Signs you're getting old .......

[cjefferys]

My close up vision has taken a nosedive over the last couple years. Bifocals, here I come! I can't even read my pill bottles....gah, "pill bottles"?? There's another sign!

[livnxxxl]

More gray hair than black hair. My hair is now 80% gray (90% on the sides)

I have heard that it is a sign of wisdom. Something I do not posses at this time apparently. I do not know if that is good or bad.

[livnxxxl]

When I use the term younger guys to describe 40 and 50ish year old men.

When I notice really young kids (my definition of 18 - 20 year olds) crouched down in the driver seat of a Camaro with their caps on backwards looking like a punk kid behind the wheel of Mommy and Daddy's car.

When people that uses a device called a smart phone. All the time. Or at least it seems like it anyway. If the phone was really that smart the person would not have to tell it what to do all the time. haha!

When you see people no longer feel the need to pick up the phone and actually talk as they would rather push tiny little buttons with a stick/stylus to communicate with some one. A LOT!

When your eye sight is not as good as it once was. It surely sucks trying to paint and perfect those little eyes on an 8" action figure.

When after years of years of eating everything that you could without feeling guilty has finally caught up with you.

When I find myself using back in the day a lot.

When it use to be against school policy to bring a calculator to class. Now you will get in trouble IF you do not bring one to class.

When people say/think that they own something and yet they are still financing it and making payments. I just want to say to them you do not own it the bank does.

When I like to read threads like this and rambling on and complaining about little things actually starts to make me feel pretty good. LOL!!!

[HardyGirl]

Bad back, achy knees

I don't listen to the radio anymore, b/c I don't like the music today

Watching TV is a drag b/c of all the garbage on

Having the remake conversation too much (why are they remaking that?)

I start many conversations w/ "When I was a kid..."

High blood pressure

Too hard to lose the "poochy belly"

Grey Hairs!

[mego73]

I feel kind of old when I take instant notice when some younger blogger uses digital terms for analog stuff.

When someone was talking about a bad matte shot from an old movie where some of the image burns through the foreground elements (because of reflections, etc) they said some pixels are missing.

And when they are talking about how they transfered the filmed material of Star Trek TNG to video to make the final versions they refer to it as being "scanned"

It reminds me that default wise I think of film as long strips of celuloid and that a new generation thinks of it as space on a hard drive.

[johnmiic]

My knees are shot and it's preventing me form applying from certain jobs.

[starsky]

i'm starting to like the same radio station my parents used to listen to.

[Spawn67]

When Im watching a show or movie on t.v. and I click the info link. Ill see the year it first aired or when the movie came out and it will say the year and I relize it's 25-30 or more years old!

[z3zep]

reading glasses ugh!

[Captain Big Trousers]

I was just thinking the other day that my listening to 70s and 80s music is the equivalent of someone in the 80's listening to 40s and 30s music.

I console myself with the fact that I've always loved 40s music. Frank Sinatra makes food taste better.

I forgot who it was, but someone on the board once posted that if Happy Days was remade today, but with the same gap of 20 years, it would be a show about the 90s.

I think the difference was the huge cultural changes between 1958 and 1974. As far as I can tell nothing has really changed since 1995. But then... maybe I'm just getting old.

[Captain Big Trousers]

When I open a dialogue box to click on the year I was born, I have to click down many times before I get to 1973. It seems like 1973 should still be on page 1.

I don't have time to scroll down to 1966. I just drag down to a year that would make me over 18.

Feeling old is realising that means anything before 1993!

Remembering listening to Prince and wondering where you'd be on New Years Eve, 1999. And thinking that the age you'd be in 1999 was really old.

Two events signalled my decrepitude: The first time the barber asked if I'd like my eyebrows trimmed, and the first time I was served by a shop assistant without her looking up at me. I was The Invisible Man!

On the bright side, I'm ageing quite well. No major aches and pains. All my joints work perfectly. I still have my hair (while nearly everyone who used to tease me about my high hairline and going bald... is now bald. Suckers!). I scrub up fairly well.*

Meanwhile... the Facebook folks I went to school with... what the hell happened, man?!




*Gloating that my joints work is probably a sign that I'm old.

[theantiquetiger]

One MAJOR thing I notice about getting older, when me and my wife have "Mommy/Daddy Time" after the kids go to bed, usually after 15 minutes, one of us WILL have heartburn, the other WILL have a cramp in atleast one leg and under the ribs. "Mommy/Daddy Time" might make it 30 minutes, we both done, ready to go to sleep.

Back in the day, ALL NIGHT LONG!!!!!!!!

TMI?

[Mikey]

Making a "muhhhh" sound everytime you stand up

[Zemo]

I noticed I'm started to tell some of my staff "This is probably before your time, but I remember..."

Yea, I hear u. Lower back pain too. But other than that I can't complain.

[Zemo]

oops wrong thread lol