# You Know You're Getting Old When... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 27, 2016, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360 "2016-01-27T12:47:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![UncleFred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f0a364/32.png) [@UncleFred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleFred)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/1 "2016-01-27T12:47:34Z")
The other day I had to explain to someone what a ‘Hippie’ was. I had referred to someone as a ‘leftover hippie’ and got a blank stare in response, followed by being asked what a hippie was. ---
**Author:** ![sevenwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sevenwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sevenwood)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/2 "2016-01-27T13:23:24Z")
Yu know you’re getting old when the Sweet Young Things at the gym hold the door open for you. And you’re grateful. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/3 "2016-01-27T13:32:16Z")
When mention of Pete Seeger and Joan Baez gets you a blank stare. Actually, you know you are getting old when you pass your 79th birthday as I did last week. ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/4 "2016-01-27T13:35:55Z")
You know you’re getting old when you drop something on the floor and decide you don’t need it any time soon.😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/5 "2016-01-27T13:38:43Z")
When you look back at the silly and/or ignorant things your parents said that you were pretty sure were questionable even when you were young. Then you realize that yes, they really _didn’t_ know what they were talking about, but that’s okay, because you are much older and thus understandably wiser than they were when they said those things and were supposedly the wise adult. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/6 "2016-01-27T13:39:40Z")
You know you’re getting old when you have to explain why 9/11 and 911 are separate things! ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/7 "2016-01-27T13:43:13Z")
You see a group of 20 something’s and instead of thinking they’re hot you want to tell them to put on some clothes. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2016, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/8 "2016-01-27T13:52:01Z")
\*\*You Know You’re Getting Old When… \*\* You were a hippie. ---
**Author:** ![Stealth\_Bragg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Stealth\_Bragg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Bragg)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/9 "2016-01-27T14:39:11Z")
You Know You’re Getting Old When: Your doctor starts taking you seriously… ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/10 "2016-01-27T15:19:44Z")
You walk into a crowded coffee shop and realize you’re the oldest person in there. Then you hear one girl say to another “Tell her to text me sometime and we’ll all get drunk together” and you think “WTF - you’re like 15 - go home and play with Barbies!!” ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/11 "2016-01-27T15:24:54Z")
\*\*You Know You’re Getting Old When. . . \*\* . . . Your youngest kid starts complaining about getting old. Not that he isn’t a little premature on that. He hasn’t hit forty yet. Which reminds me, when my middle boy was in his twenties, he asked me when I stopped listening to new music. It annoyed me greatly, but he was being serious. I got to remind him of it a few years ago and ask him if he had stopped listening to new music. He had. He grinned. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/12 "2016-01-27T15:38:43Z")
Before I retired, I worked with a group of young engineers. More than half of them were young enough to be my kids. Yeah, that was a sobering moment… And I wholeheartedly agree with **quiltguy**!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/13 "2016-01-27T15:51:05Z")
When you pass “the get off my lawn” stage and reach “I don’t give a shit about that lawn” stage. Which is shortly followed by a move to Dell Bocca Vista Phase II. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/14 "2016-01-27T15:51:23Z")
You know your getting old when your doctor says the CAT scans show significant wear to the knee joint and you have a partial tear to a ligament, it’s time to consider knee replacement surgery. ☹ And it’s going to mess with my retirements plans too. :(☹ ---
**Author:** ![Gothic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Gothic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gothic)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/15 "2016-01-27T16:01:48Z")
When I pay attention to AARP commercials. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/16 "2016-01-27T16:08:13Z")
I feel old when I notice that people who were vibrant, productive adults when I was a kid are dying off. Politicians, actors, musicians, historical figures. Bummer. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/17 "2016-01-27T16:10:08Z")
… when you hear about someone less than 15 years older than you (but in their 70s or 80s) dying, and you think: “He/She was so _young_!!” ---
**Author:** ![Calla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Calla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calla)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/18 "2016-01-27T16:11:56Z")
On the way to work the other day I was thoroughly enjoying a song from my wild college days and when the song ended, I realized that I was listening to our local oldies station. ---
**Author:** ![somepumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@somepumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/somepumpkin)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/19 "2016-01-27T16:20:38Z")
You Know You’re Getting Old When: You keep a pair of reading glasses in (most) every room of the house. ---
**Author:** ![DeepLiquid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deepliquid/32/14893_2.png) [@DeepLiquid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeepLiquid)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/20 "2016-01-27T16:21:08Z")
> [@Calla](#): > > On the way to work the other day I was thoroughly enjoying a song from my wild college days and when the song ended, I realized that I was listening to our local oldies station. In this vein… when I heard “Black Hole Sun” on the oldies station. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360.md?page=2)