Winston Smith | 11 Aug 2018 9:07 a.m. PST |
1. When ball players retired who were 10 years younger than I was. |
peterx | 11 Aug 2018 9:23 a.m. PST |
When My kids had to lean over to kiss me. When my grey hairs in my beard outnumbered my brown hairs. When my trick knee starts acting up. When I forget to take my meds. |
jeffreyw3 | 11 Aug 2018 9:23 a.m. PST |
It started with losing a lot of musicians from my era, and was cemented yesterday when I learned that Teri Garr just turned 73…sigh… |
skippy0001 | 11 Aug 2018 9:29 a.m. PST |
Pain. It hurt to reach and move a figure or counter. |
robert piepenbrink | 11 Aug 2018 9:35 a.m. PST |
Well, second time through basic training. Turns out it's a lot easier at 19 than at 31. Then the time I heard my PT grader comment to the Sergeant Major "look at that old man out there, still trying to do PT." I'd have been 37. After that, a long spell in analysis where what I thought of as current events kept turning out to be history no one else knew. ("We had a base there? What war was that, Robert?") That one just kept getting worse until I turned in my papers. |
witteridderludo | 11 Aug 2018 9:36 a.m. PST |
The first time my barber ended my haircut by trimming the ears growing out of my ears. |
etotheipi | 11 Aug 2018 9:41 a.m. PST |
I knew I was an adult the day the judge said, "Son, I'm going to try you as an adult." |
dilettante | 11 Aug 2018 9:44 a.m. PST |
witteridderludo, Yeah, I remember that too.:( |
BrockLanders | 11 Aug 2018 9:46 a.m. PST |
When people would talk about the latest hot young actor or pop act and I had no clue who they were talking about |
eddy1957 | 11 Aug 2018 9:54 a.m. PST |
I visited Waterloo a couple of weeks ago, and I got a discount for being 60+. Made me think. |
rustymusket | 11 Aug 2018 10:02 a.m. PST |
When my shoulder hurt when I threw a football to my granddaughter when she was 12. Actually now that she is 25 and I exercise regularly, the shoulder does't hurt. |
Grelber | 11 Aug 2018 10:28 a.m. PST |
When I found out I would be covered by the federal law preventing age discrimination in just a few days. @*%!#! government! What right did they have to tell me I was old? Grelber |
Wackmole9 | 11 Aug 2018 10:53 a.m. PST |
When I started talking about places that had been torn down long ago. |
Flashman14 | 11 Aug 2018 11:24 a.m. PST |
48 years this month – not yet. |
Gunfreak | 11 Aug 2018 11:29 a.m. PST |
When I made that aaaahhh sound when you get up and down from a chair. So about 17. |
napthyme | 11 Aug 2018 11:40 a.m. PST |
Same here Gunfreak. 16 is when I noticed as my health had already taken a nose dive, well what health I ever had at least. |
Oberlindes Sol LIC | 11 Aug 2018 11:57 a.m. PST |
When I noticed that if I were dating a girl half my age, it would be totally legal. |
Ceterman | 11 Aug 2018 12:14 p.m. PST |
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Ferd45231 | 11 Aug 2018 12:36 p.m. PST |
When I found topics like this one interesting. And I do. H |
Vigilant | 11 Aug 2018 12:43 p.m. PST |
I'm not old, I've just been around longer than some. |
Doctor X | 11 Aug 2018 12:51 p.m. PST |
I have not aged at all. Everyone else has though. I'm still 25… |
Perris0707 | 11 Aug 2018 1:02 p.m. PST |
When everything started to annoy me. |
pogany | 11 Aug 2018 1:16 p.m. PST |
wha ? who ? Where is my oatmeal. I'm not old, I just can't remember…………….now what was I talking about ? |
brave face | 11 Aug 2018 1:50 p.m. PST |
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dampfpanzerwagon | 11 Aug 2018 2:04 p.m. PST |
When I looked in the mirror and instead of seeing my Father, I saw my Grandfather! Thanks for that. Tony |
Shagnasty | 11 Aug 2018 2:16 p.m. PST |
It hit me when I automatically received a discount on coffee at MacDonalds. |
mumbasa | 11 Aug 2018 2:49 p.m. PST |
When you asked the question. Thanks a lot, Winston :( |
14Bore | 11 Aug 2018 2:52 p.m. PST |
When it's hard to get moving after being still for awhile, feel like the Tin Man needing a oil can |
bsrlee | 11 Aug 2018 4:05 p.m. PST |
