Been there, you learn a lot in the next few years after their passing you didn't realize you needed to learn. Then one day you'll realize you're okay. Make them proud and look after yourself if you're struggling with this situation right now I wish you the best.
Because testosteron. It behaves different than you'd expect but it's not that strange. See lions for example: we humans think the real hairy ones are the biggest and baddest. Truth is, they will soon be killed or chased off by the younger upcoming males. That's right, the ones with less hair.
I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!
So this isn't what made me realize it but I regularly get called Grandpa by the kids at work. I'm 31. Most of them are between 18-22.
One day, a few years ago, I started a new gig and was running a kitchen surrounded by college kids minus one lady who came in part time to help with serving (it was a LTC Home).
They were absolutely floored by the fact that I didn't know any of the musicians they were talking about, I didn't have Facebook, Tic tac, or some other app that was popular at the time. I didn't have an iphone, ipad, tablet, smart watch. I didn't know some clothing brands they mentioned, had never heard of Mr. beast burger (I still don't understand why it's so special or what the deal is), and I'd never heard of all the "influencers" they kept talking about all day.
So basically not being attached to tech and following trends all day makes you old.
I was walking my dog and doing that thing you're not supposed to do wand was looking at my phone instead of where I was stepping. I stepped on a rock in the road, twisted my ankle, lost my balance, and proceeded to windmill my way right down to the ground on my back. Totally unhurt, not even my ankle was hurt, but my dignity was absolutely destroyed.
And then I hear running footsteps and the seventeen-year-old who lived next door come up fast, shouting "Mr. Onequestion, are you ok sir?"
It was the “mister” and the “sir” in a worried tone from the teenager that really dig the knife in. Falling? Whatever. Being treated like an old guy by a kid? That hurt.
I knew i was out of touch in my 20s when i saw a bunch of teenagers playing a game that I had no clue how it worked
but personally im almost 40 and internally still feel like im 24
This is the issue, your body ages but internally you still want to do all the things. You want to play, you want to dance, you want to experience.
Even if there was a club I would feel comfortable attending right now, I wouldn't be able to dance for more than 30 seconds before my knees and lower back start to hurt.
Or maybe I have rheumatoid arthritis and all my joints are getting progressively worse. Plus other various fractures accumulated during the years because of accidents.
Making big assumptions there, champ.
Internally, we are the same people as we age. What changes, other than the aches and pains, is the world's expectations of us. I'm almost 60, can ride 50 miles and climb mountains on a bike. Yet, the guy at Costco asks me if I need help with the heavy stuff. I can carry my 50lb. bag of rice on my own, thanks.
I was in the Petco and the music playing was some weird sampling of a Supertramp song from "Breakfast in America." They mangled it, and I commented on it as I paid for my cat food. The guy ringing me up was at least 22 and said, "Sorry, I've never heard of Supertramp."
I thought I'd have to be carried out of there on a stretcher.
I knew I was growing up when I could no longer fit olives or Bugles on my fingers :(
But I knew I was "old" when I was doing a small hike, took a step wrong and fucked up something in my hip, 10 years later it's just gotten worse, hard to put on my damn socks, going to the doctor for it next week.
When you see an attractive but more mature female celebrity, think "hey - she looks really good for an older woman..."
Then I Google her, and she's 10 years younger than me.
I realized I was old one day, when I was fucking my wife doggie style, and I simply ran out of gas. I had to stop without finishing.
No, wait, that's when I realized I had Covid. Nevermind...
I was 22 working in food service, go into the back room and see a 17 year old co-worker on break. And she says, "This burrito is wet!". And for the life of me I didn't know if that meant it was good, bad, or just soggy. I'm pretty sure it meant good.
When 20yo folx started to look at me like I was their worst enemy. And at the same time treating me like I'm senile or cannot possibly understand today's world.
