# Subtle signs that you're getting older **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 27, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-signs-that-youre-getting-older/435244 "2008-01-27T22:48:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-signs-that-youre-getting-older/435244/41 "2008-01-28T12:41:31Z")
I used to have my sweetheart yank out my grey hairs every couple of weeks. Then I started finding them in my hairline. Grey hair is better than no hair, so we stopped that little ritual. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-signs-that-youre-getting-older/435244/42 "2008-01-28T14:47:19Z")
[QUOTE=KlondikeGeoff] Unfortunately, at my age (80), NONE of the damned signs are subtle. ☹ [/QUOTE] I’m only 67 but I second this----I haven’t had a subtle sign in years. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-signs-that-youre-getting-older/435244/43 "2008-01-28T15:00:21Z")
[QUOTE=bufftabby] Yeah, I would not characterize my friends as sluts. That would be neither nice nor true. Another sign that I’m getting older! [/QUOTE] Must be a South thing. People in the North East don’t seem to get married until well into their 20s or 30s. Of course, there does seem to be a certain irony that a girl who gets married and raises a family right out of high school is viewed as sluttier than your typical 22 year old Jersey Shore guidette shaking her ass on the dance floor each weekend. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-signs-that-youre-getting-older/435244/44 "2008-01-28T15:10:44Z")
[QUOTE=Sarahfeena] My number one sign that I’m not as young as I used to be is the aches & pains. Even getting up from sitting on the floor is getting more difficult! [/QUOTE] Fuck that – I stopped sitting on the floor about five years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-signs-that-youre-getting-older/435244/45 "2008-01-28T15:32:36Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] Barbers started offering to trim my eyebrows. [/QUOTE] That was when it hit home for me. I’ve been getting gray forever, but when my eyebrows needed to be trimmed I was very depressed. Of course, I ache everywhere too. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-signs-that-youre-getting-older/435244/46 "2008-01-28T15:49:06Z")
[QUOTE=msmith537] Must be a South thing. People in the North East don’t seem to get married until well into their 20s or 30s. [/QUOTE] I think it’s all relative really. I live in the Northeast and a huge number of my high school classmates got married between 23 and 25, myself included. Truthfully, it’s almost more strange to run into someone not married than it is to run into a married classmate. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-signs-that-youre-getting-older/435244/47 "2008-01-28T16:08:48Z")
Old injuries start coming back. My left elbow occasionally throbs where I broke it 20 years ago. Also, saying the words “20 years ago” when referring to an event beyond childhood. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-signs-that-youre-getting-older/435244/48 "2008-01-28T16:32:30Z")
Yeah, waking up in pain for no reason. ---
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-signs-that-youre-getting-older/435244/49 "2008-01-28T17:07:34Z")
Looking at people my age and saying to myself Ah merde! Do I look like that ? ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-signs-that-youre-getting-older/435244/50 "2008-01-28T17:14:28Z")
Seems to me that quite a few posters are eligible for membership of FOGI ---
**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:** [January 28, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-signs-that-youre-getting-older/435244/51 "2008-01-28T17:18:33Z")
Subtle signs of getting older? Many of the events in this thread seem all too familiar. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-signs-that-youre-getting-older/435244/52 "2008-01-28T17:32:39Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] Subtle signs of getting older? Many of the events in this thread seem all too familiar. [/QUOTE] Preach it - there ain’t nothing subtle about it. Husband and I are starting to receive mail from AARP - and we’re READING it. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2008, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-signs-that-youre-getting-older/435244/53 "2008-01-28T17:33:05Z")
There are a disturbingly large number of classes after mine in my alumni magazine. But the worst thing happened this morning. When I went to the doctor for my INR test the receptionist greeted me by name before I even tried to check in. :eek: (Your baby girl now being of legal drinking age is a subtle reminder also.) ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-signs-that-youre-getting-older/435244/54 "2008-01-28T17:55:31Z")
All the goddam user interfaces you’ve had to memorize over the years run together into a big warty mass of the arbitrary and the cloying. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-signs-that-youre-getting-older/435244/55 "2008-01-28T18:04:22Z")
[QUOTE=Martha] When I took my baby son to visit my grandmother, she was more amazed at the fact that her “baby” was now a grandfather than the fact that she was a great-grandmother – and made sure she let me know that although my baby was beautiful, hers (who was standing there, age 63) was a much much more beautiful baby. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Well, of course…every mother’s baby is the most beautiful! 🙂 > [@](#): > > Policemen have looked young and fresh faced for a few years now - I’m used to it. Now I’m more impressed by the fact that some of my younger friends (in their 20s) were born when I was at university, and that some politicians - like the British foreign secretary and both opposition party leaders - are actually younger than me. Startled me when I was seeing a doctor once, and realized she was younger than I am! [QUOTE=twickster] Fuck that – I stopped sitting on the floor about five years ago. [/QUOTE] I hear you…it’s just hard to avoid when you have a 3 year old and a 10 month old! ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-signs-that-youre-getting-older/435244/56 "2008-01-28T18:36:10Z")
The first time I said, “Kids today (blah blah blah)…” I’m only 31! Help! ---
**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:** [January 28, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-signs-that-youre-getting-older/435244/57 "2008-01-28T21:35:08Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Seems to me that quite a few posters are eligible for membership of FOGI [/QUOTE] I’m old enough not to understand this. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-signs-that-youre-getting-older/435244/58 "2008-01-28T22:21:55Z")
Subtle signs that you’re getting older? When you have to be concerned the fart you’re about to blow could contain more that just hot gases and smell. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-signs-that-youre-getting-older/435244/59 "2008-01-29T08:34:00Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] I’m old enough not to understand this. [/QUOTE] Federation of Old Geezers ( International) = FOGI. Do a search, you’ll find it very illuminating 😛 ---
**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:** [January 29, 2008, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-signs-that-youre-getting-older/435244/60 "2008-01-29T14:13:44Z")
[QUOTE=Duckster] Subtle signs that you’re getting older? When you have to be concerned the fart you’re about to blow could contain more that just hot gases and smell. [/QUOTE] Or you’re so used to farting at home that you sometimes forget to be more polite in public places. And then you don’t really care that much, either. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-signs-that-youre-getting-older/435244.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-signs-that-youre-getting-older/435244.md?page=4)