You know you're getting old when . . .

[RustyValkry]

Your measure of time for your past life events becomes decades instead of years - "I haven't seen him for several decades."

Anybody got one to add? 

[Bret SD]

My best pal of 41 yrs was out last week for a visit, we were talking about our lives in Pismo Beach during the 80's. He said "I wonder who's still alive from back then".. that really got me thinking.

We're only 62 but the question is still very good, some people have passed I'm sure, as have many I knew growing up in Chicago.

[old2soon]

         V A Doctor My eye glass Doc the Doctor that's doing my upcoming I O L surg my Nurses and the Hearing Tech I went to last week in Springfield Mo. are ALL YOUNGER than me!  Oh and most of the check out clerks Anywhere I go!  RIDE SAFE.

[Jess from VA]

You know you're getting old when . . .

When your healthiest hair grows out of your ears and nose.

It's been that way going on a decade now.    


And, when the lady on the telephone asks your birth date (as part of security verification), and when you tell her, she giggles.  It's OK, I think it's funny too.  Being from another century; more than a decade.

[Avanti]

Young man at check out said, I like your bike, what is it?  I tell him 99 Valkyrie. His response, four years older than I am!

[RustyValkry]

You know you're getting old when . . .

When your healthiest hair grows out of your ears and nose.

It's been that way going on a decade now.    


And, when the lady on the telephone asks your birth date (as part of security verification), and when you tell her, she giggles.  It's OK, I think it's funny too.  Being from another century; more than a decade.

"Another century"?  Don't you mean another millennium?

[John Schmidt]

Young gal in the drug store asked me my birthdate when looking up a prescription. I told her and she stopped...then looked at me and said "no, seriously...your birthdate." I repeated myself so she typed it in and up the name comes, to which she comments "any kids?"....Yes. "Grandkids?" "Yes...how many would you like." She then asked "any in school yet?" I told her "only one"...then aded "but most of my great grandkids are in school." That had her so confused she finally shut up and went to get my script, all the while the other gals there who knew me were having a good laugh at her expense. She may be in the wrong job. 

[scooperhsd]

John, that was so CLASSIC !!!   "but most of my great grandkids are in school."

[msb]

When you're filling in a form online and you have to enter your birth date, and you find yourself scrolling down... and down... and down, to find your year.
Actually, even ordering parts for the Valk, you have to scroll a bit to get to 1999.

Glass Half Full outlook... getting old(er) beats the alternative

[cookiedough]

am sure we have some old classmates that have passed even at say age 50 range.  I look back at a few of the skinny mouthy preppy kids in my class seen a few and although I am still bigger than they are in terms of weight,  NOT nearly as much difference now as in the 80's in high school.  At least I have all my hair left although graying as others do not.   I do not recognize a few of them if they passed me on the street for sure.  I saw an old hottie in my class and barely recognized her some 30 years later.  Gee,  and here I thought I had a lot of gray hair, she got me beat by far.   

[pais]

Experienced this very thing yesterday. 2 of the newer, younger men in the dept. I manage were talking about their motorcycle test for getting their endorsement. 1 had went the day before and the other is doing it next week. I asked the 1 that had recently taken the test and passed, what did the test consist of. I told him that I literally could not remember the test other than certain maneuvers you were not allowed to put a foot on the ground. When I said that I took the test in 1978 both gents just stared at me in disbelief, amazement or pity, not sure. One thing I do remember about it. I took the test on a 1970 Kawasaki 175 Enduro and I passed! My love for motorcycling began about a year before that when my B-I-L let me take his Honda CB360 for a test ride that lasted that entire Sunday afternoon, riding all over the county. 44yrs later I still love riding them! 

[DIGGER]

When I was 68 yrs old I was around some friends and their kids and grandkids when I got a phone call that my 94 yr old mother was being rushed to a hospital.    i told my friends that I had to leave that my mother was being rushed to a hospital.    On the way out the door I heard two teenage kids whisper to each other with amazement “did he say his Mother?”.   Ha

[Patrick]

I have a feeling that most of us are well into our back 9.

Motorcycle test ride ?  Mine was 1965, but, riding before that.

[Jess from VA]

Couple more:

I knew I was getting old when women in their 50s were starting to look really good to me.

The music of your youth that your parents thought was satanic is used in today's commercials.

I knew I was getting old .... I knew I was getting old when... crap, I can't remember.

You know you are old when the LEO that stopped you is the grandson of your high school gym teacher.

When the AARP stops sending you junk mail, and you end up on the mailing list for the local funeral home.

 

[DIGGER]

When the AARP stops sending you junk mail, and you end up on the mailing list for the local funeral home.

 

Last week my wife and I were going down a major hiway in Houston area and saw a large billboard advertisement from "Rosewood Funeral Home".     It said "Drive Safely.......We Can Wait"