# Signs that you're getting old **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 14, 2007, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-youre-getting-old/407976 "2007-06-14T09:48:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-youre-getting-old/407976/41 "2007-06-14T20:43:54Z")
[QUOTE=LightWithoutHeattttttttttttttt] How about when the sports commentators mention a pro athlete being at the END or TWILIGHT of his career, and you realize the athlete is your age?!?!?!?!?!?! [/QUOTE] Yeah, Colophon’s comment about “veteran” 30-year-olds made me think that when ball players are my age (40), people are amazed they are still playing. And some of the players coming up are young enough to be my kids. The music thing is a big one for me, too…I crack myself up when I hear myself thinking “damn, the music today sucks!” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-youre-getting-old/407976/42 "2007-06-14T20:50:02Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Anyone here have any experience with that Just For Men stuff? I’ve been noticing a slight discoloration of the few hairs I haven’t yet shaved off. Yeah, shaved, that’s the ticket. [/QUOTE] Gasp! Don’t you dare! > [@Antinor01](#): > > When the highlight of your week is the new alarm clock you just bought. I’m still excited about my purchase of a 18-watt Natural Daylight Technology Bulb Table Lamp, which is to help my aging eyes see better! I need to go lie down. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-youre-getting-old/407976/43 "2007-06-15T10:19:39Z")
> [@glee](#): > > Huh. > Some of us remember a new beat combo called the Beatles. (Whatever happened to them? ) > And they don’t make them like The Who anymore. > > I like this because it makes me feel young: > > The Zimmers [QUOTE=Leaffan] Brilliant. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Did I post that? 😕 I don’t remember recent stuff. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-youre-getting-old/407976/44 "2007-06-15T13:24:29Z")
This was definitively determined in an earlier thread - > [@Sublight](#): > > [In the morning, I took a dump. In the afternoon, I got a blowjob. In the evening, I found myself thinking, “man, that was a great dump.”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7503844&postcount=120) Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Redfrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@Redfrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redfrost)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-youre-getting-old/407976/45 "2007-06-15T15:03:55Z")
Regading the music: When the music you listened to, to rebel against THE MAN, and assert your youth is now being played as muzak, used to sell cars, and/or is considered “Classic” rock. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-youre-getting-old/407976/46 "2007-06-15T15:20:49Z")
When I had a ten year old tell me how cool my typewriter was (You can actually see what you are typing) and a four year ask me in all seriousness “Is that a typewriter” (She had never seen one before), I felt like a total anacronism. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-youre-getting-old/407976/47 "2007-06-15T15:27:23Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] Gasp! Don’t you dare! [/QUOTE] You got a little thing for grey, hon? ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-youre-getting-old/407976/48 "2007-06-15T15:31:52Z")
When you watch Nick At Nite and realize that most of the shows (Full House, Fresh Prince, Cosby) were once prime time. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-youre-getting-old/407976/49 "2007-06-15T15:41:17Z")
[QUOTE=Kozmik] When you watch Nick At Nite and realize that most of the shows (Full House, Fresh Prince, Cosby) were once prime time. [/QUOTE] You think that’s bad? I _listened_ to The Fresh Prince “back in the day” when he was a young up-and-coming _rap artist_. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-youre-getting-old/407976/50 "2007-06-15T15:51:21Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Smith] You think that’s bad? I _listened_ to The Fresh Prince “back in the day” when he was a young up-and-coming _rap artist_. :eek: [/QUOTE] My husband and I were standing in line at the store, and saw a People Magazine “before they were famous” issue. The picture of Will Smith looked like a late-highschool-age photo. We laughed, because maybe for the YOUNGER generation he wasn’t famous back then, but we sure remember “Parents Just Don’t Understand,” which was recorded probably at about the same time that photo was taken. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-youre-getting-old/407976/51 "2007-06-15T15:59:14Z")
[QUOTE=Redfrost] When you’re sitting in the theater watching the previews and one of the previews is the 20th anniversary release of E.T. [/QUOTE] Psst…25th. :eek: ---
**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:** [June 15, 2007, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-youre-getting-old/407976/52 "2007-06-15T16:01:17Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Wait, before you go, I need to ask your sage and elderly advice. Anyone here have any experience with that Just For Men stuff? I’ve been noticing a slight discoloration of the few hairs I haven’t yet shaved off. Yeah, shaved, that’s the ticket. [/QUOTE] You know you’re getting old when your biggest hair decision is when do you finally shave it off because the bald spot is becoming awkwardly-prominent. And you remember your days of long hair fondly, even though they were only six years ago. And you would never ever grow a beard because it would be frighteningly-grey. ---
**Author:** ![Redfrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@Redfrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redfrost)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-youre-getting-old/407976/53 "2007-06-15T16:10:36Z")
[QUOTE=E. Thorp] Psst…25th. :eek: [/QUOTE] You’re not helping! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Runestar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@Runestar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runestar)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-youre-getting-old/407976/54 "2007-06-15T16:44:17Z")
When you go to a T.G.I. Friday’s restaurant (or one of that ilk) and discover, attached to the wall as part of the decor, a toy or toys that \*\*you \*\* owned as a child. In my case it was the Jets-Colts Superbowl III electric football game from 1968/69. \ ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-youre-getting-old/407976/55 "2007-06-15T18:16:15Z")
[QUOTE=Runestar] When you go to a T.G.I. Friday’s restaurant (or one of that ilk) and discover, attached to the wall as part of the decor, a toy or toys that \*\*you \*\* owned as a child. [/QUOTE] Heh. That just happened to me! Except it was Operation. ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-youre-getting-old/407976/56 "2007-06-15T18:31:26Z")
When you go to the doctor with tendonitis and neck pain and his response as to why you are getting these random injuries is “You’re getting old.”\* When someone older than you calls you ma’am.\*\* When you’re watching VH1 \*\*\*Classic \*\* \* and you see a Radiohead video. \*I’m only 36! That’s not OLD! Is it? \*\*This actually happened a few weeks ago, from a new employee in her 40s. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2007, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-youre-getting-old/407976/57 "2007-06-15T18:43:15Z")
[QUOTE=RyJae] Wait, wait, please hold off on posting until I figure this out My wife began purchasing me black socks this year, I _assumed_ it was because I’m careless and walk outside in my socks sometimes and stain the white ones. If there is more than this involved I’d like to have the Chairman Of Socks and Aging investigate this further. [/QUOTE] I never knew about the sock-color and age correlation. It’s not an issue for me because I usually wear boots, and I work out at the gym every day, so I just use white socks all the time. ---
**Author:** ![rhythmonly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee59a6/32.png) [@rhythmonly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhythmonly)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-youre-getting-old/407976/58 "2007-06-15T18:52:33Z")
You know you’re getting old when your 13 year old son tells you to stop having “Senior Moments”. And your new prescription sunglasses are bi-focals. And when you go fishing with your Dad, neither one of you can tie a new hook on his line. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-youre-getting-old/407976/59 "2007-06-15T19:38:46Z")
When the children you use to baby sit for are calling you to baby sit for their children. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-youre-getting-old/407976/60 "2007-06-16T03:07:58Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] When the children you use to baby sit for are calling you to baby sit for their children. [/QUOTE] Oh, honey, one of the kids I used to babysit for introduced me to her GRANDCHILD the other day…and I’m just 50! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-youre-getting-old/407976.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-that-youre-getting-old/407976.md?page=4)