# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/61 "2011-07-25T00:23:53Z")
When you’re going on a business trip and finding yourself wondering if that’s your flight crew, or some kids on their senior trip. (C’mon LSLGuy, surely you’ve experienced this?) ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/62 "2011-07-25T17:11:26Z")
People born in the 90s can drink legally now. Depressing as fuck. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/63 "2011-07-25T19:58:01Z")
When the local radio station does a “Top 20 Albums Released 20 Years Ago” list and you vividly remember buying many of them in high school right when they were released. I’m looking at you, “Nevermind” and “Blood Sugar Sex Magic.” ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/64 "2011-07-25T20:44:57Z")
My boss was born _after_ Star Wars was released. ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/65 "2011-07-26T01:09:11Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > . . . when you’re reading a thread like this, and people half your age are complaining about how old they are. > > . . . when your parents’ generation has mostly died off, and now it’s your generation that sits around talking about your ailments, procedures and medications. > > . . . when your partner, who is 20 years younger than you, now has gray hair. > > . . . when the cousins you used to babysit for, are all middle-aged. > > . . . when you can’t decide which is a bigger problem, cataracts or glaucoma. > > . . .\*\* when you have fallen, and really can’t get up.\*\*. . . when everything in your body has either dried up or leaks. so true… mine: needing glasses hbp pills for hbp menopause pills for menopause arthritis in neck back aches to be continued.😃 ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/66 "2011-07-26T01:23:03Z")
Let’s not leave out veiny hands, and wrinkly fingers. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/67 "2011-07-26T01:26:23Z")
My favorite was the night I came home from physical therapy, all excited to have my shiny new cane, because it meant I didn’t have to hobble around at work with a walker and would actually be able to, say, get myself a glass of water. The second I hobbled in the door, I got telemarketed by a cemetery marketing pre-need planning. (I was still in my 20s! It was post-surgical rehab! I swear!) ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/68 "2011-07-26T01:36:27Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Let’s not leave out veiny hands, and wrinkly fingers. Age spots, scars, gray hair, almosr deaf, forgetful, tired, sleepy. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/69 "2011-07-26T05:20:54Z")
I hesitate to bring up the subject, but…wrinkly cleavage. I can hoist my still formidable girls up with a cantilvered bra for display…but should I? Should I just go for the basic black sheath with diaphanous black neckline and sleeves, like the Golden Girls often wore? ---
**Author:** ![Meme\_Chose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Meme\_Chose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meme_Chose)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/70 "2011-07-26T09:07:55Z")
When you can remember going to see Star Wars with all your friends when it was released…and having to rush home afterward to take the babysitter home. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/71 "2011-07-26T11:03:41Z")
All cleavage is good cleavage. Hoist them girls up high! ---
**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/72 "2011-07-26T12:41:30Z")
When you have no problem sitting on the floor, but have to grab something to hoist yourself back up, and you make that grunting sound as you get up. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/73 "2011-07-26T14:23:43Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > All cleavage is good cleavage. Hoist them girls up high! :D;) Will do! They actually do have a few more good years to show themselves in public! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/74 "2011-07-26T14:46:01Z")
When the clothes you wore as a teenager come back in style. Yesterday I saw a young couple in the thrift store looking for 1960’s clothes. I gave them some advice, and realized “I’m old as hell.” ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/75 "2011-07-26T16:39:13Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > :D;) Will do! They actually do have a few more good years to show themselves in public! Or “hoist them up for parades”, as Tina Fey says in her book. . ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/76 "2011-07-26T18:50:40Z")
A few years ago, a young woman (18-19 yrs , or so) whom I work with innocently asked me “You know thos phones with the spinny things on them, how dod they work?” I started telling her about crank telephones (which I assumed she meant, even though they predate me by a generation), and she said “No, no… the spinny thing you put your finger in…” She had never used a dial phone. She had seen them in “old movies” and wondered exactly how one used them. Sigh… I felt old then, and , sheesh, that was a few yrs ago… ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/77 "2011-07-26T19:42:16Z")
…you realize that when you were born there weren’t even 50 States yet. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/78 "2011-07-28T21:56:09Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > When the local radio station does a “Top 20 Albums Released 20 Years Ago” list and you vividly remember buying many of them in high school right when they were released. I’m looking at you, “Nevermind” and “Blood Sugar Sex Magic.” How about “When the local radio station does a “Top 20 Albums Released 20 Years Ago” list and you …” have never heard of any of them because your album-buying and top-40 listening years ended a decade or more before then. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/79 "2011-07-29T02:01:44Z")
> [@RoeCocoa](#): > > If you remember when the sun was only 30, you are kind of old. I’ve always wondered what being “older than God’s parents” meant. This might be an example. ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/589930/80 "2011-07-29T02:26:37Z")
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