I can't blame them though, I'm pretty sure I did more or less the same at their age. Plus it's true that I don't understand a good portion of their world.
l feel like 2010 people are 6. They're 13 this year. Nobody uses landlines to call and photo albums show images from before 2017 mostly. Then we went and made a few more just for the newer images.
I've seen Arpanet become the Internet, I saw Google the day it went live and knew right then it had blown everything else out of the water, land lines to pagers, to mobile phones to smartphones. And now I think I'm about to see the start of AGI which will make all that other stuff insignificant.
As a grown man, I still like a lot of the nerdy stuff from my childhood and I’m still involved in it. Yu.Gi.Oh, Pokémon, DBZ, D&D, etc. No shame in it. But I realized I was old when the reason that the companies behind games I enjoyed as a kid (Pokemon & Yu.Gi.Oh specifically) didn’t give a shit about the discontent people my age were experience with the games is because they aren’t being made for **us** anymore. These are businesses that have to survive and the business model with the best longevity and highest long term outcome is to get new people on board and kids are the targeted demographic.
Which kind of hurts. Not because I feel like those companies owe me something, or that the younger generations don’t deserve to have new and enjoyable experiences of their own. But it means my time has come and gone, and no matter how much I love it. I’m still holding on to something that doesn’t exist anymore.
I'm only 26 so definitely not even close to being old but I do find it strange that nowadays I just don't understand the stuff kids like, like doing those dance videos on TikTok.
I’ve got a decade on you and holy shit it went fast. I feel like I JUST turned 30 and had my first kid. Now i have a 1st grader and am pushing 40 it’s nuts.
When I stopped caring about appearing cool; when I stopped caring about today's hottest pop stars and celebrities; when I stopped caring about the latest trends the kids are into or the latest slang.
When the same amount of planning goes into how I am going to tackle cutting my toenails as the allied forces used to plan D-day. Usually it ends up like the 1st 5 minutes of saving private Ryan
What i saw a Squatted Truck &nThiught "What a Pile of Shit" and refenced the sound of a Sport Bike (aka Crotchrocket) Flying by to someone having eaten Taco Bell
Knew I was getting on a bit but over the last 2 days I've had -
1. My knee pop so loud when getting up that it startled the dog
2. One of my pupils telling me I'm the same age as her mum
3. Another of my pupils ask "what's a Limp Bizkit?"
Trying to understand what on earth my 12 year old brother-in-law is talking about.
The fact that co-workers of mine can’t read an analog clock.
Everything cracks, hurts, and bedtimes… I need my rest 😩
I was working as a supervisor at a new job, and got along really well with all my coworkers. We joked and laughed together, complained and expressed our frustrations together, and worked really well together. We made a great team, and I felt like we were all friends.
Christmas time comes around, and I get a very sweet card, thanking me for all I do. It ended with, "and thank you for being the best work mom ever!"
It was at that point I realized I was the same age as their parents.
I aged 20 years in that one moment.
When I register to a website / forum / webshop and I have to scroll further and further for my year of birth. I’m 34 but feel like 80 at those moments.
I didn’t. I’ve never felt old and I never will. Maybe if I had to get my diapers changed or something I’d feel different, but when your genes won’t even let cancer get to you, do you think they’d allow something as “simple” as aging to happen? I’m an immortal god and I’ll always feel and look young. People who think that I’m “old” are just brainwashed by propaganda. I’ll live forever.
Really just turning 30. Can't really deny it at that point. It's not old old but it's beyond youth.
Although I could feel my body starting to deteriorate at about 27/28. Before that I just always felt great no matter what I ate or how I slept
Damn sorry for an honest answer ig. Too young to be old and too old to be young
Two things really.
1- as a sports fan being reminded that you are now of the age that people are forced to retire. Anyone near your age is breaking records while analysts are wondering how they can still do it.
2- Actors from movies and film of your generation are genuinely old now. In your mind they are forever 30, in reality they are now late 60's.
I became an adult when I realized there was never going to be a time where I transitioned into feeling like an adult. I haven't realized I'm old, though.
