# 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:** 5
**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 30, 2016, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/81 "2016-01-30T11:34:42Z")
I remember how pissed off I was after receiving my first contact from **AARP**. Still haven’t replied. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/82 "2016-01-30T12:25:43Z")
When the ladies in MILF porn still look too young for you. When someone asks how old you are and you actually have to think about it before you can answer. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/83 "2016-01-30T14:26:02Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > …When someone asks how old you are and you actually have to think about it before you can answer. …or resort to grade school arithmetic… ---
**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:** [January 30, 2016, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/84 "2016-01-30T14:58:47Z")
When the ER doctor treating you for a burned foot says “You cannot have these readings without taking medication.” SHIT! ---
**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 30, 2016, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/85 "2016-01-30T15:06:07Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > …or resort to grade school arithmetic… I’m ever thankful to have been born on an even decade, makes the math phase of the conversation less awkward. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/86 "2016-01-30T15:12:51Z")
> [@DeepLiquid](#): > > I’m ever thankful to have been born on an even decade, makes the math phase of the conversation less awkward. 😃 That ought to help, for sure. But having been born in December makes my math complicated. I have to remember that it’s “not so fast, my friend” and then give back a number in the answer. Like, I won’t be 75 until December. And being in the early part of the century doesn’t help much either. Carry a calculator, is the best hope. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/87 "2016-01-30T15:28:07Z")
When your all-time favorite band is [mocked for being passé](http://www.thecomicstrips.com/properties/zits/art_images/cg53e3a2b2e0c9f.jpg). ---
**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 30, 2016, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/88 "2016-01-30T15:42:52Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > … Carry a calculator, is the best hope. 😃 I just started saying “I’m in my early/mid/late (decade)”, makes it much easier. On the flip side, when I hang around with old friends we like to revert to childhood and say “I’m \_\_ AND A HALF” when discussing age. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2016, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/89 "2016-01-30T15:44:56Z")
Whenever anyone asks me my age, I always quote Satchel Paige’s great line “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?” Then I say “25, and I’m sticking to it.” ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/90 "2016-01-30T15:50:54Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > When your all-time favorite band is [mocked for being passé](http://www.thecomicstrips.com/properties/zits/art_images/cg53e3a2b2e0c9f.jpg). Or when the music you used to listened to when you fancied yourself a “Rebel”, becomes [corporate mainstream.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTCsnyRUqJI) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/91 "2016-01-30T15:59:13Z")
Remember Punk? ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/92 "2016-01-30T16:24:53Z")
when you look at the cop directing traffic and you wonder if his mama knows where he is. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/93 "2016-01-30T16:28:33Z")
> [@Cub\_Mistress](#): > > when you look at the cop directing traffic and you wonder if his mama knows where he is. This cracks me up, Lady! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/94 "2016-01-30T16:40:11Z")
You know you are old when you realize all your baby pictures are in black and white. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/95 "2016-01-30T17:27:55Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > 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. That, indeed (except that I’m not thinking of my parents who weren’t that young when I was born, but of other “adults” who were just “kids” by my current standards). > [@Cub\_Mistress](#): > > when you look at the cop directing traffic and you wonder if his mama knows where he is. That also. Except that I began to think that the police (and the army) was recruiting in primary schools before I was 40. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/96 "2016-01-30T17:38:34Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > For most of my life, the old vets were from The Big One, WWII. Then one day, it dawned on me that all the old vets are from Vietnam. And my dad’s one of them. ☹ I’m still not completely accustomed to the fact that they aren’t from WWI ☹ ---
**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 30, 2016, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/97 "2016-01-30T18:06:39Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > You know you are old when you realize all your baby pictures are in black and white. Daugerreotypes, to boot.☹ ---
**Author:** ![funky\_little\_lee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@funky\_little\_lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funky_little_lee)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/98 "2016-01-30T18:54:43Z")
You know you’re getting old when you groan more from un-stiffening your body after sex than you did during it. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/99 "2016-01-31T02:34:52Z")
I didn’t read the entire thread but -------- when it started to take more time for me to pack my medications than it did my clothes. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/100 "2016-01-31T09:04:11Z")
> [@glee](#): > > - 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 Well, in this particular case, the reasons their mouths are open could be: 1. You are Abraham Zapruder, in which case this is _really_ a zombie thread, since you died in 1970. Or 2. You’re having delusions. 😃 The [Zapruder Film](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapruder_film)wasn’t broadcast on television anywhere until 1970 (when it was played in Chicago and possibly elsewhere), and wasn’t shown on network TV until 1975. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360.md?page=6)