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What happened or was said to you to make you feel old?
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#1
I'm 70 years old and I've had a lot of signs of getting old and I can't remember the first. I can't even remember what I had for lunch today. I was going to write something else here but I can't remember what it was. Never mind.
Final score:
25points
Rose Romano (Submission author) 3 years ago
When I get up and I can't remember what I got up for, I sit down hoping it'll come back to me. But then I forget, not only WHY I got up, but THAT I got up. In the long run, it saves a lot of time.
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Shanaaia 3 years ago
There is a technique to face this problem, just google Dr....... aaaah.... ehhhh (can't remember the name)
Rose Romano (Submission author) 3 years ago
There's a condition in which those suffering from it often forget specific words. I've always meant to google the name of this condition but, well, you can guess why I haven't.
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#2
When I realize that my new coworker is the same age as my son.
Final score:
22points
GoddessOdd 3 years ago (edited)
I started to really feel creaky when the new employee's birth year started with a 2. The year 2000 was just yesterday, surely those born in the aughts are only in middle school now!
#3
When I realized my favorite childhood memory was when my back didn't hurt.
Final score:
19points
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I remember moving around and not sounding as though I were wrapped in bubble wrap... nothing clicked, creaked, popped or made any kind of noise... (farting and grunting included)
#4
When it became impossible to find decent music on the radio, except for "classic rock" stations...which are now playing '90s music.
Final score:
19points
Barbara L Bristow 3 years ago
I have a good rock station here in PA. What always gets me is when I'm car dancing & realize that I probably look quite odd......fat, grey haired old lady.....maybe she's having a fit !!!
The Great Cheez 3 years ago
i'm a kid but i wholeheartedly agree... i'm a huge fan of most rock before 1990 and i don't really listen to much other than that. not that it's a small category lol. truthfully, i haven't found anything that i actually enjoy other than cbs fm.
Davo gifman 3 years ago
I'm such a big fan of the 90's music, but I also really like a lot of the 80's as well. An some of the early 2k isn't bad in my opinion. An I'll be 55 this year. Good Luck to us all. An may we live many more happy years. You guys are all amazing people at different ages. An each of you have gifts, talents, and knowledge to share with the world, or at least people smart enough to listen. 😎🙏👍👋
#5
When I started making grunting noises every time I either stood up or sat down.😬😂
Final score:
16points
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
Me too! As I got up from a friend's couch, my hip popped so loudly that she thought I broke it!
Pharmtechgurl 3 years ago
A friend once told me that the first sign of old age was when you started making noises when you did something. Grunts, moans, hmms, etc.
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
Once, years ago when I could still stoop down to get things from low shelves, I was in the grocery store, buying bananas. The green ones were on the lower shelves, and I squatted to select a bunch. Both knees popped like gunshots. The produce manager came over and asked "should I call an ambulance?" Nowadays my answer would be "yes please"
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
My lovely cat decided to run out, and under my car. I finally nabbed her, but could not get up. Had the maintenance man not been around, I would still be there until someone came to get their mail.
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When you see a policeman/doctor/nurse, who look as though they just finished potty training let alone being in charge.
Final score:
14points
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I went to the hospital for tests recently... children! All of them children!
India Mitchell 3 years ago
And there have been many female police since the 1980's (actually earlier.) Not sure why it's so hard to change the vernacular to "officer" instead of policeman or police woman.
Joanne Hudson 3 years ago
This is mine as well. Cop didn't even look like he shaved yet, driving a cop car! And it didn't look like he stole it either.
Peter Ledoux 3 years ago
I thought they were joking when the doctor, Honestly he could walk into a middle school and no one would notice.
#7
So many answers, so little time. You are afraid to read the obits, because you might see your classmate's name. There were only 63 kids in my class and they are dying at alarming rate. You can remember song lyrics from the 60's and 70's, but have no idea what tv show you watched last night. Your favorite bands are in their late 70's and 80's
Final score:
13points
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I watched a "classic" movie the other day that I first saw when I was in my late thirties. Oof. My music is on the oldies station now, and the clothing styles have come back, but are now called 'vintage'
Sharon Ingram 3 years ago
Or they think they made it popular….bell bottoms, platform shoes, wedge shoes, crop tops, fringe bags, etc.
Load More Replies... The Great Cheez 3 years ago
"You can remember song lyrics from the 60's and 70's, but have no idea what tv show you watched last night. Your favorite bands are in their late 70's and 80's" tttttttrrrrrrruuuuuuuuttttttttttthhhhhhhh
#8
Not me, but my husband. He was outside doing something in the driveway one night when some neighborhood boys walked by carrying a length of PVC pipe and some other items. My husband recognized the parts for a potato launcher. (For those who don't know, yes, a means for shooting a potato a long distance at a hard object so it explodes. Or just to see how far. Apparently a boy thing.) He stopped them, asked what they had, and proceeded to explain to them how to modify their system to perform better. Apparently the boys just stood around staring at him, muttered thanks and walked away. He came in sadly, recognizing that he had become "the old guy down the street".
Final score:
12points
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I don't know... in my neighborhood the old guy down the street would have told them they were going to put their eye out with that thing.
#9
When I bought at auction an "antique" that was 11 years younger than me.
Final score:
12points
#10
Bending down and having to think of how am I getting back up
Final score:
11points
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
Just don't do it. I feel your pain. When I fell this morning, the cat came to see what was wrong, then turned around and left. She could have either pulled to a chair or vice versa.
Joanna Werman 3 years ago
I sat down on a hill yesterday and had to think about the mechanics of getting up again. It only took three points not four so I'm proud of that
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I am going to go to physical therapy to help me learn how to get up from the floor. It's amazing how many things you can't do if you can no longer get up and down from the floor. Of course, I struggle to get up and down from a chair, so I have quite a long road!
#11
I have no kids. So in my mind, I am perpetually in my late 20’s Then my friends will talk about their grandkids. It snaps me right back to reality every time.
Final score:
11points
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
Yes! I felt positively ancient when one of my doctors was someone I used to babysit. Awkward!
#12
It's when I began to say "I'm too old for this stuff"
Final score:
10points
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
Every single day. Even walking. I literally just got up to the bathroom, hit a side table, and fell on my face. I'm ok, just irritated at myself that I am so clumsy.
James016 3 years ago
I am constantly walking into the corners of my bed. It is solid oak and my knees are not.
Load More Replies... Marilyn leger 3 years ago
I've caught myself (mentally — OK sometimes out loud) saying "Back in my day" or "When I was your age"
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
My mother used to say when I was your age, and I swore I would never say it. I lied.
Load More Replies... GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I don't necessarily say it, but I definitely have reached the point where I seriously assess the issues involved in any activity, and my ability to cope with them... 'nope... not gonna walk that far" or 'I don't think I can climb up on that without killing myself" or "nope...my knees won't take that". It used to be (back in the day) that I just did stuff without my 10 point agility and endurance checklist.
#13
When I had to start trimming my eyebrows and chin hairs more often than the hair on my head. So unfair.
Final score:
10points
GoddessOdd 3 years ago (edited)
Here's what I don't get. My eyebrows vanished because of a medication I take, and lots of older women struggle because their eyebrows were "over plucked'. So, how come I can pull out a chin whisker 825746 times, and it keeps growing back as robustly as ever? Can't we make eyebrows out of those please?
Load More Replies... #14
When a radio station referred to Alanis Morissette as "retro."
Final score:
10points
Steve Barnett 3 years ago
You're lucky. I'm no longer 'Best Before', just 'Use By' now.
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#15
Hearing the songs I bought being played on the ‘oldies’ radio station.
Final score:
10points
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
Or grocery store background music. Instrumental interpretations of songs I was jammin to.
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#16
When Jimmy "JJ" Walker is talking medicare plans. Not so Dyn-o-mite!
Final score:
10points
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
That is so true. A lot of them, I can understand... JJ hasn't had an actual career for decades, like some of the sports figures and comedians, but Tom Selleck? Why does he need to peddle reverse mortgages? Even worse... I pay attention to those commercial now.
#17
When you lift a gallon of milk out of the fridge and it feels like you are lifting 5 gallons of milk.
Final score:
9points
Johnny 3 years ago (edited)
Our milk came in 2 quart glass jugs, so it wasn't as heavy a 1 gallon jug, but also it had a handled around the rim on top so when you carried, it by the handle, the weight was well balanced and easier to carry.
Load More Replies... GoddessOdd 3 years ago
Sadly, when I lift my fat ass up, it feels like I am lifting five asses up... looks like it too!
#18
well, that would be the first time i was in a market and the muzak on the system was playing songs from my youth. like rolling stones, etc. i started paying attention to the muzak in other stores after that and realized that this was common. so, while i had to listen to perry como and johnny mathis when shopping with my mom i now get a stroll down a musical memory lane when i shop. but, frankly, i have to remind myself that i am 64 because mentally i am not there. physically, i have been old for over half my life due to a degenerative disease that affects my body - one doctor told me when i was 38 that i had the bones of a 100 yr old woman. so, while the flesh may be getting weaker my spirit is still pre menopause.
