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When did you realise you weren’t really a young person anymore?

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Was there ever that feeling of ‘drifting further’ from the life that was really normal to you, for example in your late teens early twenties the normal thing to do for a few years was be with the same friends, go on mad nights out, not thinking too much ahead,
How did you come to not doing this anymore? And did you ever have a moment where you realised you were drifting further and further away from your ‘younger life’ and beginning to enjoy life in other ways?

Or am I just going crazy? Or am I really preparing to leave my youth behind, and almost want to?

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ancapailldorcha wrote: »

I used to work on a University campus in my late twenties. I didn't get handed a single flyer about any of the nights out.

When I was maybe 27 I was walking down Shop Street and there were club girls handing out flyers, one of them actually had one held out, then I got close enough for her to see my face and she just like stopped seeing me and turned to someone else

The other night I had to get my little brother to show me how to do something on my phone. In hindsight I probably could have figured it out if I wasn't completely mangled, but he didn't help by saying "oh good, this sh1t is starting, is it?'

Feisar

When the young wan next door (18) came over as she has having a BDay party that weekend.

Not to give me an invite, to say there may be some noise and would that be OK!?!

I'm only 34, 33 at the time.

PlaneSpeeking

Alaric Slimy Joker wrote: »

When I was maybe 27 I was walking down Shop Street and there were club girls handing out flyers, one of them actually had one held out, then I got close enough for her to see my face and she just like stopped seeing me and turned to someone else

The other night I had to get my little brother to show me how to do something on my phone. In hindsight I probably could have figured it out if I wasn't completely mangled, but he didn't help by saying "oh good, this sh1t is starting, is it?'

I work in a Uni and regularly get called Ma'am.

I know it's respectful but it still makes me feel old!

Turnipman

March last year, heading into town from Chapelizod, stopped the bus which was full so I stood in the aisle. After a couple of minutes, a young lady stood up and offered me her seat. Assuming that she was dismounting the bus at the next stop, I thanked her and sat down. She then stood in the aisle beside me all the way to O'Connell Bridge. :eek: (I was 56 and, up to that incident, had considered myself as looking fit and healthy, although a bit overweight!)

Kevin Finnerty

Feisar wrote: »

When the young wan next door (18) came over as she has having a BDay party that weekend.

Not to give me an invite, to say there may be some noise and would that be OK!?!

I'm only 34, 33 at the time.

That's code for an invite to an orgy! Thought everyone knew this?

yourdeadwright

Ah god there's a few,
When you talk about world cup 90 in work and the young lads weren't alive,
When the idea of going to a nightclub is a nightmare,
When you enjoy doing home improvements ,

Turnipman

yourdeadwright wrote: »

Ah god there's a few,
When you talk about world cup 90 in work and the young lads weren't alive,

If you think that's bad, try talking to someone about the days when Shamrock Rovers played in Milltown!

kunst nugget

Feisar wrote: »

When the young wan next door (18) came over as she has having a BDay party that weekend.

Not to give me an invite, to say there may be some noise and would that be OK!?!

I'm only 34, 33 at the time.

Imagine how creepy you'd look hanging out with a load of 17-18 year olds...

I put my neck out by simply being asleep. Fúck that ****.

ELM327

I think it was when I realised that people born in 2000 could vote in the last referendum.
I was drunk for most of the year 2000!

Scarinae

Explaining to a younger colleague that when we did school projects we had to go to the library and look things up in books because we didn’t have the internet then.

When a teenager bumped into me and said “Sorry madam”

mikemac2

RTÉ report stabbings at a concert for Swedish House Mafia

Tens of thousands of young wans there

You never even heard of them

El Tarangu

mickeyk wrote: »

Was at a family event a few years back and my significantly younger sister in law dragged me out to a bar afterwards as she had nobody else to go out with.

Don't leave us hanging, tell us about how you ploughed the sister-in-law in the end.

El Tarangu

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I'm in the early half of my late twenties.
I recently saw videos on YouTube when they played music for teenagers and they had to say if they knew the song or not.
They had no idea who Snow Patrol, Kylie Minogue, etc were.

It's weird to think that Kylie Minouge's comeback was nearly 20 years ago now

castletownman

When I actively wanted to listen to the news headlines, not forced to switch it on by the parents.

podgemonster

The biggest impact the Budget used have on me was that it cancelled "The Den" for the evening.

Now it just takes my money.

jester77

After France won the world cup and Mbappe was going up to get the young player of the tournament award, the commentator said that Mbappe wasn't born the last time France won the world cup.

padd b1975

ButtersSuki wrote: »

When I politely asked a teenager to put the dumbbells he had finished using back onto the rack in the gym and he said to me “F*ck off OLD MAN”. I’m 45, and look younger (not a humblebrag before anyone suggests that!). It really hit me, was pretty much speechless; I guess as much for his reaction as to what he actually said. I’m not the violent type, but if he reacts like this to everyone he encounters he’s going to get his ass handed to him at some stage.

Probably juiced up to his eyeballs.

robindch

When I started asking people in resturants + pubs to turn down the f*cking racket in the background so I could hear my friends roar at me over stuff that wasn't cider any more.

keano_afc

A good few years ago now, was walking across the field at the bottom of my estate and a young lad screamed "Mister, will you kick that ball back to us." I genuinely thought he was talking to someone else, so ignored him. It was only after he screamed "MISTER!!" again that I turned around and was sad to see that he was referring to me. A little bit of me died that day.

facehugger99

When a graduate started working in here and, not sure how this came up, I realised I was closer in age to her mother than I was to her.

B0jangles

First time was when I realised I was more years out of secondary school than I had spent in it.

Ciaran_B

When hangovers started lasting multiple days. Not even after a mad one - a few pints wipes me out now.

super_furry

Waking up in the morning and having random parts of your body hurt for no reason. Making involuntary grunting/sighing noises when picking something up or get up out of a chair.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

super_furry wrote: »

Waking up in the morning and having random parts of your body hurt for no reason. Making involuntary grunting/sighing noises when picking something up or get up out of a chair.

And the transition from "Argh, random pain for no reason, annoying" to "Argh, random pain for no reason. This is probably the start of how I die"

kunst nugget

When the funerals of friends and acquaintances my age stopped being suicides...

LordBasil

When you can vividly remember events that happened 20+ Years ago

Looking at clothes and thinking 'That's nice but too young for me'

Laois_Man

First when I became older than any Premier League player still playing - and then when Premier League managers started being younger than me

Actually the latter happened before the former

Ush1

I've recently started getting really into Irish history (a sure sign of age), so I was explaining some historical stuff to my four year old son and he just stares at me blankly and shouts "BORING!". Never felt so old...:(

kunst nugget

Ush1 wrote: »

I've recently started getting really into Irish history (a sure sign of age), so I was explaining some historical stuff to my four year old son and he just stares at me blankly and shouts "BORING!". Never felt so old...:(

I started reading that but as soon as I saw the words 'Irish History' I got sooooo bored I gave up.

Hammer89

When some of the lads started wearing blazers on Saturday nights. And when the lads stopped wanting to go to nightclubs actually.

"Let's go to Coppers lads."

"We could go to Coppers, but we're a bit old for that scene now."

"Hmm, we're late 20s and early 30s?"

"Indeed we are. Too old. No, let's sit here in our blazers, drinking moderately in a sh*t pub on the outskirts of town, talking about one another's job. So, how's work going Rory?

"Suck a thousand dicks Brian.