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People Over 30 Years Old Share Which Things They Didn’t Believe About Aging Turned Out To Be True
As much as advertising would have you believe that when you turn 30, you quit interacting with anybody other than your government-issued spouse and your hobbies narrow to leisurely jogging or preparing months in advance to do taxes, most people find that not much actually changes when they enter the new decade. Or so they think. In this thread on Twitter, people are revealing that while not all the ominous warnings they heard about aging are true, there are some of them that are, and they start early.
Here are some observations from people who are just reaching the big 3-0 and finding out what it has to offer, like the fact that even if you still feel like a teenage imposter in an adult suit, talking to an actual teenager will make you feel like your cultural literacy is a distant memory. Meanwhile, people who have been there and done that have some wisdom (and TMI) to impart.
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Anna Ledwońska 5 years ago
This is such a good thing. I totally don't give a f**k and I cannot believe now what made me uncomfortable and how I cared about every stupid s**t in youth.
A Water Bottle 5 years ago
No ones fully developed in middle and high school so of course you’re gonna feel judged. Every day seems like a popularity contest, stupid s**t does keep you up all night.
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Monica Sargent 5 years ago
I was facilitating a class (I believe it was in self esteem, strangely enough) when I let go the most ear splitting fart. I just smiled and said, "Excuse me", like the lady I am and let it go. Did not keep me up at night .
Irina Deneva-Slav 5 years ago
One of the two best things about aging. The other is the involuntary accumulation of wisdom through experience.
Jennifer Sacrison 5 years ago
I just turned 49yrs old and I can attest to not giving a duck what other people think anymore. I love penguins and I have 2 stuffed ones (Peggy and Fred) and when I'm depressed or just cuz I feel like it I'll take them shopping or out to dinner. The looks on people's faces is priceless!!! I dress them up and they even have their own language...😂😂 🐧🐧
Katherine Lake 5 years ago
This one gets better! I'm 79 and don't care what anybody else thinks.
Rhonda Gestos 5 years ago
I don't like going into a room intent on doing something important and forgetting what it was.
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Chris 5 years ago
It's a bonafide technique to make you buy more stuff. If you're confused, you are significantly more likely to have a bigger basket value. Some stores use advertising in the middle of an aisle to confuse you... they're literally called baffle boards.
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Dilly Millandry 5 years ago
It's easier to concentrate... despite what anyone else may claim!
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Susan Aeschliman 5 years ago
Dang stores mix stuff up and they always get rid of my favorite flavor too! Totally sucks!
Teri Campisi 5 years ago
I worked at Walmart, and just when I Knew exactly where all the stock was and could complete my section in half the time, they would 'flip' the whole store(so people would buy more)! It was a giant P.I.T.A.(pain in the a*s!)
jo Philbin 5 years ago
We recently bought a new washing machine after ours broke the week before Xmas... The new one wasn't a present but it could have been I love it that much. I actually like putting the washing on. Send help.
Tovah Roche 5 years ago
I live in a college town and I'd say 75% of the students who live near campus shop at the same grocery store as I do. For about a week after the store completely remodeled it's layout you heard the kids ask each other "have you seen "x" product yet?" The person they asked would reply or someone would overhear and jump in to say "yeah, it's two aisles to the right." It was like watching a bunch of lost freshman college kids help each other find the right classroom. It was funny but also great to see them come together to help each other. Never a dull moment at that store.
Renee Gauthier 5 years ago
I've ALWAYS turned down the volume on the radio when I'm trying to find a new place or in crazy traffic, but then I listen to heavy metal & it does intrude on your thoughts. I remember the first time I drove my friends to the midnight movies & they were yelling & acting like jerks. I had to yell at them to quite down to concentrate. I was 17 but felt like my mom.
Itzel Anahi 5 years ago
Bahahaha! Didn't realize these were considered an "old person thing." hahaha guilty!
Tilly Jean 5 years ago
True!! I felt the rearranging RAGE when I returned from holidays. Then found out they discontinued a favourite product!
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Nicola Roberts 5 years ago
Hahaha absolutely! When did I replace the washing machine was it last year or 8 years ago? The concept of time is relative!
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago (edited)
I figured it out. My short term memory is gone. (Could be my recreational activities as a youth and young adult. I'm 41). So if I can't remember the last 10 years well then they seem to just go by. Well my memory isn't GONE but I definitely remember things in my 20's better than last year most of the time. Can't remember people's names from 6 years ago I worked with for 3 years but I can remember people I didn't even talk to in high school.
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the Author is An A**hole 5 years ago (edited)
I feel your pain, the 90's for me , was 41 years ago
deanna woods 5 years ago
As a 90s kid I will always look fondly back on the coolness of that decade. Especially Nickelodeon.
Until now, studies have overwhelmingly shown that in old age, people look back on their 30s as being the best decade of their lives, with various studies trying to estimate the optimal year at 33, 35 and 38.
This trend might be thrown off now that the generation in their 30s, or getting there in the next few years, are millennials, many of whom would laugh at the idea of the financial stability and positive work-life balance that earlier generations cite as the foundation that allowed them to spend their 30s on what they truly enjoyed.
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Brandy Grote 5 years ago
I find it's come full circle, and the genre I enjoy - heavy metal - is thriving with amazing new bands and sounds.
Pauliina Painilainen 5 years ago
Metal is an exception, propably because the majority of the musicians and producers are sound perverts who do not tolerate poor sound quality. 🤘 But also, I think the golden age was a couple of decades ago, but a lot of good stuff does still come out. 🖤
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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
Absolutely!! '90's is the best. Nirvana, oasis, weezer...
Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 5 years ago
Pearl Jam, STP, Radiohead, and on and on and on.... In the other hand, techno music :s
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I felt a little sad when I realized that I've reached the point when all of today's music is just c**p to me.
