# 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:** 2
**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, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/21 "2016-01-27T16:21:16Z")
If you’re like I’ve been, you start noticing **Them** becoming **Us** sometime after you hit 70. Give or take five years. And _Immortality_ fades away altogether when you pass 35. ---
**Author:** ![Nefario](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/59ef9b/32.png) [@Nefario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nefario)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/22 "2016-01-27T16:27:58Z")
You Know You’re Getting Old When: The cashiers start calling you “Sir”. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/23 "2016-01-27T16:29:41Z")
> [@UncleFred](#): > > 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. I prefer “holdover hippie” for the alliteration. For me, finding a few gray hairs on my head was fine. Ditto for my beard. When my chest hair started to gray, that was a bit of a betrayal somehow. When my _pubic_ hair started going gray, the shit got real. ---
**Author:** ![UberArchetype](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/2bfe46/32.png) [@UberArchetype](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UberArchetype)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/24 "2016-01-27T16:38:50Z")
You know you’re getting old when… **Everything Hurts!** ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/25 "2016-01-27T16:43:13Z")
When you drop a suppository on the floor and say, “five second rule!” ---
**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, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/26 "2016-01-27T16:45:54Z")
And when you see some guy and you think he must be a lot older than you, and then you find out he’s much younger than you. Ouch. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/27 "2016-01-27T17:01:31Z")
> [@racer72](#): > > 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. ☹ You’re even older when your doctor says it’s not worth the risk. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/28 "2016-01-27T17:19:41Z")
Just discovering that as an old lady, I can say outrageous things or ask outrageous questions and people just laugh me off. ---
**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, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/29 "2016-01-27T17:31:08Z")
> [@UncleFred](#): > > And when you see some guy and you think he must be a lot older than you, and then you find out he’s much younger than you. Ouch. I went to college when I was 26. First day of class this guy walks in and I think “Ooh, he’s handsome. I hope he sits next to me.” … it was the professor. AND he was younger than me. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/30 "2016-01-27T17:35:28Z")
When you have a drink with your kids and aren’t worried about CYS being called. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/31 "2016-01-27T17:39:48Z")
1. Your hearing goes. 2. YOUR MEMORY GOES 3. Your ummm, ahhh, what were we talking about? You finally need to get glasses. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/32 "2016-01-27T17:47:14Z")
When it’s 1999, you’re having lunch with 4 colleagues and the TV over the bar announces that it’s the 30th anniversary of the moon landing. You ask your colleagues if any of them were allowed to stay up late to watch it and you get ‘the look’. Then one of them reminds you that none of them were even born yet. Oy. :S ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/33 "2016-01-27T17:53:25Z")
- you tell people you remember both the Berlin Wall going up and being demolished - and they don’t know what you’re talking about - someone mentions the Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination; you state that you saw that the day afterwards and they look at you open-mouthed - you remember queuing in the street to use a public phone box - you remember loading several vinyl records into a record player ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/34 "2016-01-27T18:44:06Z")
You’re not annoyed that you have to get up in the middle of the night to pee. Instead you’re delighted when you wake up that it was ONLY once that you got up, instead of your regular three or four times. (That’s not me, got that number from a recent _Modern Family_ episode.) ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/35 "2016-01-27T18:53:14Z")
Authority figures you once looked up to (e.g. ministers) seem too young to convince you they’ve got enough life experience to know what they’re talking about. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/36 "2016-01-27T19:01:01Z")
> [@stillownedbysetters](#): > > When it’s 1999, you’re having lunch with 4 colleagues and the TV over the bar announces that it’s the 30th anniversary of the moon landing. You ask your colleagues if any of them were allowed to stay up late to watch it and you get ‘the look’. Then one of them reminds you that none of them were even born yet. Oy. :S Or you mention on Facebook that yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the Challenger explosion and how you had to scrap your lesson plan for that particular class when the news hit. The only people who replied were in college at the time. The rest of them were either too young or not born yet :eek: ---
**Author:** ![wipetheclock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b19c9b/32.png) [@wipetheclock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wipetheclock)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/37 "2016-01-27T20:32:39Z")
> [@DeepLiquid](#): > > In this vein… when I heard “Black Hole Sun” on the oldies station. ☹ I’m going to pretend I didn’t just read this. Ya know, like an old person turning off her hearing aid. ---
**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, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/38 "2016-01-27T20:35:55Z")
> [@wipetheclock](#): > > ☹ I’m going to pretend I didn’t just read this. Ya know, like an old person turning off her hearing aid. Yeah, I get that… and I was in my mid 30’s when that was a hit. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/39 "2016-01-27T20:40:13Z")
When you hear a commercial for BMW on the radio station you listen to. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/40 "2016-01-27T20:49:37Z")
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