# Signs that you are getting 'old' **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 24, 2002, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-are-getting-old/138549 "2002-11-24T23:51:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2002, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-are-getting-old/138549/1 "2002-11-24T23:51:09Z")
I just realized (a few moments ago) that I prefer tea to coke. It happened while I was imagining what I will take with me to munch at the flicks tomorow (when I go to watch Bond). I was thinking - crunchies. and then I thought “coke… No, ugh, maybe… a flask of tea. yeah, that’s it!” I have been coke-mad virtually my whole life, now I would rather drink tea, anytime. I must be getting ‘old’ I am probably talking mentally old, because I am only 23 physically. People - describe the day/sign that you realized you were old/past it/middle aged? ---
**Author:** ![nemesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/96bed5/32.png) [@nemesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nemesis)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2002, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-are-getting-old/138549/2 "2002-11-24T23:55:17Z")
Hairy ears. (the sorrow was shortlived when i discovered the pleasure of plucking said hair out) ---
**Author:** ![Slainte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Slainte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slainte)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-are-getting-old/138549/3 "2002-11-25T00:01:04Z")
About a month ago, when my 12 year old brother looked at me incredulously because at 26, I know who Linkin Park is. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-are-getting-old/138549/4 "2002-11-25T00:14:01Z")
Is that like the feeling you get when you know Crowded House, but can sing along with System Of A Down? And that while I type this **Everyday Is Like Halloween** is playing? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-are-getting-old/138549/5 "2002-11-25T00:15:41Z")
Gravity is sooooooo cruel! It holds me down when I try to stand up. It makes going upstairs a chore. It’s moved my cleavage down to my navel… well, almost. But the moment it hit me was when a friend my age became a grandmother. I don’t feel old enough to be a grandmother - my own daughter is only 17 - but I guess it’s true… alas… ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-are-getting-old/138549/6 "2002-11-25T00:30:46Z")
I recently found out that some young children of acquaintances of mine … are in college. ?! I thought you didn’t do that until around eighteen?! (Sigh.) (Just imagine! I could legally have sex with these kids. Eeeewww!) ---
**Author:** ![jacksen9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@jacksen9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacksen9)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-are-getting-old/138549/7 "2002-11-25T00:34:06Z")
You know you are old when: 1. you want to stay home on Friday nights 2. you listen to AM radio 3. what you would really like to buy if you had an extra $900 is a Kirby Vacuum 4. you can’t sit through a movie without a restroom break 5. you no longer get all bent out of shape when things go badly at work; also you can resist the temptation to crack wise when the new guy shows up and gets all bent over the lunacy… you just grin smugly like you have a secret. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-are-getting-old/138549/8 "2002-11-25T00:34:28Z")
A few months ago I discovered that pulling your pants up over your belly button is really comfortable. ---
**Author:** ![nemesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/96bed5/32.png) [@nemesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nemesis)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-are-getting-old/138549/9 "2002-11-25T00:35:19Z")
i wish gravity had the same effect on a certain part of my anatomy ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-are-getting-old/138549/10 "2002-11-25T00:50:49Z")
You know you are old when Part II: 1. you think bermuda shorts, dark socks and sandals is a cool look. 2. going out to dinner means the early bird special at Denney’s. 3. you get excited on two for one sales on Geritol, Ben Gay and Deep Heat. 4. late night partying means you stayed out until 10 p.m. 5. for the ladies, blue rinse is your hair color choice. 6. for the guys, you buy suspenders to hold up your pants, not because they look cool, but because you can’t find a belt big enough to fit your waist, which is located somewhere around your armpits. My personal day and sign I got old was when a niece graduated from my alma mater. I went to her graduation and afterwards realized that the following Fall, my class was having its 25 year reunion. Damn I feel sooooooooooo old! [sub]however, the fact that **FairyChatMom** is **6 months and six days older** than me helps me feel younger. [/sub] 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-are-getting-old/138549/11 "2002-11-25T01:02:49Z")
My getting old signs? I’m turning 36 on Wednesday - that means that I graduated high school half my lifetime ago. Other signs - realizing that eating pizza gives me heartburn. Making noises when I stand up and sit down. Wearing only comfortable clothes. Hearing the phrase “Those durned kids” coming out of my mouth. Realizing that it _was_ too damned loud. The lyrics from the Pursuit of Happiness song (“I’m An Adult Now”) ringing more truly every day: “Well, I don’t hate my parents I don’t get drunk just to spite them I’ve got my own reasons to drink now Think I’ll call my dad up and invite him” ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-are-getting-old/138549/12 "2002-11-25T01:13:36Z")
About two months ago, the stylist at the _Hair Cuttery_ asked me, “So how 'bout I trim back those eyebrows.” I looked in the mirror, and and saw that I did indeed have some kind of Andy Rooney eyebrow thing going. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-are-getting-old/138549/13 "2002-11-25T01:14:05Z")
The last time I was at the barber, he trimmed my eyebrows. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-are-getting-old/138549/14 "2002-11-25T01:15:44Z")
Wow, about the wierdest simulpost I’ve seen around here! ---
**Author:** ![SoozieQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@SoozieQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoozieQ)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-are-getting-old/138549/15 "2002-11-25T01:17:09Z")
gray eyelashes! arg… ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-are-getting-old/138549/16 "2002-11-25T01:20:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jacksen9 \* > \*\*You know you are old when: > > 1. you want to stay home on Friday nights > 2. you listen to AM radio > 3. what you would really like to buy if you had an extra $900 is a Kirby Vacuum > 4. you can’t sit through a movie without a restroom break > 5. you no longer get all bent out of shape when things go badly at work; also you can resist the temptation to crack wise when the new guy shows up and gets all bent over the lunacy… you just grin smugly like you have a secret. \*\* Going to the bathroom during a movie? Hell, I have never, ever in my life sat through a movie without having to go, at least once. I don’t listen to AM radio, but I’ve pretty much given up on FM rock. If not for the morning drive-time goofball “comedy” duos that have taken over morning rock-station radio, it’d be different dadgummit! ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-are-getting-old/138549/17 "2002-11-25T02:04:11Z")
First “fine-line-and-wrinkle” about a month ago. I stare at it in the mirror. How did that happen? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-are-getting-old/138549/18 "2002-11-25T02:08:04Z")
The year 2003 will bring my(shudder) 30th high school reunion! So I’m older than anyone whose posted in this thread so far!(Sticks out tongue) Yeah, when my cousin’s daughter graduated from high school, and I realized she was exactly the same age as the daughter of my ex-husband(he married again after we divorced) I _could_ be a grandmother! But, but…I’m only 47. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-are-getting-old/138549/19 "2002-11-25T02:09:41Z")
I realized that I was getting old when kids who were born after Star Wars was released were legal to buy beer. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-are-getting-old/138549/20 "2002-11-25T02:14:00Z")
Signs that you are getting ‘old’… making that “aaaarrrrgggghhhh” sound when you get up off the couch. Jesus, that is sooo annoying but there’s no one guiltier than me! 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-you-are-getting-old/138549.md?page=2)