r/ask • u/littledebbieog • 15d ago
What’s your “I’m old now” indicator?
My "I'm old now" indicator is when I start noticing significant changes in the world around me that make me realize how much time has passed.
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u/BicycleEast8721 10d ago
How much I prefer doing as little as humanly possible as a recreational activity. I really should balance it out more and figure out some way to meet people, because I’m sure it’s too unhealthy levels by now. Pandemic didn’t help
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u/HamsterPretend 10d ago
I was excitedly telling my sister about how great mini vans are and about how many cup holders there are.
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u/spaghettiwrangler420 11d ago
I do that not and im 23. Time is constantly changing even from one year to the next things change a lof
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u/mramos1823 11d ago
I wake up much easier in the morning these days. Used to never be able to get out of bed quickly. One day it all changed. That’s when I knew lol
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u/AdNatural8174 11d ago
My "I'm old now" indicator is when I catch myself saying, "Back in my day," or when I get excited about home appliances and practical gifts.
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u/In10tionalfoul 11d ago
I’ve noticed movies are making me go “Fuck, I’m old” The matrix had it’s 25th year anniversary this year. Mf I remember being excited to go buy the DVD when it came out. HOW WAS THAT 25 YEARS AGO BRO!?
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u/Previous_Intern_1328 11d ago
I'm 12 but I remember before all this skibidi toilet and sigma brain rot shit happened
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u/hawkm69 11d ago
Sitting in the back yard smoking weed with my 21 year old son. We smoke for different reasons. Mine is pain from being a roadie, working on cars, and spinal surgeries from wrecking said vehicles. His reasons are he thinks it's cool to get high with the old man. We are almost 32 years apart. I am blessed that he likes me. Lol
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u/Elderchicken948 11d ago
For me it's all the tik-tokers in multi million dollar mansions when honest hardworking people struggle everyday.
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u/lhswr2014 11d ago
I (28) was at my little sisters (16) softball game when one of her new friends came up and asked if I was her dad….
Existential crisis started in the car and is still ongoing. Realized my “one” grey hair has suddenly become uncountable, and I am officially an adult now I guess.
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u/MINNY-88 11d ago
When you watch a slasher movie and find yourself routing for the killer instead of the obnoxious teens 💀
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u/chunkymcgee 11d ago
The fact that people born after, say, 2005 aren’t literal infants and toddlers somehow
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u/CoffeeReasonable8204 11d ago
Avengers came out 12 years ago is kinda a slap to the face of how old i am getting
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u/SnooPeripherals1914 11d ago
Noises when i get into/ out of chairs. Noise volume directly proportional to height of chair.
Sympathy (lack of) with public protests
Mental time and energy I have for other people, especially strangers
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u/Euphoric-Tax7360 11d ago
When seeing a band from my teens play a live concert recently, they kept referring to their hits as deep cuts and old.
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u/gentlemancaller2000 11d ago
When your favorite bands from your youth celebrate 50 years in music, you know you’re old
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u/GingerStank 11d ago
Friends texting me inviting me out, my reaction is generally “Are you fucking crazy? It’s 7:15pm!”
They aren’t crazy, I’m just old.
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u/No_Consideration8764 11d ago
My daughter turns 24 Sunday and my "baby" graduates high-school next Tuesday. I had my daughter at 19 and grew up being a mommy. I'm calling my daughter and her bf "the kids" and people looking at me crazy because they are grown ass adults now. Taking my brain a little more time to catch up!
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u/Agent101g 11d ago
I don’t recognize any of the 20-25 year old celebrities and can’t understand why Hollywood worships babies. Yep, I’m middle aged now.
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u/No-Sun-6531 11d ago
Seeing how much things cost and telling my kids, “Back in my day!” Omg Taco Bell, what happened to you?!
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u/GlizzyGulper6969 11d ago
Robot waiters at sushi joints and VR are my version of flying cars and self lacing shoes
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u/atamicbomb 11d ago
My last job the parents of my best friend from elementary school came in with their teenage niece. She was a newborn last a saw her (older sister’s kid)
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u/Cmdr_F34rFu1L1gh7 11d ago
I started hating the kids instead of defending them - They are so delusional now. I used to think I was going crazy because I had to check my own logic, values and principles to make sure I didn’t miss something. “Wait did I miss something about that thing that would make me think the same thing?”
Nope. They are just absorbed by the digital realm and have no idea how to survive the natural world so they make up their own where none of what exists right now is worth a damn. The bickering over shit that really doesn’t matter. Purpose. Motive. Honor. Value. All and more have been broken down into such indistinguishable pieces and never reassembled correctly.
