at what moment did you realize "damn im old."?

When my son was in middle school, and I caught myself saying the exact same thing my Father said to me (something that at the time I vowed to never say to my own children)...I needed a stiff drink immediately.
 
Rattler said:
When my son was in middle school, and I caught myself saying the exact same thing my Father said to me (something that at the time I vowed to never say to my own children)...I needed a stiff drink immediately.
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Why must every generation, Think their folks are square? And no matter where their heads are, They know mom's ain't there, Cause I swore when I was small, That I'd remember when, I knew what's wrong with them, That I was smaller than. Determined to remember, All the cardinal rules, Like sun showers are legal grounds, For cutting school, I know I have forgotten, Maybe one or two, And I hope that I recall them all, Before the baby's due, And I know, He'll have a question or two. Like, hey, pop, can I go ride my zoom? It goes two hundred miles an hour, Suspended on balloons. And can I put a droplet, Of this new stuff on my tongue? And imagine frothing dragons, While you sit and wreck your lungs? And I must be permissive, Understanding of the younger generation. And then I'll know that all I've learned, My kid assumes, And all my deepest worries, Must be his cartoons, And still, I'll try to tell him, All the things I've done, Relating to what he can do, When he becomes a man, And still, he'll stick his fingers in the fan. And hey, pop, my girlfriend's only three, She's got her own videophone, And she's taking LSD, And now that we're best friends, She wants to give a bit to me, But what's the matter, daddy, How come you're turning green? Can it be that you can't live up to your dreams?
 
r2473 said:

Why must every generation, Think their folks are square? And no matter where their heads are, They know mom's ain't there, Cause I swore when I was small, That I'd remember when, I knew what's wrong with them, That I was smaller than. Determined to remember, All the cardinal rules, Like sun showers are legal grounds, For cutting school, I know I have forgotten, Maybe one or two, And I hope that I recall them all, Before the baby's due, And I know, He'll have a question or two. Like, hey, pop, can I go ride my zoom? It goes two hundred miles an hour, Suspended on balloons. And can I put a droplet, Of this new stuff on my tongue? And imagine frothing dragons, While you sit and wreck your lungs? And I must be permissive, Understanding of the younger generation. And then I'll know that all I've learned, My kid assumes, And all my deepest worries, Must be his cartoons, And still, I'll try to tell him, All the things I've done, Relating to what he can do, When he becomes a man, And still, he'll stick his fingers in the fan. And hey, pop, my girlfriend's only three, She's got her own videophone, And she's taking LSD, And now that we're best friends, She wants to give a bit to me, But what's the matter, daddy, How come you're turning green? Can it be that you can't live up to your dreams?
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My Dad was a square, he couldn’t be anything else. He was a senior auditor for the IRS...is anything more square?
 
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I felt 'older' as I have aged, but wasn't until the last few years I really started to understand that my aging is having an effect on my everyday life, and very much in my tennis.

Then again, with age comes things like having a nice nest egg in stocks and getting some $10k days on returns. So there is that :D
 
TheNachoMan said:
When I realized I’m older than Billie Elish
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I have former students that graduated HS before Billie Elish was born.
McLovin said:
Simple: When you go into the store to buy alcohol and see the 'You must be born before X to purchase alcohol' sign, and realize that's the year your youngest child was born.
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Well, I don't have kids, but for a while it was, when the "born on date" for alcohol was after I graduated from HS. Now, it's after I graduated from college.
 
When I turned 24. And I am not even 30 yet.
Every time someone asks "Why are you going to get married?", it reminds me that I am getting older.
 
I'm still in denial even tho my hairline gives me away. Someone once told me a person's true age is reflected in the faces of their family and friends. Interesting how mine all got old and I never changed.
 
When I realised my weekly shopping list had narrowed down to Deep Heat, Cat Food and Choc Ices.....

Seriously, playing a league mixed doubles and heard one the opposing team refer to me as Grandad or Gandalf under their breath. Proved to be good motivation as we slapped them 2 and love.
 
Sudacafan said:
Are you Dorian Gray?
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I'd be Dorian Gray any day. I'd just lock that damn portrait away in the attic and never ever look at it! :)

When my mother had to go into hospital recently I was helping the paramedics with her and asked if I could accompany her to the hospital even though I knew I couldn't go in with her because of Covid restrictions. One of them asked how I would get back and I shrugged and said I would get a bus or a taxi back. She said she didn't like the idea of "an elderly gentleman" getting a bus or taxi at that time of night (it was in the early hours of the morning). I looked round but couldn't spot anybody else she might have been referring to!!! :unsure:
 
Larry Duff said:
A couple of weeks ago when I discovered the existence of an electric pencil sharpener. Can you believe they came up with such a thing??????
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Yup, they even gots those can openers and toothbrushes that run on your electricity. Ain't 20th century technology wonderful? And I hear that some of them newer motorcars don't need no hand cranks no more.
 
blablavla said:
I thought everything happens online these days.
Why would you need a pencil?
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Guess you never read Isaac Asimov's sci-fi short story, The Feeling of Power.
en.m.wikipedia.org

The Feeling of Power - Wikipedia

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There never seems to be a pencil around when I need one anymore. The modern utility of pencils:
www.readersdigest.ca

6 Things To Do With Pencils

Need help zipping up a jacket? Reach for a pencil! Here are six clever new ways to put pencils to work all around the house.
www.readersdigest.ca www.readersdigest.ca
 
Ronaldo said:
Grandson found my slide rule and asked what it was. Xplained it is a mathematical tool before calculators. He has not found my rotary dial phone yet.
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Does he know what this means?
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The adventures of 2 high school scholars trying to figure out how to use a rotary phone:

 
movdqa said:
How many here used to use a slide rule? Or had to fix the radio by testing and replacing tubes at Radio Shack?
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Bought my first one in 1968, a really nice bamboo one. In the fall of 1973 as a high school senior I drove up to Golden CO to check out the school there, and was really impressed when I saw guys with leather-holstered slide rules that had to be almost 18" long (it is an engineering-only school, and yes I'm a nerd). HP had full trig calculators at that time, but they were really expensive, so pretty much everyone at that school had slide rules. Then in early 74 TI came out with the SR 50 for I think about $150, which at the time was a fair bit of money, but about a third the cost of the lowest priced HP. By the time I went to school there in the fall of 74, there were no slide rules to be seen.
 
Last year when I got a meniscus tear in the knee playing tennis and needed arthroscopy. I'm in my mid to upper thirties. Made me feel much, much older.
 
When the kid ID-ing you for alcohol in the store wasn't born in the decade after you but the one after that. (I was born 89, kids ID-ing me now were born after 2000).
 
cortado said:
I'm only 30 but time is flying. In my head Robin Williams died maybe 2 years ago, but it was actually 2014.
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I read something that said if you are learning something new time feels slower, which is why growing up seems to take forever. If you just go to the same job every day for 10 years, it'll go by in a flash. That's how I feel about the last...15 years or so.
 
Now I'm not an old guy by any stretch but man time is really flying by. My sense of time is still stuck around the late 2000s/early 2010s as when I hear "25 years ago," I'm thinking of some point in the 80s, and when I recently met someone born in 1997, my first thought is they're a high schooler when in reality they've already graduated from college.

My neighbor's kid was born in 2012 and my initial reaction was "how tf are you even alive" lol
 
Harry_Wild said:
5K is roughly over 3 miles, 20/3 is around 7 minute mile!
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Recall running a 5 mile course in ~35 minutes. Never ran any long...............distance before. Lost 60# in 6 months. Watched guys run 20 miles/day at 6 minute miles then. Ran their knees to dust
 
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