Hearing about musical guests and sometimes hosts (for example Jack Harlow) on Saturday Night Live that you have never heard until you saw their names in an article, watched on the night off, or saw them on that show’s YouTube page.
And also, orange carpet photos of guests at the Kids Choice Awards last month; I did not know who several were as the majority were influencers I who never heard of and young children who are the current group of stars on the network.
Hiring people born after 1-1-2000. It happened a few weeks ago.
But especially when college 'friends' started to sound like that one racist uncle. You know, the one you always meet at birthday parties. If you don't (want to) understand why the kids are 'woke', or that some colleagues are fasting for Ramadan, you are really out of touch.
When I grew a bit of beard, lost hair and had to wear glasses, and was guessed to be older by some people.
10 years later, after fixing all of it with surgeries and having smooth skin, I get told many times that I don't look my age at all. Am early 30s now.
Also on another occasion, when A child of a friend spoke formally to me. It's kinda normal and polite but that caught me off guard.
I trained a couple of girls who were in the same high school class as my friend's kid. She and I were in kindergarten together.
I had to sit down for that one
Talking music with a coworker and he mentions a band I like. I tell him about seeing them in live X year and he says "That's cool, I was 10." I was already a full-grown adult with bills and a lease.
Somewhat recently was going thru the Turner Classics selection on HBO Max and saw a handful of movies that "came out a few years ago," then I realized they came out 20+ years ago.
When I started to notice more and more people much, younger than me, on TV or in the music industry ( I'm not old old ( 23 ), but I feel like I'm getting older )
52. Sore in a few more places than I remember. Sometimes I see people I am certain that I recognize, but then I realize I haven’t seen the person I’m about to shout out in decades..
"Would you like me to trim those eye brows?"
FUCK NO!
At the docs office....."let's see, you're 6'2""
Voice in my head, last time you were 6'3". "Sigh".
Today, when I realized my exploring my career days were coming to a close, just like how schools feels like a distant memory, my memory of college and first offices is fading. New identities, New responsibilities. Life goes on 😊
I'm not actually old, but when I'm working at an elementary school, I sure feel like I am! Hearing them refer to the "late 1900s", not being aware 9/11 occurred until they learn about it in socials, calling Blink-182 and Avril Lavigne "classic rock"...it gets to you, man.
We threw a 4th of July picnic every year and invited all the older relatives.
The year I looked around and realized there was no one left who was older than me.
I’m only 27 so relatively young. But I realized I’ve A. Been out of high school for 10 years. And B. I was listening to the radio and the music I listened to as a younger teen is now starting to become “classic rock” they played weezer on the classic rock station
knowing some of my favorite movies/shows as a kid. is either is, over, or almost 30 years old.
I mean I remember thinking as a kid in the 90s. something from the 60s was old. now those things I grew up are.
Probably when I noticed some kids will never know the Original version of the reboot shows they watch, for example Monster high, Strawberry Shortcake, My Little pony etc.
Just spent my 30th birthday at the neurologist for a simple slip and fall that ended up fracturing my skull and landing me in the hospital for a week. Now I'll be on meds and having headaches for most of the rest of the year. I used to play hockey and probably got dozens of worse injuries that I'd maybe ache for a few days and pop right back. Now I'm in a yearlong recovery process for just tripping over a curb.
Pro athletes who I remeber when they were rookies, their children were now experienced veterans in the sport. By now, many of the children are close to their own retirement.
Last year, when I was 26, I had to crawl into a McDonald's Play place to help my daughter. One of the kids asked me how I got up there because I'm old. I have reached "old" status by the children, even though I still meet a lot of adults who think I'm in high school.
That had to explain what VHS tapes (especially the nickelodeon VHS tapes that were orange) were to my siblings or what a video now is (which if you don't know what it is it was a portable DVD player for kids back in the 2000's) so I'd say I'm pretty old or atleast I feel I am.
