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When you have to wear shoes to be sure you're still taller than your son...

When your son has more hair on his legs than you...

When you realize that in 5 years you'll be an empty-nester...

When you realize that cute girl you were just noticing is only a couple years older than your daughter.
 
So 22 isn't really old, but it sure feels old when you go from the carefree days of college life to the grind of a 9-5 (or an 8:30-5:30 as it were) and start thinking that going back to school - even law school - would be a good call. :eek:
 
I have the body of an 80 year old woman.

I have teenage-onset arthritis in my arms.
When I drive, I don't have music going at full-blast and my windows are up, and doors are locked.

Ok, maybe I just act like I'm a lot older.. I don't want to be associated with some of the youth of today.
 
You'll know about me because my posts will just get paler and paler as I fade away . . .
 
When I pulled a muscle in my shoulder/back so bad that I couldn't turn my head at all in one direction, and was basically unable to anything that required walking, standing, sitting, lying down, turning, talking, eating, drinking and breathing. I was unable to go to work for 3 days even with creative combinations of muscle relaxants and painkillers.

What did I do that debilitated me so?

I sneezed.
 
Ish said:
You'll know about me because my posts will just get paler and paler as I fade away . . .
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if you go back in time and ensure that your parents get together and still have you as a child in the present day, you will stop fading
 
I don't want to grow up. I'm a Toys R Us kid. There's a million toys at Toys R Us that I can play with. From bikes and trains to video games, it's the biggest toy store there is. I don't want to grow up, because if I did, I couldn't be a Toys R Us kid.

I became older:
When I realized that kids don't know what that song is
When I started longing for the good old days, and began thinking there is too much crap on TV and too much sex, bad language, and violence.
When I thought kids today don't have respect for X, Y, and Z and thought that they should take care fo their stuff.
When I saw a new-ish technology take off (texting) and couldn't see any value in it.
When I started to thing about employment opportunitues based on how it would affect my ability to retire.
 
jelloshotsrule said:
if you go back in time and ensure that your parents get together and still have you as a child in the present day, you will stop fading
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Thank you!
 
iGary is the pic police. Its annoying especially when he doesn't believe you're a real person.

Anywho, Its strange, I am 20, feel like 1,000,000,000 but in my head I'm still 7. So I am driving down the road sometimes and think 'hey why is anyone letting me drive? This is so illegal!' but I'm graduating from college this may so that may make me feel old.

physically I'm better than I ever have been. When/if I start to go down hill I may become amazingly depressed.

I might even make threads about age and how you know you are old or not :rolleyes: ;)
 
jelloshotsrule said:
if you go back in time and ensure that your parents get together and still have you as a child in the present day, you will stop fading
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Hahaha! Okay... you just admitted YOU were older.... :D
 
... when my bad knees and back ache before/during storms and when the weather gets colder
... when even my elbows and ankles ache, too!
... when listening to my Nano w/ earphones, the volume is so low the volume bar is almost all white except for the barest sliver of blue
... when I reach for something and my shoulder cracks, painfully
... when I literally start dozing and can't function after 10PM
 
iGav said:
I always thought the defining symbol of aging was starting to get hangovers after a night on the sauce. ;) :D

28... not had one yet. heh.
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Nah, you're not young anymore. Just not drinking enough. ;)
 
Roughly in the order of occurrence...

When PG-13 movies started having more swearing/nudity than R rated movies from my youth...

When hangovers took more than a day to get rid of...

When the classic rock stations started playing songs I remember being new releases on the radio...

Gray hair in my goatee...

Gray hair on my head...

When the practicality of a car became more important than the style...

When I had a kid of my own...

When I realized that the young kids on campus were only in 3rd grade when I graduated from HS...
 
When I started talking about things that happened "a couple of years ago" and "a couple of years" was actually 7 or 8.

When I started weighing job benefits as much as (if not more than) the actual job salary.


Lethal
 
I just thoguht of another one - since when did you start growing MORE hair in weird places?

My eyebrows and ears grow hair like weeds. :eek: And I am basically a non-hairy person.
 
When, in some of my classes, I was the "old guy".
When I actually would have "dirty old man" debates with myself about the incoming freshmen chicks.
When I started dreading the thought of going to the mall for anything.
When my video game playing dropped from once a day to once a month.
When I stopped downloading illegal tunes because I actually weighed the risk/reward factor of it.
When I decided that any ol' job out of college will be fine because doing unpaid film internships at age 27 is not the best way to go when you are looking to get into your own place.
When gas mileage on my car was actually a concern.
Having my own internal weather man located in my hip and my back.

Although this is counterbalanced by:

Me coaching little league football.
Me hanging out with my 21 and 19 year old cousins and their 21 year old friend.
Me being the only single guy left of my group of friends and seeing how miserable some of them are.
Still going out in public and doing stupid things just for the hell of if.

So I think I am still feeling alright even though and am creeping up on 30.
 
another one i thought of, when i had knee surgery because it was painful to walk up and down stairs....and that is when i was 17 -_-.

I am so screwed up.....
 
I realised that some of the girls I was eyeing up were my schoolfriends kids*.

The girl that served my coffee this lunchtime was hot and flirting with me and I realised that I'd, lost my virginity and left school around the time she was born. I'm literally old enough to some hot girls' father!!

*Edit: Just re-read that and should point out they're now adults and I'm not letching on any little kiddies.
 
I'm 21 and my eyes are starting to go bad already. I used to sorta pride myself on being the only member of my family that didn't have to deal with contacts or glasses but it looks like I'm starting to develop an astigmatism like my dad :eek:
 
I've stopped freaking out about spotting the occasional gray hair...

My eyesight is going...

I see/hear teens on the bus talking loudly to each other or on their cell phones and want to tell them to shut the f* up. Also, I don't understand all of the slang they use.

When I wake up and get out of bed, a bunch of joints make popping noises.
 
Turing 29 next Thursday

-One more year away from 30
-The bum left knee
-Interns call me sir
-Finding chicks hot that are as young as my little sister(20-24)
-Thinking I should get a smaller car to conserve gas
-The weight gain
-Hair changing color
-No more late nights drinking
-Lots of organization and taks lists(home/work/side business)
-yard discussion at work
-pissed that my apples can boot windows/pleased that i made some good money off of apple yesterday (i got in way before the split $$$$$$)
-the financial plan i did last night to update my profit from yesterday
-benefits structure at work
-thinking i should not eat that cookie because it will mess with my bloodwork
-the more pills i have take everyday
-finding out that the early adam sandler movies are really not that funny
-kids less than half my age are listening to nirvana and saying "those little ***** don't know anything about grundge"
 
I'm still in denial (28 yrs. old), but realize that I'm gonna have to move out of my parents house, real. soon. now.

I'm just happy they haven't kicked me out, yet.

I notice that I get called "sir" more and more, and get asked for ID less and less. I realize that I'm older than "kids", but don't see myself as being an "adult" yet. Really weird. I figure that by the age of 30, I have to be living on my own, and at least be trying to get into a relationship. Only then will I consider myself old.
 
I started going grey when I was 19. It was all downhill from there... :eek:

It's also a horrible moment when you go along to the footie and realise all 22 players on the pitch are younger than you. I'm dreading the day when I'm older than the referee and linesmen too.
 
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