# I'm Old. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 14, 2002, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739 "2002-12-14T16:57:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/41 "2002-12-16T22:14:11Z")
I felt old the day a (younger) friend of mine said, “Did you know Phil Collins was in a band before he went solo?” I found the nearest wall ans started banging my head against it. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/42 "2002-12-17T12:43:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ivylass \* > \*\*I felt old the day a (younger) friend of mine said, “Did you know Phil Collins was in a band before he went solo?” > > I found the nearest wall ans started banging my head against it. \*\* BWAHAHAHAHAHA Oh gosh, that’s a good one. He was ? 😃 **eunoia** , isn’t that really one and the same thing, when you get right down to it?? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/43 "2002-12-17T16:40:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cjhoworth \* > \*\*CJ > Sings "When I get older, losing my hair > Many years from now. . . " \*\* 😕 This verse isn’t old. It’s the music from a Metropolitan Life television commercial which is pretty recent. Definitely less than a year old. Some text showed some of the plan benefits on the screen while this song played in the background. IIRC the full song went like this \*When I get older losing my hair Many years from now Will you still be sending me a Valentine Birthday greetings, bottle of wine? If I’d been out till quarter to three Would you lock the door? Will you still need me, will you still feed me When I’m sixty-four?\* Seems like a health insurance plan for an aging population was what it was advertising. Neat tune though. 😉 Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![ceyjen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@ceyjen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ceyjen)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/44 "2002-12-17T19:13:31Z")
My grandmother still has one surviving rotary dial phone and my sister who is 20 has no idea how to use it. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/45 "2002-12-17T19:29:49Z")
I saw an eight-track _recorder_ in an antique/pawn shop on Spadina a year ago… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/46 "2002-12-17T19:36:48Z")
I just got ‘sirred’ by a nice lady in her 30’s. It may be time to shave off the (mostly gray) beard. It adds about 15 years… ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/47 "2002-12-17T19:57:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \* > \*\*:::ahem::: Actually, it’s “a **drunkard’s** dream…” :::tiptoe::: \*\* I always thought it was “a **joker’s** dream…” Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/48 "2002-12-17T20:01:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ivylass \* > **I felt old the day a (younger) friend of mine said, "Did you know Phil Collins was in a band before he went solo?"** Hey, I heard the same thing about Peter Gabriel…! ;)[sup]– Peter who?[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/49 "2002-12-17T20:04:48Z")
Mtgman: That was actually kind of nice poetry for a commercial. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/50 "2002-12-17T21:27:50Z")
Yea, someone should see if they could make a full-length song out of it. Who knows it may become a hit and make them famous. Heck, they could become bigger than Jesus! Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/51 "2002-12-17T21:37:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by auntie em \* > \*\*Imagine the surprise and chagrin experienced by my “pseudo-kid” when I broke the news to him that Michael Jackson and that kid singing lead for The Jackson Five were one and the same. :eek: \*\* Hell, I _still_ experience surprise and chagrin when I think about that (and this from someone who remembers the Jackson Five saturday morning cartoon). Or am I confusing surprise and chagrin with horror and despair? ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/52 "2002-12-17T23:47:23Z")
Mtgman: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TVGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@TVGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/53 "2002-12-18T04:07:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cjhoworth \* > \*\*Yeah right. And I suppose you youngsters never saw a vacuum tube, either … \*\* OH! You mean Glass-FET’s?? Try working in the TV news / broadcasting business. There’s a PERMANENT generation gapp all the time. There’s a group of us who remember sitting and watching Kennedy’s funeral and Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon. However, the vast majority of my coworkers just barely remember Reagan’s Presidency and frequently get confused by what I think are standard, normal pop-culture references. It’a always fun to see a spikey haired pierced and tatooed 22 year old “training” a 55 year old engineer in how the “new stuff” works, though. - Even though I’m going to be that 55 year old engineer here in about 14 years. Sheesh!! ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/54 "2002-12-18T04:28:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Libertarian \* > \*\*That’s right. And I think **Ain’t That A Shame** was by Pat Boone. 😃 \*\* And **“Fever”** was by Peggy Lee. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/55 "2002-12-18T13:18:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tygr \* > \*\*Hey, I heard the same thing about Peter Gabriel…! > ;)[sup]– Peter who?[/sup] \*\* Games without frontiers. Walls without tears… 🆒 **Ethilrist** , I have the same beard. Grecian For Beards is an EVIL WICKED RUSE !!! :eek: I keep it on to create the illusion that my face isn’t fatter than it used to be. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![parmachene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@parmachene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parmachene)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/56 "2002-12-18T14:53:49Z")
Ok gang. To quell anyone’s feelings of being perceived as old, I think I have hit the high (or low) point of feeling such. I’m 42 (ancient), luckily through some miracle of genetics I look much younger. I also take really good care of myself in general, so people don’t expect me to be quite my age. And I’m single (not trolling!) so the youth personna is there. I was working for one of the dreaded “start-ups” a couple of years ago. Small office, open floor with cubicles. Our admin was getting everyone’s information for whatever records she needed to start keeping. Very informal, she’s simply yelling the questions out to each person as she needed the info. She gets to me. “Hey, Parmachene, what’s your date of birth?” Me: “February 19, 1960” I tell her. Dead silence for about 15 seconds… Her: “Wow, you’re the same age as my mother.” Needless to say, I was dubbed “old man” for quite some time. Pardon me while I go put on my Perry Como albums now. ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/57 "2002-12-20T21:09:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cartooniverse \* > \*\* > **eunoia** , isn’t that really one and the same thing, when you get right down to it?? 🙂 \*\* Bingo! _I’ve been a miner for a heart of gold. And I’m getting old._ Ironically, by Neil _Young_ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/58 "2002-12-20T21:24:54Z")
Actually, I just turned 116 last Friday. Now THAT’S old! What? You don’t believe that? Infidels… Why, when I was a youngster we had METAL rollerskates that CLAMPED onto your shoes! Hmmph. Top That! GrumbleGrumbleSnort… ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/59 "2002-12-20T22:05:54Z")
**Jake** , how many of those metal roller skates did you take apart and nail to a 2X4 to make a skateboard?? My mother had a conniption fit when we did that! And I’ll be 49 next month. January 23. In case anyone wants to send me chocolates… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739/60 "2002-12-21T01:00:43Z")
My situations kind of weird. I’m pushing forty, and I’m an old school punk rocker type. Been one since the seventies thank you very much. Anyway my ex step step daughter who’s 17 is getting into the comercial boy-band punk thing. I try to tell her how much this music sucks, and that there’s a whole world of _real_ punk rock out there in the underground, but she just tells me how I’m old and I don’t understand punk rock these days 🙂 Makes me wonder how old I’m gonna feel when my five month old son is her age and I’ll be 55 ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-old/142739.md?page=4)