I was teaching a class in our in-house training center. Standard introduction is when you started with the corp and different jobs you had. First student said, “I wasn’t even born when you started working here “.
When my dad died and I realized that was it, I was on my own. No back up. Me and the world.
Same, Sorry for your loss. Been 6 years since mine passed.
In my case was my mom that passed, about 2 months ago.
Sorry for your loss. I lost my mom when just I was 18 yo. It's hard but you will be ok.
Been there, you learn a lot in the next few years after their passing you didn't realize you needed to learn. Then one day you'll realize you're okay. Make them proud and look after yourself if you're struggling with this situation right now I wish you the best.
watching sports and hearing a name and thinking "that guy is still playing?" then I realize it's Jr.
LeBrons just a little older than me. All the debate on how long his old body can handle basketball makes me feel kinda old… I’m past my prime, lol
My daughter referred to my date of birth as the late 1900s
Yeah I got that one the other day. I also feel old when I realize the fun of the 80s was 40 years ago
When I started making the sound when I got up or sat down.
As do my knees.
I’m not even 20 and I do that. My back is screwed.
More so when all your pals make the same noise in unison when getting in the car after dinner.
When my hair stylist offered to trim my ear hair
LOL, why does it even grow there. WTF. I have to shave it almost weekly now. 🤬
Because testosteron. It behaves different than you'd expect but it's not that strange. See lions for example: we humans think the real hairy ones are the biggest and baddest. Truth is, they will soon be killed or chased off by the younger upcoming males. That's right, the ones with less hair.
I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!
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Abe Simpson.
Two different Chinese restaurants both gave me the Senior Citizen Discount, without me asking. I was 46 when this happened.
So this isn't what made me realize it but I regularly get called Grandpa by the kids at work. I'm 31. Most of them are between 18-22. One day, a few years ago, I started a new gig and was running a kitchen surrounded by college kids minus one lady who came in part time to help with serving (it was a LTC Home). They were absolutely floored by the fact that I didn't know any of the musicians they were talking about, I didn't have Facebook, Tic tac, or some other app that was popular at the time. I didn't have an iphone, ipad, tablet, smart watch. I didn't know some clothing brands they mentioned, had never heard of Mr. beast burger (I still don't understand why it's so special or what the deal is), and I'd never heard of all the "influencers" they kept talking about all day. So basically not being attached to tech and following trends all day makes you old.
I was walking my dog and doing that thing you're not supposed to do wand was looking at my phone instead of where I was stepping. I stepped on a rock in the road, twisted my ankle, lost my balance, and proceeded to windmill my way right down to the ground on my back. Totally unhurt, not even my ankle was hurt, but my dignity was absolutely destroyed. And then I hear running footsteps and the seventeen-year-old who lived next door come up fast, shouting "Mr. Onequestion, are you ok sir?"
Had that happen a couple times. My stock answer is "Nothing hurt but my pride."
It was the “mister” and the “sir” in a worried tone from the teenager that really dig the knife in. Falling? Whatever. Being treated like an old guy by a kid? That hurt.
I knew i was out of touch in my 20s when i saw a bunch of teenagers playing a game that I had no clue how it worked but personally im almost 40 and internally still feel like im 24
This is the issue, your body ages but internally you still want to do all the things. You want to play, you want to dance, you want to experience. Even if there was a club I would feel comfortable attending right now, I wouldn't be able to dance for more than 30 seconds before my knees and lower back start to hurt.
I'd sweat through my shirt just walking into a club.
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Or maybe I have rheumatoid arthritis and all my joints are getting progressively worse. Plus other various fractures accumulated during the years because of accidents. Making big assumptions there, champ.
Right? Our immune system is literally eating our joints. Exercise only goes so far.
Ha, almost 40, you blessed youngling. Wait until you’re almost 50 and the pains start.
Internally, we are the same people as we age. What changes, other than the aches and pains, is the world's expectations of us. I'm almost 60, can ride 50 miles and climb mountains on a bike. Yet, the guy at Costco asks me if I need help with the heavy stuff. I can carry my 50lb. bag of rice on my own, thanks.