When I couldn't read the street numbers in a street directory. Happened over a week or so, seems I'm in one of the medically small groups where my eyes get long sighted in bursts rather than gradually like most people. And if you are on my lawn, you had better be pushing the lawn mower….. |
Dave Schmid | 11 Aug 2018 4:29 p.m. PST |
When middle aged woman hold the door open for me. |
Kevin C | 11 Aug 2018 8:16 p.m. PST |
This year I turned 50 and was able to join AARP for all of the discounts. I still don't feel old. The great thing was when I joined AARP, I was able to get a membership for my wife who is 21 years younger than me. So even though I don't feel old, I can still refer to my wife as "the Old Lady." |
gamertom | 11 Aug 2018 9:00 p.m. PST |
When people started asking me this question. |
Herkybird | 12 Aug 2018 1:27 a.m. PST |
When women stop thinking you are coming on to them when you are just talking to them! |
David Manley | 12 Aug 2018 2:06 a.m. PST |
When I was discussing warship design lessons learnt from the Falklands with my trainees and they said they weren't even born when the Falklands happened |
JimDuncanUK | 12 Aug 2018 6:33 a.m. PST |
I recently had cancer surgery so I saw a few senior doctors and consultants. The bossman had 30+ years of relevant expertise and he looked so young compared to myself. He kept calling me Sir. Not many folk call me Sir. |
Legion 4 | 12 Aug 2018 7:12 a.m. PST |
Can't remember when … wait … what was the question ? |
Huscarle | 12 Aug 2018 9:38 a.m. PST |
When your hair disappears from your head & appears in places that you don't want it. Sports injuries take so much longer to recover from. Why don't they tell you that those sports injuries you got in your youth will come back to haunt you in your 40s+? I may feel like I haven't changed, but my body is so much slower to react. One becomes inured to all of those constant aches & pains, but my poor knees (courtesy of playing rugby) ache so, especially in wet weather. Now when I play football (soccer) I'm quite happy to go in goal for most of the game. I have to remind myself I'm closer to 60 than 50 now Just about all my movie star heroes/heroines from my youth are dead or folks have never heard of them. The same for favourite TV shows. |
PzGeneral | 12 Aug 2018 10:40 a.m. PST |
About 20 years ago when the adult I was working with told me he wasn't alive during the Apollo Moon missions…. |
Dexter Ward | 12 Aug 2018 2:38 p.m. PST |
when people talk about Warhammer as 'Old School' |
Narratio | 12 Aug 2018 8:21 p.m. PST |
When I realised that almost all I thought of as being current of just a few years back occurred before most of my engineering team was born. |
21eRegt | 13 Aug 2018 6:05 a.m. PST |
When I had to stop and think about bending down to pick something off the floor. |
x42brown | 13 Aug 2018 6:11 a.m. PST |
When my daughter retired. x42 |
Mister Tibbles | 13 Aug 2018 7:06 a.m. PST |
When I realized I'll never be able to make enough money to retire. |
Walking Sailor | 13 Aug 2018 8:06 a.m. PST |
"Dancing In The Streets" The 1985 recording for charity. My daughter referred to it: "by David Bowie and that guy with the lips" YouTube link |
Cacique Caribe | 13 Aug 2018 11:45 a.m. PST |
When the accepted version of history was nothing like the events my family and I actually saw and experienced ourselves. It wasn't just a sign of old age. It was a Twilight Zone moment for us all. Dan |
14th NJ Vol | 13 Aug 2018 4:06 p.m. PST |
When I came home from a con & and was so tired I didn't want to get out of my chair. My wife of course said "how can you be tired all you did was play for 2 days". |
etotheipi | 13 Aug 2018 5:10 p.m. PST |
When I saw the first computer I owned on display in a museum.
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davbenbak | 14 Aug 2018 4:21 a.m. PST |
When I saw a perfectly fine "Frampton Comes Alive" album in the 99 cent bargain bin. I asked the store clerk if it was a mistake and he said, "No, that's old" |
ZULUPAUL | 14 Aug 2018 9:39 a.m. PST |
When I started working with the daughters of nurses I had started with. |
Howler | 15 Aug 2018 1:13 p.m. PST |
When my wife told me I looked and walked like an old man. |