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When did you start feeling old?
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Holy cow!
I thought he was about 28...aka younger than me. I'll be 31 this month, and my infrequent trips back to the university campus remind me just how long ago I was there.
*Cues up Wooderson voice*
I get the same thing from the gorilla of my dreams.
So, you gotta problem w' dat?
That reminds me. At some point people in shops started calling me "Sir" whilst serving me. When did that happen?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.
Help them stay nice and hairy, yes. Nose and ear trimming good. Back and chest trimming bad.Didn't you know that was part of the "gay agenda"? It's our duty to help them.
That reminds me. At some point people in shops started calling me "Sir" whilst serving me. When did that happen?
Help them stay nice and hairy, yes. Nose and ear trimming good. Back and chest trimming bad.
I'll compromise- no back hair, you can keep the rest, just keep it under control.
The exact date of when the effect of age caused me to slowdown or the wrinkles to appear doesn't matter to me. However, on the day I begin acting and thinking like an "old fart" I do hope someone will cast me out on an iceberg.
Most of you know the "old farts" I'm referring to -- the hateful old couple that lived somewhere in your neighborhood when you were a kid running around with your buddies. If you tossed a football in the street while walking to the park the couple was yelling out their windows saying how they'd call the cops if you broke one of their windows in their house some 50 yards from where we were tossing the ball.
Unfortunately, as more time passes, more and more of the people I grew up with my age have suddenly began to sound exactly like the old farts did when we were kids. They complain about virtually anything and everything "the young folks do these day". According to this new generation of old farts, "What these kids listen to isn't music!" The fact that they can say that without realizing they've turned into their parents is amazing.
So, if I'm as young as I feel, I must face the fact that my body feels much older than when I was 19. But hopefully, I'll be able to think like a young person does, with an open, inquisitive and embracing mind for several more decades. If not, please... someone kill me.
Most of you know the "old farts" I'm referring to -- the hateful old couple that lived somewhere in your neighborhood when you were a kid running around with your buddies. If you tossed a football in the street while walking to the park the couple was yelling out their windows saying how they'd call the cops if you broke one of their windows in their house some 50 yards from where we were tossing the ball.
Unfortunately, as more time passes, more and more of the people I grew up with my age have suddenly began to sound exactly like the old farts did when we were kids. They complain about virtually anything and everything "the young folks do these day". According to this new generation of old farts, "What these kids listen to isn't music!" The fact that they can say that without realizing they've turned into their parents is amazing.
So, if I'm as young as I feel, I must face the fact that my body feels much older than when I was 19. But hopefully, I'll be able to think like a young person does, with an open, inquisitive and embracing mind for several more decades. If not, please... someone kill me.
Sigh... I used to think so too... until I found my first.
Just kidding. This part is true though: I think my FIL is pretty sexy; he has little hair left, and what is left is sparse and white. I can only hope that DH will be that "sexy" 40 years from now!
When my daughter was born. There is nothing like having to actually behave like a grownup for making you feel, well, kind of grown up. (But I'm starting to out grow the old feeling only now, when I'm actually older --or it may be the booze....)
When cute young girls call me "mister" or "sir".
When they don't card you anymore to buy alcohol.
When you give careful consideration to retirement plans when choosing a job.
When clothes and furniture you grew up with are now refered to as "retro".
When songs you used to listen to in high school are now played on "oldies" or "classic rock" stations.
I take solace in the fact that some of those old rockers are still rocking. I still can't believe the Police are back together.
When they don't card you anymore to buy alcohol.
When you give careful consideration to retirement plans when choosing a job.
When clothes and furniture you grew up with are now refered to as "retro".
When songs you used to listen to in high school are now played on "oldies" or "classic rock" stations.
I take solace in the fact that some of those old rockers are still rocking. I still can't believe the Police are back together.
For me, that happened a long time ago!
I think it was when I was teaching some folks that were 17-18 years old and I realized that I was twice their age.
