BS: What makes you feel old?

Subject: RE: BS: What makes you feel old?
From: LLB
Date: 16 Nov 16 - 02:15 PM

Oh, so many things.
Sleep pattern not like it was when I was young.
Not the energy I used to have.
Not feeling comfortable driving at night anymore.
People in their mid-40's who don't even know who Donovan or Joan Baez is.
Going to restaurants and 75 % of patrons appear to be younger then 50.

Subject: RE: BS: What makes you feel old?
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Nov 16 - 02:08 PM

When I surf the TV and think I found the Home Shopping Network it is really a Presidential function with Ivanka selling bracelets.

Subject: RE: BS: What makes you feel old?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 16 Nov 16 - 01:50 PM

Joe Heaney once told us it was when it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: What makes you feel old?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 Nov 16 - 12:56 PM

I should have said, those are things that have brought it to my mind lately.

Subject: RE: BS: What makes you feel old?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 Nov 16 - 12:54 PM

My powers of denial are such that I never *feel* old, but things that make me realize that *intellectually* include -

*Calculating that if I did get a college teaching job again, my degree would be older than many of my students.

*Remembering that I've taken passenger ships that weren't cruise ships, before planes were the only way to cross oceans.

*And, yes, scrolling downer and downer to find my birth year on dropdowns.

Subject: RE: BS: What makes you feel old?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 16 Nov 16 - 09:57 AM

When I write the date, and realise I've put down 1916 instead of 2016.

Subject: RE: BS: What makes you feel old?
From: Ed T
Date: 16 Nov 16 - 09:50 AM

When a young girl remarks to another, about something you said or did, "isn't he cute".

Subject: RE: BS: What makes you feel old?
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Nov 16 - 08:43 AM

Foggy eyes in the morning.

Subject: RE: BS: What makes you feel old?
From: mkebenn
Date: 16 Nov 16 - 08:03 AM

When I recall something from 20yrs ago, only to realize it was 40. Happens all the time. Mike

Subject: RE: BS: What makes you feel old?
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 16 Nov 16 - 07:45 AM

When you even have to explain who the Beatles were.

Subject: RE: BS: What makes you feel old?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Nov 16 - 07:30 AM

When you can no longer tick that box at the end of surveys that says "55 to 64."

Mind you, I let an old lady go in front of me at Morrisons the other day and she said to me "Thank you, that's very kind of you, young man!" I proposed, of course.

Subject: RE: BS: What makes you feel old?
From: Senoufou
Date: 16 Nov 16 - 07:29 AM

Sandra, it's true! Our neighbours across the road had to have the doctor recently, and out of the car got this little boy of about twelve, carrying his doctor's bag. He looked as if he was truanting from school.
And my lovely optician is a little girl of about ten!

Subject: RE: BS: What makes you feel old?
From: Senoufou
Date: 16 Nov 16 - 07:11 AM

Freddy, that scrolling down thing is awful isn't it? I worry it might not go down far enough for my D.O.B.
My problem is, I don't feel old inside, I really should start to grow up a bit. When I catch sight of myself reflected in a shop window, I'm horrified to see this dumpy, white-haired old hag. I still think I'm 'me in the 1960's', slim with very long dark hair. I just don't recognise what I look like now.

I also hate getting so tired so quickly and having to 'give up and go home' when out on a jaunt. I miss my energy and vim.

And seeing those retro designs on furniture and curtain materials popular at the moment. It's 'second time around' for people of my era!

Subject: RE: BS: What makes you feel old?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 16 Nov 16 - 07:08 AM

Late last century we had a probationary police officer who looked like he was wearing his dad's hat & gun. He was a tall skinny, baby-faced kid, but would have been at least 20 & would definitely have been asked for ID when out of uniform.

The trainee Doctors in the emergency Dept who were born in Southeast Asian. They also looked like young teenagers, how could they be Doctors?

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: What makes you feel old?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 16 Nov 16 - 06:56 AM

Memory lapses, my catheter and sundry other romantic details. Good job I've still got a sense of humour and, I hope, the nous to know I'm a lucky man in comparison to others.

Subject: RE: BS: What makes you feel old?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Nov 16 - 06:40 AM

Being awake.

Subject: BS: What makes you feel old?
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 16 Nov 16 - 05:08 AM

previous thread... Am I really that old???  

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What makes you feel old?
Reading an article like
"5 Traditional Musical Instruments from Ireland
Irish Bouzouki
Adapted from a Greek instrument and brought to Ireland in the 1960s, ..."
http://www.ireland.com/en-gb/articles/whats-available/instant/five-traditional-musical-instruments-graphic 


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Drop down boxes on web forms when to find my birth year I scroll down, then down a bit more, then down a lot more...