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.
You Know You’re Getting Old When: The cashiers start calling you “Sir”. 
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.
You know you’re getting old when… Everything Hurts!
When you drop a suppository on the floor and say, “five second rule!”
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.
You’re even older when your doctor says it’s not worth the risk.
Just discovering that as an old lady, I can say outrageous things or ask outrageous questions and people just laugh me off.
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.
When you have a drink with your kids and aren’t worried about CYS being called.
- Your hearing goes.
- YOUR MEMORY GOES
- Your ummm, ahhh, what were we talking about?
You finally need to get glasses.
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
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you tell people you remember both the Berlin Wall going up and being demolished - and they don’t know what you’re talking about
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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
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you remember queuing in the street to use a public phone box
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you remember loading several vinyl records into a record player
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.)
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.
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:
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
When you hear a commercial for BMW on the radio station you listen to.
You know you’re getting old when every part of you either dries up or leaks.