Pauliina Painilainen 5 years ago
One word: compressing. The sound is made flat so it can be played loud on radio and on poor quality headphones. The sound has no depth, no soul.
Atlas 5 years ago (edited)
In my opinion, technology has evolved so much they've considered instruments aren't necessary anymore. Y'know, they're outdated. That's why music lost its touch, sort of. Some genres always disposed of them, but now you see pop doing the same and it's a little sad. Feels less passionate and more merchandised. But again, that's just me.
Renee Gauthier 5 years ago
I'm always 10 years behind but I do eventually like new music. I grew up in high school with hard rock and a little disco/funky music. MTV started the summer after I graduated. My friends & I wondered what the heck this new wave music was, but it grew on me. I actually like the 2000's better since a lot of it reminded me of my 70's rock. Rap even grew on me. It taught me not to discount new music. But I think all of us still have a special place in our hearts for the music we listened to as teenagers, if only because of all of the angsty memories associated with it.
Daria B 5 years ago
In my case, I'm kinda disappointed how it all sounds so tame. Musically, of course, lyrics are a different story. Keeping in mind how Beatles were considered "not music, just noise", and it became only "worse" by each decade, after the 2000s, they just gave up on noisy distortions. Too bad. (Btw, I like a huge variety of music styles, I was just very curious what would be more extreme than, say, Atari Teenage Riot, or the song Shock D.N.A. by Mach 1.67. And I love both of these.)
F. H. 5 years ago
That's it exactly. It all sounds tame. Just compare Pink now to Pink in the 2000s. And don't get my started about the male singers. It seems as high pitched whining is the new trend for them.
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I’m Foxxy and I know it 😉 5 years ago
You start to feel pain in places you didn’t know you could.
Janine B. 5 years ago
Even in parts where you didn't know you even have a place!
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Saint Thomas 5 years ago
Well, if it doesn't hurt somewhere when you wake up after 30/40, it probably means you're dead.
Dippin Dot 5 years ago
At almost 37, I just bought a new bed and picked the one I did because no matter what position I was in, I didn't have a single bit of pressure (and I sleep on my back, side, stomach and sometimes even twisted at the waist). It cost me a pretty penny, but considering I sleep 9 hours a night, nap on the weekends, and do activities such as read, needlepoint and watch tv in bed, I figured it was worth the cost to not have any pain!
Dilly Millandry 5 years ago
The next decade you'll find that the best bed in the world makes no difference unfortunately.
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Non-New-Toni-An 5 years ago (edited)
I watched a video about sleeping positions. Lying on the back is best. Anything else puts pressure on the neck, spine and shoulders. However you can compensate by placing pillows in certain places. Lying on your front is worst. You can definitely get away more with sleeping in any old position when you're young though.
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Sterrinatu 5 years ago
Clubs!? I can't even stand when the music is too loud at the grocery store
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago (edited)
If I wasn't DOING something I wasn't happy. Now doing nothing is everything!but with a book.
Vic 5 years ago
I come from a city that is known for its clubs and pubs culture, yet I've never been to one. And people stare at me like I'm some kind of abomination when I tell them this... 😂🙂
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Linda Something 5 years ago
Used to live in the city going out partying all the time. Now I live with my husband in a house outside the city and I love staying home! Maybe have a glass of wine with a neighbour at the most.
There is one thing that seems to be a universal experience after making it several decades into life, and that’s being baffled that people who were in diapers when you were in high school are now old enough to drive, vote, and call the music you listened to as a teen “oldies.” And if that makes you want to drink to forget, you had better think twice, unless you want to be glued to your bed for two days.
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I’m Foxxy and I know it 😉 5 years ago (edited)
So very true. Doesn’t help that shops have already brought in Easter eggs and hot cross buns.
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
Cracker barrel puts their Christmas tree up in August and then Christmas stuff slowly takes over the retail area of the store.
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Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
Even worse; when getting through a day seems like it takes forever, then you blink and it’s 10 years later.
Martha Meyer 5 years ago
They say that the perceived middle of your life is at 25, because your childhood and teens feel much longer than your adult years.
Jo Morris 5 years ago
My theory on why years go by faster the older you get is this. When you are 5 years old, a year is a 5th of your life. But when you are 40, a year is a 40th of your life. Makes sense that each year seems to fly by more quickly. Imagine what it will be like when turning 100!
Renee Gauthier 5 years ago
My 15-year-old grandson just mentioned that time was passing faster. I said, "Just wait!."
Amy Taylor 5 years ago
After 30 I felt like I boarded some bullet train that zips a decade in a few months. I turned 51 in September but my brain is still 25 lol.
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Vivek Mhatre 5 years ago
Kids commiting the same mistakes we did. Telling them not to do it only "encourages" them.
Helen Haley 5 years ago
Speak for yourself. I knew exactly what my moms mistakes were and made darn sure Ididn't go down that road.
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Monster munch 5 years ago
I know what you mean, I was horrified to see bumbags back in fashion.
Master Markus 5 years ago
Someone has to break the cycle. There are a lot of educated young people, but the older people like politicians are the real problem.
Pedro Purcino 5 years ago
is time for you to learn to let them learn through "hitting the wall" and saving who cares.
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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago (edited)
Vintage is a great word until your own youth is in that category.
Katherine Heasley 4 years ago
And your music is on the classic rock station. I'm very annoyed that the '90s has infiltrated my favorite classic rock station, because the '90s weren't that long ago. Right? Right?!?
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Laura Roberts 5 years ago
Well, I’m 32, but yes, plenty of what was worn by toddlers in the early 90s is definitely trendy for teens. Bahaha. Just saying- like we mismatched, wore big tennis shoes, loved overalls, hair clips, headbands, bright colors, oversized clothing (who else loved nightshirts that were massive adult t-shorts when you were little??)
