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:
[QUOTE=KlondikeGeoff]
Unfortunately, at my age (80), NONE of the damned signs are subtle. 
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I’m only 67 but I second this----I haven’t had a subtle sign in years.
[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!
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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.
[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!
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Fuck that – I stopped sitting on the floor about five years ago.
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim]
Barbers started offering to trim my eyebrows.
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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.
[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.
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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.
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.
Yeah, waking up in pain for no reason.
Looking at people my age and saying to myself
Ah merde! Do I look like that ?
Seems to me that quite a few posters are eligible for membership of FOGI
Subtle signs of getting older?
Many of the events in this thread seem all too familiar.
[QUOTE=Sunspace]
Subtle signs of getting older?
Many of the events in this thread seem all too familiar.
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Preach it - there ain’t nothing subtle about it. Husband and I are starting to receive mail from AARP - and we’re READING it.
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.)
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.
[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. 
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Well, of course…every mother’s baby is the most beautiful!
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.
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I hear you…it’s just hard to avoid when you have a 3 year old and a 10 month old!
The first time I said, “Kids today (blah blah blah)…”
I’m only 31! Help!
[QUOTE=chowder]
Seems to me that quite a few posters are eligible for membership of FOGI
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I’m old enough not to understand this.
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=Boyo Jim]
I’m old enough not to understand this.
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Federation of Old Geezers ( International) = FOGI.
Do a search, you’ll find it very illuminating 
[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.
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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. 