35 years old? | TheaterFire

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WWWdotCreedThoughts_@reddit

The kid I babysat for at 20 now has a kid. The kid looks just like her when she was a kid. It blows my mind.

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Repulsive-Tea6974@reddit

Your classmate could also be a great-grandmother. Let that sink in.

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Responsible_Bus2122@reddit

I also graduated in 1990. And I do know people my age who are great grandparents.

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formercotsachick@reddit

I realized the other day that I made my mom a grandmother at 48!

My husband and I are 54 and will probably never be grandparents, which we're actually more than fine with. I'm actually enjoying seeing my daughter's friends on FB have kids - it's all the cuteness with zero responsibility.

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elphaba00@reddit

My grandmas were 45 and 52 when I was born. And for the 52-year-old, I was her last grandchild. My oldest cousin was born right when Grandma turned 45. So I am now older than both of my grandmothers when they first had grandkids, and I am nowhere close to being one. My oldest (19) would have to actually engage in conversation with a girl, and the youngest says she won't have kids unless they come out already 10 years old. She does not like babies.

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formercotsachick@reddit

My daughter is engaged to another woman, and there's no way they'd go to the efforts it would take for them to conceive. The best part is they can't have an oops baby either.

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mcsangel2@reddit

I also graduated in 1990 and my H and I don’t have kids. I’m freaked out enough about my classmates that are grandparents now, don’t be telling me we could be GREAT grandparents now!

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MooseValuable3158@reddit

Class of 90, too. I’m a recent grandma, but it was weird seeing my classmates become grandparents.

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FourteenPancakes@reddit

A friend from HS got pregnant right after graduation. I looked her up on facebook a few years back and her daughter had a daughter at like 16 years old. Her mother was also a young mother

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bloodsoed@reddit

Knew a girl that got knocked up when she was 15 in the 9th grade. She had twins and got married to a 28 year old guy right before her sophomore year.

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WonderingMichigander@reddit

That’s not knocked up, that’s married off to the child predator who assaulted her. That’s the kind of shit people do to make it look like it’s okay when it never was.

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doglady1342@reddit

My sister was a grandma at 38.

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sidewaysbynine@reddit

My sister was 36, I didn't become a grandpa until I was 50

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Missmbb@reddit

So many people I went to high school with are grandparents (class of 88), but I’m just sitting here like

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Jillybean323@reddit

Same. But I still have one in HS. 31, 26, 17.

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MsChanandelarBong@reddit

Mine are 37, 34 and 32. No grandkids in my future either 😕

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Missmbb@reddit

Mine are also 31 and 26.

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reachers_toothbrush@reddit

I'm now a great uncle. I have accepted that I will never have kids and that the 25% of my DNA will live on in my nieces.

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Jolwi@reddit

My brother became a FATHER at 50! He’s chasing a 1 year old around. LOL!!!

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sidewaysbynine@reddit

Hard pass on that noise, lol

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ratsta@reddit

As the saying goes, the apple does not fall far from the tree. My uncle's family is similar. He married young, is in the home straight to 90 now and his great granddaughter is now a mid teenager.

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anosmia1974@reddit

This reminds me of a classmate who had a baby a month or two before we graduated (in 1992). This classmate now has 10 grandkids at age 51, which just blows my mind. But she has a good medical career and her three kids all seem happy and grounded, so it all works out in the end. It just freaks me out that people my age are grandparents and maybe even great grandparents!

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ComprehensiveAd8815@reddit

Mine is… she was a grandmother at 30… we are now 49

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genghis_Sean3@reddit

I have told my kids (2b 1g) that I am too young to be married to a grandmother.

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Repulsive-Tea6974@reddit

I would be the cool 😎 gramps pickin up the grandkids from school. Or I’d be asked to come to the principal’s office.

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reachers_toothbrush@reddit

KMFDM...based.

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KurtStation68@reddit

👍 for rocking chains and the KMFDM!

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BojanaKingsFakeTumor@reddit

Lou Reed?

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Tpellegrino121@reddit

Yeah, I have been fucking a grandma, but I’ve been fucking her since she was 18. Only became grandma at 56

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Aynitsa@reddit

Rude

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Oxjrnine@reddit

I’m from a small town. Lots of my classmates are grand parents

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yagirlsamess@reddit

My friend made her grandmother a great-grandmother at 48

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joyableu@reddit

Classmate of mine (88) is a great grandma and the g-grand is in kinder. Another classmate has a kindergartener herself. Wild.

