# You know you're getting old when...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/357172
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 17, 2006, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/357172 "2006-05-17T21:34:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2006, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/357172/61 "2006-05-31T11:16:59Z")
> [@Kythereia](#):
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> I said it in another thread, but…
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> …when you go to the videostore, and there’s a tenth-anniversary copy of a movie you watched avidly in the theatres as a kid.
Or twentieth-anniversary.
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### Author:  [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/357172/62 "2006-05-31T16:27:48Z")
Hah! Next year it will have been _thirty_ years since I sat in the theater as a kid in wide-eyed amazement as Star Wars played out on the big screen.
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2006, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/357172/63 "2006-05-31T16:34:27Z")
> [@The Sonoran Lizard King](#):
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> **KP** , that was awesome, you rock. “Cat’s in the Cradle”, right?
Thank you, **Lizard** , I knew I had to know the song but couldn’t quite place it.
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### Author:  [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2006, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/357172/64 "2006-05-31T16:57:38Z")
> [@Phase42](#):
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> Hah! Next year it will have been _thirty_ years since I sat in the theater as a kid in wide-eyed amazement as Star Wars played out on the big screen.
I don’t even want to count the years since I joined the ‘down the block and around the corner’ line to see Mary Poppins. Everyone kept saying everything was supercalifragilistic for _months_ afterwards. :smack:
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### Author:  [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2006, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/357172/65 "2006-05-31T17:16:23Z")
> [@silenus](#):
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> When your teenaged students don’t do anything for you, but you think some of their mothers are **hot**!
When the district hires a pretty, blonde twenty-something girls gym teacher and looking at her makes you think of sunshine, not hot-sweaty sex.
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### Author:  [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2006, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/357172/66 "2006-05-31T19:01:32Z")
> [@Just1Lurk](#):
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> Billy Crystal has this bit about the time his son made him feel 90 years old by coming up to him and asking, “Dad, is it true Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?”
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> I told this story to my 12-year-old niece. She said to me, “Paul McCartney was in a band called Wings?”
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> Talk about feeling old…
We had the same thing - sorta - happen a couple of years ago. Family dinner, topic somehow gets around to music and McCartney and SWMBO makes a joke about how Paul McCartney was in a little garage band before he was in Wings.
And the Teenaged Terror, in all seriousness, asks, “Who’s Paul McCartney?”
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### Author:  [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2006, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/357172/67 "2006-06-01T03:55:27Z")
When you find yourself sighing/groaning whenver you sit down\*
\*paraphrased from an old Frasier episode - I think
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### Author:  [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2006, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/357172/68 "2006-06-01T04:00:35Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#):
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> \*paraphrased from an old Frasier episode - I think
That was something more like “Can you get up from the couch without making the ‘old man noise’?”.
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### Author:  [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2006, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/357172/69 "2006-06-01T04:29:29Z")
> [@Scumpup](#):
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> When the district hires a pretty, blonde twenty-something girls gym teacher and looking at her makes you think of sunshine, not hot-sweaty sex.
Um. You mean I have that to look forward to?
Christ…so, when should I kill myself?
when should I dodge the canes, dentures, and orthopedic shoes you guys are going to throw at me?
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### Author:  [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2006, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/357172/70 "2006-06-01T05:11:37Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#):
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> When you look at the hotties in a pr0n mag and realize that if they’re not lying about their age, you’re old enough to be their father! Who’s your daddy?
I was having a coffee with my Dad the other day, and he made an interesting point along these lines. He said “Son, you know you’re old when the women in porno magazines are younger than your own kids.”
I don’t think there’s any way to argue with that.
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### Author:  [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2006, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/357172/71 "2006-06-01T07:44:19Z")
When they 20ish people on public transport are overtly displaying that they are reading The Da Vinci Code to show that they are cool. And you remember doing the same thing at their age. Except the book was _Portnoys Complaint_.
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### Author:  [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/357172/72 "2006-06-01T18:45:50Z")
> [@Beware of Doug](#):
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> When people younger than you are Senators, CEOs, and hypertensives.
or Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States…
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/357172/73 "2006-06-01T20:23:51Z")
When you …
Sorry I forgot what I thought of.
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/357172/74 "2006-06-01T20:30:25Z")
You know your old, when you go into room full of antique tools and you know how to use them all.
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### Author:  [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/357172/75 "2006-06-01T21:22:04Z")
Or when “room full of antique tools” describes your class reunion.
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### Author:  [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2006, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/357172/76 "2006-06-02T21:03:53Z")
How about…
\*\*\* They do one of those generation-by-generation photo sequences at the family Christmas reunion, and you’re in the oldest group?
\*\*\* When you first went to work for the company, calling the local hardware store meant dialing 0 and asking the operator to connect you?
Yeah, did both.
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### Author:  [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/357172/77 "2006-06-02T21:13:49Z")
When you re-watch films that seemed really profound when you were a high school junior . . . and they’re really, really bad (yup, I watched _Flashdance_ today!)
And, VCRs. Back in the day they were as big as a microwave oven and cost $1,000. We used to rent them at the videocassette store and they never, ever worked right.
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2006, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/357172/78 "2006-06-02T21:43:31Z")
The neighbor has gone through two dogs from puppy to dead, and you consider them a rather new aquantance.
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### Author:  [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/357172/79 "2006-06-03T02:15:03Z")
> [@Kythereia](#):
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> I said it in another thread, but…
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> …when you go to the videostore, and there’s a tenth-anniversary copy of a movie you watched avidly in the theatres as a kid.
For me, it was Pulp Fiction and the 5Th Element.
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### Author:  [@Stinkum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stinkum)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2006, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/357172/80 "2006-06-03T04:44:12Z")
When you spend more money per month on medication and dental care than your mortgage. The house is fine, the body, not so good.
When you realize you can’t eat like you used to and still maintain your weight. And when you get a little porky around the middle, it takes forever to lose the weight – remember the good old days when you could skip a meal and lose the weight?
When you can’t find a dang thing in the stores that fits or feels age-appropriate. Rarely does a 40+ year old female butt (non-surgically altered) look good in those low slung pants. Also, when you start dressing for comfort rather than looks. Stretchy pants – yes!
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