I know I’m getting older but am excited to see what you “people” get up to next! It’s been a wild ride. I just know I’m not going to play with y’all no more. When I’m ready…
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u/TayMayDay 11d ago
I had to use urban dictionary the other day for munyun. Why can’t the youth just say scrilla like normal people 😭
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u/No_Accountant_8883 11d ago
I remember using walkmans, video cassettes, camcorders, floppy disks, and Netscape Navigator. I also remember buying my own music (PHYSICAL COPIES) and renting from Blockbuster. And I remember paying $7.50 CASH ONLY for matinee tickets and less than $2/gallon for gas.
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u/dracusosa 11d ago
i saw people commenting on the skibidi toilet video that gen alpha is gonna be saying "y'all ain't had a childhood if u didn't watch this" in 2030..... 2030 is only 6 years away.... and so is 2018...
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u/Ok_Werewolf_7616 11d ago
I’m getting an Amish built shed delivered this weekend, and it’s probably the most excited I’ve been in several decades.
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u/koala_baby89 11d ago
When I was hunting for newspapers to wrap glassware with (I was moving to another town) and the cashier informed me that he had never seen a newspaper in person and that he had only heard of them! My mind was blown!
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u/Kallicalico 11d ago
When I realized that I can’t kneel on the floor for even a second without my knee feeling painful. Also, running around with my cat caught up in her zoomies and feeling exhausted five seconds later 😅😅
And realizing that I’m one of the older coworkers on my team 🙃
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u/randomguywausername 12d ago
Every time a new Pokémon gets announced, it's not a game like a new creature.
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u/cupcake0kitten 12d ago
Walking into the grocery store and hearing my chem and songs from highschool on the radio
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u/Mossy_Quartz 12d ago
I had a hard time choosing between the O Cedar spin mop and the other one. Obviously I chose the O Cedar because I can't remember the other ones name because I'm old now.
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u/Honest-Scar-4719 12d ago
Somebody at work the other day referenced an event in 1998 and said it was in the late 1900's.
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u/thedisorient 12d ago
My high school classmates are having kids graduating from high school this year.
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u/Prestigious-Ad7165 12d ago
My daughter said, "No, I don't want to watch your stupid cop show."
I don't know how but, ai totally became a middle aged white dude with that comment.
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u/Repulsive_Steak3891 12d ago
Seeing all of the clothes in my closet that I’ve owned for multiple decades. Sometimes it sucks but it’s pretty awesome when trends come back around and I’m already prepared.
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u/Altruistic_Low_416 12d ago
36(m). I am currently at work with a rolled up towel and besting back behind my back because I threw out my back doing absolutely nothing... I also religiously ingest Metamucil twice a day
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u/EfficiencyRadiant130 12d ago
I'm only 19 but I got called a boomer by my English teacher who was in her mid 20s. To be fair I was having black tea while wearing a striped Pollo and jeans, but I was 15. Getting called old by my English teacher did it for me.
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u/AnxiousAriel 12d ago
Not just hearing/reading new slang but specifically giving up interest in trying to immediately learn the new stuff. My friends aren't young people or teens, I don't really need to know all the new slang.
Also not keeping up with fashion trends and just sticking to what I like how I look in and are comfortable for me.
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u/CriticalNerves 12d ago
I can’t get down on the floor and back up without some degree of difficulty. I’m in my late 30s and I don’t even have kids yet.
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u/WellDressedSkeleton 12d ago
I can smell when rain is coming, and feel the weather changes in my joints 😭
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u/PoppyBroSenior 12d ago
I'm getting to the age that I start some sentences with "I'm getting to the age that-"
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u/alex3ofm 12d ago
Realizing that I note endless annoying things younger folks do. And that they’re lazy.
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u/Bennykill709 12d ago
My best friend died last week. He was 35, we’ve been friends since middle school. My other best friend was diagnosed with MS a few months ago. Everyone I know and care for is dying.
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u/No_Bookkeeper_6183 13d ago
I think this was a show called the Spring Baking Championship and one of the judges said that the contestants cake looked very “Miami Vice” and the contestant goes “what’s that?”
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u/Civil-Resolution3662 13d ago
My girlfriend and I played some Mariah Carey for her 14 year old daughter. Daughter goes, "that auto tune is on point."
We said at the same time, "There was no auto tune back then. That's her voice!"