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ridelikeagurl@reddit

Class of 02 - I had a 25 year old hitting on me at the gym. All my girlfriends were like 'go get that 25 year old D!' Then, I did the math and I could have birthed him. If I had gotten pregnant with my HS boyfriend and politely declined. Also, shout out to parents who put their high schoolers on birth control!

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MuppetRejected@reddit

My bubby from high-school was a grandpa twice be he hit 50

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TotallyFarcicalCall@reddit

Not abnormal only a few generations ago.

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Revolutionary_Bet118@reddit

You are cruel. Thanks for ruining my Sunday. 😂

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GiganticusVaginacus@reddit

Make sure you get to Denny's on time for their early bird dinner.

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JustHere4ThaCmmnts@reddit

Bwahahahaha!!!

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Mediocre-Cry5117@reddit

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UnicornFarts1111@reddit

My GenX sister is....

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IWearCleanUnderpants@reddit

Class of 86 here. My daughter was born in 87 and will be turning 38 in 2 weeks. I am feeling OLD.

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nowandnothing@reddit

There was a girl in my class that was pregnant at this exact time.

I also know a couple of other girls who were pregnant by 17 so they could get a house and never have to work.

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OperaBunny@reddit

I've been a long time sports fan, and now when I watch these athletes and knowing that in sports at a certain age, you're considered up there at "35" and over, and it only occurred to me now that I've been watching millennial and up and coming Gen Z athletes.

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Random0s2oh@reddit

The 2yo toddler who attended my high school graduation in 1986 is going to turn 41 next month. I suddenly feel really old.

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MNPS1603@reddit

I graduated in 1994, one of my classmates had a baby a week before graduation. That baby is now 31 and has a baby of her own. I actually have several 1994 classmates that are grandparents and have been for at least a decade. Blows my mind as a childless person.

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ToughCareer4293@reddit

I don’t have to…my son is 35. Thanks to him and my DIL, I have a 5 yo grandson and a granddaughter due any day now.

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harmospennifer@reddit

Why, why did you just make me think about that? Class of 1990 too…

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AlternativePoet3943@reddit

Class of 90 here. We had a girl (a classmate) miss graduation bc she was giving birth.

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Rude_Parsnip306@reddit

I graduated in 1990 - my oldest son is 31 with a 9 year old and a 6 year old. We both had kids too young.

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Oxjrnine@reddit

In 2014 I got a facebook msg on a Sunday when I was having a cuddle weekend in bed with my new boyfriend. It was an old classmate asking if I would like to help organize our 25th high school reunion. We texted for awhile and I got excited about the idea.

I put the phone down and snuggled with my boyfriend and said “I just got asked to organize my ‘Class of 89’ reunion”

He responded “oh cool, I was born in ‘89”

Things were never the same after that. We broke up a few days later.

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daniel940@reddit

Madonna's baby from Papa Don't Preach just turned 40 and groans every time he gets out of a chair.

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TheChaffeur1982@reddit

Ok, now you're just being cruel at this point. 😬

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FinancialPush2535@reddit

😱

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StellaEtoile1@reddit

My first boyfriend has a 40 year-old daughter. My ex mother-in-law became a grandmother at 36 and my own father became a grandfather at 73 :-)

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truemore45@reddit

Yeah class of 1993.

Most of friends have grandkids. I waited and had kids late now a 4 year old and 9 year old at 50. I got mistaken for a grandparent last week. FML.

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cpbaby1968@reddit

My oldest will be 37 on 11/9. Their oldest will get their driving permit in Dec.

And yet somehow I’m always shocked when I catch my reflection because I’m still 17 in my head.

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LomentMomentum@reddit

Don’t forget the AARP membership.

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Sensitive-Strain-475@reddit

In 1978, my first grade classmate's mother had a baby.

That "baby" is now a grandmother.

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Ministerof-T-C-0Doom@reddit

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DaneDaneBug@reddit

I had a kid at 16. He turned 37 this year.

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Adrift715@reddit

Our wake up call came when my spouse received his 20th high school reunion invitation. They were compiling a class booklet and asked him to fill out a questionnaire ahead of time. One question was how many grandchildren he had, excuse me how is that even feasible. We had just gotten our youngest child out of diapers. But we did the math and yes he was old enough to be someone’s grandfather.

