Toy Story turns 27 today

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I’m so old that this doesn’t make me feel old.

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That’s a great way to put it, I’ll borrow it if you don’t mind!

Just this weekend I mentioned, while chatting with a contemporary, something about how Glen Campbell had died “a few years back”. Then I realised I’d done that thing, perhaps familiar to others here, where I self-corrected by adding on the “I’m surely wrong” booster…

That is:

  • In my mind, GC died ooh, maybe last year, 2020 at the longest? So, why didn’t I say that?
  • Because subconsciously I knew, from prior amazing errors, that I was surely underestimating the time that had passed, and hence automatically bumped it up without even thinking about it.

I checked with my peer and he acknowledged, upon consideration, having the same mental tic. Anyone else?

(Fact-check: Mr. Campbell died in 2017!)

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This does not make me feel old. I still feel like I’m 20. My lower back, hip and shoulder disagree though.

Getting new employees who are younger than my kids made me feel old though.

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My daughter saying that the new Doctor’s companion is younger than her made her feel old made me feel old…

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You wanna feel old, they keep putting anniversary dates on my toys!!

Anyway - loved Toy Story when it came out, and it still holds up!

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