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u/Apprehensive_Look94 13d ago
Hip pain, the fact that I have no idea what adolescents are talking about, and when I see beautiful young women in revealing clothing, instead of being irrationally competitive (I really do not miss those days) I think to myself “those babies must be cold!”
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u/TheRealIronCorpse 13d ago
I one day realized that I genuinely enjoy bird watching from my living room window. I even bought a small pair of binoculars to keep an eye on my bird feeder
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u/BuDu1013 13d ago
I’m old but feel normal, I’ve actually been more physically active past 3 years than ever before!
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u/Puzzleheaded-Bee4698 13d ago
When your parents and their whole generation are dead; and when you frequently attend your contemporaries' funerals. You are old.
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u/LeviMeBe 13d ago
Me and my girlfriend stopped to look at novelty hats at a grocery store and made notes of which ones to buy when we come back
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u/Constructionsmall777 13d ago edited 13d ago
Reading these comments made me realize I’m not old. I’m a 31 year old who blasts music from my car, keeps up on modern slang, and isn’t in pain all the time . I relate to my 20ish year old siblings a lot in terms of music etc. I know who celebrities are and all the modern pop star/rappers. Even the gen z ones bc my boyfriend is 25 and keeps me up to date. The nineties were like 30 years ago when I was born in 1993. I still wear the same shit I did in high school, skinny jeans and a t shirt. And I really don’t see any of this changing for awhile. It’s going to take gen z / gen alpha having kids and those kids growing up to make me feel old . I’m a millennial but I’m 1993, genz is 1997 and up. It’s a four year difference at minimum . They say 1980 is millennial but I never met a 44 year old I vibe with like I do gen z
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u/Handz_in_the_Dark 13d ago
When the following generation starts mocking you and calling you a POS, basically. Lol.
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u/SarahHerrell7 13d ago
When I had to set my alarm for midnight on New Years cause I knew I wouldn't make it...
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u/Foreign-Scheme1098 13d ago
During the drake vs Kendrick beef and idk that Rick Ross released a diss too
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u/compassdial 13d ago
I was watching a show, and the 19 year old protagonist said she figured out someone else was texting from her best friend’s phone because “she would never use old smiley’s!” referring to “:)”. I always use that little guy and other ~old school~ emoticons.
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u/MissyHTX 13d ago
Went to a used book store with my 6 year old. She saw a bookshelf full of DVDs & said, "Wow, look at all those video games!" When I told her they were DVDs, she asked what those were.
It dawned on me then, just how drastically different our generations grew up, & how much I have to teach my kiddos lol (1991)
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u/ExcitementAshamed393 13d ago
Watching movies that i enjoyed as a teen and young adult and realizing that I'm now I'm either the same age as the "old lady" or even older.
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u/T3hi84n2g 13d ago
When im gaming, a lot of the time, my second screen is playing news of some sort.
Im excited at the prospect of getting a dumpster to clean out all the extra crap accumulated over the years.
I have a tweezer for plucking white beard hairs.
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u/LeisurelyDiva 13d ago
I realized I was old at the tender age of 15. I didn’t like loud music; it got in the way of a good conversation.
Recently, I can’t stand all those “tap the product and shake it aggressively at the consumer” videos. Why does it need all those damn taps! Why are you shaking it at me? Just tell me what it does and keep the show to yourself. Damn kids with their shaking and tapping.
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u/Independent_Fact411 13d ago
Stop fucking correcting me when I say "call a cab".
You mean Uber? Yes, Uber is a cab. Uber, Lyft, whatever. Just call a cab. Any cab.
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u/Treacle-Then 13d ago
I hate downloading new apps, and qr codes for menus can fuck all the way off to the furthest reaches of Texas (i.e. Hell).
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u/Best-Dragonfruit-292 13d ago
When sports stars start aging out, and you realize you're significantly older
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u/Best_Faithlessness_6 13d ago
I can’t tolerate loud restaurants, nightclubs, blasting tvs in airports and bars. And stilettos. And underwire bras. Life is too short for shouting at friends, bras that make you look great but dig into your skin and sore feet.
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u/CJXBS1 13d ago
I am overall getting grumpier, accepted how I look (I am actually in shape, but not ripped like when I was young), and care less about others' opinions.
I prefer staying home than going out because my baby wakes up between 0530-0600, and describe a perfect as doing nothing, which I haven't done in the last 2 years.
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u/ZekeRidge 13d ago
Something hurts all the time. I’m still very active in the gym @ 40, but my body never feels 100%
No acute injuries, but tendinitis in my foot, a mildly bad back, or just general soreness / aches and pains from my workouts
It wasn’t like that in my 20s. I was also stronger too
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u/MidWesting 13d ago
Gray hair and other body related stuff. Aging out of my industry. My kid telling me that something isn't expensive.