Tovah Roche 5 years ago
I see kids wearing things we wore in the 90s and wonder "what the f**k were we thinking?" Some of the stuff was hideous.
anotherboredpanda 5 years ago
I am a 90s kid. Nowadays I'm just dumbfounded why teenagers would dress up like they're 40 years old. A lot of the Outfits are so hideous. Just why? XD
PaulV 5 years ago
High-waisted women's jeans, I was saying before I saw your comment. Amirite?
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Ashley Harrold 5 years ago
I must have been born old. I've always loved getting socks as presents
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Jean Hendrickson 5 years ago
I finally...FIALLY! felt totally grown my at seventy. All of a sudden, I felt it. I' m seventy-seven, nowl
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Dilly Millandry 5 years ago
A lot is postural. Core strength and good posture usually makes a big difference. Not that I've either of those things.
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Daria B 5 years ago (edited)
Add cultural differences to this and it becomes even worse. Here in Korea I tell them my birth year and let them to the maths.
Dilly Millandry 5 years ago
Tried that and found most people can't do maths.
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Jane Dorothy Warner 5 years ago
Funny this popped up. When I was in bed this morning, I was trying to remember if I'm going to be 67 or 68 soon. Still not sure.
Laura Pantazis 5 years ago
So glad to be born in a year that ends with 0, lol. It makes calculating so much easier.
Calypso poet 5 years ago
Omg I told people I was 47 for 6 months...I was only 45. I just forgot.
Ronel du Plessis 5 years ago
I just tell them the year I was born. The rest they can do themselves. PS it is 1979
Louise Brigance 5 years ago
Also reaching into the reservoir of words I use to keep well supplied and now it's gone; when I reach in to find a word all I find is empty space!! Now it's that thing-y, or wachamacallit?
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Dilly Millandry 5 years ago
Had an eyetest before Christmas and my eyesight had improved in one eye! The optometrist was very excited as I'm not in the age group where eyesight tends to improve.
Marlene Ricker 5 years ago
In my case, younger people in tech stores thinking I'm an idiot is OK. No matter how hard I try, I'm still a techno-idiot. I need everything explained in simple terms. For these young people, they grew up with technology. For me at 71, technology came into my life at a much later time of my life.
Joshua Selbitschka 5 years ago
I may get downvoted for this but... I work in the tech department of my store. I always love it when I get the older folks who know what they need and what they're talking about, learned a lot from them, but the thing is that's about 10% of the older folks who shop in there. I commonly get older folks who just can't keep up with the stuff that's coming out, and I frankly don't blame them.
Fiona Toms-Yarnton 5 years ago
I work in a store that sells tech. All customers who ask to speak to someone who knows anything about tech (ie they want to speak to ANY of the younger staff) before they find out I DO know about tech, even though I'm 60.
RaroaRaroa 5 years ago
The eyesight thing is so true. Most people, even those with 20/20 vision up to that point, suddenly find they need reading glasses in their 40s. I find myself asking my kid to read labels on the backs of packets - easier than digging out my glasses.
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
Hearing starts to go too. It gets harder to hear someone talking to you in a loud room or on the phone without the volume all the way up. Guess I should regret standing too close to the stage listening to the band (various bands, actually). Nah. Totally worth it.
Anna Ledwońska 5 years ago
I feel totally old. My sight started to be very bad. But fortunately after 47th year. But believe me- so quick drop I am scared that next year I'll be blind and with walking stick.
Bored Fox 5 years ago (edited)
I went once to a retro video game store to buy a working PlayStation 1 memory card. The salesperson probably thought that I was a total idiot who did not know the difference between PlayStation 1,2,3 and 4 and he asked plenty of questions to be sure that I really wanted a PlayStation 1 memory card. I nearly started giving him a lecture about what video gaming was in the 1990's before he was even born. :D
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Cody Eriksen 5 years ago
Right?! I'm 37 y o female and I get these three hairs on my chin that just magically appear couple times a year. WTF?
Jenica Thomas 5 years ago
Only 3? Only a couple times a year? I'm 35, and very jealous lol
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Nagawa (Cofa) Kishiki 5 years ago
At least you could finish it. You are half way dead during eating once you reach 40.
Ruth Beaty 5 years ago
And that's your last meal of the day because you just can't eat anything else, me at 65.
Mo Poppins 5 years ago
I eat just ONE full meal a day now, and it’s enough. I’ll have a snack, but don’t get hungry or tired, otherwise. Make quality SLEEP a top priority. If you can’t sleep because you have unresolved trauma, work that s**t out. The emotional freedom is PRICELESS.
Kayli Boring 5 years ago
i cant eat anything without feeling dead an hour later and im in high school
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Mollyyy 5 years ago
Yeah this is same for me cuz im 13 and this ALWAYS happens
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Miguel Fonseca 5 years ago
everydamn day for me. of course I am in the Navy and usually get up early for work, but on days off I hate it.
Mo Poppins 5 years ago
I’m an introvert and have discovered my optimal sleep/wake hours at 45. About 7pm - 2am. I wake up naturally after 7 hrs, and unless I were dreaming furiously or had otherwise disturbed sleep, I wake up rested and have the quiet hours of the evening to myself. I love being up when the world is asleep, but without the sleep debt. I’m up during all business hours, and don’t feel like I’m missing out on ANYTHING while unconscious.
Sarah Ryan 5 years ago
This is true for hubby, lol but not me, I could sleep till 9:00 am, and feel like my day is wasted! Hubby on the other hand, is up at 5:30 am regardless of bedtime! He'll gently nudge me and ask if I'm ready for coffee, the f$(k? I am absolutely NOT!
