Every time someone hands me their ID and their DOB is 1990 or 1991, and I can legally serve them. I remember when I only looked for a "99" in the year and serving them if there wasn't. Ever single time, I still think to myself when I get a 1991 "haha, I love rejecting punk kids..... wait, aaaaawwww." Also, at 26 years old myself, I feel like I'm about to cross the threshold of whether or not it's socially acceptable to fuck an 18 year old. I've definitely crossed the line for dating one.
I'm always looking for way to make my sister feel old every birthday. At 25, it was "wow.... you need a second box of candles for your cake?". At 32 it was this on her facebook wall: http://cdn.someecards.com/someecards/filestorage/happy-sweet-sixteen-birthday-ecard-someecards.jpg And it looks like this year I get to remind her that The Little Mermaid, her favorite childhood movie, came out closer to the moon landing than to present day.
I will turn 40 in December. I still play vball and basketball with the mid-20s crowd, and I still more than hold my own. The difference between my mid-20s and now? I used to be able to show up, play for 4 hours, go home, shower, go out to eat/drink with my buddies. Now, I have to show up, warm up, stretch, warm up more, take it easy the first game, play for 2 hours, cool down, go home, take a super hot shower, 4 motrin, and pray that Tonka and the kids don't decide it's "Let's tackle Dad!" night.
Only one more season until I can look down at an 18 year old rookie and say "I've been playing A-side rugby longer than you've been alive."
Davy Jones died and I am probably the only one on this board who not only watched the Monkees on first run prime time in the 60s, but also they were the first records I ever bought. Umm, yeah records, they are made of vinyl, spin on a record player, you have to put a needle on them to play. Ahh forget it.
Apparently Justin Bieber is turning 18 today. Holy god, he was born three years after my little sister.
David Bowie. He had to change his name because a diminutive heart throb was way more popular than him at the time.
Here's something else to make some of us feel old: The following albums are twenty years old this year. I arranged the more well known ones first, followed by stuff that only dweebs like me would give a crap about. For perspective, in 1992 the following albums were 20 years old: Black Sabbath's Vol 4, Elf's first album (Dio singing country rock), and Led Zeppelin IV. Alice in Chains--Dirt Megadeth--Countdown to Extinction Pantera--Vulgar Display of Power Black Sabbath--Dehumanizer Body Count--S/T Dream Theater--Images and Words Fear Factory--Soul of a New Machine Iron Maiden--Fear of the Dark Ministry--Psalm 69 Kiss--Revenge Stone Temple Pilots--Core WASP--The Crimson Idol Cannibal Corpse--Tomb of the Mutilated (Best. Lyrics. Ever.) Amoprhis--The Karelian Isthmus Candlemass--Chapter VI Extreme--III Sides to Every Story Flotsam and Jetsam--Cuatro Kyuss--Blues for the Red Sun Manowar--The Triumph of Steel Mercyful Fate--Return of the Vampire My Dying Bride--Turn Loose the Swans Obituary--The End Complete Paradise Lost--Shades of God Psychotic Waltz--Into the Everflow Spinal Tap--Break Like the Wind Testament--The Ritual Wildside--Under the Influence