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AZPeakBagger@reddit

There was a girl that showed up to freshmen orientation at my high school with her baby in tow back in 1981. That kid is at least 45 years old now.

My cousin knocked up his girlfriend as a junior in high school and his child made the same mistake. So he was a grandfather by the time he was 40 and at 58 is now a great-grandfather.

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ernurse748@reddit

The baby I tended as my first official babysitting job is now an oral surgeon with a DMD/OMS. The day I got her dental school graduation announcement, I felt like a fossil.

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ZenJenM@reddit

I graduated early in 1988, but was supposed to be class of 1990. My son turns 30 next year.

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ohfrackthis@reddit

I already have a grandson lol

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Pumpnethyl@reddit

Wow! My son is 34, class of 85, he was born when I was 24, almost 25. She was a senior? We had pregnant students in my graduating class. Those children are now 40? Shit!

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linx0003@reddit

Good! They’ll be a better president than the one we have now!

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Level-Worldliness-20@reddit

35 is the new 25 since most are still living with their parents.

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Absotivly_Posolutly@reddit

C/O 91 here.

That baby I fathered in 11th grade is old enough to be president of the United States.

Instead, he became an Eagle Scout, graduated high school with honors, graduated college magna cum laude (debt free btw), works at the world headquarters of the company I’ve been with for 30 years AND blessed me with two incredibly handsome Grandsons!

It’s gonna be ok.

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chinacatlady@reddit

Well done!

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Absotivly_Posolutly@reddit

Thanks! I’d love to take all of the credit, but his momma did ok, too.

Even though we split after a few years, we always worked together towards his best interest.

She made it to see most of his successes and one of her grandsons before succumbing to cancer 4 years ago.

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chinacatlady@reddit

😢

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wophi@reddit

Class of 92 here, and my kid is 10.

You can come down off that ledge now...

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Good_With_Tools@reddit

I'd vote them right now.

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Over-Direction9448@reddit

Class of 89 , yes it’s mind blowing

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Madrona88@reddit

58 and my kids are even close to having kids.

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cpav8r@reddit

Gee, thanks for pointing that out. (Member of the class of ‘80.)

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Vegaprime@reddit

Had my 1st kid at 17, she's now 31 and my boss at work.

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Round_Ad8947@reddit

Trina. End of sixth grade party. People goaded us to go kiss in the bushes. I was too shy/chicken/clueless. A year later Trina was pregnant.

I always consider that the second bullet I dodged.

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Ambitious_Unit1310@reddit

Or that 1990 was closer to the Original Woodstock (1969) than today is from Woodstock 99! How about that?

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activelyresting@reddit

If Back To The Future were made today Marty would travel back to 1995. Coolio's Gangstas Paradise would be playing in the diner.

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the_real_Beavis999@reddit

Would Marty being flying red or blue colors?

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activelyresting@reddit

Purple obviously. Like his underwear

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the_real_Beavis999@reddit

Nice recall!!

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activelyresting@reddit

I'm not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing that I know those movies so well 😅

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Vermonter-in-Exile@reddit

And the Future scene in BTTF 2 was 10 years ago

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activelyresting@reddit

I'm still waiting for my hoverboard

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Vermonter-in-Exile@reddit

I want a hover car or a “pitbull”

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Away-Ad3792@reddit

That should actually be made. Here is why, instead of the past being more conservative and backwards, the current present is more conservative and backwards. Let THAT sink in.

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activelyresting@reddit

Tbh I think it could be a good movie. Marty sits at the family table and sees his uncle playing Doom 2 on the family PC, comments about it, the kid asks how he could know the ending and Marty says he has two computers at home. The mother tuts, "oh he's joking, no one has two computers"

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Dramatic_Syllabub837@reddit

That’s crazy, but true.

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Wild_Imagination_238@reddit

That hurt my brain

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Dramatic_Channel52@reddit

You just ruined my day. Football hasn’t even started and here you just fucked it up

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Really-Thats-Silly@reddit

It’s could be worse, you could be a bears fan

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ironeagle2006@reddit

No you could be a Viqueens fan with no quarterback.

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Dramatic_Channel52@reddit

👀

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PurpleGreyPunk@reddit

I had kids at 22 & 30. I could be a grandma several times over by now & I’m not quite 55. Technically my son is engaged to a woman with 2 kids, so I am kind of a grandma now? I think I need to sit down😟👵🏻

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gattboy1@reddit

Did she play the harp? Always wondered what happened to that girl… 🌈

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AnomicAutist@reddit

Class of '90. Just getting started. I have a 2 year old.

