You Know You're Getting Older When...

Ear and nose hair. A few years ago it started to grow. At the same speed as my beard.

Last year was my 20 year high school reunion to remind me I was old, even though I didn't attend.

In a few months it will be official that I have joined the old timers, my big four-oh. I just hope that my next decade will be better than the one I am just finishing.

 

having a hand full of memories to look back on, and wishing i could've lived my teens differently made me realized im an old geezer.

 

posting a thread in this sub fourm, on remembering the late night movie spook show; and to my horror finding out, i'm the only person here, who had a childhood.

the other day i was in target (a department store chain in the u.s.a.)
a woman in her mid or late twenties, ask the sixteen year old looking guy who work that department, 'where do you all keep the cd players?'
the guy look funny at her and said, 'what's a cd?'
man, that woman and i, we both felt older then dirt!

 

There was a time when there weren't any fads for me to look back on. There are tons now. And a time when I didn't feel protective of people younger than me.

Those are my only real contributions.

 

When people think I'm weird for acting a certain way, LOL.

 

I am not that old just because when I was a young boy I remember one of my older half sisters getting exicite about a new music group visting America from England. (I think they were called the Beatles). What made me feel old is when one od my sons looked at a picture om me and acouple of friends in a feild and asked " was made in the jurrassic?"

 

wow,surprised this thread is still goin.Had to laugh at my first post on here about geezin,when I had just turned 28,now almost 32.The "boy i was teachin guitar" is now my oldest stepson,& he's almost 21.I don't feel old by any means,but when my wife starts pluckin grey hairs off me,& I'm gettin wary about taking on real steep roof jobs...Somtimes I gotta remind myself it's not just the age,but the mileage.Not to mention it still fucks me up hearin nirvana on classic rock stations!lol

 

When everyone in the bar looks under age.

PAX

 

When the TV shows you watched as a kid(like Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) is on Nic-at-Nite....

 

everything that was on when i was a kid, everyone who had anything to do with, has been dead longer then i've been living where i currently am.

ed sullivan, that damd laurance welk, edward r murrow, walt disney himself, can't think of some of the other ones.

 

When, no matter what you do, the cops don't think you're suspicious.

 

When I'm in a room full of people and realise I'm probably the oldest one there.

 

ykygo when other people are reminiscing about things that are so recent you've only just begun to notice them.

 

When you're old enough to remember what a busy signal was.

And old enough to remember when working pay phones were common.

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When you remember your phone # was 354 r ,your best buddys was 101 w and there was a crank on the side of the phone to turn so an operator would come on and ask who you wanted to talk to. All candy was a nickel a bar. When you'd hurt your hand if you smacked a car fender--those babies were solid.-----(do I win?)

 

Guess I do.

 

Scratcho, I think you win, but I can remember when my phone number started with two letters (LO7-1876, where the LO stood for Logan) and I had a postal code that was two digits long. And ice cream was a nickel a scoop.

 

Remember when you'd be talking to someone on the phone and all of a sudden somebody else would chime in to the conversation? Party lines were a trip.

 

The first family car I can remember did not have turn signals that were lights. Instead, the signals were mechanical. They would stick out from the door post between the front and rear seats.

 

Man,I haven't seen one of those since maybe the 40s? And remember when the phrase "shade tree mechanic " meant something. That's gone--cars are so complicated (un-necessarily so) that the old saying means nothing now.