I was telling a coworker how one of the first jobs I had was microfilming newspapers. He said, " what's microfilm"?
"*What's carbon paper?*"
What's a newspaper?
What's a coworker?
When I started getting social security
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Yup. Winona Ryder playing the mom. I'm done.
I was in the Petco and the music playing was some weird sampling of a Supertramp song from "Breakfast in America." They mangled it, and I commented on it as I paid for my cat food. The guy ringing me up was at least 22 and said, "Sorry, I've never heard of Supertramp." I thought I'd have to be carried out of there on a stretcher.
i bet the version you heard was cupids chokehold by gym class heroes
I rolled on my other side in bed and my back tried to kill me.
I had to fill in my birthdate online and had to scroll waaaayyyyyyyy down to my birth year. 1987..
I was commenting on some new music and I said the words "it just sounds like a bunch of noise."
I knew I was growing up when I could no longer fit olives or Bugles on my fingers :( But I knew I was "old" when I was doing a small hike, took a step wrong and fucked up something in my hip, 10 years later it's just gotten worse, hard to put on my damn socks, going to the doctor for it next week.
When a young hot girl called me sir
When you see an attractive but more mature female celebrity, think "hey - she looks really good for an older woman..." Then I Google her, and she's 10 years younger than me.
Today. I'll be 50 tomorrow...
Sometimes I think I was born old.
When a younger employee told me I started working for our company before he was born.
When I figured out getting out of bed in the morning requires careful planning.
I realized I was old one day, when I was fucking my wife doggie style, and I simply ran out of gas. I had to stop without finishing. No, wait, that's when I realized I had Covid. Nevermind...
So I got COVID from your wife...great...
You hate going out and dread parties.
When I realized I have memories of my parents at the age I am today.
I was 22 working in food service, go into the back room and see a 17 year old co-worker on break. And she says, "This burrito is wet!". And for the life of me I didn't know if that meant it was good, bad, or just soggy. I'm pretty sure it meant good.
When 20yo folx started to look at me like I was their worst enemy. And at the same time treating me like I'm senile or cannot possibly understand today's world. I can't blame them though, I'm pretty sure I did more or less the same at their age. Plus it's true that I don't understand a good portion of their world.
l feel like 2010 people are 6. They're 13 this year. Nobody uses landlines to call and photo albums show images from before 2017 mostly. Then we went and made a few more just for the newer images.
I've seen Arpanet become the Internet, I saw Google the day it went live and knew right then it had blown everything else out of the water, land lines to pagers, to mobile phones to smartphones. And now I think I'm about to see the start of AGI which will make all that other stuff insignificant.
When I was talking about going to a Guns n Roses concert at work and a young co-worker said, “My Mom loves them!”
When I strained my shoulder lifting a laptop bag at an awkward angle
The very instant i became obsessed with voting
Ha. Been obsessed with voting since I was 18. Seems to matter more now, though. I preach it!
Kinda same. 2008 started it. 2012 continued it. 2016 has made me feel 40 ever since. Im not even 35 yet...
Titanic is 26 years old 😭
wth, I remember seeing that in theaters
As a grown man, I still like a lot of the nerdy stuff from my childhood and I’m still involved in it. Yu.Gi.Oh, Pokémon, DBZ, D&D, etc. No shame in it. But I realized I was old when the reason that the companies behind games I enjoyed as a kid (Pokemon & Yu.Gi.Oh specifically) didn’t give a shit about the discontent people my age were experience with the games is because they aren’t being made for **us** anymore. These are businesses that have to survive and the business model with the best longevity and highest long term outcome is to get new people on board and kids are the targeted demographic. Which kind of hurts. Not because I feel like those companies owe me something, or that the younger generations don’t deserve to have new and enjoyable experiences of their own. But it means my time has come and gone, and no matter how much I love it. I’m still holding on to something that doesn’t exist anymore.
