# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/101 "2016-01-31T17:39:08Z")
way to many of these apply to me when you stop caring about a wasted erection ---
**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 31, 2016, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/102 "2016-01-31T17:42:50Z")
Just spent a half hour texting with a friend, both of us complaining about insurance companies and how much better things were in the good old days. ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/103 "2016-01-31T17:56:31Z")
Grey eyebrow hairs \ OUCH! ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/104 "2016-02-04T23:25:43Z")
When some little twit in a store somewhere assumes you are your sister’s mother. My sister is only 3 years younger than I am. I’m only 43. That’s the only one that’s bothered me so far! ---
**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:** [February 5, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/105 "2016-02-05T15:34:51Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > You know you are old when you realize all your baby pictures are in black and white. …and printed out and kept in a photo album rather than on a computer hard drive. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2016, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/106 "2016-02-05T15:44:31Z")
> [@F.U.Shakespeare](#): > > … you spend a week in Las Vegas, alone, and the riskiest thing you do is eat lunch at Chipotle. These days, this is the kind of thing that puts you in the same category as wingsuit pilots…:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/107 "2016-02-05T17:22:42Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > … your eyebrow and nose hair needs cutting more often than whatever’s left on the top of your head. Some folks at work were discussing bad hair days the other day, and one of them looked at me and said “I guess you don’t have to worry about that, huh?” I replied “My bad hair days are usually related to nose hair or ear hair!” ---
**Author:** ![davida03801](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5e925/32.png) [@davida03801](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davida03801)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/108 "2016-02-05T20:12:44Z")
When they announce the half time entertainment at the Super Bowl and you go “Who the hell is that ?” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/109 "2016-02-05T20:33:30Z")
When you haven’t recognized a band on Saturday Night Live in a decade. When you can be bothered to record it, because there is no way you stay up that late. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360/110 "2016-02-10T01:34:31Z")
When you wake up, realize you should stretch before you get up…and pull a back muscle. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/744360.md?page=5)