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Katinka Min 5 years ago
That is one symptom that really annoys me. Intellectually, I know that young people know way mroe than I do in a gazillion topics, but my emotional reaction to them is automatically assuming they just left their mother'S tit. -_-
Fixin'Ta 5 years ago
I used to get mad at my mom and grandmother for dissing "young doctors". They'd say, "Who was that 12 year old with the lab coat masquerading as a real doctor?" I'd tell them hey, the younger ones are fresh out of med school, they know all the new stuff! But they wanted experience. Well, a couple of years ago I had a minor eye emergency (one that happens "as we get older", an aqueous-whatever-whatever detachment -- arrgh, mind went blank there), and while I went to my normal optometrist clinic, they sent me to a different doc. Yup, you guessed it, he was about 12 years old. He was fine, but I wanted a doc "with more experience."
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Patti Renwick Parrish 5 years ago
Just wait until you have to get up several times at night to pee! Ugh!
HoffLensMetalHedLovesAnimalsUK 5 years ago
40 here and get a pinched nerve a couple of times a year and it really f****n hurts and takes about a month to go away.
Cindy Snow 5 years ago
When i was 21 i was so upset that our new years eve plans got ruined. I cried. Now i not only wouldnt care but id be like " cool i get to stay home".
WhatEvenIsLife 5 years ago
Anxiety. It wasn't even a thing in my life until my early 30s, and now dealing with my anxiety is a constant, daily effort.
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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago (edited)
The last 7 or 8 years I have really enjoyed it getting dark in the winter. Come 6 pm "it's dark kids, bedtime!" And we all pile up early and watch Netflix or read. I hate it when it's still sunny at 8 pm.
Dolevaal 5 years ago
Im the same, but I also felt that way in my twenties. Maybe because I dont have anything opportunity to dark my windows but I think its more comofortable this way.
Load More Replies... Jennifer Sacrison 5 years ago
Don't forget the peeing a little when you laugh too hard or cough too hard.
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago (edited)
How some things reverse themselves. When I was young, I rarely broke a sweat even when exercising, the hot sun of Summer made it my favorite season, and I needed a sweater at 70 degrees (Fahrenheit). Now I sweat buckets at the least exertion or hint of hot weather, the crisp chill of Autumn makes it my new favorite season, and I rarely need more than a trenchcoat even in the frigid dead of winter. When I was young I thought I’d retire somewhere warm and south. Nope. No longer. Maine is starting to appeal to me now. Or Colorado. Cold yes, but not cold and rainy. Excessive rain, whether warm or cold, makes my old bones ache.
Ruth Beaty 5 years ago
And it takes two or three minutes of thought before you can even get off the bed!
Kala Subramaniam 5 years ago
The worst part is my parents complained like this only after their 50s.
Anna Ledwońska 5 years ago
Oh, yeah... Being alive suddenly seems to be scary. You never know when you fart or what would be damaged during sleep...
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Renee Gauthier 5 years ago
I've been worrying about this since elementary school LOL so I'm prepared. However, doctors are getting younger and cops too. I was a little shaken when being pulled over one day, and when the cop came up to my window, I calmed down since he looked like he was 12. But he was very nice to an old lady. If only he knew.
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago (edited)
Sounds like you’re The Little Old Lady From Pasadena, especially if you’re humming that song now, while running the lyrics through your head.
Load More Replies... Marlene Ricker 5 years ago
I live alone so this is a real worry for me. My granddaughter assured me I would be found within a week since she always calls me at least once a week. Small comfort
Shawn 5 years ago
Ugh I know this feeling, I have the flu currently and omg I feel as if I've been on death's door!! I remember being younger getting sick was like nothing and now it's like thre worst thing in thr world
Lucas 5 years ago
I assume you are on the road to recovery now rather than mid flu. Must be such a relief. I have only had flu three times but that was more than enough.
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Kenny Kulbiski 5 years ago
Hate to go to a doctor because they're all young punks but when you Google your symptoms you're convinced you're gonna die within the hour.
L McN 5 years ago
Eh, funny, but I actually had H1N1. Overnight it was so bad I could not see straight...one of the only times the military actually did not force me to go to work sick too. There was no "wait 3 weeks" as each hour SUCKED. But I do not negate that this makes the humor funny!
Lucas 5 years ago
Loads of people had it... though most won't know because most won't be tested. I know several people who assumed but there is always more than one flu type.
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Deborah HUGHES 5 years ago
I have to call my cell phone number on my landline phone just to locate it....only to realize it is as actually laying next to me...dear lord.
Chu Yue Ling 5 years ago
You think that's bad, try suddenly wondering where your phone is.... whilst you're on the phone
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Seabeast 5 years ago
Why do electronics manufacturers have to make everything in black? It's hard enough to see it in the daytime with sunlight coming into the room, I need a flashlight under artificial lights.
Karen Johnson 5 years ago
I have had to start wearing my headlamp (Picture spelunking!) in the house so I can find things when I drop them on the floor! EVERYTHING is BLACK! I paint them with bright colors just to be able to see them!
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Black is excellent, neutral not so much. It's called neutral for a reason. One type of colour may look great on a person and go with their hair, skin and eyes and another not so much. So most people opt for the former and avoid the latter. Neutral does p**s all so why bother with it. I know I'm probably alone in my loathing for neutral.
Marlene Ricker 5 years ago
You aren't alone. I'm not a neutral kid of person either. I love bright colours, specially the jewel tones. The only black things I wear are pants. Somehow, I just don't like seeing my legs in colour.
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I'm in my mid twenties and brussel sprouts and asparagus are great! You just have to learn how to cook them. I didn't like them growing up because way too many people in my family would steam vegetables and then put a sauce I didn't like on them. It's much better to sautee or bake them, IMO.
Renee Gauthier 5 years ago
YES! I dressed in mostly black & brown until I hit about 40 & then started loving colors.
Susan L. Miller 5 years ago
LOL! I just bought another black purse, but this time with a BRIGHT FUCHSIA interior s I can find my stuff!
N S 5 years ago
lol, I switched from a black to white phone cause I got annoyed at losing it around the house.