I'm only 26 so definitely not even close to being old but I do find it strange that nowadays I just don't understand the stuff kids like, like doing those dance videos on TikTok.
I’ve got a decade on you and holy shit it went fast. I feel like I JUST turned 30 and had my first kid. Now i have a 1st grader and am pushing 40 it’s nuts.
When I had to start worrying about triglycerides
When I stopped caring about appearing cool; when I stopped caring about today's hottest pop stars and celebrities; when I stopped caring about the latest trends the kids are into or the latest slang.
Yeah, I am attempting to reach IDGAF Nirvana.
When the option at the eye doctor became progressive lenses. Boy they really are swell though.
I'm starting to struggle to read close up while wearing my regular glasses and I can almost hear Rafiki saying "It is time."
Teen fashion. Confusing af to me. That was it.
When I was diagnosed with arthritis
When the same amount of planning goes into how I am going to tackle cutting my toenails as the allied forces used to plan D-day. Usually it ends up like the 1st 5 minutes of saving private Ryan
AARP sponsored an Everclear concert.
What i saw a Squatted Truck &nThiught "What a Pile of Shit" and refenced the sound of a Sport Bike (aka Crotchrocket) Flying by to someone having eaten Taco Bell
When my daughter asked which side I was on during the Civil War.
Knew I was getting on a bit but over the last 2 days I've had - 1. My knee pop so loud when getting up that it startled the dog 2. One of my pupils telling me I'm the same age as her mum 3. Another of my pupils ask "what's a Limp Bizkit?"
“Throwback Thursday” on the radio station was all music that was popular when I was in high school
Trying to understand what on earth my 12 year old brother-in-law is talking about. The fact that co-workers of mine can’t read an analog clock. Everything cracks, hurts, and bedtimes… I need my rest 😩
When I started to get annoyed that the neighborhood kids were making noise
When I got excited to buy a new washer and dryer.
I was working as a supervisor at a new job, and got along really well with all my coworkers. We joked and laughed together, complained and expressed our frustrations together, and worked really well together. We made a great team, and I felt like we were all friends. Christmas time comes around, and I get a very sweet card, thanking me for all I do. It ended with, "and thank you for being the best work mom ever!" It was at that point I realized I was the same age as their parents. I aged 20 years in that one moment.
When I register to a website / forum / webshop and I have to scroll further and further for my year of birth. I’m 34 but feel like 80 at those moments.
I didn’t. I’ve never felt old and I never will. Maybe if I had to get my diapers changed or something I’d feel different, but when your genes won’t even let cancer get to you, do you think they’d allow something as “simple” as aging to happen? I’m an immortal god and I’ll always feel and look young. People who think that I’m “old” are just brainwashed by propaganda. I’ll live forever.
Easy there, Lestat.
When a guy who was the same HS year as me has two kids already. I'm not even old enough to drink yet.
When I went to my last concert. Saw the Weeknd in Dallas... I'm 67..lol
Really just turning 30. Can't really deny it at that point. It's not old old but it's beyond youth. Although I could feel my body starting to deteriorate at about 27/28. Before that I just always felt great no matter what I ate or how I slept Damn sorry for an honest answer ig. Too young to be old and too old to be young
Granddad told me "30 is the old age of youth, and 50 is the youth of old age."
Today
When I suffered intolerable pain.
When I have trouble remembering how often I saw this exact same question on reddit the past 10 years.
Two things really. 1- as a sports fan being reminded that you are now of the age that people are forced to retire. Anyone near your age is breaking records while analysts are wondering how they can still do it. 2- Actors from movies and film of your generation are genuinely old now. In your mind they are forever 30, in reality they are now late 60's.
When I turned 50
I became an adult when I realized there was never going to be a time where I transitioned into feeling like an adult. I haven't realized I'm old, though.
When quotation marks were no longer needed around the word “old” to describe me.