I really shouldn't since I am only 16, but in the last few years, a lot of my cousins who I grew up with have gotten married and had kids. When I see their kids, it sometimes makes me feel old, since I can remember when their parents were still teenagers, or younger. And also when I see students in the class that my mom teaches which in one or two more years will have students born in 2000 or later.
When rap became popular, I just couldn't relate. It took me awhile to realize I was just getting older.
I have a good friend who is 27, I'm 45. She's got her head squarely on her shoulders but still gets excited about things in a way that only a 20 something can. It doesn't make me feel old really, just that I'm not in my 20s anymore.
I have a good friend who is 27, I'm 45. She's got her head squarely on her shoulders but still gets excited about things in a way that only a 20 something can. It doesn't make me feel old really, just that I'm not in my 20s anymore.
I don't know when it happened. Probably when I started noticing that things were falling apart...bad knees, TMJ Disorder, creeky bones, a couple of gray hairs, weight not coming off as quickly as before, etc.
I did drive to the local University campus a few weeks ago and marvelled at how young the students looked. I remember feeling so grown up back then, but they all look like little children to me now. It's the same feeling when I go home to visit the parents and see kids I used to babysit getting married.
I did drive to the local University campus a few weeks ago and marvelled at how young the students looked. I remember feeling so grown up back then, but they all look like little children to me now.
It's the same feeling when I go home to visit the parents and see kids I used to babysit getting married. Give him a couple of years of marriage and he'll really be old!I'm 26, and boy did I feel old when my friend told me he was getting married. Wha?! HIM!?!?!!
Just after I turned 25 I filled in one of those surveys with "Tick your age range" - it didn't feel good to lump myself in with the 34 year olds.
Turning 30 didn't really bother me.
I've still got all my hair (on my head and not creeping downwards) & teeth, although, thanks to the rugby, my back, knees & ankles are knackered and only going to get worse.
Browsing Friends Reunited a few years ago revealed an ex girlfriend had 3 kids and was doing an MBA and another had been married and divorced.
I still wonder whether they were right or not....
Turning 30 didn't really bother me.
I've still got all my hair (on my head and not creeping downwards) & teeth, although, thanks to the rugby, my back, knees & ankles are knackered and only going to get worse.
Browsing Friends Reunited a few years ago revealed an ex girlfriend had 3 kids and was doing an MBA and another had been married and divorced.
I still wonder whether they were right or not....
I'm 24.
I started to feel, I don't know if I'd say "old," but maybe "legit", after I got married and realized that I'm now wholly responsible for the bills that appear at my house (including all the things my parents used to help me with like car insurance)....that was a weird feeling.
I started to feel, I don't know if I'd say "old," but maybe "legit", after I got married and realized that I'm now wholly responsible for the bills that appear at my house (including all the things my parents used to help me with like car insurance)....that was a weird feeling.
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.
We used to have a polite word for "you" formal/plural too: "you." "Thou" was an informal/singular. Danged French took it away from us.
Au contraire, thou canst blame Caxton, who used Y to denote "thorn", the old english "th".
I think it was one time I had returned home from a hair cut and someone asked if I was trying to look younger and to forget it. Sheesh - I thought I was just getting a hair cut.
I feel old as my body ages and the joints and muscles ache and take longer to recover from exercise. Mentally - I am still a young whipper snapper.
I do agree that most of what age is is in your mind - that being said - how many of us have looked at some old guy or gal and thought they should act more their age???
I feel old as my body ages and the joints and muscles ache and take longer to recover from exercise. Mentally - I am still a young whipper snapper.
I do agree that most of what age is is in your mind - that being said - how many of us have looked at some old guy or gal and thought they should act more their age???
i started to feel old when i could no longer hang a body towel on a certain body appendage that i shall not name for fear it would be too vulgar.
but i am reminded every morning when i go to the bathroom and see fine wrinkles on my feet and genitalia.
but i am reminded every morning when i go to the bathroom and see fine wrinkles on my feet and genitalia.
Hence the abomination, "Ye Olde Sweet Shoppe" and the like, which is mispronounced Yeeee when it is nothing more than The.