A sign you are getting old

[pstokely]

They begin to start playing the music you grew up with on oldies stations and selling them in collections on Infomercials with washed up stars from that period (like Barry Williams plugging some 70s collection)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear pstokely!

In that case, I never want to get old! :puke:

[johnnie]

2. Here is a funny one

The day I knew I was getting "old" was the day I saw the Playboy centerfold was younger than I was. I remember being bummed out..LOL Weird, I know.

[sarge43]

3. Wait until you mention something you remember quite well and

the person you're talking to says "Oh yeah, I read about that in school."

[SeattleGirl]

8. I felt that way when my daughter told me she read about JFK's

assassination in her HISTORY BOOK, and that was in 1985!

Plus, it was almost incomprehensible to her that there were no computers in classrooms when I was in school (especially grade school).

[Arugula Latte]

4. I also remember when Olympic athletes started being younger than me.

That bummed me out. :(

[PassingFair]

5. You happen to notice that "child stars"

are in their 30's......

[LibDemAlways]

6. The rock stars you grew up with are all

grandparents.

[qnr]

7. People you are training weren't even born when you started your career n/t

[sarge43]

14. Yup. That was a moment

or the bright young thing "You mean they used to discharge you if you were pregnant?!"

[qnr]

16. I never experienced that one :) n/t

[sarge43]

37. It's an old lady thing, qnr :P n/t

[Withywindle]

9. My dad said the worst is the first time the President is younger than you.

Happened to him with Bill Clinton. The Chimp is too. Yet another reason for me to have wanted Kerry to win so desperately is that he's a couple months older than my dad, so he could have a chance to feel young again. :D

I thought this was kind of silly and unique to him...until I propped up this good friend/colleague of mine at a party who has having a spazz fit because for the first time, our state's Senator was younger than him! (Barack Obama, that is, who was, I think, 44 at the time). Now, this friend is rather older than me, and I wrote it off...

...until I remembered that in '02 the new Mayor of Detroit was younger than ME!!! And then. Yes. I felt old. Men in suits who run things should always be older. It's paradigm-rocking when they're not.

[5thGenDemocrat]

Yeah, Jennifer Granholm is younger than I am

And sarge43 was starting her Air Force career about the same time I was starting kindergarten (I know this as I am her nephew). Now, I have a nephew who is in his seventh year of a USAF career. In our family, people come and go -- but zoomies seem to go on forever.
John
Ten years to the day younger than Susan Sarandon. Twenty years older to the day than Alicia Silverstone.

[sarge43]

38. Well, that's easy

Uncle Sugie's Fly Force is the only club that'll have us.

[bumblebee1]

10. The dentist looks like she/he just got out of dental school.

When some kid says he/she didn't know Paul McCartney was in another group before Wings.

[reyd reid reed]

11. When the promo for the radio station you listen to in your car

Offers free flu and pneumonia shots as an incentive to get you to show up somewhere.

When you know the lyrics to the music in the elevator.

When you can help your kids with their history homework, not because you learned it in school, but because you remember it.

When you don't understand 'new math'.

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

12. When you mention the name of something

and it's changed but your to lazy to say the new name because you assume people know what your talking about. I returned to college after 6 years and a couple of times I found myself saying something about a place that's changed it's name and I get blank looks.

[IChing]

13. When I listen to this post or

when we think that
posterity thinks
we have nothing worth to say.

Age, wisdom, and knowledge has it's own beauty.

[Skittles]

15. you remember when Michael Jackson was a good-looking black man

or young boy - yes

[thefool_wa]

17. I went to the local 6-Flags water park a couple weeks ago

Nothing to make one feel old than droves of bikini clad teenagers.

I had to leave the park for fear of my brain exploding from keeping the mental blinders on all day. I'm not that old, but old enough.

Then I bitched about it all the way home and my wife called me an old man when I said, "Damn it, if your not 18 you should be required to wear a one piece suit in that place!"

Pathetic huh....

[Breeze54]

18. When the grocery clerk calls you, "ma'am" !

:grr:

[calico1]

19. When you and some coworkers are

discussing classic movies at lunch and a young coworker says "Oh, I like classic movies too! Some of my favorites are "Top Gun" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off!" And you remember seeing both as an adult. (true story).

[Maestro]

20. Your beard has more grey than its natural color.

I kid you not. If I let my beard grow, it is grey! :mad:

[doc03]

21. I can remember when a $3.50 ice cream cone

was 15 cents.

I remember when a 8 oz. Coke was 5 cents and Lotta Cola came out with a 16 oz bottle for 10 cents.

We could buy a round trip ticket on the bus to town 7 miles away, go to the theater and see a double feature horror movie, buy Good and Plentys and popcorn and go to Isleys for a Skyscraper cone all for about 70 cents.

I remember when my dad would buy $2.00 worth of gas on Saturday and we would go to my grandmothers farm, a 120 mile trip, and he would then drive the car all week to work on that same tank..

I remember when a car was well equipped with a AM radio and a heater.

[Roon]

22. When I was a kid

gas cost .60 a gallon...a pack of marlboros were .75 cents. I could go on....

[Kat45]

25. Hey, you're just a young'un...

When I was in high school, gas cost .39 a gallon and a pack of cigarettes also cost .39!

[Breeze54]

33. omg! I remember that too!! lol!

:hug:

[bluethruandthru]

23. When you're older than your doctor!

that really feels weird.

When you realize you could have given birth to lots of your co-workers.

When you start to look like your mother.

[FILAM23]

24. I would say

when your bosses are younger then your kids.

[Katina]

26. I would say grey hair, but I found my first at 16

so it doesn't count.

[pstokely]

27. You can have a grey hair for years before more appear

[Katina]

28. family trait..

premature grey! thanks mom & dad!

[sarge43]

39. My mom used to say

"It isn't my grey hair that bothers me; it's my children's."

That has to be a shock to see grey hair on your babies.

[Generic Brad]

29. When the actress you always had the hots for plugs osteperosis meds

Damn that Sally Field! Why can't she still look like Gidget?

[Katina]

31. shit...you had to say that.

she's the only celebrity I've ever been told I look like...and now she's got osteoperosis! Damn! NOW I feel old!!!

[babylonsister]

32. That's LOL! Gidget! I remember, and felt sorry for her, til now.

:eyes:

[calico1]

41. Hard to believe isn't it?

I remember her as Gidget, the Flying Nun and just as a very young actress. Now she is plugging osteoporosis meds! :wow:

Where on Earth has all the time gone? Wasn't she Gidget just the other day? :cry:

[querelle]

30. The First Time Some One Referred To Me As "Sir" n/t

[kedrys]

34. Mine for today was not being able to remember 2 of the 6 flavors of quarks

without looking it up.

Sigh.

(the subatomic particle, not my cat)

[koneko]

35. hee hee

When you realize that the ten year age difference between yourself and your junior high celebrity crush isn't that big of a deal.

When I saw Duran Duran perform in 2005, it hit me that, hey, 45 y.o. - 35 y.o. isn't that bad. . .

[mykpart]

36. They're playing music on the oldies station

that my son grew up with! But I felt old the first time someone asked me if I got a senior citizen discount!

[NewWaveChick1981]

40. You can remember when an Apple IIe was state of the art...

:rofl: I used one of those my sophomore year in college for my Pascal programming class... :yoiks: