You Know You're Getting Older When...

When you think this is a brand new thread about getting older.....

 

You Know You're Getting Older When...

You post in this thread.

 

Yay I'm not geting old!

 

try locking up all the computer technology, I think if we knew that computers existed-- we could deal with it

 

One of my main realizations regarding my advancing age was that I no longer cared if I had the latest, bleeding-edge technology. I was very tech-savvy when I was younger, but now I couldn't care less. My last phone had to stop working before I considered buying a new one. I've had this laptop for almost three years and it will be with me until I need to buy another one.

 

when you once told Woodrow Wilson, "young man, I think you may grow up to be President some day"

 

when you stop buying stuff you always liked because now its 5 times the price of what it was when you were a kid

 

When you no longer have the confidence to post pics of yourself (or parts of yourself) online ...

 

For me it was lying in bed with a girl I had a crush on in high school - we'd married other people and divorced and had found each other on Facebook and FINALLY had sex after almost two decades of wishing he had.

And we were ducking behind our kids to do this and realising that when we were the age of her oldest, we were watching our parents' marriages disband and watched them find a second wind of going out and fucking like teenagers.

I took a drag of our cigarette and said to her "hey, remember when (high school friend's) mom and dad divorced and they were doing this kind of thing? We're now them."

It was an interesting moment.

 

+.. A Pos Rep For A Deep Post From The Deep South....



Cheers Glen.

 

Well, I messed up somewhat. I wrote "he had" and meant "we had".

That's the moment where, for us both, it really clicked.

Her breasts were lower due to breastfeeding. She had stretch marks from having three kids. I was carrying an extra 10lb from being older and not boyish. We still devoured each other like we were teens, but it wasn't just looking at each other naked (we saw each other that way, once, as teens - long story) and seeing the changes (scars, tattoos, etc) - it was that we realised in that moment that our parents weren't perfect and that this was what it must have been like for them, as we were ourselves ducking out back with purloined contents of their liquor cabinets and breathlessly touching a hint of breast or a poking finger into a quivering orifice as a new experience.

Just as we weren't perfect. That they had times like the ones we're having now. Because we were now having them.

I mean, it's like that guy on reddit who found his grandmother's marijuana stash after she died. Marijuana wasn't invented by (current generation) but it's still a bit of a shock to go through your nana's belongings and find she was using a first generation electric razor as a grinder.

That's the moment, I think, when you realise you're growing old - when you realise you have much in common with people you thought were old.

Thanks for the +1.

 

....when you realise you're 15 years older than the high-school teacher you laughed at for being an old fossil.....

 

everyone you knew who was older then you is dead. and everyone you know now, hadn't been born yet when most of the major things in your life happened.

 

When you hear someone talking about putting child seats in their car and you think when you were a kid we did not have seat belts in cars, let alone child seats....

 

When your son asks you if the Internet was in black and white when you were his age and you tell him there was no Internet then, you feel old.

When the songs you heard in high school are on classic rock and oldies stations, you're getting older.

When you wonder what some of your friends' tattoos will look like on their bodies if they're ever in nursing homes, you're getting older.

 

when some little brat cashier at Goodwill asks if you qualify for the senior discount. Apparently they don't know about this in-between age called middle age.

 

When the cashier at goodwill asks if I have any discounts, I say "I'm old" and they don't even ask for a card, they just give me the 10% discount.

 

yes, I guess maybe instead of being offended, I should just take the discount, or rather take the discount and be silently offended.

 

I saw a friend today who said it was his 35th birthday and asked me when men start lying about their ages. As if I would know.

I told him that it depends on the women they are dating and the women they want to date.

And then I decided that you're old when you're so proud of that big number that you tell everybody the truth about your age even if they don't ask and you won't shut up about it.

 

I have never understood lying about ones age. All of my life contributed to who I am today. If you could choose to cut off years or decades of your life, which ones would they be and who would you be without them?