"You know you’re getting old when…" Topic

You and your (surviving) friends get together, and the first thing you talk about is your symptoms.
The second thing is your meds.

Your favorite ball player just retired, and he's younger than you.

You're in a card and gift shop, and the "shopping music" is Pink Floyd's Brick in the Wall.

You and some of your buddies remember playing those cool new Avalon Hill or SPI wargames in the mid-1970s.

Hexes. Counters. And miniatures in the USA were Jack Scruby, Minifigs, Hinchliffe, Heritage, and a handful of others now long defunct. "McEwan Miniatures" anybody? Wargamers Digest? (sp?)

"…when you measure time in rule editions, not years."

Or a bit more savage:
"You know you're getting old… when you played the period when it was modern."

Pfft, when we played that period it was Sci-Fi

You still post at TMP.

When many of your university gaming buddies are no longer among us

When you start to date a check to the previous century.

How about when you DON'T get together with your friends because you're the last wargamer standing?

When you say to a group of people you work with:

"Let's let Mikey try it"

And they all have a totally perplexed look on their faces.

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When you realize there are more members of your living history group in the afterlife, then it on earth any longer.

When you're the only one left at your class reunion and that of the later 3 classes that followed yours. (My mom).

"You and your (surviving) friends get together, and the first thing you talk about is your symptoms."

A friend of my wife calls it "the organ recital". Something we try to avoid, but is very hard.

When you still call the DVR a 'video recorder'.
When you still own a DVR…

When you remember people saying there was no difference between Democrats and Republicans and both sides found ways to work together to govern. It seems a hundred years ago.

When you have to explain to college students at Purdue "What a phone booth, and pay phone was."

True story.

When you use CDs and DVDs for terrain bases

You wonder if you will still be alive when you get a new order of figures painted and on table…

You're not dead yet.

I just thought of one. If I found an opponent and played one game--6mm DBA Ancients, 28mm Sf skirmish, 1/72 horse & musket--for a year, and then never again, statistically I'd be dead five years before I ran out of games.

You remember when Role Playing Games were a brand new concept, and society had no clue what they even were. Cheers!

I went into an antique shop….and they wouldn't let me leave. ( I stole that one from a senior stand-up comic.)

It's no longer Ibuprofen; it's Vitamin-I.

Murphy, I have those kind of information dumps to 20 somethings almost weekly. Working at a university does have it's challenges.

Memorex anyone? YouTube link

Your first thought on entering a new building is "where is the washroon"?

Also when you use your best suit for more funerals than weddings

Or when the GW staff scoff at you bringing out a figure "that's not GW" and you realize it was a Citadel miniature made before said staff person was born

They play Nirvana and OZZY at the grocery store.

Your blood type is dust and the median age of most of the people you grew up with is deceased.

My only remaining suits are a black one for funerals and a gray one for weddings and I can't remember the last time I wore the gray one.

The meds and supplements you take are in double digits.

Events you were part of are taught to your kids in history class.

I'm not getting old. I am old.

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Instead of doing push-ups. You practice get-ups (getting up from the floor).

When the big event on your schedule is reloading your pill boxes--and not the concrete kind, either.

When you… When someone…. What was the question?

Instead of doing push-ups. You practice get-ups (getting up from the floor).

"Come on down, Pop! Let's play with Lincoln Logs!"

You go online to explore finding a dating site and after you enter all of your particulars it sends you to:

Carbon Dating. Com

I stole that one…

You're at a convention and the Flea Market is about to open and you decide that it isn't worth the wear and tear on your knees.

You know what Lincoln logs are and actually played with them.

You can't come up with the name of something--store, restaurant, street, company--but you know perfectly well what it was called a generation or more ago.

You remember when TMP was hosted from the dental college, the "Old Stuff" was brand new, and the first time John the OFM "left" the site.

A shopping mall elevator. The musak playing. Was a performer I saw live on the tour supporting the album being played (in a way) over the speakers in the elevator.

Or. Someone going on "remember when"….and it was something I saw sitting at MY desk at a job I had years ago.

…and the first time John the OFM "left" the site.

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MMmmmm… Lincoln Logs!!