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ahutapoo@reddit

I'm class of 84. One of our classmates has a 47 year old.

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Prudent_Charge_8101@reddit

think about it

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CHILLAS317@reddit

I was a counselor for a day camp in 93, a couple years sorry graduated. Our youngest camper was 5 years old. I did the math on that the other day and suddenly felt the need to make sure my will is up to date

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unclejohnnydanger@reddit

It’s crazy to think about. I turn 55 tomorrow, and my youngest is 19yo, and a college sophomore.

My younger sister (by 3 years) has a 31yo son, 29yo daughter, and an 8yo grandson. It still boggles my mind my “baby” sister is a grandmother.

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CrustyBatchOfNature@reddit

My mom had kids starting in 1968 and ending in 1990. She actually has a grandchild older than her youngest child. And a great grandchild older than her two youngest grandchildren. It's all over the place in my family.

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Responsible_Bus2122@reddit

My mom's first child was 1963 and her last was 1989.

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mezcal420@reddit

I’m 56 and have an 8yo son! 😂

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Dangerous_Strength77@reddit

I hope you call her "Gran" every chance you get.

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ironeagle2006@reddit

I'm a class of 93 so I just turned 50. My oldest niece born when I was 8 she's already a grandmother had her first kid at 14 she was being molested by her stepfather very nasty situation were she was literally removed from the house emancipation granted at 14 by a judge. Her son got married when he was 20 made her a grandma at 22. So I became a great great uncle at 44. There's a chance I could make 5 generations.

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chinacatlady@reddit

It’s not easy being a baby and having a baby especially coming from such trauma. My best to her and her family from someone who has been there.

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finnbiker@reddit

May I have at least two classmates that are already grandmothers.

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Parker_Barker_III@reddit

I think about this a lot. I had my first at 23 and she’s going to be 29 soon, which I find unacceptable and baffling. I’m still just a baby!

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chinacatlady@reddit

Same. I had one at 18 and my second at 23. It was not easy but being 52 and empty nest is amazing.

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MountainCry9194@reddit

Legally, yes. But by current standards, they’ve got another 45 years to go.

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Techchick_Somewhere@reddit

Isnt that wild? There was a girl in my grade 9 homeroom who got pregnant at 14 and here’s me now at 56 with a 17 year old. She likely has great grandchildren. 😂

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chinacatlady@reddit

😂😂😂???

Have you considered the that 14 year old girl was probably living through? Most of us who got pregnant in our teens had pretty shitty upbringing with a lot of trauma, risky behavior was a way to seek attention and fill voids that were left by crappy family relationships.

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81632371@reddit

I had one also. Pregnant in 8th grade, gave birth before Christmas 1980. Wow, just realized both mother and kid are both GenX.

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Techchick_Somewhere@reddit

Insane.

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funny_bunny_mel@reddit

I was also a super late bloomer when it comes to starting my family. I’ve been seeing classmates become grandparents for ages, and every time I’m like “Not today, Satan!”

That said, they’re 24 and 19 now, so I figure the clock is ticking for sometime in the next 10 years or so if they decide to have kids at all.

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jackalopeswild@reddit

Likely? I'm sorry but this feels like a very heavily burdened statement.

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ontheroadtv@reddit

Class of 95, classmate who was pregnant at graduation was about to be a great grandmother at our 20th reunion, that kid is turning 10. She’s 48/49 an has a 10 year old great grand kid and if they have a kid at 20 she will be a great great grandmother at 60.

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CandleSea4961@reddit

Son of a bitch. The entire cosmology class (average age 15) got pregnant when I was a sophomore. Daaaaaaang.

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KyOatey@reddit

Wow, that kind of thing seems like it would be far more likely in a cosmetology class than cosmology. All those pregnant future astronomers.

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CandleSea4961@reddit

My bad- but I love it! Slut Astronomers! A nerd’s wild dream!

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KyOatey@reddit

Those nerds ended up running the world.

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CandleSea4961@reddit

They sure do!

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Immediate-Hamster724@reddit

Yes, but I’m sure they were over the moon about it.

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ArclightFrame977@reddit

And in the yearbook they were all voted most likely to conceive.

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jabantik@reddit

Is your refrigerator running? You better go catch it!

