# Things that make you feel old **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 6, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530 "2011-06-06T18:51:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/81 "2011-06-08T18:30:25Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I totally agree. People mock salt-and-pepper hair but I think it’s really hot…I always liked a mature man, anyway. How’re _you_ doing? ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/82 "2011-06-08T21:26:02Z")
I had a facebook friend request from an old friend and we started looking for more of our elementary school class to put together a reunion. We have about a dozen people on the list now. I started thinking back and realized that we all started kindergarten together in 1958… ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/83 "2011-06-09T04:23:06Z")
Benny Hill is being rerun on WGN’s subchannel 9.2 (aka Antenna TV) here in Chicago. I was watching it and waiting to see the few things I remember from when I last saw it. Then I realized that was the late 70s. Over 30 years ago. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/84 "2011-06-09T13:10:51Z")
This winter my husband was out of town and I was shoveling my driveway. A car full of young men pulled up and one asked if I’d pay them $20 to do the drive and walk. I usually refuse but that was really cheap, so I said yes. They all jumped out and started shoveling like madmen. I kept working and one of them said “you can let us do it; we’re young.” Damn, that was harsh. They were done in less than 10 minutes and were on to somebody else’s house. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/85 "2011-06-09T13:51:43Z")
- Whatever flavor-of-the-month actress, including Angelina Jolie, are young enough to be my daughters. - A movie run on cable TV will often be one I distinctly remember standing in line for at the movie theater, often being sold out, back in my dating days. And here it is how many years later and that must-see movie is on TV in the middle of the night! - Corollary: Marvel comic characters on t-shirts in department stores. I was into reading Marvel comics in my young teens, and here I am later in life, and my childhood interest is still relevant. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/86 "2011-06-09T14:33:59Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I remember asking someone just 10 years younger than me if he knew the song _Stairway to Heaven_, and he didn’t… This is a sign of progress, not your age 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/87 "2011-06-09T14:47:04Z")
Teaching a college class and every year seeing the students look younger, and younger, and younger… Noticing beautiful actresses and models who were born while I was already in college. Grayer hair and a thicker waistline. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/88 "2011-06-09T14:50:51Z")
> [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](#): > > Another one: I realized when going through my iPod that nearly everything I listen to is from the 80s and 90s and I’ve become one of those people that think all new music sucks. But it does! My 14-year-old keeps me up to date with current music. He plays snippets of stuff for me that he thinks I might like, and about a third of the time, he’s right. I like to think my iPod has more new music than most other 46-year-old dads’. I’m hip, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/89 "2011-06-09T15:02:19Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > … a thicker waistline. You? ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/90 "2011-06-09T15:36:04Z")
Another thread just mentioned Abigail and Brittany Hensel. I googled them to see how those two little girls I remember reading about were doing today. They’re 21. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/91 "2011-06-09T16:02:35Z")
I think what makes me feel old is the implication that I’m not supposed to like hip, current music just because I’m old. I went to Lollapallooza last year… with several other 40-something friends. We were very much focused on the newer bands rather than the ones we saw in the clubs 15 years ago. I might be an old fogey in a lot of other ways, but it has always been important to me to stay current with music. There’s so much that’s so new and fresh out there; I’d hate to be the kind of person who has to turn off my ears just because a bit of music was created after I was graduated from college. Think of all the terrific music I could have shorted myself from enjoying if I thought I was “too old” (for Lady Gaga, for example. Who I’m not all that fond of. But I do have some of her music on my iPod.) ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/92 "2011-06-09T16:17:02Z")
This morning I had to limber up for several minutes by stretching and bending – just to be flexible enough to cut my toenails and put on my pantyhose. That brings up another age-related issue. Apparently, only old women wear pantyhose or knee-hi’s nowadays. The young 'uns don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/93 "2011-06-09T17:11:07Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > You? Bless you. > [@StusBlues](#): > > Another thread just mentioned Abigail and Brittany Hensel. I googled them to see how those two little girls I remember reading about were doing today… Wow, never heard of them before. Fascinating story: [Abby and Brittany Hensel - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_Hensel) **Dogzilla** , I have some Lady Gaga on my iPod, too. Us old farts’ve gotta stick together. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/94 "2011-06-09T17:18:16Z")
[any old person from the last 100 years] “Kids today, the hair, the music, I don’t know.” [/any old person from the last 100 years] ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/95 "2011-06-09T17:51:44Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > **Dogzilla** , I have some Lady Gaga on my iPod, too. Us old farts’ve gotta stick together. Yeah, I’ve got a bunch of brand new shiny stuff on my iPod that the 20-somethings I work out with have never heard of. They come to\* me\* to find out what’s new. Keep on rockin’ it! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/96 "2011-06-09T17:52:01Z")
> [@melodyharmonius](#): > > As long as you’re not a girl, this should never be a problem. I find it rather sexy - which my boyfriend will attest to as truth. > > 😉 It’s not so much the gray that bothers me, it’s the texture of these hairs. They are not like the others. They break off easy and “stand out” from the rest. I often find myself plucking the wild, stray gray out when I’m watching TV. \ The few grays on my head are like this too. ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/97 "2011-06-09T17:59:08Z")
Having my niece ask me about my life and then realizing she is writing a school report on “the past” ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/98 "2011-06-09T18:05:28Z")
[ol] [li]Talking about Seinfeld to youngsters today is like when my mom told me about Fibber McGee and Molly on the radio when she was young.[/li] [li]Oh, and explaining Truman & Potsdam to my kid for his history study and having him ask if I was around then…um, no…[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/99 "2011-06-09T18:51:57Z")
I just started a new job last week, and my client has required me to have the general checkup required by Spanish Labor Law at the end of any new job and once a year after that. Today I went to get the results of the analysis they did last week, and to see the doc and nurse for their parts of the checkup. I am in very good health for my age :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530/100 "2011-06-09T19:04:02Z")
(The checkup is at the _start_ of any new job… but I do think this isn’t a sign of senility. Yet. It’s just my usual level of brainfarts, right. Right?) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-feel-old/584530.md?page=6)