# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/61 "2010-04-06T19:31:56Z")
I turned 33 last month, and although I’m still cycling to work every day (9 miles each way), this morning my knee was letting me know it really would prefer me to take the bus within 5 minutes of leaving home. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![emmaliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emmaliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmaliminal)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/62 "2010-04-06T19:37:01Z")
I am pregnant for the first time at age 40. I have to go to a special OB clinic an hour’s drive away to see someone who specializes in Advanced Maternal Age. My (hottie) husband, who is only two years older than I am, has recently developed one of those rogue beard hairs growing from his nose. Not from one of his nostrils (although he has those too, and they may soon be braidable with his ear-hairs); out of of the top surface, about a finger’s width down from the bridge. I have trouble not staring at it and wish he would let me pluck it. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/63 "2010-04-06T19:40:16Z")
> [@emmaliminal](#): > > I am pregnant for the first time at age 40. I have to go to a special OB clinic an hour’s drive away to see someone who specializes in Advanced Maternal Age. > > My (hottie) husband, who is only two years older than I am, has recently developed one of those rogue beard hairs growing from his nose. Not from one of his nostrils (although he has those too, and they may soon be braidable with his ear-hairs); out of of the top surface, about a finger’s width down from the bridge. I have trouble not staring at it and wish he would let me pluck it. Oh, I have a rogue hair on my nose too, but it’s more of an eyebrow filler - a single thick hair dead centre at the top. I also have an interesting hair on one shoulder, which seems to appear, fully formed, to a length of almost two inches overnight, even after I pluck or shave it. ---
**Author:** ![emmaliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emmaliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmaliminal)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/64 "2010-04-06T20:34:48Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Oh, I have a rogue hair on my nose too, but it’s more of an eyebrow filler … I’d have to measure to be sure, which might be a little unwelcome, but I think this particular hair is closer to the mustache & beard area than to an eyebrow. Or maybe it works like poison ivy roots, and proximity is meaningless, 'cause those things can be connected by underground runners for blocks? I know! I’ll just ask it. “Look here, hair, are you more of an eyebrow, or a rogue beard – or _\_ maybe even a pube?” ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/65 "2010-04-06T20:42:33Z")
> [@torie](#): > > My mother freaked out when she was told Obama’s age. For the first time in her life, the President is younger than her. You mean the kid? The one too young to have been drafted, ever? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/66 "2010-04-06T20:48:19Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Every college girl looks like she’s 14. That said, thats been happening since I was about 24. I live across the street from an elementary school, and the parents of the kindergarten kids look like they are about 14 to me. As an example from someone else, my mother-in-law used to call the guys at the vegetable stand she went to “the young men.” The first time we went with her we discovered that they were all around 60. At some point also you will realize you’ve been married more than half your life - and we got married reasonably late. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/67 "2010-04-07T00:04:07Z")
Not tellin’ my age, but for most of you, I’ve had more RVs than you’ve had cars. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Victory\_Candescence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Victory\_Candescence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victory_Candescence)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786/68 "2010-04-07T01:55:14Z")
> [@davey77](#): > > I, too, am a couple months shy of my 39th birthday. This little exchange really brought my age to my attention. A buddy of mine was telling me about all the quaint retro fun he was having with his 64 emulator. > > I thought Commodore. He meant Nintendo. The N64 is _quaint_ now? Jesus H. Christ! It seems like the N64 just came out yesterday. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struck-by-one-of-those-signs-youre-getting-older/534786.md?page=3)