# You know you're getting old(er) when **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 20, 2022, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-er-when/963091 "2022-04-20T01:13:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [April 20, 2022, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-er-when/963091/21 "2022-04-20T17:23:11Z")
I often see criminal case files and, looking at the DOB of a defendant, can remember very clearly what I was doing the year he or she was born. > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > …Several years ago, I realized that I was old enough to be the mother of 3 presidential candidates (Swalwell, Buttigieg, and Gabbard). Granted, I would have been a mom of 17 or 18, but old enough nonetheless. My dad said it was a sobering moment when he first voted for someone for President who was younger than him. I don’t think I’ve done it yet, but the election can’t be too far distant when I do. > [@terentii](#): > > I knew I was getting older when I happened to mention Carly Simon one day and my grown daughter said “Who’s Carly Simon?”… I mentioned Robert Redford once and my eldest son (born in 1996) asked, “Who’s Robert Redford?” My wife and I stared at him, dumbstruck. We discussed it with him and realized he _has_ seen Redford in movies like _All the President’s Men_; he just didn’t remember the name. But still! ---
**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:** [April 20, 2022, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-er-when/963091/22 "2022-04-20T17:33:46Z")
Redford was in [Captain America: The Winter Soldier](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1843866/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_14) and [Avengers: Endgame](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4154796/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_2), so those might have worked. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-er-when/963091/23 "2022-04-20T17:33:56Z")
> [@glee](#): > > I’m a Great Uncle! Yeah, this one really hits hard! ☹ ---
**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:** [April 20, 2022, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-er-when/963091/24 "2022-04-20T17:35:35Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > Redford was in [Captain America: The Winter Soldier](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1843866/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_14) and [Avengers: Endgame](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4154796/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_2), so those might have worked. Good point, yes, although at the time those movies hadn’t come out yet. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-er-when/963091/25 "2022-04-20T17:38:23Z")
So your feeling of getting old is itself old? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-er-when/963091/26 "2022-04-20T17:38:40Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I know now that I’m old because I watch TV shows I loved in the '60s, '70s, and '80s and ask myself “Why did I ever like this crap?!?” It’s even more depressing to think that a great many of the actors in them passed away long ago. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-er-when/963091/27 "2022-04-20T17:40:19Z")
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**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-er-when/963091/28 "2022-04-20T17:49:48Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > Deleted A fate that gets us all, sooner or later. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2022, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-er-when/963091/29 "2022-04-20T17:52:15Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > So your feeling of getting old is itself old? Well, now that you mention it… ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-er-when/963091/30 "2022-04-20T18:00:48Z")
Never try to find an old love on the Internet. Just let it go. I did a search a few years back. She’s now 62 and has had three children, but I remember her as she was at 16. Ain’t nothin’ can make you feel any older than that! ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-er-when/963091/31 "2022-04-20T18:10:26Z")
I got this from an old (but not that old) comic strip: “My phone was in my pocket and I thought I was getting a call but it was just my leg vibrating” I don’t know if everyone’s legs started vibrating when they get old, but mine did. ---
**Author:** ![EastUmpqua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eastumpqua/32/6025_2.png) [@EastUmpqua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EastUmpqua)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-er-when/963091/32 "2022-04-20T19:22:24Z")
You realize that you have obtained wisdom over your long life, but the younger generations aren’t interested in it. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-er-when/963091/33 "2022-04-20T19:26:06Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > First, high school girls started calling me “sir”. 😐 > Then, college girls started doing it. 😒 I became invisible to young ladies quite some time go so they don’t call me anything. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-er-when/963091/34 "2022-04-20T19:35:11Z")
A friend said that whenever he notices how pretty a young woman is, he tells himself “Relax, she’s too young for you.” Then thinks “Hmmm, wonder if her mother’s available?” I’m older than him, so I told him that wouldn’t work for me… their mothers are too young for me. . > [@DesertDog](#): > > I became invisible to young ladies Be grateful for that. If you did become visible, it’d be because they think you’re a creep. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-er-when/963091/35 "2022-04-20T19:56:59Z")
> [@DKW](#): > > You remember a time when Star Wars was almost universally popular and nobody you knew saw it as anything but an exciting action-packed sci-fi adventure. I’m not sure I get this one. What else is it, other than an exciting, action packed sci-fi adventure, with a bunch of sequels, prequels and spin-offs? > [@DKW](#): > > You don’t think pop music is any better or worse than it was 5, 10, or 20 years ago. It’s pop. What the hell does anyone expect, Beethoven? I’d argue that’s more a youthful outlook; most oldsters are busy shaking their fists and complaining that modern music “isn’t _real_ music”, whether it’s heavy metal in the 80s and 90s, or rap-influenced music in every decade since the 1980s. And they’re usually mired in past decades in their own musical choices. > [@DKW](#): > > Cartoons that you watched once, laughed at, and forgot about half an hour later as a kid are now the subject of lengthy point-by-point analyses on YouTube. This one I really don’t get. I mean, my mental vision is that some neckbearded dork is performing a detailed analysis and critique of “Thundarr the Barbarian” or the “Super Friends”, and it’s making me chuckle a bit. > [@digs](#): > > A friend said that whenever he notices how pretty a young woman is, he tells himself “Relax, she’s too young for you.” Then thinks “Hmmm, wonder if her mother’s available?” I actually had something similar happen to me; I saw a dorky-ass teenager/young man and a really good looking woman- tight jeans, good hair, etc… walking together in a store and though “Wow, she’s hot. Why’s she with that doofus?” until I got closer and realized she was his mother. Instantly felt about 40 years older right then. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-er-when/963091/36 "2022-04-20T20:06:23Z")
> [@bump](#): > > I mean, my mental vision is that some neckbearded dork is performing a detailed analysis and critique of “Thundarr the Barbarian” or the “Super Friends”, and it’s making me chuckle a bit. A two hour long youtube video analyzing _What’s Opera, Doc?_. And others spending two hours watching the video! ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-er-when/963091/37 "2022-04-20T20:10:13Z")
Speaking of YouTube… I’m starting to think that not wanting to sit through some hyperactive doofus blathering for 15 minutes reviewing something and just wanting a review article with a summary paragraph must mark me as old. Almost every time I google " reviews", the first third of the search results is YouTube videos talking about it. And I almost always skip them, because I don’t have the time or inclination to wait through someone’s video review, when there are probably much faster and more concise reviews that are text/photos. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-er-when/963091/38 "2022-04-20T20:11:33Z")
> [@EastUmpqua](#): > > You realize that you have obtained wisdom over your long life, but the younger generations aren’t interested in it. Most people eventually outgrow the idea that they have attained wisdom. Give it time, kid. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-er-when/963091/39 "2022-04-20T20:13:55Z")
When you start enjoying the music playing in grocery stores. When you start getting mailers from cemeteries. When you don’t have to ask to get a senior discount. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-er-when/963091/40 "2022-04-20T20:18:23Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Be grateful for that. If you did become visible, it’d be because they think you’re a creep. Undoubtedly and TBF, I wouldn’t blame them. Still makes me a bit sad. I’m just an old dog on the porch raising his head when the mailman goes by, then lowering it again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-er-when/963091.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-er-when/963091.md?page=3)