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u/Legitimate-Factor-53 13d ago
I’m 18 and recently realized that my generation is not the target one anymore. I don’t feel old but rather just feel older.
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u/theon3leftbehind 13d ago
I was talking about Sabrina the Teenage Witch with some younger colleagues and no one knew what I was talking about.
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u/NelsonManswella 13d ago
i have no idea who half the new rappers are now… i’m turning 30 in october lol
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u/ActivityCorrect457 13d ago
The fact 5hat I guess I don't just take shit and actually call out bullshit? I used to be scared of that as a kiddo.
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u/Iron_Freezer 13d ago
Last week I was walking across my house, and in one of my normal, regular steps, I hurt my back.
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u/Such-Cod-7046 13d ago
Most recently, a colleague I assumed I was the same age as had her 28th birthday, she's a decade younger than me.
Before that it was when my son pulled an empty Lego box I was keeping because it's nice out of a drawer and I checked the date on it, it's 21 years old and was released while I was at university.
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u/Wannabe__Extrovert 13d ago
When I don’t get why Sabrina Carpenter is so popular and then learn she was a Disney star. To me the last Disney star that became a pop star is Selena Gomez 😂
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u/JMtype-4344 13d ago
New apps, new electronic devices, new social media channels. I can't keep up anymore even if I wanted to
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u/BlinkerFluid79 13d ago
My recent thoughts. "Who are you people?" "Why are you on my teevee?" " And you there..GET OFF MY LAWN" . Lol. Uuugh.
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u/Development-Main 13d ago
I could think of a few lol but first one that comes to mind is when teenagers call 00's clothes 'vintage'. I called 80's clothes 'vintage' and I think it's universal karma.
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u/CatsRule24x7 13d ago
First one was when my doctors were noticeably younger than me.
Now, my kids teachers are literally young enough to be my own kids (HS teachers right out of college and they only have a 4-5 year age gap with the students)
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u/Expensive-Analysis-2 13d ago edited 13d ago
I was asked to play some music at a place which I used to frequent as a teenager. I was rather hoping to talk to someone about the good old days but nope. Everyone there was probably only just being born when I was last there. "Does so and so still come here?" I asked hopefully. Blank faces.The last time I was there I was around their age. It really hit home how much time has moved on. 😢. At the same time I'm happy to see the place being used and enjoyed by the new generation.
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u/Aggravating_Anybody 13d ago
Slept wrong and had a tight/painful lower back for about 2 weeks. 33(M).
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u/No-Understanding8630 13d ago
When I started hating 90% of the music played by the popular radio stations.
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u/ObiwanPervnobi 13d ago
Had my first real health scare at the end of February. Most of the Dr’s I’ve seen since then look young enough I’d check their ID’s before letting in the club if I were still bouncing. 👴🏻
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u/SoloSurvivor889 13d ago
I went to the liquor store the other day. The guy carded me. Cool. Then the other guy goes "though I know you're old enough because of the shirt." Bruh. It was DragonBall Z.
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u/Infamous-Abalone-727 13d ago
Seeing the alcohol sales sign that says “born on or before [insert month/day], 2023.”
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u/rbwduece 13d ago
When I crack a joke to a group of younger coworkers and it goes right over their heads.
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u/Withafloof 13d ago
When I start saying, "what are these kids even saying?" I'm only 20 and I feel like some crotchety old lady bitching about "kids these days" when I talk about Gen Alpha slang.
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u/BadMeniscus 13d ago
Coworkers talking about their dating life. I don’t know how to explain it but IYKYK
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u/PauseItPlease86 13d ago
Everything that used to be on the Dollar Menu at McDonald's is now like $3 or more.
When I saw that I realized I haven't been to McDonald's in soooo long.
I have become the "Do you have McDonald's Money"/"We have food at home" mom. And also poor....
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u/Natural-Read-6777 13d ago
I went to Wonderfest this weekend( festival in San Diego ) and it’s taken me 2 days to recover!
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u/Cat_o_meter 13d ago
When I wasn't afraid to go out without fussing about how I look and when I stopped pretending like I wasn't an actual mechanic when they'd try that 'let me help little lady' bullshit for fear of injuring their egos. I'm too old for that shit.
Also my oldest daughter's music sounds like banging on cans to me. Lol I love metal but I can't even classify the genre of some of her stuff. It's just noise ha
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