There’s a good explanation why many people, especially adults, feel younger than they actually are. It’s a phenomenon called ‘subjective age,’ which proposes that the way we feel inside is very different from the number of years we’ve walked this Earth. That said, no matter how young we feel, we can’t run away from our true age, and some moments in life ensure that we don’t forget that, like seeing a childhood toy in a thrift store or spotting an ‘80s artifact in the wild.
People in this community have shared countless similar moments that made them say, ‘Heck, I’m old,’ which we compiled in a list below. Ready to embark on a bittersweet, nostalgic journey? To start, all you have to do is scroll down!
#1 Old Enough To Have Seen This Commercial When It First Came Out
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#2 Going On A Trip? Better Get Some Travellers Cheques!
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#3 Folding It Back Up Was The Hardest Part Of Using These
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#4 This Was Our Virtual Reality
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#5 Whose Kitchens Had This
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#6 Always Wanted To Work One Of These
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#7 Fotomat
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#8 Pull Down Maps!
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#9 This Is How Freakin’ Old I Am
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#10 Fun Times With Friends Back In The Day
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#11 Found My Old Kite
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#12 Tupperware Popsicles Anyone?
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#13 These Were In Every Comic Book Back In The Day
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#14 When The Power Went Out
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#15 Are You Old Enough To Have Seen In Person The USPS Mail Jeep Classic Edition?
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#16 If You Recall Walking Into Your Classroom And Seeing This Set Up, You Are Definitely Old
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#17 The “Urgent Care” We Had Back Then
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#18 Still Rocking Out
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#19 Before There Was Mastercard, There Was Mastercharge
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#20 Who Remembers?
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#21 Time To Break Out The Tin Foil
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#22 They Still Exist!
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#23 You Are Not Old, Unless You Had A Car With One Of These Clipper Or Vent Windows
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#24 Who Remembers Using These In The Library???
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#25 Montgomery Ward?
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#26 Did You Have A Set? Almost Every Kid Did
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#27 We Used To Absolutely Fry “Laying Out” Covered With Baby Oil. How We Have Lived This Long Is Beyond Me (Knocks On Wood)
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#28 If You Recognize These Curtains, You’re Old
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#29 If You Didn’t Have One Of These End Tables You Probably Knew Someone Who Did
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#30 If You Played This Game, You Belong Here…
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#31 These Were All The Rage In Grade School
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#32 This Movie Is 40 Years Old. Wasn’t A Big Hit, Probably Because It Didn’t Follow The John Hughes Formula For 80’s Teen Movies, But I Liked It. Plus Helen Slater
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#33 Way Back In The Day
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#34 Who Else Went…
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#35 When These TV Dinners First Came Out They Looked A Lot Like This And They Were Delicious, And What A Help To My Mom Working The Night Shift And Feeding Our Family With Us Two Kids. As Time Went On The Big Corporate Mentality Took Over And They Got Cheaper In Quality And Higher In Price
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#36 What Was Your Favorite School House Rock?
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#37 For Some Reason, I Really Liked This Table As Kid
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#38 I Got This For Christmas When I Was About Ten. I Tried, But I Just Couldn’t Have Any Fun With This, It Was So Limited. Anyone Else?
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#39 Trees Were Our Toys
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#40 Those Baby Dolls Were Thirsty!
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#41 Did Anyone Else Ever Pay To Watch A Coin Operated TV In A Bus Station Or Airport?
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#42 Alright Who Can Guess The Movie
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#43 What The Hell Was A Grape Nut Anyway?
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#44 Pink Bathrooms
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#45 If You Had One Of These In Your Car, You Just Might Be Over The Hill
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#46 I Thought Today’s Watercolor Belonged Here
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#47 Ours Was Red. What Color Was Your Chrome Dinette Set?
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#48 Who Doesn’t Know This Guy?
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#49 I Know You Can Hear This
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#50 Ok Who Else Has These Laying Around The House Growing Up?
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#51 Lipton Instant Ice Tea!
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#52 The Things We Did With Our Phones!
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#53 Caddyshack. July 25, 1980. Cinematic History
On this date in 1980, “Caddyshack” was released.
“Scum… slime… menace to the golfing industry. You’re a disgrace and you’re varmints. You’re the lowest members of the food chain and you’ll probably be replaced by the rat.”
After filming ended and the rough-cut came in it was too long, and over two hours had to be cut. This also included key parts of the main plot, and the film made no sense, so more money had to be spent on a mechanical gopher to add extra comic relief and to tie the picture together. Writer/producer Douglas Kenney was adamantly against the final addition of the gopher to the film.
Director Harold Ramis suggested that a live animal play the gopher. Rusty Lemorande had been a professional puppeteer through his college years and convinced the team that only with the kind of control you had with a puppet could the quantity of material be filmed. He searched for a suitable creature builder. Companies such as The Henson Company (which became the premier creature builders in the 1980s) did not yet take outside assignments, so Lemorande contacted friends at Walt Disney Imagineering for help. One of the Disney theme park creature designers, Jeff Burke, was willing to create the character but only on a moonlight basis. Lemorande drew a simple sketch, indicating the range of movement the puppet would require and Burke fleshed out the remainder of the creature’s design with further input from Lemorande. The gopher rod and hand puppet sat in Lemorande’s office for weeks. During that time producers Kenney, Jon Peters and Ramis would come into the office to play with the creature, trying to figure out how to integrate it into the film.
The noises that the Gopher makes are actually vocalized by a dolphin, and the dolphin sound effects used are the same ones that were used for the television series “Flipper”.
The reason the scenes of Mr. Gopher’s underground world look better than the rest of the film is because they were filmed on a sound-stage with better quality film stock and cameras rather than on-location, like the majority of the film.
Fun fact: In real life gophers usually stay away from golf courses. The biggest menace to a course is a mole. (IMDb)
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#54 If You Think It’s A Phone, You Don’t Belong Here
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#55 Used To Use One Of These Date Stamps
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#56 You’re Old If You Know What One Of These Are For
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#57 Before LCD, The Cool Kids Had LED
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#58 Anybody Miss This Show?
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#59 Fisher Price Movie Viewer
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#60 The Old Cable Box
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#61 Who Grabbed A Drink Out Of One Of These
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#62 I Just Turned Into A Pile Of Mummy Dust
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#63 Did Anyone Else Intrepidly Brave The Perils Of An Interstate Adventure Aboard One Of These Seedy Dens Of Iniquity Amidst The Stench Of S**tty W**d, Urine, Flatulence, B.o., And Questionable Characters?
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#64 The Older I Get, The More True This Becomes!
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#65 I Used To Love This Show. Thanks Sid And Marty
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#66 Who Owned A Mood Ring In School?
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#67 Digital Clock Pens. Once The Pinnacle Of Sophistication
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#68 If You Watched This You May Have A Touch Of Grey
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#69 When Only Part Of The Cup Was Disposable
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#70 When’s The Last Time You Saw A Lineup Like This?
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#71 I Can’t With This
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#72 The Best Kitchen Device Inventor Of All Time, Anyone Else Recall What The Device Is Named?
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#73 Straight, Left, Right…
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#74 What Happened To Dads Handing Out Cigars In The Hospital After Birth Of Child?
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#75 Young Woman Training Our Office On Our New Phone System Today Said “This Is Your Voicemail Button. It’s An Upside-Down Pair Of Glasses”
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#76 They Sounded Just Like The Record, Too
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#77 Anyone Else Required To Take A Bath Towel To Kindergarten To Sleep On During “Nap Time”?
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