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When did you realize you're becoming "old"?

  • 12-04-2016 08:31PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,689 ✭✭✭Tombi!


    In quotations because it's not about age but rather you do things that you would consider old people to do.

    For me it's now. The kids outside are playing. It's 8:30 at night and all I can think of "will their parents ever tell them to go to fecking bed. I want my peace".
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    When Netflix and chill is literal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,598 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    Started going for walks on a regular basis.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    When according to RTEs 'do you masturbate' survey, I dont fall into what they consider a young adult.

    That or when I started bumping into younger relatives, in the pub who I used to baby sit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,946 ✭✭✭✭Neyite


    I remember stonewashed skinny jeans the first time around...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    When you see first year college students and couldn't in good conscience...interfere with them.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 542 ✭✭✭Brian2208


    When I started grunting getting out if chairs and sighing when I sit down


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭whatismyname




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    When the young one in for work experience thought I was cool. Chatting away, she was asking all sorts of questions. "How old are you" she asks. I tell her. "No way? Really!? You look so young." :(

    When i get paid and go do grocery shopping. I used to wait up to be paid so as I could check out my asos shopping basket, mere minutes after the money went into my account.

    When I go out and wake up plastered the next day because my poor body can't keep up.

    When I wear flat shoes out because my knee/back hurts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,946 ✭✭✭✭Neyite


    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    When according to RTEs 'do you mastribate' survey, I dont fall into what they consider a young adult.

    That or when I started bumping into younger relatives, in the pub who I used to baby sit.

    Oh that! The kid I used to babysit retired from county football.


  • Posts: 21,740 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    When I notice an attractive man and it's no longer a case of he might a bit too old for me but instead I wonder is he over 30.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,439 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    When all the identity politics crap started infesting the internet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭trashcan


    Neyite wrote: »
    Oh that! The kid I used to babysit retired from county football.

    When some of my nieces and nephews start nearing 40 :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    When you realise someone born in 1998 is now 18


    When you own some tools in work that were bought when the apprentices were still in primary school :(:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,016 ✭✭✭tylercheribini


    Emergence of beer belly even though I drink far less now than in my hedonistic and most importantly still thin 20s.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 42 Stacker Pentecost


    When I saw a hot young wan who was scantily clad walking down the road recently and said "Jesus she must be freezing".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,689 ✭✭✭Tombi!


    When you realise someone born in 1998 is now 18


    When you own some tools in work that were bought when the apprentices were still in primary school :(:(
    OH you can go and bollocks with that fact. I was happy not knowing 18 years old were born back in 1998.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    When I notice an attractive man and it's no longer a case of he might a bit too old for me but instead I wonder is he over 30.

    Change he to she, and I'm the same.

    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭Firefox11


    Neyite wrote: »
    I remember stonewashed skinny jeans the first time around...

    Yeah I saw some kid one wearing a stone wash jacket the other day for the first time since 1989!! WTF?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    When the kid I used to babysit got married

    When I watch Reeling in the Years and can say "I remember that'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    When you realise someone born in 1998 is now 18


    When you own some tools in work that were bought when the apprentices were still in primary school :(:(

    Feck of with that, still think the 90's were only 10 years ago sometimes.

    :p


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,519 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    I knew when all I do is sit in on boards day and night.....

    Drive like I have nowhere to be.

    I believe its to do with the aliens.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭cocoman


    When I read that the baby on the cover of Nirvanas Nevermind is now 25 years old !!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 497 ✭✭strawdog


    When breaking wind went from being a pleasant relief to a source of doubt and concern :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Cathy.C


    The Point Break remake made me feel really old. I went to see it, against my own better judgement and felt like standing up in the cinema and screaming at all the teenagers that this man on the screen was not Bodhi, he never would be Bodhi and they need to all go home and download the original at once.

    Also, my Dad used to play 50's and 60's music in the 80's and 90's all the time and I would always say something like 'Ah Dad, play something else beside's those golden oldies all the time will ya'. Now I imagine he must be looking down laughing at me as I drive around listening to 80's and 90's music.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,789 ✭✭✭Alf Stewart.


    The day I realised I had a stick in me shed for the sole purpose of stirrin paint cans.

    That, and constantly having a tickly nose from the hairs that keep growin up there, and protuding from me nostrils like a spiders bloody leg. :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭feargale


    Shortly after I got married and went to a nearby club one evening for a soccer kickabout When I finished, as I was leaving I said "goodnight lads" and one responded " good night, sir."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    When I go past places that actually used to be all fields.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 338 ✭✭fima


    Just tonight when I went on facebook. A friend added me to a group of young wans talking about beauty stuff. They're all so nice to each other and concerned with safe spaces and positive vibes only. I felt so old when I I just thought 'Aww isn't that nice now, when I was young it was merciless'

    ETA also don't get asked for ID anymore


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 20,075 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    I have back problems following an accident and Get really bad times, few weeks ago I was going through a really bad patch and when getting out of a chair I thought "a walking stick would be great just now" I had it thought without realising and a shiver went through me like a wind from the artic. I couldn't unthink it and was disgusted with myself, makes me a bit sad. I'm only 43 :(


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,998 ✭✭✭Satriale


    The day I realised I had a stick in me shed for the sole purpose of stirrin paint cans.

    That, and constantly having a constant tickly nose from the hairs that keep growin up there, and protuding from me nostrils like a spiders bloody leg. :mad:

    Did you get the few stray long eyebrows and ear hairs yet Alf?
    You're in for a treat if not...


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