# You know you're getting old when... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 22, 2011, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930 "2011-07-22T01:48:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/21 "2011-07-22T16:30:32Z")
When you have a friend who teaches college, and who complains that she has to explain what 9/11 was to her students, and yet you realize that when you graduated from high school, she was just starting kindergarten. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/22 "2011-07-22T16:32:40Z")
Try telling them that your grandfather fought in the Boer War (circa 1900). ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/23 "2011-07-22T16:33:33Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > …you’re in the store and you see a new washer and dryer and think to yourself, “Man, I so want that! It even has a steam setting!” I want the one where you hang shirts up on hangars _in the dryer_, eliminating any need for ironing. My contribution: When you go to a bar for the happy hour specials and go to bed before the Daily Show. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/24 "2011-07-22T16:35:06Z")
> [@lindsaybluth](#): > > I want the one where you hang shirts up on hangars _in the dryer_, eliminating any need for ironing. > > My contribution: When you go to a bar for the happy hour specials and go to bed before the Daily Show. That could also be a sign of youthful friskiness (waggles eyebrows) ---
**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:** [July 22, 2011, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/25 "2011-07-22T16:36:41Z")
When you get out of the bed in the morning and your body sounds like popcorn popping. ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/26 "2011-07-22T16:56:22Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > That could also be a sign of youthful friskiness (waggles eyebrows) Ha, wait, the happy hour part or the dryer part? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/27 "2011-07-22T17:02:12Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > That could also be a sign of youthful friskiness (waggles eyebrows) If friskiness involves hanging up shirts, youth is wasted on you. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/28 "2011-07-22T17:19:10Z")
Youth would never be wasted on me. Lindsay, I meant the going to bed bit 🙂 However, I am going to bed. Night all. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/29 "2011-07-22T17:20:02Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > If friskiness involves hanging up shirts, youth is wasted on you. It depends on who’s in the shirt at the time. Years ago I made Thanksgiving dinner for my then-GF, her mother, her cousin, and her cousin’s friend. The cousin and the friend were in their early 20s. After dinner, they asked if they could sleep over. We said yes. They said “Great, we’re going out dancing!” :eek: If by dancing you mean lying down, watching The Wizard of Oz, and hoping you don’t fall asleep by the time Dorothy gets to Oz, then I’m right there with you. ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/30 "2011-07-22T17:22:06Z")
When the cute child actor suddenly turns into sexy adult actor (Daniel Radcliffe & Matthew Lewis) while making you feel slightly perverted also. When the age poll on a gaming forum stops at 25. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/31 "2011-07-22T18:42:27Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > Oh yes … I recently had surgery and if you saw the surgeon who did it walking down the street you’d swear he was a college sophomore. True story (and I’m not an elderly dodderer, I swear! I don’t look a day over 39!) but I talked to this young Dr. Bonez and said, “keeping it in the family, I see, I remember going to see a Dr. Bonez years ago. How is your father?” “Oh, dad’s doing OK, retired now, but he’s always lived in California. Your doctor must have been my grandfather.” 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/32 "2011-07-22T18:45:08Z")
…you have a favorite brand of suppository …you know your pharamacist’s name …the time between “I could pee if there was a restroom nearby” to “IT IS COMING OUT NOWWWWWWW!” goes from 45 minutes to 45 seconds ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/33 "2011-07-22T19:18:01Z")
You used to look down at the speedometer and realize you were doing 10 miles over the limit. Now you look down and realize you’re doing 10 miles under the limit. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/34 "2011-07-22T19:32:34Z")
When taking a nap is more enjoyable than sex. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/35 "2011-07-22T20:01:43Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > When taking a nap is more enjoyable than sex. Thank goodness I’m not old!! ::wags behind:: ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/36 "2011-07-22T20:09:36Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > When taking a nap is more enjoyable than sex. And takes less time. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/37 "2011-07-22T20:18:04Z")
Well, it first started in the late 70s after watching the quintessential and ubiquitous Hostess Twinkie commercial (you know, the one with the squeaky clean white kids and Mom) and thinking the chick playing the Mom was hawt… It has now devolved to the stark realization that The Big 5-0 is next weekend… ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/38 "2011-07-22T20:23:30Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Thank goodness I’m not old!! ::wags behind:: I’d chase that behind but you’ll have to move real slow. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/39 "2011-07-22T20:24:58Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > It has now devolved to the stark realization that The Big 5-0 is next weekend… I have no idea how I’m going to handle that. I have a couple more months to enjoy my youth and vitality. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/40 "2011-07-22T20:37:23Z")
> [@Toucanna](#): > > You used to look down at the speedometer and realize you were doing 10 miles over the limit. > > Now you look down and realize you’re doing 10 miles under the limit. I’ve always viewed myself as a bit of a lead foot, and I aim for 10 over the posted limit. When I worked in Virginia, I’d be doing 70 at some point, and I’d still be flipped off and passed. 😕 I work on a Navy base in Maryland now, and each exit has a permanent radar stand that flashes your speed, to get you to slow down while passing the guard shacks. That’s when I realized that the 30 on my speedometer registered 25 on the radar. :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930.md?page=3)