Final score:
9points
Davo gifman 3 years ago
I hear ya! Preach it. I'm 54 but I still listen to the 80's hard rock, and the 90's grunge music an some of the late 90's early 2k rap. I still play video games with my nephews. An my first cousin who is more like my brother an in his 30's. So us an our nephews, sons, and daughters an cousin still like to get together for laser tag,go-karts blah,blah,blah lol. In other words they say we act like big kids. An the little kids, and the teenagers in our family like it to, and I enjoy it. Here's to hoping I live to 100 an our family keeps having a great time, and enjoying each other's company.
#19
When my body got assigned its next illness before the latest one's even finished.
Final score:
9points
Steve Barnett (Submission author) 3 years ago
With you GoddessOdd. When waking up, my first thought? 'Oh no, not this again'.
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when I listened to the radio and didn't know one damn song. when I tried wearing modern fashion but it really doesnt suit me. when people are staring at me bc of my blue hair.
Final score:
8points
Kate Jones 3 years ago
Same. I literally don't know any of these celebrities/musicians anymore.
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
My local newspaper has a paragraph "on this date" which has historical events, and the birthdays of celebrities. About 15-20 years ago I stopped knowing any of those names, and it didn't even help when they said "Jennifer X, who starred in MOVIE, turns 29 today" because I'd never even heard of the movie.
Gine (Submission author) 3 years ago
"the blue hair thing" is a requested style so yeah of course they would. But I do it myself.
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When I realized that probably won’t live ten more years.
Final score:
8points
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I always thought that I would live to be 100, like all the other women in my family. I planned my retirement funding based on that time frame. Now, at 65, I have started having health issues that make me think maybe I should start spending money faster!
Kelley Clough Mountain 3 years ago
When I decided not to get another pet because I knew it would probably outlive me.
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
My friends always swore that I wouldn't make it to 40. I proved them wrong by 25 years.
#22
I’m in high school so I’m not really that old haha, but I do have a funny story for this. My neighbor, a six year old at the time, had come over to give me a card on my fourteenth birthday. “How old are you?” she asked. “I’m fourteen now,” I replied. “Wow. You’re OLD!” Thanks kid. Just… Thanks.
Final score:
8points
Davo gifman 3 years ago
Yeah Johnny same here. When I was 14 I too wanted to be older. An now that I am older; I keep looking for the reset button. I thought I'd found it,but it's a mole; so great there's something else to worry about lol.😎👍 keep on keeping on my man.
Veronica Sjöberg 3 years ago
Lol. As a child one of my friends had a sister in her late teens. I remember thinking of her like more like 30-ish. A proper adult because she seemed so grown up. Now i'm 33 and when i see a teen i see a kid. I guess if i live to 60 or more i will look back at this stage in my life and see myself as young too. Its all about perspective.
#23
When I stood up too quickly the first time and felt the same as if I had been be drinking heavily.
Final score:
8points
#24
When people started looking at me as a woman who probably wants to speak to a manager
Final score:
8points
#25
.When I read the Grammy nominees and recognized almost none of the names!
Final score:
8points
#26
when I realized that I used to sleep for 7-8 hours but now , 3😢
Final score:
8points
Kallen Kneeland 3 years ago
I'm with you on this one, GoddesOdd! Seems like I want a mid-day nap, wake up at 5pm and am ready for bed at 9:30. One middle of the night pee, then sleep until 8 or 9. Hard to get anything done, but I'm exhausted and don't care.
Load More Replies... Pharmtechgurl 3 years ago
Used to not understand people older than me talking about insomnia, about waking up at 3am and not able to go back to sleep, etc. I never had a problem sleeping. Now, I do. Fall asleep on the couch, wake up, go to bed, can't fall asleep. Say: "I'm gonna go to bed when I get drowsy" end up on the couch. Get up to pee, can't go back to sleep. Just can't seem to manage more than 3-4 hours! And forget about taking something like benadryl, then I'm foggy all day and want to nap, so then I won't sleep tonight!
#27
When my employees were complaining about getting old. I asked how old they were. "26" she replies. I choked and said I'm old enough to be your father! *complete with eyeroll
Final score:
7points
#28
When my son turned 30.
Final score:
7points
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
My best friend's daughter just graduated law school. I used to take her to her school fairs and such. It just doesn't seem possible.