Jane Dorothy Warner 5 years ago
My father would turn in his grave if he knew I now eat all the food I made such a fuss about NOT eating when I was young. Sprouts? Bring 'em on by the saucepan full! Xmas cake and puddings? They are mine mwhaha...all mine...
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Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago
Or accept the fact that this is what happens in life and to everyone. Then you can just move on.
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Donna Leske 5 years ago
I had a teacher for ceramics in high school; Mr. Vaaler, wonderful nice guy. He had the most intriguing loooooong eyebrow hairs. You know where I'm going with this. Now I have them. I'm female. Seriously long. I refuse to cut them.
WillemPenn 5 years ago
So Elizabeth Warren's husband was one of my professors. His eyebrows were legendary. They looked like exotic caterpillars. Long with the curling ends. He was an amazing professor, really kind, brilliant, genuine and DGAF what people thought about the brows. At my age I now have the brows and my stylist is always trying to shave then off and I say no. He asks why and I say, because I want to be the Mann. And I don't care that he doesn't get my inside joke.
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Laugh Fan 5 years ago
For me it's not so much the falling but the inability to get up again due to the impact and shock. I have balance problems (nothing to do with age) so do end up kissing the ground more often than I would like to. Don't ping back up like I used to. ☹
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
It goes from "falling down" to "having a fall"...
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Annasue Marczynski 5 years ago
I believe it was Roy Rogers who said that when he fell as a youngster, he'd bounce; as he got older he'd splatter. Yes, I my pride use to be the only thing bruised, now I lay there testing every joint.
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
How easy it is now to take a misstep and almost fall—-part of feeling generally off balance. Walking along normally, then taking the next step wrong (totally unaware of how, because you didn’t change anything about your walk), and suddenly one of your feet hurt like hell (like you broke your arch, even if you didn’t.
Jennifer Sacrison 5 years ago
If my roommate hears a loud noise in my room he txts me to make sure I'm ok!!! Happened last night!!! There have been a few timed I've hit the floor and needed him.
Teri Campisi 5 years ago
I fell in my kitchen at 3am (after riding my exercise bike for about an hour in the afternoon) and had to call 911, scoot to the door to unlock and tell them I had fallen and cant get up. Them telling me to get an alert button!
Mario Clouâtre 5 years ago
Helped an... older than me men stand up after seeing him fall on an icy sidewalk. I felt terrible for the poor men at the moment. Couldn't shake up the fact that that's where I'm heading afterward.
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Dilly Millandry 5 years ago
Background music on tv that you have to turn down and dialogue which you have to keep turning up. WHY? I'm not sure that's entirely my ears at fault.
John Matthews 5 years ago
That's why I watch everything with the closed captioning on
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Martha Meyer 5 years ago
Because all the kids killed their hearing with earphones turned up too loud. They'll all be deaf by the end of this decade.
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athornedrose 5 years ago
same! i was always like "why are people putting on moisturizer all the time?" and now i keep a spare bottle in my desk at work
Kayli Boring 5 years ago
i carry a bottle with me and im young. my skin hates me.
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Elida Lechuga 5 years ago (edited)
I have a jar at work, a large tube in the car and travel size in my purse, two bottles and a tub of vaseline at home. lol
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Ronel du Plessis 5 years ago
My husband loves saying " I can't even remember what I had for breakfast, now you want me to remember things from way back?"
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
Well, short term memory IS the first to go, you know. We become like Dory who can’t remember 10 seconds ago, but with the ability to clearly remember 50 years ago.
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Diane Graziano 5 years ago
OMG! I thought I was the only one! I recently found an old photo (yes, we used to print our selfies) of myself with friends. I have no idea who they are!
Maureen Matthew 4 years ago
Only because i have kept a journal for close to 25 years can i remember certain things. I remember my mums 5 year diary that had an entry referring to the best movie she ever saw. I asked her what it was, she couldn't remember. Sigh
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Joanne Kostka 5 years ago
Thanks for making that sound as bubble wrap! I could never adequately describe it!
Laugh Fan 5 years ago
Grit in the joint is how it sounds to me - and how it feels. ☹
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Brandi VanSteenwyk 5 years ago
When my joints would actually "repeat the noise" for my doctor during an exam, I knew I was aging. It used to be like going into a car repair shop and attempting to describe the issue because it just refused to display THERE.
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago (edited)
Yep, it’s the old saying about the tooth that stops aching the minute you enter the dentist’s office.
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Chris Jones 5 years ago
Research has disproved this ffs. Cold makes you tense and that makes your joints hurt. Mine make that noise too but I know if I relax the pain is less and if it's cold I just make sure I stay warm. I've no doubt that I'll be downvoted to pieces but doesn't alter the facts.
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
I know my knees make noises, but probably because I've dislocated them over 12 times each, and one is held together with rods XD ive had a lovely spate of weird illnesses since i hit my 30s, and i like to crosstitch and do puzzles more than ever lol. And i also agree, the 90s was ten years ago and always will be
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Rosie Hamilton 5 years ago
Low temperature makes the fluid in joints thicker. Even a small drop in temp can make a difference. People usually do less exercise in the damp and cold and that has an impact. A lot of it seems like it is the weather alone or barometric pressure but it is usually other factors.
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CbusResident 5 years ago
We in our 30s shouldn't complain yet either. People in their 60s would laugh at our minor 'aging' complaints compared to their far more serious ones.
Jane Dorothy Warner 5 years ago
I'm mid-sixties and actually feel better and fitter than I did in my thirties, so there is hope yet, you guys :)
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Renee Gauthier 5 years ago
Ugh, I went through high-waisted dress pants in the late 70's. As a big-busted girl, I just looked like boobs & pants with no waist. I loved the earlier 2000's clothes, but lately I can't find anything new that I like. Why make shirts that are shorter in the front?
Miztre 5 years ago
Ugh I know! I hate that style of long at the back. Just why! I've got a big bust too, and don't like the high wasted clothes, I miss hipster pants. They made your butt look smaller!
