* When someone says, Jim is XX years young," I feel really old.
* When adults call me "Sir".
* The elementary school that was brand new when I attended it in grade five was torn down last year.
* The high school that was brand new when I attended it in grade 10 has closed and they are planning on tearing it down.
* I no longer look at the books on the bottom two shelves in the library.
* Cashiers no longer ask me if I qualify for the senior's discount. They just give it to me.
* The Maple Leaf Champions Jug Band was introduced at the Greenbank Folk Club with, "This group has a 45 year age span." Guess which end of that span I was on.


On the other hand, I do have a lot of fun playing music with musicians half my age or younger.
An advantage to being an old fart is having seen Joni Anderson (Mitchell), Rev Gary Davis, Skip James, Dave Van Ronk, Don Reno, The Greenbriar Boys, Flatt & Scruggs, John Hartford, Miles Davis, Oscar Pedterson, Barney Kessel, Nina Simone, Herb Ellis, Dizzy Gillespy, Muddy Waters, Pete Seeger, Yank Rachell, The Velvet Underground, Guy Clark and a pile of other great artists perform live.