# You know you're really getting old when . . . **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 21, 2000, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-really-getting-old-when/30229 "2000-08-21T22:48:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SoMoMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@SoMoMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoMoMom)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-really-getting-old-when/30229/41 "2000-08-23T17:14:18Z")
In line to park at a rock concert the people next to you which look to be just your age are in a Crown Victoria. (I was still trying to get over that one when at the next concert I went to when I was CARDED for a beer. 🙂 I’m better now.) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-really-getting-old-when/30229/42 "2000-08-23T17:24:24Z")
…you see **Satan’s** thread about Lynryd Skynyrd and think “Say, didn’t they all die in a plane crash back when I was fifteen? I remember making jokes about it in bio lab…” And I have to echo **TVeb’s** irritation with baby right-wingers who say Clinton’s wick-lickin makes him a worse person than Tricky Dick. ---
**Author:** ![vandal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/858c86/32.png) [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-really-getting-old-when/30229/43 "2000-08-23T17:27:54Z")
…when you still use DOS to accomplish some mundane Windows tasks. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-really-getting-old-when/30229/44 "2000-08-23T17:59:00Z")
**Uke** : I may be a baby right-winger, but even I’m not stupid enough to believe that Clinton is as scummy as Nixon was. Anyways, for aging: You know you’re getting old when you look forward to male pattern baldness because it might start taking out your gray hairs. ---
**Author:** ![herownself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8baadc/32.png) [@herownself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/herownself)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-really-getting-old-when/30229/45 "2000-08-23T18:39:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CandyMan \* > \*\* > You are watching MTV and really enjoying it and think you are not that UNcool when you realize its a VH1 oldies special. > \*\* Or, you’re driving down Lake Shore Boulevard, being home in Chicago for the first time in five years, you find a GREAT radio station, you are the coolest, hippest babe in sight … and then they announce that it is, “Retro Flashback Weekend! Flash back to the 80s …” I nearly drove off the road. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@Mr\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Bear)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-really-getting-old-when/30229/46 "2000-08-23T19:29:29Z")
According to Purplebear you know your getting old when your **BABY** goes off to college. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-really-getting-old-when/30229/47 "2000-08-23T19:58:44Z")
When you find yourself singing along to the music they play while shopping for groceries. Or when your baby grows taller than you. Or when you realize you’ve been in the same business for **twenty** years… ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-really-getting-old-when/30229/48 "2000-08-24T03:16:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr Bear \* > According to Purplebear you know you’re getting old when your **BABY** goes off to college. _Sniffles_ _WEELLLLL_? So what? 😛 He’s only 17! Like you’re any better my dear? 😉 You know you’re getting old when you check out a thread, and realize that you can relate to almost **all** of the posts to it. :eek: And, puglvr, I love _your_ definition of Gregg shorthand! 😃 Would you believe I still _use_ some of it? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-really-getting-old-when/30229/49 "2000-08-24T05:33:43Z")
You know you’re old when… …you forget you posted this thread. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-really-getting-old-when/30229/50 "2000-08-24T06:41:13Z")
When you see these 15-year veteran wrestlers and realize that they are still younger than you. When you long for the day that Turbo Pascal returns to business use. Its the only high-level language that was nearly as fast as assembler. ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-really-getting-old-when/30229/51 "2000-08-24T07:10:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ptahlis \* > \*\*…you make “Dad noises.” You know what I’m talking about I’d bet. I sit on the floor and then give out an unconscious groan of effort when I get back up. Or after coming home from work when I sit down and make that “Aaaahhhh…” sound like I’ve just run a footrace. \*\* [hijack]My daughter is 19 months old. She thinks that “up” is pronounced “up-uh” because every time I pick her up I say, “UP-ugh!” [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-really-getting-old-when/30229/52 "2000-08-24T18:40:26Z")
…when your pubic hair turns grey. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-really-getting-old-when/30229/53 "2000-08-24T20:04:52Z")
. . . even the largest tampons migrate. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-really-getting-old-when/30229/54 "2000-08-24T23:27:59Z")
A teen age girl talk to me leaving the grocery store. I think she liked my cool shirt. She didn’t use a single full sentence, and she might as well have been speaking mongolian. I only remember the last phrase, something like “You go man or dude”. Help! ---
**Author:** ![xekul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/838e76/32.png) [@xekul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xekul)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-really-getting-old-when/30229/55 "2000-08-24T23:30:27Z")
When you walk into a toy store to buy bubble mix and the salespeople eye you suspiciously ☚ ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-really-getting-old-when/30229/56 "2000-08-25T17:45:51Z")
…everything either dries up or leaks. …the people who used to call you “weird” now refer to you as “eccentric.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-really-getting-old-when/30229/57 "2000-08-25T18:38:04Z")
When you first hear “excuse me ma’am”. I first heard this from a 19 year old boy who after having had to run 3 red light to do it, T-boned my car and ran over to me and said-- Excuse me Ma’am, I had the green light, perhaps you couldn’t see it. I was 32. My car was totaled; I was bloodied and broken; I had fractures, bruises, whiplash, etc., AND I had been called the M word. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-really-getting-old-when/30229.md?page=2)