If you don't want folks to think you're old, stop using words like "Folks" (restaurant, mother)
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I don't think using "folks" is too horrible compared to some others I hear seniors use: My mother still refers to the hair salon as the "beauty parlor" and her purse as her "pocketbook". These are some terms that you only hear older people using. When was the last time your wife, GF, daughter, etc. said she needed to go to the "beauty parlor"? LOL.
Any other archaic words or phrases you've caught yourself saying you wish you could take back?
I use the term myself, at times, and I am in my 40s. Inability to spell 4 and 5 letter words that should have been mastered by 4th grade (then/than; they're/their/there....just for starters) bothers me a lot more.
My late mother always referred to her own parents as "the folks" for as long as I can remember. My father never used the term (he was several years older than my mother and from a different part of the U.S.)...I think it's a charming term, personally; I've never noticed whether I use it much or at all.
/I pretty much say what I want. I do think I keep my speaking "youngish" (I'm going to be 60), but I refuse to, like, let myself, like, fall into this, like, habit, of, like, saying 'like' all the time. If there's nothing else that makes a person sound stupid, it's using the word 'like' every other second./
Oh, there's another. That's starting every sentence with "I mean. . ." I always assume unless you are a habitual liar whatever comes out of your mouth is what you mean.
How about when people say grab me a kleenex NO it's tissue.
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