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discogenx@reddit

I became a young mom, but out of all of my younger mom friends; I’m of the few that isn’t a grandmother; yet.
(Except for my grandcats).

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MorganFerdinand@reddit

I know someone from high school who had her first kid really young. Later, her youngest child was in school with her oldest grandkid

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Bigzi_B@reddit

I had friends from church who the mom was pregnant with a surprise, #3, and the oldest daughter just had a baby. Both babies were girls, the aunt was actually younger the niece and they did all school years together, one grade apart!

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RedditSkippy@reddit

My grandfather had an uncle like that. His mom was the oldest kid and got pregnant at 16. Meanwhile, his grandmother had a “change of life” surprise baby.

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jtcut2020@reddit

The baby our star volleyball player had with the volleyball Coach is 37 😮 Never saw our volleyball Coach again.

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chinacatlady@reddit

Class of ‘91. I gave birth to my son a month after graduation. He is 34, a licensed CPA and two children 2 and 4. I went to college when he started college and we both graduated with honors and went on to get masters degrees at the same time. He is transitioning to be the CFO of the 7 figure company my daughter (29) and I founded in 2021.

I am pretty sure this is not what my classmates expected but here we are. Living our best lives. Me splitting my time between Spain and Italy and my two kids raised by a single mom are well educated, in healthy relationships and contributing to society.

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bobj33@reddit

I had a coworker that was a grandfather at 41.

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RedditSkippy@reddit

I can remember reading a birth announcement in my hometown newspaper for a couple with whom I had graduated high school. They were 20/21. At the same time they had a newborn, I was packing my bags to go off for a semester in the UK. I still remember thinking, “Wow, I’m glad that I’m not them!”

From what I can tell, they’re still together, they had a couple more kids (who are much younger than their firstborn!) and they’re doing well.

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TripThruTimeandSpace@reddit

My oldest son is 35 with 2 kids. My younger son is a stepfather and a step grandfather making me a great grandmother. 😳

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ProtozoaPatriot@reddit

Meanwhile when I was 35, I was still 6 years away from having my child.

Everyone's journey through life is different.

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JacquieTorrance@reddit

In the 90s we were closer to when Hitler shot himself, than kids today are to when ET was released.

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Mobile-Boss-8566@reddit

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steveh_2o@reddit

I went to a small K-8 school with combined classes some years. Girl in the class behind me had a baby between 7th and 8th grade. This would have been 1982.

I still live local. I saw her last night at a BBQ. She is still with the 1982 baby daddy. They have lived in the community all this time and are successful folks. Cattle ranchers of the sort that built it themselves instead of taking over a family operation. I think they have some great-grands.

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Mundane_Ad7197@reddit

Class of ‘84 with a 36 year old son and multiple grandkids.

Line forms to the rear, OP.

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Longjumping_Young747@reddit

That's just mean to throw out there. I mean it's bad wnough many of our favorite songs are 40 now.

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newwriter365@reddit

Yeah, I’m the first woman in my family’s lineage to make it to 50yo without becoming a grandmother.

My kids are awesome. They understand the assignment and they execute the plan.

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bonitaappetita@reddit

Yup, I (55f) gave birth 4 days after graduation in 1989. My daughter is now 36. I have a 14-year-old grandchild. The men I date now have children the same age as my grandchildren.

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fnkytwn01@reddit

I'm same class year as well. My son when to prom with us... in utero, Our oldest is 35 too, then 31, 26 and 23, and next year will be our 35th wedding anniversary.

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imleeloodallas@reddit

That sink can come back with a warrant.

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froction@reddit

I would be willing to bet he won't be.

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Aromatic-Relief@reddit

1990 what a great year to graduate.

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FallsOffCliffs12@reddit

The first girl in my class who got pregnant was 14. That was around 1974/75. That kid would be 50 now. She's probably a great-great by now.

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nixtarx@reddit

I dunno why some of us obsess over getting older. I love being old! I never had a full tank of effs to give in the first place, and now I don't have to give hardly any! I do almost all my thinking with the big head, which I thought would be disappointing, but turns out it's liberating! And apologies to those still single or divorced who don't want to be that way, but the oxytocin of a commited, loving long-term relationship squashes the dopamine rush of lust or falling in love like a grape. Being fat, bald and in permanent nuisance-level pain is totally worth it for me.

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tangodelta22@reddit (OP)

You are merely collateral damage to my self harm, friend.

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Finding_Way_@reddit

Stop elder bullying us!!