When Did You First Feel "Old?"

[MrKennethTKangaroo]

It wasn't a great sign when WDVE started playing pearl jam and the like

It was definitely a bad sign when 3ws started playing songs from my youth (I heard 4 non blondes on 3ws yesterday)

[willeyeam]

The "blank looks".

I always get them when I reference a "MAC machine." (Which is all the time, because I never say "ATM")

I also remember a specific instance, chatting with (who I now realize was a much younger) co-worker about the dish soap in the kitchen at work. I was talking about "Madge" and "dishpan hands" and he looked like a deer in headlights. I felt effing old that day.

there is a MAC machine on Put-in-Bay if you ever really have the itch

[Kaiser]

The "blank looks".

I always get them when I reference a "MAC machine." (Which is all the time, because I never say "ATM")

I also remember a specific instance, chatting with (who I now realize was a much younger) co-worker about the dish soap in the kitchen at work. I was talking about "Madge" and "dishpan hands" and he looked like a deer in headlights. I felt effing old that day.

Madge?

[tifosi77]

I'm not old, but seeing players getting drafted into pro sports being born in the 2000s is whackadoodles

That's how it starts. Welcome to the Old Guys Club.

I had made 'old' jokes before, but what really set in stone for me was when I realized that going into this year Sidney Crosby is now the age I was when he was drafted.

Brushing my teeth at 27, I hurt my back leaning over to spit out the toothpaste.

This is my new favorite innocuous 'old injury'.

[NTP66]

Source of the post Being called "Sir."

This is as close as I've gotten to feeling old, when my neighbor's kid called me 'sir'. I let him know that he's not allowed to call me that.

[tifosi77]

"I call every child I meet 'chief'." -- I relate to that

[NAN]

Mentally and physically (for the most part) I still feel young, but when people coming out of college that I work with are closer to age to my 9 and 7 year old kids than me, that makes me feel old. I'm 41.

[Gaucho]

When you tell yourself that you're still young, that's when you're old.

[iamjs]

I turn 37 in May. I don't feel old by any stretch, except for occasional lower back pain. I am a kid at heart, love rolling around on the floor with my daughter, and chasing her outside.

For me, I am obsessed with chronology/time. For example, last year being the milestone that my high school graduation was halfway back to my birth. I'm always thinking about how many years have passed since X. I think being in my 30s (and still adjacent to my 20s) helps...40s will be interesting.

Last year I had somebody tell me that my age was the midpoint between graduating high school and early retirement.

I promptly told them to get off my lawn.

[iamjs]

It wasn't a great sign when WDVE started playing pearl jam and the like

They play Pearl Jam? The only things I ever hear on WDVE is Zeppelin, Door, Styx and ACDC.

[Freddy Rumsen]

AND DONNIE IRIS

[Freddy Rumsen]

[offsides]

Mine are more like The Troggs, Lovin Spoonful, Temptations, The Hollies, The Byrds, The Yardbirds and etc.

[faftorial]

The "blank looks".

I always get them when I reference a "MAC machine." (Which is all the time, because I never say "ATM")

I also remember a specific instance, chatting with (who I now realize was a much younger) co-worker about the dish soap in the kitchen at work. I was talking about "Madge" and "dishpan hands" and he looked like a deer in headlights. I felt effing old that day.

Madge?

You're soaking in it.

[faftorial]

[Orlando Penguin]

For me, it's been having co-workers whose birthdates fall on days that I can pretty much guess what I was doing that day whether it was my freshman year in college or working the summer job between freshman and sophomore years. I had one shadowing me and I made a Seinfeld reference and she looked at me like I had 5 heads. But that's pretty much the only time. I'm staring down 44 in a couple of months and if I didn't know the number, I'd never say that I feel that way especially with all the traveling, officiating, and other activities I keep myself up on. Of course, unlike a number of you, I'm not chasing little ones around so I'm not adding years of that stress onto what I already have.

Now, dating a 24-year-old as I was last year can certainly make it seem like you're younger but it's really just in number only.

[Gaucho]

Now, dating a 24-year-old as I was last year can certainly make it seem like you're younger but it's really just in number only.

[willeyeam]

OP my man

[RonnieFranchise]

10 bonus points for the super subtle humblebrag

[NTP66]

I still can’t believe that seatbelts aren’t required on school buses. Videos like this prove that they should be.

[Gaucho]

Does it make you feel old?

[NTP66]

No, it makes me feel angry.

[NTP66]

Son of a dodint, I meant to post this in the news thread.

WELL I GUESS I AM NOW CONFIRMED OLD

[Gaucho]

[meow]

Computers are hard, old timer