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

thattequilagirl · 13-04-2016 08:00AM

Hanging around with 19/20 year olds.

Hercule Poirot · 13-04-2016 08:07AM

When I was talking to my nineteen year old cousin about the craic we used to have when I was his age, how we had a few drinks but were never tempted to do drugs or anything like that and how we all were relatively sensible

He nodded, gave me a sympathetic smile and all of a sudden I realised....."I'm one of them!"

failinis · 13-04-2016 09:23AM

My body feels like its in old age and I am only just out of my teen age years

I think Chocolate Girls comment is so true, when my mum sees old class mates says how old they look and you just avoid saying "well so have you"

josip · 13-04-2016 10:03AM

When I had trouble reading small type

AudreyHepburn · 13-04-2016 11:19AM

When you're in a nightclub and a great 90s hit comes on....I think it was Rhythm of the Night....and the group of young ones standing near you start asking what the song is because they've never heard it before!

When your own Father says to your Mother 'our children are getting old aren't they'.....needless to say he was swiftly reminded that he recently turned the big 5-0.

Agent Smith · 13-04-2016 11:30AM

When you have a stick that's used for just for Stirring Paint.

FortySeven · 13-04-2016 11:44AM

Agent Smith wrote: »

When you have a stick that's used for just for Stirring Paint.

There is a lot to be said for having such a stick. Paint needs stirring. I own such a utensil.

Gwynplaine · 13-04-2016 12:10PM

I did my leaving cert in 1998. There are people who were born that year doing the leaving cert this year.

the running joke · 13-04-2016 01:13PM

I realized I was becoming old when those pesky, no-good neighbouring kids were running all over my lawn.

IvyTheTerrible · 13-04-2016 01:27PM

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

When you're in a nightclub and a great 90s hit comes on....I think it was Rhythm of the Night....and the group of young ones standing near you start asking what the song is because they've never heard it before!

When your own Father says to your Mother 'our children are getting old aren't they'.....needless to say he was swiftly reminded that he recently turned the big 5-0.

I don't think that ever stops! My grandad was a volunteer driver for meals on wheels in his late 70's and he used to talk about the "young wans" he was delivering meals to! (these were people in their early 70's)

Vandango · 13-04-2016 01:37PM

When you bend down to pick things up and emit a weird sounding groan.:(

Mesrine65 · 13-04-2016 01:40PM

The day I install heated grips & a gel saddle on the motorcycle will confirm that I am indeed old...

Not installed yet, 51 years & counting :cool:

TerrorFirmer · 13-04-2016 01:54PM

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

When you realise all the people who helped build your cranóg are dead.

I don't laugh out loud very often but this really set me off.

Fozzie Bear · 13-04-2016 01:57PM

Still remember this happening, back in 2014 someone posted a picture on FB stating "1998 is as far away as 2030".

That was a kick the balls when I sat and thought about it. Mortgage, marriage, kids didn't knock me at all. But a stupid random picture on Facebook in 2014 did it. I'm old. (Well middle aged)

After that I started noticing the greys hairs, receding hairline, hair growth in nose and ears, how younger other people started looking on (now rare) nights out, grumbling about the sh1te music on the radio, shouting at the tele and getting pains on my right knee!?! What the fcuk is that about? For no reason at all my knee started to occasionally cripple me with pain.

I also wear slippers now. I think thats the most depressing fact of all. Slippers! They are for Grandads for Christ sake.

kirk buttercup · 13-04-2016 02:02PM

I was sitting in a bar and Smells like teen spirit came on I told my mate the story of how he came up with the name for the song mentioning Kurt cobain Numerous times, anyway at the end of the story the barmaid asked me who Kurt Cobain was, felt in Incredibly old when I explained who he was she asked why doesnt he write music anymore I replied he killed himself .... 22 years ago she replied with a tut " sure im only 19" . old fecker.

foxy farmer · 13-04-2016 03:16PM

Sitting down after a meal to let the grub settle and having a nap.
Realising that girls you once went out with are now nearly too old to have kids.
Watching youngsters tear into a job like mad and stopping them to tell them "take your time"
Nose hair ,ear hair, grey hair and loosing hair.
Actually listening to Nuala Carey or Jean Byrne giving the weather forecast on the tv as opposed to just looking at 2 nice birds on the box!

_Kaiser_ · 13-04-2016 03:34PM

- Watching Beverly Hills Cop 2 the other night and realised it's 29 years old!!! :eek:

- Out for a work do a while back and found it kinda awkward/"wrong" looking at the 18/19 year olds in the pub

- Becoming more interested in politics/current affairs

- Looking forward to a Friday night means relaxing on the sofa with a few episodes of whatever show I'm watching and munchies, not an all-night/weekend session

- Eyebrows need trimming at the barber

- Music ended (pretty much) about a decade ago and the 70-90s shall live forever in my car. The "oldies" hours on the radio though are now stuff I'd listen to

- Going on about "the old days" when you catch-up with people

BraveDonut · 13-04-2016 03:43PM

Buying Springsteen tickets recently and noticing that my first time seeing him in Slane was 31 years ago.

super_furry · 13-04-2016 03:44PM

When it became 20 years since I did my leaving cert.

Two fcuking decades!

intheclouds · 13-04-2016 03:45PM

A sore back after sitting on a low bar stool for an evening.

Never booking a standing ticket for a concert anymore.

Utah · 13-04-2016 03:48PM

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

- Eyebrows need trimming at the barber

Barber asked me this the other day and I was thinking, aw man, am I at that stage

valoren · 13-04-2016 03:55PM

When a mother in the supermarket tells her child to "....mind the man!"

When you're referred to as "The Man" then you know you're old.

JJJJNR · 13-04-2016 03:57PM

When people younger than me started using realized instead of realised.

13-04-2016 04:04PM

When you buy a couple of months worth of loo roll (because it was on special), and when you catch yourself ever-so-slightly looking forward to using a new laundry product.

When you're irritated by the doorbell or phone ringing during a favourite tv show.

snor · 13-04-2016 04:08PM

When I am reading the deaths in the newspaper and worse again, RIP.ie

When I make the effort bend down to tie my shoelaces, I look to see is that anything else I could be Doing when I am down there.

My kids talk about history events they are learning about in school and I remember them e.g. Falklands war!

When I see things in musums from my youth - plug in phones with a dial, large backed TVs etc.

I am only in my 40s.................