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WhatEvenIsLife 5 years ago
The fact that teenagers and people in their early 20s look so young to me now, makes it so much creepier to think about all the way older guys who hit on me when I was that age. They look like BABIES to me. I'm only 37 and I don't think I'd feel comfortable trying to get with someone younger than 30, let alone a freaking teenager. Gross.
Riz Leslie 5 years ago
High waisted pants are awesome, flattering and comfortable. I will die before I go back to low rise
Miklós Nagy 5 years ago
Yeah, high wasted pants looks like diapers in my eyes and literally EVERYONE knows people who wear it just want to hide their beer-belly.
Craig Lee 5 years ago
You're still pretty young if you're using the word ridic.
Load More Replies... Fixin'Ta 5 years ago
And how old are you, sweetheart? Wait until you hit MENOPAUSE. Then come back and talk to me.
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago (edited)
Yes to the high waisted pants. I thought they were reviled as mom jeans. And yeah, even the flattest stomach still looks like a paunch in them. Add pleats at the waistband (like they did in the early ‘80s), then gradually narrow them down the leg and make the ankles so small you can’t get your pants on/off over your shoes, and you become the epitome of dumpy, paunchy, and pear shaped. Even if you’re a twig.
Miztre 5 years ago
Are you talking about the ones that ballooned around the thighs? Good they were horrible, I can't see them making a comeback thank goodness! I agree about the high waisted pants, they just make me feel fat!
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Anna Ledwońska 5 years ago
And this serious effect on health when you can't sleep one night for some reason (travel, work or smth). In youth - nah, nothing. Now - feeling like I would surely die, week of worst health issues...
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago (edited)
Lol I've been "preparing" for college life on "purpose" by getting less than 6 hours of sleep each night and somehow surviving on it through school
Load More Replies... Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
This. When I was young I could stay up 24+ hours, working-partying all night-going to work (sometimes still drunk from the night before) and work all day, go home and sleep a normal 7-8 hour night, then wake up totally refreshed and raring to go. Now that I’m older, I do a variation of the same thing, only without the partying. I go to work, go home and can’t wind down, stay up all night tossing and turning and trying to get some sleep, drag myself to work the next day running on pure adrenaline, collapse for 12 hours once I get home, then maaaaybe “bounce” back like a deflated basketball in a couple weeks. Or a month. Or two.
Louise Brigance 5 years ago
NONONO...I have years of going to bed early I have to make up for. All those years I had to wake up early and get the lazy kids out of bed. I sleep as long as I can, stay up as late as I want!
#30
Jenica Thomas 5 years ago
I just gained a pound reading your comment? What the heck?!
Load More Replies... Kathy Baylis 5 years ago (edited)
Having gone back to college in my 50s to earn my Masters degree, and afterward being employed only part time for 7 months before being offered a full time job, I can confirm the closed off job opportunities. Considering the fact that younger people will move around and job hop every 5 years, why not hire an older person? We’re wise, experienced, calm in difficult situations, stable, settled, and loyal—as long as we’re treated well, are comfortable, and feel like we actually belong. Not to mention we’re in better physical health than previous generations. We have to be, since none of us can afford to retire anyway.
Brandi VanSteenwyk 5 years ago
Menopause kicked in WEIGHT GAIN from HELL even though I have changed eating habits for the better.... I just don't understand why Menopause couldn't have happened when I was younger and had a faster metabolism.
Amy Taylor 5 years ago
I had to have a hysterectomy due to 10 years of endometriosis at 49. I'm one of those freaks that wouldn't go into menopause and end the torture on its own. My mom was nearly 60 when she started it. The following year, I had a massive herniated disc in my tailbone and had to have surgery, and I started this decade falling and now have a torn rotator cuff in my right shoulder... this aging c**p can f**k all the way off lol
Load More Replies... Mo Poppins 5 years ago
CREATE your own job. There are things you're not qualified to know or do until around 40, so capitalize on that.
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Brandi VanSteenwyk 5 years ago
As we limp by seeing our children & grandchildren draped oddly across anything in their path to catch a nap any time.
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CbusResident 5 years ago
Yes, but that's why we must exercise. Studies have been done on those who get to their 50s and 60s, still vigorously exercising regularly. Here's the surprise of the century: it turns out they gain a lot less excess body fat.
Stille20 5 years ago
Well, I would add not having time to work out because, job, family, need to clean house, etc
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Iggy 5 years ago
I once knocked my kneecap out of place getting out of bed. That was a heavy swearing day!
NMN 5 years ago
My knee cap socket is a little flat, so that happens in a daily base since always, just gotta learn how to do it, no pain if you do
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Renee Gauthier 5 years ago
And every 10 years or so I look back and think how stupid I was 10 years ago. I don't care much what people think of me any more, other than being honest & having integrity, and that's really freeing. I'll get on the dance floor by myself - I can just be the crazy old lady & not worry about being cool.
#36
Renee Gauthier 5 years ago
I don't know who many people are in the gossip columns now. Although, unfortunately, I know more about the Kardashians than I'd like to without even trying.
Laugh Fan 5 years ago
Me too and it is flipping irritating! Trying to read real news online and they keep popping up.
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Darth Kittius 5 years ago
I'm sure this a r/whooosh but every time I see your profile pic I think that I have an eyelash on my screen
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#38
Jenny Pugh 5 years ago
Having to crawl and hands and knees until you get to a piece of furniture with which to lever yourself up by
Load More Replies... Isabel Care 5 years ago
Physio says "Do these exercises lying on the floor" How am I supposed to get down there, let alone up again
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Erin 5 years ago
Oh this! I got an invitation for an art show opening that started at 9:00 PM. I was like, "It *starts* at 9:00 PM on Tuesday? No way, maybe if *ended* at 9, I would consider going, but I have to have my make up off and my jammies on no later than 9:30 or I can't function the next day."