Pharmtechgurl 3 years ago
MY ex MIL always commented that she was not old enough to have kids their age
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Haven't got there yet. I'm only in my mid 60s :P
Final score:
6points
#30
2018 was 4 years ago
Final score:
6points
Davo gifman 3 years ago
Hey that math tutor really paid off! Look at you solving those big problems like that. 😑
#31
When I started randomly feeling the need to give advice to 20 something kids that won’t understand it for another 20 years.
Final score:
6points
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
Absolutely. I have been giving investment advice to younger coworkers for years, because they asked me, but now I'm starting to feel the need to offer unsolicited advice, and fight the urge to say things like "if you'd quit buying expensive lunches everyday, you'd have several hundred dollars to invest at the end of the month" and things like that.
#32
I realized I was truly old when I began to have more serious health issues, and started doing the math on every death on the news... he's three years younger than me! She was only two years older than me! OMG HE'S MY AGE!
Final score:
6points
#33
It really hit home for me that I'm "old" when I started googling people that I had dated over the years and saw that they are all dead now. Many had grandchildren. Also, when I had to change my hair color on my identification cards and passport to "Gray".
Final score:
6points
#34
Upon seeing someone on a float in the 2021 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade labeled as a 'TikTok Star'. Are you ****ing kidding me?!?!?! The word "celebrity" now sits atop the garbage heap of words that used to mean something. TikTok Star. Give me a ****ing break. #eyeroll
Final score:
6points
#35
When you start to fail. I found a Petechiae on my arm. I have arthritis. My hair is greying. Its the start...husband was quite a bit older than me and I watched the slow deterioration with him, so I know now it's my turn. I'm 59.
Final score:
5points
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
Don't give up yet. I'm 65 and my physical therapist and I discovered that the only part of me he hadn't worked on was my right foot. *knocking on wood*
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I totally relate. It's funny, because I always felt young and vital, until a series of unfortunate events. Pandemic didn't help either... a couple years of inactivity and everything's atrophied.
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
That includes my brain. My IQ has dropped 50 points I swear.
Load More Replies... #38
When I started growing hair in places I didn't want it to & losing it in the one place I did.
Final score:
4points
#39
When my 8 year old grandson showed me how to switch the TV to DVD mode. (Respect to him for not making fun of me!)
Final score:
4points
#40
When I noticed the coaches of sport teams where younger than me.
Final score:
3points
#41
When I learned that my dentist's first name is Kevin... and the receptionist is Britney. I remember when these were completely new fashion names (in Germany) that german people gave their german children to be cool :-) was it really 30 years ago ?
Final score:
3points
GoddessOdd 3 years ago (edited)
This is so funny...I just saw that one of our circuit court judges is named "Tiffany" . Tiffany is one of those names that became very popular in the late 1980s and 90s. I had to take a moment to ponder that...judges named Tiffany now.
#42
When I would fall asleep in like 20 seconds…now is 2+ hours. And I used to have to sleep with a laundry machine jn my room and my uncle on the computer all night
Final score:
3points
#43
At a store. Found an "antique globe" that is the same one my elementary school teacher used in our geography class.
Final score:
3points
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
Some much has changed. I cannot keep up with the names of Eastern European countries.
#44
When I turned on the oldies radio station and songs from my teenage years were playing
Final score:
3points
#45
When I noticed that suddenly I always feel like it's freezing cold and have to wear 2 pair of warm socks and warm clothes in order to feel good (not very long ago it was always to hot for me, even in the winter)
Final score:
3points
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I'm still usually too hot, but I realized that it doesn't have to be nearly as cool as it used to for me to feel it. Now my joints get achy around 40-50℉.
#46
When all my heroes started dying - especially the ones that are my age.
Final score:
3points
#47
I knew I was old when I started to buy clothing from the Edinburgh Wool Mill.
Final score:
3points
#48
1. Maths slowly starts turning from numbers to alphabets 2. Relatives keep on reminding you by saying , " OH DEAR !! YOU'VE GROWN UP A LOT". Oh YoU CrAcKeD tHe cAsE ShErLoCk!!! 3. Periods ✌️ 4. Slowly , you start having secrets and you're not that close to ur parents anymore 5. You're sad most of the times and try to find small reasons to stay happy but its hard because every moment you feel like you're losing the real you in the pressure of becoming the perfect person everyone expect you to be 6. You're finally getting insecure about ur body
Final score:
2points
#49
I realized I was getting old when I turned a quarter of a century old!
Final score:
2points
#50
You start backing off on the sports you love to spare your joints further wear and tear. Goodbye running. What's next?
Final score:
2points
#51
The white hairs have become a streak.
