That moment when you said "Geez, I'm old"

[chef larry]

I've always been old fashioned for my age. I grew up listening to classic rock, going to concerts (Rush, The Who, etc). I always dressed nice, got right into corporate work out of college, had a "professional" demeanor. So it's hard to have a "Geez, I'm old" moment that really stands out... but here are a couple:

A few weeks ago, when a co-worker younger than me called me "Sir". I know it's a polite and respectful honorific, but the connotation these days gives it an "elder" feel.

Also, when the girls at Starbucks stopped hitting on me. I felt old.

And I'm only 27.

-_-

Wait till you hit 60 to feel old and have Jedi always reminding you about it.

 

[ATOMonkey]

I started feeling older about a year or so ago. Playing softball on the company league and was complimented on my hitting. "you older guys are good at placing the ball." WTF? Then I realized I was 10 years old than him. When did that happen. When did 1994 turn 20 years old?

I also noticed that I can't outrun ground balls, and I can't chase down flies in the outfield like I used to. After that I also noticed it took another second or two for me to straighten up when I bent down to get something. I'm also getting fat.

So, I've started exercising more and eating salads. My legs feel better, but I've still got a gut.

 

[chef larry]

I started feeling older about a year or so ago. Playing softball on the company league and was complimented on my hitting. "you older guys are good at placing the ball." WTF? Then I realized I was 10 years old than him. When did that happen. When did 1994 turn 20 years old?

I also noticed that I can't outrun ground balls, and I can't chase down flies in the outfield like I used to. After that I also noticed it took another second or two for me to straighten up when I bent down to get something. I'm also getting fat.

So, I've started exercising more and eating salads. My legs feel better, but I've still got a gut.

Middle age spread.

 

[remauto1187]

I realized I am older when I couldnt keep up with (3) 20-something year olds anymore. So I limit myself to (2) 20-something year olds now.

 

[JeremiahJohnson]

"Dad - Who's Elvis?"

 

[churchmouse]

Nope. But we've discussed before it's nice to have a light not attached to your gun so you're not sweeping people as you illuminate them.

this was a 2009 thread, long before my time so it must come up from time to time

https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/handguns/22274-house-gun-mounting-laser-flashlight.html

I have looked into a good solid high Lumen light for this reason but with some of the events we have dealt with in the area recently It really did not bother me but I did think about it after.
I see your point.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I started feeling older about a year or so ago. Playing softball on the company league and was complimented on my hitting. "you older guys are good at placing the ball." WTF? Then I realized I was 10 years old than him. When did that happen. When did 1994 turn 20 years old?

I also noticed that I can't outrun ground balls, and I can't chase down flies in the outfield like I used to. After that I also noticed it took another second or two for me to straighten up when I bent down to get something. I'm also getting fat.

So, I've started exercising more and eating salads. My legs feel better, but I've still got a gut.

Just have to let the flies come to you...

Which reminds me of a joke...

A young bull and an old bull were standing on a hill looking down on the pasture at all the cows grazing below. The young bull says to the old bull, "Hey, let's run down there and make love to one of those cows!" The old bull turns to the younger one and says, "Let's just walk down there and make love to 'em all."

(Okay, I cleaned that up a little. )

 

[ghuns]

The day I heard Billy Joel's, Only the Good Die Young, on the oldies station.

I always hated that song. But that made me REALLY hate it.

 

[The Keymaster]

I knew I was getting old when I started to regret all the bad things I did to my body when I was younger that I am paying for now. That particularly applies to all the time I spent working on my knees without using knee pads, and all the heavy things I lifted lifted when I was too macho to ask for help.

 

[Redtbird]

Geez, I'm Old!

So far, at age 67, I haven't said that.

 

[Hoosier8]

So just a few minutes ago, I watched two teenagers walk by my house drinking a bottle of water, and they tossed it in the vacant lot across the street and kept walking. So I ambled over, picked up the bottle, and with the heaviest sarcasm I could lay on said "Don't worry guys, I'll pick up your trash. Seems you're not going to." What was their reply? "I don't give a f*uck." I told them that some people in the neighborhood tend to care about things, got the same response, and then asked them if they talk to their mother with that mouth. As they walked away, I caught myself muttering "Damn kids."

I'm now officially a geezer.

BTW, there isn't anyone heading up the crime watch committee in my 'hood. Anyone done it before? Anyone think I should take it on?

You should just run up to them acting like you are concerned for their welfare and say, here, you dropped something.

 

[churchmouse]

When you no longer trust a fart.....

 

[SERparacord]

When you no longer trust a fart.....

 

[Cemetery-man]

What?



Huh?




What?




What?

 

[Hexlobular]

It's OK Cathy,

Heh...I actually have that book...

 

[Frosty]

I just realized I owned the original MC Hammer cassette tape... The one with Can't Touch This... I think it really hit me the day I saw a guy driving a lowered dually and I thought to myself how stupid, you just ruined that $50,000 truck!

 

[chezuki]

When you no longer trust a fart.....

And you know you're really old when you throw the dic anyway.

 

[Frosty]

When it goes from oh, I'll have to pee at the next rest stop to PULL THIS CAR OVER, NOW!!!

 

[churchmouse]

When it goes from oh, I'll have to pee at the next rest stop to PULL THIS CAR OVER, NOW!!!

I think they have a pill for that. Side effects is your jewels will fall off......

 

[Frosty]

I think they have a pill for that. Side effects is your jewels will fall off......

Hell the pill I take now is what causes it! Of course if the jewels fell off they wouldn't stick... Ok, nevermind!