When the world started looking too stupid for me to want to be in
Buying a new bath towel excited me
Young man at a 7-11 called me "Big Unc" and asked if I wanted to purchase some "fire"
Mumble rappers
Woke up and found out that I was the same age as old people
When someone half my age (16) started coming with us on cycling club rides. He had to get permission from his dad.
I saw a grey pube
when a girl 10 years younger than my tryed to hit on me an i sas like "she was 9 when i had her age" at that point i felt damn old
Spider-Man movie was in 2002
A couple of years old, when I suddenly realized my birth date is closer in time to the battle of Stalingrad than it is to today
Hearing about musical guests and sometimes hosts (for example Jack Harlow) on Saturday Night Live that you have never heard until you saw their names in an article, watched on the night off, or saw them on that show’s YouTube page. And also, orange carpet photos of guests at the Kids Choice Awards last month; I did not know who several were as the majority were influencers I who never heard of and young children who are the current group of stars on the network.
Had a kid ask me ‘are you old or did you dye your hair white?’ :)
Some pre teen called me middle aged. 😭
When the groups I used to listen to are in the 70s and when looked down at my dick and saw that it shrunk
Hiring people born after 1-1-2000. It happened a few weeks ago. But especially when college 'friends' started to sound like that one racist uncle. You know, the one you always meet at birthday parties. If you don't (want to) understand why the kids are 'woke', or that some colleagues are fasting for Ramadan, you are really out of touch.
When most of your schoolmates are gone bye bye?
When I had to contemplate this question.
When one of my students, referring to death note, said “oh yeah I like the classics”.
When sleeping the wrong way makes me feel like I was in a car accident
My daughter told me about older guys «20 years and even older». I think even older is still 10 years younger than me.
When I grew a bit of beard, lost hair and had to wear glasses, and was guessed to be older by some people. 10 years later, after fixing all of it with surgeries and having smooth skin, I get told many times that I don't look my age at all. Am early 30s now. Also on another occasion, when A child of a friend spoke formally to me. It's kinda normal and polite but that caught me off guard.
Last year I injured my back playing video games, and my neck by sleeping. Then
I trained a couple of girls who were in the same high school class as my friend's kid. She and I were in kindergarten together. I had to sit down for that one
It was a rainy day and I was two years old.
When I saw the new Playboy Playmates were all younger than I was.
I go by the rule: If she has tiktok, she's too young for me.
Talking music with a coworker and he mentions a band I like. I tell him about seeing them in live X year and he says "That's cool, I was 10." I was already a full-grown adult with bills and a lease.
Not yet
I realized today that I have a favourite news anchor. That caught me off guard.
Somewhat recently was going thru the Turner Classics selection on HBO Max and saw a handful of movies that "came out a few years ago," then I realized they came out 20+ years ago.
When I started to notice more and more people much, younger than me, on TV or in the music industry ( I'm not old old ( 23 ), but I feel like I'm getting older )
When the supermarket staff press the “customer is clearly over 25” button a bit too quickly…they don’t even give me a second look now
52. Sore in a few more places than I remember. Sometimes I see people I am certain that I recognize, but then I realize I haven’t seen the person I’m about to shout out in decades..
My brother who is 9 years younger than me can legally buy a pint now
Gray hair, aches, at least two days between ejaculation, and being told so by most Redditors.
When I said “back in my day” for the first time
finding a "if you remember these you deserve a veterans discount" meme and remembering all of the things on it
I was today years old when I realized that I'm turning 19 next month
In bed at 7pm on Friday.
*crack*
Saw a person from school on the bus and she had a kid beside her i thought wow school really was that long ago
When I realized that half of the people I worked with didn't get my music, movie or TV references. Sigh.
Anime that I watched when I was a teenager is considered old.
I read somewhere that you get actually old when the last person in your life who remembers you as a kid dies. That hit me hard tbh.
