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When did you start feeling old?

Yep... I'm currently on my second grey hair.

Getting engaged/married didn't make me feel old. My wedding day was the happiest day of my life.

However, listening to younger people around me talk about how marriage is for old people... makes me feel a little old. :p
 
These things are helping me feel old (in no particular order) and I only turn 30 next month.

  • hair on the back
  • grey in the beard
  • achy joints after limited "exercise"
  • tracking my positive net worth
  • having a child

I'm sure there are a ton more.

The older I get, the better I was.
 
About five years ago:

I was in a pub with a mate when he realised that the lass getting served at the bar was my old next-door neighbours daughter. We could both remember her mother being pregnant with her.

A terrible, terrible moment!

(p.s. My radio is tuned into BBC Radio 2 & 4 and not Radio 1. I'm turning into my parents! :eek: )
 
I'm 35 this year. Apart from the odd worn joint here and there, I feel the same as I did when I was 16 or 17.
 
PlaceofDis said:
Tequila?

and its nothing in particular, nothing tangible that makes me feel old. i suppose its just my mindset in comparison to those around me.
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no, botox.


but in all seriousness, when i get wrinkles i will be proud of them. it took X amount of years to get them, why change it?
 
When asked by a Burger King cashier, if I wanted a Senior discount. It ruined my whole vacation, though the fam got a good laugh on me.
 
kingjr3 said:
These things are helping me feel old (in no particular order) and I only turn 30 next month...

  • hair on the back...


I'm sure there are a ton more.
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There are.

Someone told me years ago that a man does not actually lose his hair: it merely migrates to other parts of the body. In addition to down the back, it starts growing out the nose...out the ears...etc.



-hh
 
-hh said:
There are.

Someone told me years ago that a man does not actually lose his hair: it merely migrates to other parts of the body. In addition to down the back, it starts growing out the nose...out the ears...etc.



-hh
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OK now, boys- haven't you heard of personal grooming? Go get the ear and nose hair trimmer, and keep an extra razor handy for those other spots such as the back, that need help. It's easier than you think and you'll feel better.
 
Blue Velvet said:
Does that mean wearing leather trousers, having a mid-life crisis, growing a pony-tail, starting an illicit fling, getting dowwwn with the yoof... and buying a Harley?
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No, that's only once you've lost the fight. ;)
 
leekohler said:
OK now, boys- haven't you heard of personal grooming? Go get the ear and nose hair trimmer, and keep an extra razor handy for those other spots such as the back, that need help. It's easier than you think and you'll feel better.
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Hey, its not that we're not doing it; its just that when you're a young guy, you can't wait to begin to shave, but as grownup-ism sinks in, you realize that you're stuck with it.

And then, if that alone wasn't bad enough, you discover a few years later that there's new regions that are getting added in as other areas in need of 'routine maintainance'. Why can't it all just stay growing on the top of the head, where its actually wanted?

The next thing you know, you'll be out comparison-shopping on those "S-M-T-W-R-F-S" pill organizers at the local Pharmacy.


-hh
 
-hh said:
Hey, its not that we're not doing it; its just that when you're a young guy, you can't wait to begin to shave, but as grownup-ism sinks in, you realize that you're stuck with it.

And then, if that alone wasn't bad enough, you discover a few years later that there's new regions that are getting added in as other areas in need of 'routine maintainance'. Why can't it all just stay growing on the top of the head, where its actually wanted?

The next thing you know, you'll be out comparison-shopping on those "S-M-T-W-R-F-S" pill organizers at the local Pharmacy.


-hh
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Haha! As long as we don't get hit by a bus or something. :)
 
bartelby said:
That's because you're so damn young ;)
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I dunno; I think that gray and white hairs are sexy and beautiful. And I may not be a fan of all wrinkles, but smiley wrinkles? The eye crinkles that show the world just how many times you've smiled and laughed and enjoyed a lovely moment? I think those are gorgeous and inspiring. :eek:
 
devilot said:
I dunno; I think that gray and white hairs are sexy and beautiful. And I may not be a fan of all wrinkles, but smiley wrinkles? The eye crinkles that show the world just how many times you've smiled and laughed and enjoyed a lovely moment? I think those are gorgeous and inspiring. :eek:
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WOW!

Really?
Because those are the kind of wrinkles I have!!:)
 
leekohler said:
OK now, boys- haven't you heard of personal grooming? Go get the ear and nose hair trimmer, and keep an extra razor handy for those other spots such as the back, that need help. It's easier than you think and you'll feel better.
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Ahh, hell, man. My wife just told me the other day that I'm getting hair on my back.
 
kalisphoenix said:
Ahh, hell, man. My wife just told me the other day that I'm getting hair on my back.
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Time to start bartering, son. Give her a nice dinner, followed by a foot massage with no overtones ... before asking her if she will help you shave back there.

Remind her that she sees it more than you do :D

Also, don't waste a new razorblade on it - - use the old one that's just about due to be changed out for a fresh one.

Kids - ain't it just great the life skills that you can right here on MacRumors? :eek:

-hh
 
leekohler said:
OK now, boys- haven't you heard of personal grooming? Go get the ear and nose hair trimmer...
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I remember a couple of years ago when I bought my first nose hair trimmer and was really excited about that purchase. So I think I've probably been old for even longer than I realize.
 
Lyle said:
I remember a couple of years ago when I bought my first nose hair trimmer and was really excited about that purchase. So I think I've probably been old for even longer than I realize.
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I actually had to get my Dad one. I said, "Be glad you have a gay kid, otherwise, you'd be a hairy wreck". :D
 
leekohler said:
and keep an extra razor handy for those other spots such as the back, that need help. It's easier than you think and you'll feel better.
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You pushing your agenda on these fine people again Kohler?

Don't listen to the hairless one. He knows not of what he speaks.
 
In our language (in my situation Dutch.. but in many other languages also) we have a more polite and respectfull way of saying "you".
We say "jij" to those you know very well, or you have no "commercial respect", and "u" to the elderly, or those you (want to or have to) show respect.

So, if you walk into a university and the students call you "u" you feel old.

I am 36 now, and since my 30th orso this started to happen. When people start calling you "u" when they have no other reason but "elderly respect" you know, you have past it. :(
 
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