Final score:
2points
Davo gifman 3 years ago
That's okay. It just adds Pizzazz,and a look of wisdom an insight! You rock your grey.😁👍
#52
When a former boss/owner at a hotel I worked at took all of the workers out to lunch at a sports bar and I heard Chevelle (one of my fav bands) playing on a "classic rock" station.
Final score:
2points
#53
When a night with the wrong pillow left me feeling as bad as a 3 day booze binder used to 😂🤣 and looking at a glass of wine gives me a hangover
Final score:
2points
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I wake up every morning feeling the same way I used to feel when I'd been drinking and partying all night and only had two hours sleep. Now, a good nights sleep and I still feel that way.
#54
Probably around the time that the PlayStation 2 was dubbed "retro", seeing as that was the first game console I got as an adult. Over 20 years ago now, how the years fly by!
Final score:
2points
#56
Just talked to a good friend. She tutors an 11 yr. old who is reading To Kill a Mockingbird. She suggested that she watch the movie, but was told, "no, it's in black and white!" Seems to be a thing these days. They have no idea what they are missing!
Final score:
1point
#57
When I was 24, I worked a 2nd shift at a convenience store after my normal day job to pay some bills off. There was a beautiful woman who would stop in every night and buy some things on the way home from her job as a waitress. We hit it off and she said she stopped by every night because she likes talking to me. Eventually I asked her out and she turned me down but kept coming in every night. A couple weeks later she comes in excited to buy her first legal cigarettes because it was her 18th birthday. In 3 seconds, I had became the creepy old guy who hit on a teenage girl. I apologized profusely for asking her out and she replied she thought it was sweet. I reminded her of her uncle who was a science teacher. I never hit on another woman at work after that.
Final score:
1point
#58
When I heard one of my favorite songs from high school on an "Oldies" radio station.
Final score:
0points
#59
When I had to ask my mid-30s daughters how to use a QR menu code.
Final score:
0points
#60
When I turned 30 yrs. old, I thought my life was over. I.m now 78 and wondering "WHY?"
Final score:
0points
What do you think ?
George Mandolin 3 years ago
When I don't know any celebrities or any songs on the radio. No clue who these people are anymore.
T. D. Bostick 3 years ago
...when you still listen to songs on the radio.
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Got Myself 4 Dwarves 3 years ago
I don't know who most famous people are, my kids need to show me how to work new dangled technology, my knees creak and I make noises when trying to stand up, my hair is turning grey, my kids asked me if it was black and white when I was little since it was last century/millennium and I remember when freddo's were 10p and you could get 10p vodka and mix at the union for the first hour on a Friday night
Kristi Williams 3 years ago
When I listened to the entire Now 75 cd (yes, there's a 75!) in my little brother's car and literally didn't know a single song on it
Got Myself 4 Dwarves 3 years ago
Now that's what I call music is up to no.110 - I remember buying the first one when I was about 16/17
Load More Replies... Kristi Williams 3 years ago
When my teenagers told me I couldn't use new age slang... Because I'm 35 and it's just "gross" 🤷
T. D. Bostick 3 years ago
I dropped off my son at kindergarten, and the teacher told him to say goodby to Grandpa.
angela langford 3 years ago
Since the day I turned 40 12-12-2021. Everyone that I know, like on TV, is passing away.
George Mandolin 3 years ago
When I don't know any celebrities or any songs on the radio. No clue who these people are anymore.
T. D. Bostick 3 years ago
...when you still listen to songs on the radio.
Load More Replies... Got Myself 4 Dwarves 3 years ago
I don't know who most famous people are, my kids need to show me how to work new dangled technology, my knees creak and I make noises when trying to stand up, my hair is turning grey, my kids asked me if it was black and white when I was little since it was last century/millennium and I remember when freddo's were 10p and you could get 10p vodka and mix at the union for the first hour on a Friday night
Kristi Williams 3 years ago
When I listened to the entire Now 75 cd (yes, there's a 75!) in my little brother's car and literally didn't know a single song on it
Got Myself 4 Dwarves 3 years ago
Now that's what I call music is up to no.110 - I remember buying the first one when I was about 16/17
Load More Replies... Kristi Williams 3 years ago
When my teenagers told me I couldn't use new age slang... Because I'm 35 and it's just "gross" 🤷
T. D. Bostick 3 years ago
I dropped off my son at kindergarten, and the teacher told him to say goodby to Grandpa.
angela langford 3 years ago
Since the day I turned 40 12-12-2021. Everyone that I know, like on TV, is passing away.
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