Randolph Union High School, Class of 1982: Feeling Old

Feeling Old?

The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born after we graduated.

They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan era.
They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.
Black Monday 1987 is as significant to them as the Great Depression.
Their world has always included AIDS.
Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums and cassette audio tapes; they may have heard
They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan era.
They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.
Black Monday 1987 is as significant to them as the Great Depression.
Their world has always included AIDS.
Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums and cassette audio tapes
They may have heard of an 8-track, but probably never actually seen (or heard) one.
The digital Disc was presented to Wall Street when they were 1 year old.
From their earliest years, a camera was something you used once and threw away.
As far as they know, stamps have always cost about 32 cents or so.
Few, if any, have lived without an answering machine.
Few have used a TV set with only 13 channels.
Some use the word "clickers" for "remote control", yet they do not know why they say it.
They were born the year that Walkmen were introduced by Sony.
The expression "you sound like a broken record" means nothing to them.

Top 25 signs that you've already grown up.

Your potted plants stay alive.
Having sex in a twin sized bed is absurd.
You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to sleep.
You hear your favorite song on an elevator.
You carry an umbrella. You watch the Weather Channel.
Your friends marry and divorce instead of hookup and breakup.
You go from 130 days of vacation time to 7.
Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as 'dressed up'.
You're the one calling the police because those darn kids next door don't know how to turn down the stereo.
Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.
You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.
You feed your dog Science Diet instead of McDonald's.
Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.
You no longer take naps from noon to 6 p.m.
Dinner and a movie - The whole date instead of the beginning of one.
MTV News is no longer your primary source for information.
You go to the drugstore for Ibuprofen and antacids, not condoms and pregnancy test kits.
A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer 'pretty good stuff,'
You actually eat breakfast foods at breakfast time.
Grocery lists are longer than macaroni & cheese, diet Pepsi & Ho-Ho's.
"I just can't drink the way I used to" replaces "I'm never going to drink that much again."
Over 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.
You don't drink at home to save money before going to a bar.

You're probably in your Mid 30's if....

You wore anything Izod, especially those windbreakers that folded up into a pouch you could wear around your waist.
You owned a Jordache anything, or you remember when Jordache jeans were cool.
You remember LeFreak by Chic
In your sophomore class picture, you're wearing an Izod shirt with the collar "up."
"All-skate, change directions" means something to you.
In high school, you and all your friends discussed elaborate plans to get together again at the end of the century and play "1999" by Prince over and over again.
You rode in the back of the station wagon and you faced the cars behind you in the "tail gunner" position.
Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you actually learned the English language.
You ever dressed to emulate a person you saw in either a Duran Duran, Madonna, Rick Springfield, or Cyndi Lauper video.
You actually know who Rick Springfield is.
You're starting to believe (now that it wouldn't affect YOU) that maybe having the kids go to school year-round wouldn't be such a bad idea after all.
You ever wanted to be gagged with a spoon
You know who Bo and Luke Duke are.
There was nothing strange about Bert n' Ernie living together.
You learned to swim about the same time Jaws came out and still carry the emotional scars to this day.
You ever wanted to learn to play "Stairway to Heaven" on the guitar
You were afraid of the Sleestaks on "Land of the Lost."
You ever used the phrase "kiss mah grits" in conversation.
You had ringside seats for Luke and Laura's wedding
You know who shot J.R.
This rings a bell: "and my name is Charlie. They work for me."
You sat with your friends on a Friday night and dialed "8-6-7-5-3-0-9" to see if Jenny would answer.
You owned a pair of Rainbow suspenders just like Mork used to wear.
You remember when your cable TV box had the three rows of numbers and you had to move the selector switch accordingly.
You could sing "99 Red Balloons" in English and in German.
Feathered hair
Your jaw would ache by the time you finished those "brick-sized" packages of Bazooka gum.
The phrase "Where's the beef?" still doubles you over with laughter.
The Brady Bunch movie brought back cool memories
You ever rang someone's doorbell and said "Landshark!"
Three words: Atari, IntelliVision and Coleco, sound familiar (and Tandy)
You remember the days when "safe sex" meant that your parents were gone for the weekend
You remember Friday Night Videos before the days of MTV
A predominant color in your childhood photos is plaid (or stripes in several directions)
You remember when music that was labeled alternative, really was
You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the minivan
You've ever conversationally used the phrase, "Jane, you ignorant slut!"
You watched HR Puffenstuff as a child, but now that you're older, you really understand that it would have been much better had you known about drugs at the time
You've recently horrified yourself by using any one of the following phrases:
When I was younger...
When I was your age...
You know, back when...
You're starting to view getting carded to buy alcohol as a GOOD thing
You can guess the episode of the Brady Bunch from the first scene
You remember, "Hey, let's be careful out there."
You were unsure if Diet Coke would ever catch on after all.
You know all the words to the double album set of Grease
You were too young to go see the Blue Lagoon so you just had to settle for second hand reports
You remember when there was only PG and R none of this PG-13 crap
You actually believed everything Leonard Nimoy told you on "In Search Of..."
If you remember when VCRs cost $2,000
If you remember rotary dial telephones
You actually believed that Mikey, famed for his Life cereal commercials, died after eating a packet of pop rocks and drinking a Coke
The theme song to Greatest American Hero still comes back to you on occasion

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