to think about when I first met DH. He was 19 and had siblings who were 25 and 30. That seemed ”up there” to me!

At my first home, bought when my husband and I were in our early 20s, I once said to a group of neighbors discussing someone out of the neighborhood ... '29, is she that old?' That didn't go over very well with some women who were probably in their 30s.

I remember being depressed when I turned 30 because in our 60s hippie culture, it was 'never trust anyone over 30.

I remember when we bought our first home in 1972. When we got the paperwork and it said it would be paid off in 2002, I thought "Who is going to be alive in 2002?" It was the first time I ever realized the 1900's were going to end in my (hopefully) lifetime! Now, not only alive in 2002, but alive in 2025. Still shocking to me.

The 1990's is historical fiction? That will come as a surprise even to those born in the 1980's. On the other hand, I think of works set in the WWII era as historical fiction and I was born in the next decade.

Books are books. I don't think any of them, their stories, messages, setting or premises, should be taken as being more than what they are - someone's effort, while often quite creative and well done, to produce a work people will want to read. At least, that's what I get out of them and nothing more - just entertainment.

As has already been mentioned, the reminders of my age (which I really don't need) are the ages of our kids. And where they are in their lives. And comparing my current age to when my parents were of the same age and what I saw and thought about them and their lives.

Enough of that - time to put on my beanie with a propeller on it and go take a ride on my skateboard.

Elmer -- Roller skates, if you please!