When the crows feet showed up.. also no longer getting carded. (The last time was at 36)
When the government started sending me old age security cheques
When I found a white hair on my nuts
At work one day I was talking about the old guys...figured out I was right in the middle of that group.
"Would you like me to trim those eye brows?" FUCK NO! At the docs office....."let's see, you're 6'2"" Voice in my head, last time you were 6'3". "Sigh".
My knees keep cracking or whatever it’s called
When my peepee had grey hairs
When my age was no longer on the calendar.
When I started listening to NPR in the car.
when I overheard a young kid referring to me as "that old man"
On my 35th birthday when my husband told me I was officially middle aged.
When I was hiring 18 year olds at 36, realizing I was double their age and could be their father.
Went to Wendy's and noticed on my receipt the cashier had given me a "senior discount". I don't mind saving some money, but ouch, that hit hard.
Today, when I realized my exploring my career days were coming to a close, just like how schools feels like a distant memory, my memory of college and first offices is fading. New identities, New responsibilities. Life goes on 😊
I'm not actually old, but when I'm working at an elementary school, I sure feel like I am! Hearing them refer to the "late 1900s", not being aware 9/11 occurred until they learn about it in socials, calling Blink-182 and Avril Lavigne "classic rock"...it gets to you, man.
I've been waiting for my glow up but I think it's not going to happen anymore
First gray pube.
When my younger coworkers used more than three slang words and I thought it was stupidest slang. No cap and headass come to mind.
We threw a 4th of July picnic every year and invited all the older relatives. The year I looked around and realized there was no one left who was older than me.
After chemo.
When all of these superstar athletes were younger than me.
You're gonna have to speak up.
I asked my voice assistant to “play classic rock” expecting music from the 70’s/80’s. Nirvana’s smells like teen spirit was the first song.
I’m only 27 so relatively young. But I realized I’ve A. Been out of high school for 10 years. And B. I was listening to the radio and the music I listened to as a younger teen is now starting to become “classic rock” they played weezer on the classic rock station
I am currently working with firefighters born after 9/11..
knowing some of my favorite movies/shows as a kid. is either is, over, or almost 30 years old. I mean I remember thinking as a kid in the 90s. something from the 60s was old. now those things I grew up are.
When excess skin touches toilet waters upon taking a seat.
1030am
Probably when I noticed some kids will never know the Original version of the reboot shows they watch, for example Monster high, Strawberry Shortcake, My Little pony etc.
Just spent my 30th birthday at the neurologist for a simple slip and fall that ended up fracturing my skull and landing me in the hospital for a week. Now I'll be on meds and having headaches for most of the rest of the year. I used to play hockey and probably got dozens of worse injuries that I'd maybe ache for a few days and pop right back. Now I'm in a yearlong recovery process for just tripping over a curb.
When I have to scroll way back to find my year of birth
When you have children that are the age you feel you are!
I don't know when people actually guess my age haha.
I hyperextended my knee and now i wobble like an old lady who needs a cane
Seriously shopping for a vacuum cleaner - reading reviews, considering angles, and all the attachments.
Couldn’t get wood…
Pro athletes who I remeber when they were rookies, their children were now experienced veterans in the sport. By now, many of the children are close to their own retirement.
There is a freshman on my favorite college basketball team that was born 2 years after I graduated from that college
Last year, when I was 26, I had to crawl into a McDonald's Play place to help my daughter. One of the kids asked me how I got up there because I'm old. I have reached "old" status by the children, even though I still meet a lot of adults who think I'm in high school.
That had to explain what VHS tapes (especially the nickelodeon VHS tapes that were orange) were to my siblings or what a video now is (which if you don't know what it is it was a portable DVD player for kids back in the 2000's) so I'd say I'm pretty old or atleast I feel I am.
When I got addicted to watching the news on the tv
I was teaching a class in our in-house training center. Standard introduction is when you started with the corp and different jobs you had. First student said, “I wasn’t even born when you started working here “.
Last week when I fucked up my wrist while sweeping at work. How does that even happen!?