How You Know You Are Getting Older!!

[sleepyone]

I'm 30 years old. The other day, while spraying my dd8's hair, she asked, "What did you use before they had hairspray?"

 

[lovinwdw]

Funny - there are places in the city with tables and there are some places around here I heard of that have leagues!! YES LEAGUES!!!!!

Wow...I had no idea it was such a big thing. We have been playing that since we were ummmmmmmm...21. Yeah Yeah...21. We just play in our basement now. Never had a league thing going. Just for fun. It is really funny when people start getting mad and fling the ball, knocking over the cups with the beer in it!!

 

[smallblock72]

I know age is getting me when a young hottie calls me "Sir"................

That sucks doesn't it!

 

[stinkerbelle]

ok - for those that missed some other references...
"flip cup"...also called "canoe races" (why - I have no clue, we called "bear pong" "Beruit" for some reason). Any who - you line up each time on each side of a long table. Fill up their (red plastic) cup with beer...on your mark, get set, GO! people at teh head chug their cup, put it "bottom side down" hanging a bit off the table. then attempt to flip it up into the mouth-side down position.

"Chandeliers' - is this like "waterfalls"?...line up people (no teams, this is just to tick people off)...everyone starts drinking at the same time...the person next to you can't stop drinking until you do. Sucks if you are at the end! hehehe

Ever do a power hour? shot of beer every minute for an hour? doesn't seem bad...the minutes drag by so slowly...then they are super fast at teh end...makes you wonder how most of us graduated frmo college, eh?

 

[ashjohnson80]

For some reason this game has turned into a crazy cultish obsession at most colleges. It's huge bragging rights to say you were "on table" for 2 hours or something crazy like that. Usually those who are really really good at it keep a beer or two on the "sidelines" to keep themselves "hydrated" during games.

I was always just lucky if I could get a guy to play with me who knew what he was doing!!


Now Chandeliers on the other hand... is a CRAZY game.

I lived off campus the whole time in college so maybe that's why I don't know about it. Either that or my friends and I just tried to get boozed up as quickly as possible... either way....

Yeah I've been ma'amed a couple of times recently. I think I must have aged a lot in the past year, looks wise, last year everyone though I was in high school and now I"m being ma'amed and not carded and stuff. It's kind of freaking me out.

 

[Minniespal]

I knew I was getting old the first time I ran into a kid I babysat and he had a kid in school!

 

[KarenAylwood]

"Chandeliers' - is this like "waterfalls"?...line up people (no teams, this is just to tick people off)...everyone starts drinking at the same time...the person next to you can't stop drinking until you do. Sucks if you are at the end! hehehe

Ever do a power hour? shot of beer every minute for an hour? doesn't seem bad...the minutes drag by so slowly...then they are super fast at teh end...makes you wonder how most of us graduated frmo college, eh?

We used to do power hours to pregame before going out I'd probably make it about 20 minutes now!! We even replaced beer w/ hard cider to make it "kick" a little more. What was so fun was that my friend was really into burning CDs and she made us all power hour CDs. Each song played for a minute exactly so there were 60 songs on a CD. So much fun and you didn't have to worry about watching a clock or anything!!

Chandeliers... the deal is that everyone sits around a table and everyone has a cup (they form a circle) and there is a cup in the middle. [Solo cups are a little too big, the clear regular cups that hold a bout 12 oz are good] Add a little beer to each cup (approx 1/3) including the middle cup. Then each person gets a turn w/ the quarter- you hit it on the table and try to flip it into a cup.

Whosever cup it lands in, has to drink it. If it lands in the middle cup, everyone has to take their own cup and chug it as fast as they can. The last person to slam their cup down on the table has to drink the one in the middle.

I tended to tap out pretty quickly on this one!

 

[stinkerbelle]

We used to do power hours to pregame before going out I'd probably make it about 20 minutes now!! We even replaced beer w/ hard cider to make it "kick" a little more. What was so fun was that my friend was really into burning CDs and she made us all power hour CDs. Each song played for a minute exactly so there were 60 songs on a CD. So much fun and you didn't have to worry about watching a clock or anything!!

ok - we TOTALLY went to the same college!
power hours were also "pregames" to going out! heheh
and I had a friend that did music to minutes...but that was just WAY too hard to follow once you were on the 'back 20" heheheh

3 years ago a friend and I attempted one...then it was a power half hour...then it was a "bleep this, we're too old for this bleep"

hehehe

 

[CapeCodTenor]

I'm 30 years old. The other day, while spraying my dd8's hair, she asked, "What did you use before they had hairspray?"

Ok, that one hurts.

For me I knew I was getting old when I was talking to a kid, in his teens, about that alien autopsy(sp?) video that surfaced a few years back, the one about the UFO crash at Roswell, NM (I'm from Roswell, NM). Well, I told him that I didn't think it was real because there was a rotary telephone on the wall, and that Roswell didn't have those back then. He looked at me and said, "What's a rotary telephone." To which I replied, "You have to put your finger in a small wheel and turn this wheel in order to dial the number." He then said, "Oh, I know what that is...my grandmother has one of those." I thought to myself...wow! I'm getting old...and I'm only 35!!!

 

[Mishetta]

Here's another way to feel really old...

I was dusting our entertainment unit & my DS 10 was in the room. He saw me open one of the doors & he saw all my albums. He asked "what are those?" I said "oh, those are my albums." He then asked "what are albums?" So I explained it to him & he wanted to see one. So I pulled one out (Bee Gees) & he pulled the album out of it's sleeve & looked at it & touched it & said "wow...cool!" His next question was "so how do you fit it in a CD Player?" I was too hurt to explain the "record player."

 

[GeorgeG]

Oh, there are so many ways...

The one that comes to mind at the moment is that I have a grandson who is a United States Marine Corporal.

Even more scary is that I could become a great grandfather a few years down the road. Life is good, but it goes by so fast.

 

[Jen_in_NH]

I started feeling old when 2 of us at work were talking about bands we miss, and I mentioned Mr. Mister and Kyrie. The third kid that works with us comes out with "I've heard of them. They were on I Love the 80s"

Jen