# You know you're getting old when......... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 28, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/358555 "2006-05-28T18:44:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/358555/21 "2006-05-29T03:28:23Z")
> [@Rhubarb](#): > > … you have ties that have gone in and out of fashion twice. > And you realize that you were old enough to purchase alchohol then AND that your youngest child will be eligible to buy beer next year. Oh yeah, and your ties are old enough to buy beer now. [sub]Hit reply too soon AND screwed up the coding. Me, Old? What’s that? Speak up![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/358555/22 "2006-05-29T03:34:47Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > When a sibling has a grandchild graduating from high school. In a few years, I could have a sibling that’s a great-grandparent. Which would make me a … ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh… That would be a great-great-aunt. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/358555/23 "2006-05-29T03:38:02Z")
…you forgot that somebody else started an identical thread nine days ago. ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/358555/24 "2006-05-29T04:20:31Z")
When a young’un mentions “USS Enterprise”, and one whippersnapper recalls Captain Picard when the first young’un meant Captain Kirk. Then you realize you watched the original Star Trek episodes on TV when they first came out in the 1960’s. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/358555/25 "2006-05-29T05:44:49Z")
> [@NotMyRealUserName](#): > > When a young’un mentions “USS Enterprise”, and one whippersnapper recalls Captain Picard when the first young’un meant Captain Kirk. Then you realize you watched the original Star Trek episodes on TV when they first came out in the 1960’s. Or when the whippersnapper meant Captain Archer, the whippersnapper’s parent thought the kid meant Picard. The parent’s older brother thought he meant Kirk. And you initially thought he was talking about The Big “E.” ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/358555/26 "2006-05-29T05:50:35Z")
When you fall down and nobody laughs. “Oh my god! Are you alright, Sir?” ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/358555/27 "2006-05-29T07:09:57Z")
I guess I’m not \* that\* old, but a guy told me today that his favorite Red Hot Chili Peppers song was “Higher Ground”. I said “A cover?” He had never heard of the Stevie Wonder version. ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/358555/28 "2006-05-29T07:17:53Z")
I get grumpy if I’m not in bed by 9:30. Damn kids with their loud music, keepin’ me up till all hours of the night. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/358555/29 "2006-05-29T07:43:46Z")
When you have “senior moments” and begin to forget things. So, in answer to the OP, yes I do sleep in the nude. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/358555/30 "2006-05-29T10:29:19Z")
When a kid about waist-high asks you for the time and ends with “ma’am”. When people stop asking you when will you get married (just yesterday a friend of Mom’s reminded me on the phone that “there ain’t no such thing as a perfect man, young woman! Go and get you a decent one!”, but heck, she’s ancient; everybody else has given up). When people ask you for verification on Trivial Pursuit answers because “this must’a been about your time”. When teens hear you and an old classmate reminiscing about your sex-discrimination fights in school and claim it’s absolutely impossible and you’re exagerating, and the two of you look at each other and asy “aaah, young kids nowadays, they don’t know how nice they have it, the little fuckers, no respect for their elders” (mind you, we musn’t be completely mummified, since we broke into giggles). ---
**Author:** ![Starlite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Starlite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starlite)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/358555/31 "2006-05-29T14:57:10Z")
…when pillow talk after sex involves the latest cute thing your grandbabies have done … _sigh_ [/FONT]For the record, I am 53 - at least for another 37 days ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/358555/32 "2006-05-29T14:57:45Z")
When, a few years back, your older son got the action gun that looks like Luke Skywalker’s. It makes noise. and #2 son’s friend comes over and tells you that you must be wrong–that that gun cannot be from Star Wars, because it’s not in the 3 movies that he is familiar with (he’s 8). Oy. \ ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/358555/33 "2006-05-29T15:20:15Z")
When you and your best friend used to get on the phone and talk excitedly about you found a really great new bar, with excellent music and tons of cute guys and cheap drinks. And now you realize that you and your best friend get on the phone and talk excitedly about how you found a really great new _podiatrist_. ---
**Author:** ![MizGrand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cdc98d/32.png) [@MizGrand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizGrand)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/358555/34 "2006-05-29T15:42:49Z")
…you admire _rocks_ in your in-law’s yard. ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/358555/35 "2006-05-29T15:52:33Z")
…that you’re excited about the features of a new washer/dryer that you’re purchasing. …that you don’t recognize half or more of the band names anymore (this really makes me feel old) …that you happily discuss the pros and cons of certain types of grass seed and compare lawns with neighbors. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/358555/36 "2006-05-29T18:29:30Z")
What’s that? COLD!!??!! Why it’s damn near ninety! Tarnation! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/358555/37 "2006-05-29T19:05:52Z")
You open up this thread to get off a great quip, and by the time you scroll this far down, you got nothing. Nothing, I tell you. ---
**Author:** ![katie1341](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/91b2a8/32.png) [@katie1341](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katie1341)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/358555/38 "2006-05-29T19:59:08Z")
For the first time in my life, I have a doctor who is younger than I am. The newest attorney in my office was BORN the year I graduated from high school. ``` I need my reading glasses to hook my front-hook bras. I remember when "safe sex" meant that you were careful not to fall off the bed ("that was great- what was your name again?"). ``` ---
**Author:** ![Wallflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Wallflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallflower)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/358555/39 "2006-05-29T20:22:10Z")
When you are training a new hire and discover that she’s the youngest child of someone you graduated with from High school. (Me.) When you find out that you are older than the mother of your new supervisor. (My husband.) ---
**Author:** ![mrald](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mrald](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrald)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/358555/40 "2006-05-29T20:30:19Z")
When your bones pop and crack so bad that that the nursing home resident you are taking care of not only HEARS it but asks if you need help up from a squatting position. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/358555.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/358555.md?page=3)