You know you're getting older when........

[marmar]

..... you ask a group of kids if they want to play Monopoly, and they respond. "What's that?"


I take part in this after-school mentoring program in the Detroit Public Schools - I work with the children on sharpening their writing skills - and I took Monopoly with me today for a little educational fun after the writing lesson was done. When I got the game out, the kids, all middle schoolers, looked at me like I had three heads.

Mon dieu! If it can't be downloaded, they want no part of it. I'm a GenXer, but today I felt really ancient.

[skygazer]

1. Okay, that's just wrong

I wonder where that comes in on the Rapture Ready Index. :scared:

[Lyric]

2. Weird kids. I feel sorry for them.

My 8-year-old is an extremely proficient Monopoly player (as well as Clue, Operation, Sorry, etc.) And we use actual BOARD games, not the computerized versions.

Be assured, not all modern kids are so deprived as those kids are.

:hi:

[Phentex]

19. Same here but some of the new versions are good...

We were surprised at how much fun one of the new "Clue" games is. Just enough tweaks to make it harder for the older set.

Electronic Monopoly seems to take more time than the old version and the kids lose out on having to do math to figure things out.

[Sequoia]

23. I found a Planet Earth version on sale after Christams for $12 !!!

[Fire1]

3. They do like card games, chess and checkers.

[abq e streeter]

4. an entire 6 th grade gifted class had never heard of Kurt Cobain

[Jamastiene]

10. Those poor children.

They are truly deprived. RIP Kurt.

[Sequoia]

22. That's is really, really bad.

[elleng]

5. you realize this is YOU!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnj6NxU4WHo&feature=related

[TK421]

6. Were they like "Dude...you gotta actually move things around on a board with your hands"?

yeah...I can feel your frustration with that

[Jamastiene]

11. I'll admit that since I discovered Solitaire and Free Cell on the computer,

I no longer bother with real cards.

[TK421]

16. Free cell takes up at least a third of my work day anymore

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

17. I'm John

and I'm addicted to Free Cell................ :)

[Esra Star]

35. If you like "Freecell" you won't believe "Spider Solitaire"..nt

[madinmaryland]

7. someone is...

WALKING ON YOUR FUCKING LAWN.

GET OFF THE LAWN, RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!!!

[begin_within]

8. No Monopoly? How will they ever learn to be good little capitalist pigs?

[abq e streeter]

24. I played a lot of monopoly and didn't end up a capitalist pig

however the "you have to take two hits of hash every time you pass go" rule may have had something to do with that. Didn't take too many spins around the board for the "message" and everything else to get pretty damn confusing...Come to think of it, you know you're getting old when no one under 35 or 40 has even ever heard of hashish. ( poor bastards)

[Jamastiene]

9. You have to make a sound to stand up or sit down.

I do, both ways. I sigh when I sit down and whimper when I stand up. It's never pretty. zOMG, everything hurts and I'm only 38. I sure enjoyed slam dancing and head banging a lot when I was younger. I'm glad I got to enjoy something before all this damn pain set into my bones. :cry:

[nadine_mn]

13. the sound I make is usually just gas...nt

[harmonicon]

12. you want to know something else?

Paul's Boutique is 20 years old this year. Yeah.

[SeattleGirl]

14. So, are they going to change their name to Paul's Oldtique?

:rofl:

[Sky Masterson]

15. You use terms like

"Course back then"
"He's a nice kid" when referring to someone in their early 20's

[raccoon]

18. You can remember back half a century. nt

[Serial Mom]

20. When a kid behind the counter doesn't know what a half dollar looks like!

Now that makes me feel old!

[old mark]

21. ...when the young woman at the supermarket checkout calls you

"Sir."

mark

[dembotoz]

25. you have your son with you and the checkout person asks about your grandchild

It is not like he is an infant--he is about 6ft tall.

But the one that really really really got me
was when i was sitting at a picnic with my mother
to meet my oldest son's soon to be inlaws-and this guy comes
up to my mom and me and says "So you must be Andy's Grandparents"

[JitterbugPerfume]

26. your daughter in law called you "elderly"

and did not mean it as an insult

when you panic if you don't poop every day

when your friends grandchildren have babies--when YOUR grandchildren have babies

when you hurt in places that you didn't used to have places

when strangers offer to help you with packages, doors etc


when you exhaust system and your radiator leaks A LOT

[BuelahWitch]

33. Yeah, checkout clerk: "Do you need help out with (the four bags of groceries)?"

No honey, I'll just push the cart out by m'self. It can sub for a walker...:eyes:

[jobycom]

27. when you don't wake up dead. Otherwise, you are getting older.

[SCantiGOP]

28. best definition

And it happened to me several years ago: when you don't have a clue who either the host or the musical guest is on Saturday Night Live.

[Left Is Write]

29. You have arthritis in your knees.

[tigereye]

30. people open doors for you, and want to carry things for you

:wow: I camly tell them thank you, but I'm 50, not dead, and that I used to carry amplifiers.

[no name no slogan]

31. ....things start falling off of you, and they won't go back on?

:(

[Cabcere]

32. ...your local "classic rock" station starts playing songs that came out after you were born.

:scared:

(I'm 23, btw.)

[old mark]

34. Just wait, 23 - classic rock now seems to include stuff

released after I already became old....


mark

[Cabcere]

38. My mom said

that she knew she was getting old when the classic rock station no longer played stuff from before she was born. :hi:

[applegrove]

36. You used to have a great lateral memory and now it doesn't work very well.

[texas1928]

37. The day a Friend and I who are the same age were talking about "The Boss"

And a coworker asked "Who?"

[madrchsod]

39. when young people started calling me "sir"...

[foxfeet]

40. When your chest pains

turn out to be you standing on your own nipple.

[OmahaBlueDog]

41. I was old the moment it hit me "I'm old enough to be the father of that Hooters girl"

..of course it really didn't matter, because I only go there for the wings ;-)