# Struck by one of those "signs you're getting older" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 2, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786 "2010-04-02T23:35:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![may\_be\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@may\_be\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/may_be_ignorant)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/21 "2010-04-03T16:50:12Z")
Im 17 ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/22 "2010-04-03T16:57:33Z")
Eh? Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/23 "2010-04-03T18:27:39Z")
Not a problem, I still charm the cute nubile hotties. But they call me “Sir”. ---
**Author:** ![koufax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7ea924/32.png) [@koufax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koufax)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/24 "2010-04-03T19:39:39Z")
Last year I saw two brothers who I used to work with over 30 years ago. One is 61 and one is 58. I swear to god it was like in a movie when you see a young actor with old man makeup on. It was almost surreal. They looked the same, in good physical shape, same personalities but old-ER. And Ill bet they were thinking the same about me. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/25 "2010-04-03T20:58:48Z")
Those younger guys that are into older guys…they’re starting to be into me. I still feel like one of the younger guys! ---
**Author:** ![Hakuna\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hakuna\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hakuna_Matata)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/26 "2010-04-03T21:01:41Z")
I am only 50 but I sort of realized this the other day when I mentioned to my wife that our daughter has never been in a car with windows that you have to roll down. I mean ALL the cars we had when I was growing up had windows you had to roll down and it just sort of gradually changed over the years. I was wondering if my daughter would know what to do if she got into a car that had roll down windows! I can just picture her either looking for a button to push down or pushing on the crank. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/27 "2010-04-03T21:12:28Z")
I really started to feel old the first time it dawned on me that the undergrads i was teaching had been born after i finished high school. The attacks of September 11 seem not that long ago to me. For the college freshmen i was teaching last semester, they were literally half a lifetime ago. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/28 "2010-04-03T21:16:25Z")
My dentist calls me “dude”. I’m 62. That’s all I’m sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/29 "2010-04-03T21:16:31Z")
Also, there was a time when most professional athletes (baseball players, football players, etc.) were older than me. That time has passed. Of the 30 MLB teams, only 7 have a player who is older than me. ---
**Author:** ![ILovCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e99b99/32.png) [@ILovCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ILovCoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/30 "2010-04-03T22:49:24Z")
I remember in high school that when I was in 10th grade the seniors seemed to be “oh! SOOOO” mature & sophisticated. I remember the football team all grew beards over Christmas break and they looked FINE. Then when I became a senior I didn’t feel mature and my classmates surely didn’t look that way to me. Our football team were dreebs that year. Nice people, mind you, just did not appeal to me sexually like that group 2 yrs older than me. And now :::cough, cough:: 30 yrs later, I am looking at young men that I could be Granma to and thinking, “Girl, control yourself!” & then I tell myself “Yuck!” What is up with that? ---
**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:** [April 3, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/31 "2010-04-03T23:41:43Z")
> [@ScareyFaerie](#): > > The last doctor I saw at the eye clinic looked like he was just out of short trousers. How old does that make me feel? In California, maybe twenty-five. Many people don’t stop wearing shorts until middle age, if then. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/32 "2010-04-03T23:49:59Z")
My husband’s best friend, who I tailgate with and have seen rip-roaringly drunk on many occasions, is an ophthalmologist. Because of him, I’ve learned to spell ophthalmologist. ---
**Author:** ![wombatinspats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@wombatinspats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wombatinspats)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/33 "2010-04-04T00:55:57Z")
I’m 23, fingers in ears, singing loudly. ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/34 "2010-04-04T01:01:16Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Wait until Admirals and Presidents start looking young. My mother freaked out when she was told Obama’s age. For the first time in her life, the President is younger than her. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/35 "2010-04-04T01:42:20Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Of the 30 MLB teams, only 7 have a player who is older than me. I’m 44, I’m down to one player older than me, Jamie Moyer. I don’t want to count how many managers I am older than. Signs I’m getting older include the gorgeous woman at my last job who was chronologically exactly between me and my daughter. Since she was born more than 9 months after the date I first had sex, I could have had a child her age. It makes me less inclined to flirt harmlessly. I still can’t quite wrap my head around that I’m quite a bit older than a dude like Bret Favre, who looks like an old guy to me. I recently read an article about Andrew Breitbart, who’s 41, and I thought he looked 15 years older than me. I’m sure this is 10% the fact that I have no gray hairs and it’s only just started thinning, and the wrinkles are only visible up close, and the other 90% is just me deluding myself. (I’m also having some perspective problems that the 90s began 20 years ago. And that the 60s are now as far in the past as the 20s were when I was born. Huh?) I’m actually happy being in my 40s and have no need to pretend than I’m anything but a middle-aged dude, and I’m looking forward to bigger and scarier ages. But at some level I can’t stop thinking of myself as being around 27. I wonder if perhaps most people just never feel their real age. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/36 "2010-04-04T02:11:53Z")
Yes, a few years ago the doctor came in to give me a physical and I thought, “Wait. Where is the real doctor? This dude isn’t that old!” He was totally competent…and really young! ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/37 "2010-04-04T02:50:03Z")
Looking down at the counter in the 7-Eleven and seeing a sign that says “You must have been born on today’s date in 19xx in order to by tobacco products” and realizing that that was the year when you graduated from high school. A clear cut sign of a new generation. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/38 "2010-04-04T02:56:20Z")
I still think Roger Federer looks older than me…and yet, he was born in…1981??? [He looks older than he is…to me anyway.](http://www.atpworldtour.com/Tennis/Players/Top-Players/Roger-Federer.aspx) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/39 "2010-04-04T03:06:11Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Yes, a few years ago the doctor came in to give me a physical and I thought, “Wait. Where is the real doctor? This dude isn’t that old!” > > He was totally competent…and really young! I actually heard someone in the ER say this to a very young looking physician. He was a cranky old guy who just blurted out, “Oh, for Chrissake, sonny, stop bothering me and bring me a REAL doctor!” Everyone who heard started to laugh, and young looking doctor just rolled his eyes. ---
**Author:** ![groo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@groo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groo)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/40 "2010-04-04T03:43:04Z")
I made some slides for a team meeting a few weeks ago, and wanted to remind people that they had to set out their “2010 Goals” for their performance appraisals next year, and added the quote, _ **"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son."** _ They laughed politely, and I found out later that only one out of the thirteen people there knew it was from a movie, but she didn’t know which movie. They actually don’t get any of my movie references. (Kato, now is not the time! You must have really hated that moose. I want my two dollars!) How can their lives be so empty? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786.md?page=3)