# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/41 "2016-01-27T21:16:59Z")
As a guy, you know you’re getting old when you stop to think about the consequences _before_ doing something stupid. Being a guy you still do it, though. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/42 "2016-01-27T21:55:23Z")
You know you’re getting old when your scrotum has road-rash. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/43 "2016-01-27T22:01:22Z")
My mother told me that when she first really got to know _her_ mother as a person, not just as “Mom”, was when she was in college, and her mother was about 40. So she always thought of Grandma as “about 40”. So when she herself eventually turned 40, it was a real shock to her: “Good lord, I’m as old as my mother”. Last year, my older sister turned 40. So now, I told Mom, her daughter is as old as her mother. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/44 "2016-01-27T22:07:13Z")
One sign that I’m getting older is that I’m now careful not to waste an erection. 'Cause it might be a while until the next one. If I do spend one frivolously, I’m always kicking myself afterwards. “Fuck! I needed that one for later.” Yeah. That wasn’t really an issue back in the day. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/45 "2016-01-27T22:25:37Z")
When you meet a college classmate you haven’t seen for 40 years, and you’re shocked at how ancient they look… …and then realize that they’re just as shocked at how ancient you look. You catch a look in a mirror in a bar or restaurant of some geezer out of the corner of your eye, and then realize it’s you. ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/46 "2016-01-27T22:40:21Z")
When most celebrities are younger than you. Or better yet when the average presidential candidate is around your age or younger. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/47 "2016-01-27T22:47:26Z")
When you’re telling someone you think of as a contemporary about seeing _Die Hard_ on the big screen when it first came out and they pipe up with, “I was 4 yrs old when it came out.” ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/48 "2016-01-27T23:06:10Z")
Someone offers you “Super Sex”… …and you choose the soup.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/49 "2016-01-27T23:22:32Z")
You know you are getting old when your minister, the bishope of your diocese, your doctor, your pet’s veternairan, your freakin’ PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, are all younger than you. ---
**Author:** ![phxjcc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phxjcc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phxjcc)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/50 "2016-01-27T23:23:13Z")
When there is an intelligent and good looking young woman working for you, that mentions her mother is also single…and you think, “gee,maybe I should ask Linda’s mother out.” And then you find out her mother is ten years younger than you. WTH? ---
**Author:** ![dennism](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@dennism](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dennism)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/51 "2016-01-28T00:14:14Z")
They STOP asking you if you’re a senior citizen! ---
**Author:** ![Newtosite](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/newtosite/32/8623_2.png) [@Newtosite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Newtosite)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/52 "2016-01-28T01:21:52Z")
You offer your ID to show you qualify for a senior discount, and they don’t bother to look at it. You walk up to a bank teller and the first thing they ask is “Are you here for our senior account?” ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/53 "2016-01-28T02:16:29Z")
I’m taking a class at the local community college. I saw a poster yesterday that the school is having an event to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Challenger disaster. I remember seeing it on TV at work, live, as it happened I said to my teacher, “I can’t believe it’s been 30 years.” She replied, “Yeah, I think I was in high school.” You _think_ you were? I was in Barnes & Noble today and they were playing Beatles songs, one after the other, the original recordings. God, my entire life flashed before my eyes. Oh yeah, I was a freshman in high school for “She Loves You,” danced with that weird guy to “Yesterday,” when I was a senior. “Come Together”-- I got _Abbey Road_ (the greatest album ever recorded IMHO) as a present for my 21st birthday. “Hey Jude” – > [@](#): > > The Beatles even provided the [Smothers] brothers with a US exclusive – the videotaped premiere of “Hey Jude” – and in the middle of the Smothers Brothers’ battles with the CBS censors, George Harrison showed up in 1968 as a surprise guest to offer moral support.\* I looked in vain around the store for someone to share this moment with…but everyone was too young. I’m sure some of them recognized the Beatles…I guess…but the Beatles didn’t provide the soundtrack for _their_ formative years. \ \*[Cite](http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Books/dangerously-funny-david-bianculli/story?id=9209351) ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/54 "2016-01-28T02:28:49Z")
We had an 80’s theme Christmas break up day and the idea was for everyone to bring in a photo of themselves from the 80’s. about 6 people weren’t born until the 90’s, several others bought in baby photos :o I bought in a photo of myself hugging (a cardboard cutout of) Samantha Fox. I had to explain to several people who she was and what a “page 3 girl” was.:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/55 "2016-01-28T07:38:49Z")
I love the blank looks when I tell folks I lost interest in baseball when those lousy bums abandoned their fans in Brooklyn and moved to L.A. Okay, I was too young to notice when it happened and we lived in Phillies territory anyway. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/56 "2016-01-28T09:03:22Z")
> [@glee](#): > > - you tell people you remember both the Berlin Wall going up and being demolished - and they don’t know what you’re talking about I said this very thing the other day when some whippersnapper talked about how long ago it was that the Wall came down. I think they assume I must be about 100. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/57 "2016-01-28T09:25:04Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > You know you are getting old when your minister, the bishope of your diocese, your doctor, your pet’s veternairan, your freakin’ PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, are all younger than you. Fortunately, it’s Throwback Thursday on the campaign trail, with Trump, Clinton, and Sanders all several years older than you and me. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/58 "2016-01-28T09:39:32Z")
Like many of us here on the Dope, I’m an [xkcd](https://xkcd.com/) fan. Randall Munroe, xkcd’s creator, is a graduate of Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA. I graduated from college, worked for several years, got my master’s degree in math, then joined the math faculty at Christopher Newport… …at about the time Randall Munroe would have been learning to walk. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/59 "2016-01-28T13:11:41Z")
When every nurse, Dr, Dentist, lab tech, etc is WAY younger than you. And you begin to expect it to be that way! When you go travelling instead of a jar of vitamins and some birth control pills, you have a large bag with two different BP meds, plus a boatload of supplements to carry around like you’re a Dr on a aid mission. And no one is surprised to see them in your carry on bag. No one! ---
**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 28, 2016, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/60 "2016-01-28T13:30:48Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > When every nurse, Dr, Dentist, lab tech, etc is WAY younger than you. And you begin to expect it to be that way! When my pubic area was being prepped for a coronary arterial stent being placed, I had to bite my tongue to stop myself from asking if there was a grownup who could shave me. It was like take your daughter to work day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360.md?page=4)