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What was your "oh god, I'm old" moment? (lazysoci.al)

submitted 5 days ago by CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al to c/ask@lemm.ee

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Mine was seeing a really nice cutlery set and thinking "thats a really nice fork". Also the first time someone made an age joke about me was very tragic.

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[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I was buying beer at one of those places where the cashier had to input your birthdate into the register. The cashier said "Oops, I put a 9 instead of an 8", and then handed me my beer. Suddenly realizing I could drink legally for over a decade made me feel old.

Edit: Now I'm realizing that this story is more than a decade old...

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I finally stopped getting carded a few years ago (I'm 45). Now cashiers will just enter a random date... one person chose to put my birthdate as 1962.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

If it makes you feel better, some stores have a policy not to ID people over 65, so cashiers just put people's age as 65 when they don't want to bother to card someone.