#40
Renee Gauthier 5 years ago
When I was looking for used cars, I kept thinking, 2009 is not too bad, and then I realized it's an 11-year-old car!
Chris Jones 5 years ago
And salaries haven't kept pace with car prices. Damnit.
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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
The first time I heard smells like teen spirit on the classic rock station I wanted to cry. Things got real that day.
Cristian Tudor 5 years ago
Nickelback is not that bad! Besides, have you heard what s****y music is considered "good" lately? Really, between 2010 and 2019 theres isnt a single song that i could name and stomach, not one !
#42
Renee Gauthier 5 years ago
But the apple cider vinegar thing has been a godsend to me. I can't eat like I'm 12, but I digest a lot better than I did 10 years ago.
#43
Jenny Pugh 5 years ago
My shock when I realised that Star Wars (A New Hope) was 40 years old! I almost cried.
alwaysMispelled 5 years ago
A new friend at school, thought she was a just a few years younger than me... turns out "just a few" = 14!!
Anna Ledwońska 5 years ago
Yep, like my BF came from work disturbed a bit one day, and he said he had a pupil to train in his line of work (crane operator) and he said: " Well, this guy could be my son and I wouldn't have to start early to make him..." We have no children, but realizing that friends kids (guy you know from preschool) are FINISHING University is somehow scary. I know - let's wait friend will be grandfather ;)
#45
Francis 5 years ago
my brother had a slipped disc just a few month after his 30th birthday ... now i am afraid what is gonna happen to me when i hit that mark...
Chris Jones 5 years ago
Prolapsed or herniated discs can happen at any age.
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Renee Gauthier 5 years ago
In my mid-30's, I remember pulling my eyelid up to do my make-up & it just STAYED that way until I pulled it down. I was horrified.
Chris Jones 5 years ago
Sorry, but that's hilarious. Got to go and try that in front of the mirror. Though once my dog is off my lap it will take a few minutes to be able to move.
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Jenn Unicorn Popping 5 years ago
I'm 40... I almost made it to 12 on New Years eve this year!! 11:30 I was done!...sad
Isabel Care 5 years ago
The trick to making it to 12 at New Year is an afternoon/evening nap
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Renee Gauthier 5 years ago
Although I see a lot more variety that is acceptable today, probably depending on your "type." When I was younger, everyone was wearing the same thing.
#50
Monica Sargent 5 years ago
My 22 yr old son is so full of that youthful bravado and "know it all"ness. I am constantly so embarrassed for him. He corrects me all the time for saying words that he doesn't recognize. "That's not a real word Mom". I'm thinking, "In two decades you haven't heard all the words yet. Heck in five decades I sure haven't".
Ashley Harrold 5 years ago
When I was about 21-22 I passed my old middle school right around when students were getting out. All I could think was "oh my God! They look like babies!" So weird
#51
CbusResident 5 years ago
I was born in '84, so '90-'00 - that was like 100 years. '01-'10 - that felt like maybe 15 years. '11- now - that was a day right? Maybe a few days?
#52
Nicola Roberts 5 years ago
No idea what pedialyte is but I get the gist. I remember when (OMG I just said that) I could drink until the early hours and get up for overtime on a Saturday morning. These days I know a 48 hour recovery period is the minimum.
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
Pedialyte is like a Gatorade for babies. If they get sick it rehydrates. And if I drink now it takes all weekend to get over it.
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Renee Gauthier 5 years ago
Half a dramamine before bedtime prevent hangovers, and helps in the morning if you forget to take it the night before.
#53
lailyfnoor 5 years ago
Teen and 20s skin care: whatever face wash from drug store. 30s skin care: 10 steps of korean skin care with 100 bucks worth of products
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Chris 5 years ago
I employed someone born in 2000 last year. Also, just had a client who was born in 2000 that has a mortgage and a child (I'm a financial adviser). Made me feel proper old.
Edgar Rops 5 years ago
Recently, I noticed an attractive young, blond lady following me on Instagram. I wondered why and looked at her profile. Turns out she is my riding instructor's second kid, whom I met when she was 3. Felt like a dinosaur.
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Pittsburgh rare 5 years ago
Let me add to the list "putting your hands out of your pockets when climbing a set of stairs in case you trip and fall down" 😂
Daria B 5 years ago (edited)
That is actually how I broke my nose when I was 15, climbing up the stairs with my hands in my pockets and then I slipped....
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Biljana Malesevic 5 years ago
People, what is wrong with you? 30 something is very, very young person. I am 47 now and this could maybe apply to me or even older persons. When I was in 30s I was a baby, looking great and feeling mostly great, even though I live in quite sh**y country and my life wasn't and isn't exactly a fairytale. True problems and changes start (and only start) after 40-42, in some people even later.
Lynda Momalo 5 years ago
I just turned 60 a few days ago -- even my son is older than 30! And all these things about growing older are pretty much true. However, Pro-tip: Live in an over-55 apartment -- all the older ladies gush that I look so young and I'm just a baby. I feel younger than I have in years!
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Octavia Hansen 5 years ago
This is a SENSATIONAL time to be OLD! I don't have to 'find myself', I know who I am. I know a lot of things from EXPERIENCE instead of reading about someone else's. It's easy to acquire old technology and cheaper! I know history from BEING THERE! I heard the original bands who played what is now GOLDEN OLDIES. I can sleep any time, don't have to have the latest anything. As an older women, guys are hitting on me all the time. I can mess with people and they forgive me for being OLD! Use this valuable time for fun, dump the haters, you don't even have to talk to or visit family anymore. And I spend my holidays where I want. Geez, hang onto this golden time! Make up stuff . . . younger people actually believe me when I tell them I dated Eric Clapton! My trick knee? I tell kids it's a cheerleader injury -- didn't know she'd go that far when I KICKED HER! Now is the time to mess with EVERYBODY and excuse yourself with OLD AGE!
