You know you're getting old when....

...I got nothing. Perhaps I'm still young. By the looks of it, so are you.

 

Your offspring hits 30.

The guy complimenting me on my "antiqued" motorcycle jacket is younger than the jacket is.

Your favorite album from high school was actually purchased as a vinyl album, then again as a cassette, yet again as a cd, and is now being rereleased as a special edition remastered boxed set.

 

This. A couple of years ago I found myself thinking "WTF is (insert band or singer here) doing on a classic rock station?", and I've found this thought happening more and more frequently It was then I realized I was getting old. That, and realizing I'd rather stay in and watch a movie than go to a club. The very thought of going to a club makes me tired.

 

Two that stick in my head -
this has only happened once specifically that I recall - Intently reading my wife's lips from across the room at perhaps ten or twelve feet and not hearing a word she said even then.
There have been more times where people talk to my back in a quiet room and actually think I will hear them on a regular basis. That is a hit or miss thing some days. And these people know me.

and the time that our now four year old was much younger and toddled her way over to me with the "pick me up" look. I could not pick her up that instant as I could hardly walk myself with the major discomfort in whatever knee was griping for those five minutes.

 

A man is as young as he feels .................... after trying to prove it.

 

I know I'm getting old, because I was swapping old injury stories with a guy in the gym. Knees, elbows, shoulders...etc

Can't get up without groaning, ha

 

While directing a HS show, I was telling a bunch of drama nerds why my face was droopey..MS thing

ZS: Sorry about the Mary Jo Buttafuco Face.
HS Drama Nerd: Who is Mary Jo Buttafucco?
ZS: The Wife in the Amy Fisher scandal!?! Long Island Lolita!?! It was in '92 or something.
HS Drama Nerd: Zombie, I wasn't even born until '94.
ZS: I hate you young kids so hard core right now.

Working for a University I bitch about the young college kids all the time. That makes me feel old. Hell, I bitch about the non-traditional (25+) students too.

 

When you cannot wait to stay in on a Friday night. When you have to hold products 3 feet away from your face to read them.

 

When you say "Kids today and the Noise they listen to!" And realize you're not joking.
When half your favorite musicians are dead.
When you are explaining to someone that you like classic rock, and name some bands, and the say, "Oh, you mean oldies."
When you're surfing pr0n and find a dead ringer for your daughter. (Also one of the more disturbing things that's ever happened to me.)
When 40 year old women start being more attractive to you than 18 year olds.
When you can say, "I've been doing it this way for decades," and mean it.

 

I purchased Rogaine.

 

When you have concerns about whether you're getting enough fiber in your diet.

 

When your first grandchild is due in less than a month.
When your teenage daughter freaks out because you are dating a 23 y.o.
When said 23 y.o. is more mature than your 43 y.o. ex-wife.

 

My father never got to my age. He died in '76 at the age of 52 when I was 20.
Back then, they didn't worry about about cholesterol, or high blood pressure or trans fats or blood thinners, etc.
They just ate too much, got hardening of the arteries and croaked. If the cigarette didn't get them first, or the diabetes....

 

Only half of your favourites? My list includes Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, etc. etc. A great portion of them have been gone for at least 25 years or more. Although Sinatra only died 13 years ago now that I think of it. But Keith Green brings that number higher as next year is the 30th anniversary of his death.
Can't go with the 40 year old range in general yet but the 18-20 year old girls I see shopping at work at 2 in the morning all look like damn young kids to me, and far too many of them forgot to finish getting dressed before they went out in public.

 

Okay B_G, this is your thread but I am not getting old--it's 'older.'
The worst is having to slip on some glasses with my contact lenses if I don't want to pull a muscle by overextending my arm to read so-called small print.
Second most annoying is if I don't do yoga-type stretching every day my left hip hurts the following day.
Not to be too morbid but my mom died earlier this year. As my brother put it we lost a (psychological) buffer between us and death.
Oh yes, the most sobering one: when I'm out in public I've become invisible to men under age 40 while guys who to me look like old guys are looking. I suppose I should be grateful that I'm not completely invisible. I have perhaps another 10 years to go.