Renee Gauthier 5 years ago
Yes, I'm surprised how much I enjoy being older. I thought the old folks were just trying not to discourage us.
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Cesar Grossmann 5 years ago
Those kiddos thinking they changed that much at 35... 51 yo here and I can tell some things to you kiddos. Nah, I don't care.
Renee Gauthier 5 years ago
Yeah, well the 70-year olds are saying the same to you LOL
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Heidi Madsen 5 years ago
Sitting at a bus stop on my way home from work reading this. (7:30 pm) Watching 10 "kids" taking a bus to at party, with two litres of vodka for tonight's party. Thinking "Thank God I can go home, have a cup of tea, and go to bed early.
Sterrinatu 5 years ago
I work in an office. Our servers were down the other day. One of my coworkers needed to send a document, I told her to fax it. She looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language. Apparently she had no idea the copier she's been using for over a year was also a fax machine. God I felt old.
tuzdayschild 5 years ago
I remember the last time I slept on the floor. I was about 30 and when I woke up it felt like someone crept in and thoroughly beat me with bat overnight.
Krystyna Dabrowski 5 years ago
I am 41. I just found a 1/2 inch WHITE hair growing out of the bottom of my chin while I was putting on my makeup this morning. Officially. Old. I never thought the facial hair on women (when you get older) thing would happen to me! :(
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
I have a hormonal imbalance but I can't correct it due to the fact I have to take blood thinners, any hormone therapy could kill me. I battle chin whiskers, but omg recently they've been going white X(
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Grazina Strolia 5 years ago
Thinking about dating. Men my age, though? They look like old men. How'd that happen? XD
April Simnel 5 years ago
Ha! I'm at the age where I'm only "young enough" to 70 year olds—and sometimes I'm not even young enough for *them*!
Load More Replies... Chris 5 years ago
I employed someone born in 2000 last year. Also, just had a client who was born in 2000 that has a mortgage and a child (I'm a financial adviser). Made me feel proper old.
Edgar Rops 5 years ago
Recently, I noticed an attractive young, blond lady following me on Instagram. I wondered why and looked at her profile. Turns out she is my riding instructor's second kid, whom I met when she was 3. Felt like a dinosaur.
Load More Replies... Pittsburgh rare 5 years ago
Let me add to the list "putting your hands out of your pockets when climbing a set of stairs in case you trip and fall down" 😂
Daria B 5 years ago (edited)
That is actually how I broke my nose when I was 15, climbing up the stairs with my hands in my pockets and then I slipped....
Load More Replies... Biljana Malesevic 5 years ago
People, what is wrong with you? 30 something is very, very young person. I am 47 now and this could maybe apply to me or even older persons. When I was in 30s I was a baby, looking great and feeling mostly great, even though I live in quite sh**y country and my life wasn't and isn't exactly a fairytale. True problems and changes start (and only start) after 40-42, in some people even later.
Lynda Momalo 5 years ago
I just turned 60 a few days ago -- even my son is older than 30! And all these things about growing older are pretty much true. However, Pro-tip: Live in an over-55 apartment -- all the older ladies gush that I look so young and I'm just a baby. I feel younger than I have in years!
Load More Replies... Octavia Hansen 5 years ago
This is a SENSATIONAL time to be OLD! I don't have to 'find myself', I know who I am. I know a lot of things from EXPERIENCE instead of reading about someone else's. It's easy to acquire old technology and cheaper! I know history from BEING THERE! I heard the original bands who played what is now GOLDEN OLDIES. I can sleep any time, don't have to have the latest anything. As an older women, guys are hitting on me all the time. I can mess with people and they forgive me for being OLD! Use this valuable time for fun, dump the haters, you don't even have to talk to or visit family anymore. And I spend my holidays where I want. Geez, hang onto this golden time! Make up stuff . . . younger people actually believe me when I tell them I dated Eric Clapton! My trick knee? I tell kids it's a cheerleader injury -- didn't know she'd go that far when I KICKED HER! Now is the time to mess with EVERYBODY and excuse yourself with OLD AGE!
Renee Gauthier 5 years ago
Yes, I'm surprised how much I enjoy being older. I thought the old folks were just trying not to discourage us.
Load More Replies... Cesar Grossmann 5 years ago
Those kiddos thinking they changed that much at 35... 51 yo here and I can tell some things to you kiddos. Nah, I don't care.
Renee Gauthier 5 years ago
Yeah, well the 70-year olds are saying the same to you LOL
Load More Replies... Heidi Madsen 5 years ago
Sitting at a bus stop on my way home from work reading this. (7:30 pm) Watching 10 "kids" taking a bus to at party, with two litres of vodka for tonight's party. Thinking "Thank God I can go home, have a cup of tea, and go to bed early.
Sterrinatu 5 years ago
I work in an office. Our servers were down the other day. One of my coworkers needed to send a document, I told her to fax it. She looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language. Apparently she had no idea the copier she's been using for over a year was also a fax machine. God I felt old.
tuzdayschild 5 years ago
I remember the last time I slept on the floor. I was about 30 and when I woke up it felt like someone crept in and thoroughly beat me with bat overnight.
Krystyna Dabrowski 5 years ago
I am 41. I just found a 1/2 inch WHITE hair growing out of the bottom of my chin while I was putting on my makeup this morning. Officially. Old. I never thought the facial hair on women (when you get older) thing would happen to me! :(
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
I have a hormonal imbalance but I can't correct it due to the fact I have to take blood thinners, any hormone therapy could kill me. I battle chin whiskers, but omg recently they've been going white X(
Load More Replies... Grazina Strolia 5 years ago
Thinking about dating. Men my age, though? They look like old men. How'd that happen? XD
April Simnel 5 years ago
Ha! I'm at the age where I'm only "young enough" to 70 year olds—and sometimes I'm not even young enough for *them*!
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