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Things That Make You Feel Old

Elster88 Oct 03 2006 11:04 PM

A commercial with William Shatner looking like a corpse. Which is a kind of weird thing to make me feel old because I'm a couple of generations younger than James T.

SteveJRogers Oct 03 2006 11:23 PM

A few Sports related: -When players you recall seeing the entire progression of their career, from debut to retirement, make the Hall of Fame -Not only are the players now YOUNGER than you, but they were born in the NEXT DECADE after you were born! -Not me yet by a LONG shot, but you start noticing the small numbers of players your age in the major sports

cooby Oct 04 2006 07:44 AM

Steve Rogers, a mere babe in the woods :) I look at players as sons now, lol. When one gets hurt, I immediately feel bad for his mom. Only Franco outranks me in age, and that by just a few months.

RealityChuck Oct 04 2006 08:42 AM

Nothing makes me feel old. If you get to 50 without growing up, you don't have to.

MFS62 Oct 04 2006 09:16 AM

The new high frequency cell phone ringers that only kids can hear. And I can't. Later

Yancy Street Gang Oct 04 2006 09:30 AM

I'm glad I can still sleep through the night without having to get up to pee.

metsmarathon Oct 04 2006 09:56 AM

not getting out of bed to pee could be a sign that you're either really young, or really old. and probably smelly.

soupcan Oct 04 2006 10:47 AM

-Waking up sore everyday. -Having to lift my glasses off my face to read. -Cute 20-something women not even looking my way. Or if they do its because I resemble their dad. -The way kids dance. I like it, I just can't do it. You know that 'butter-churning' kind of move they all do. -Knowing what a butter-churner is. -Using a Metrocard instead of a token.

cooby Oct 04 2006 10:53 AM

It gets worse, soupcan. In a few years when your boys are teens, you'll think the girls are suddenly noticing you again and then you'll suddenly realize they are actually looking at your sons, and then checking to see if you noticed. Frustrating.

Willets Point Oct 04 2006 11:05 AM

]Cute 20-something women not even looking my way Well that was true throughout my 20's as well.

Edgy DC Oct 04 2006 11:12 AM

This thread. I'm steering clear.

cooby Oct 04 2006 11:13 AM

Might as well confess, Edgy. We all are. Doesn't help that it was started by a whippersnapper.

Willets Point Oct 04 2006 11:13 AM

Any time the new freshman class arrives and I see signs that say things like "Welcome Class of 2010".

Mr. Zero Oct 04 2006 03:21 PM

Someone I work with just referred to the late 90s as if were another eon.

Willets Point Oct 04 2006 03:24 PM

Geologists call it the Late Clintonic Era.

Yancy Street Gang Oct 04 2006 03:39 PM

cooby wrote: It gets worse, soupcan. In a few years when your boys are teens, you'll think the girls are suddenly noticing you again and then you'll suddenly realize they are actually looking at your sons, and then checking to see if you noticed. Frustrating. Similarly, when I see a mother and her teenage daughter, I'm more likely to check out the mom than the kid.

cooby Oct 04 2006 03:48 PM

Trust me, the moms are grateful

Rockin' Doc Oct 04 2006 10:02 PM

Doing exams on the elementary school children of patients that I first saw when they were in elementary school themselves. All the music I grew up with is now only played on "classic rock" stations.

KC Oct 04 2006 10:27 PM

RC: >>>If you get to 50 without growing up, you don't have to.<<< Words to live by regardless of the number plugged in.

Willets Point Oct 04 2006 11:27 PM

A couple of years ago I was at a bar with my fellow grad students. The Blind Melon song "No Rain" comes on and the woman next to me says "Omigod, this was like my theme song when I was 13!!!"

Mr. Zero Oct 05 2006 10:02 AM

"49 Up" about to be released.

MFS62 Oct 05 2006 10:47 AM

Remembering when Sandy Koufax was a rookie. Later

Vic Sage Oct 05 2006 12:18 PM

Playboy's 6-stage scale of aging: stage 1: the Playboy centerfold is the fantasy figure of your pubescent dreams... quick, where's the soap? stage 2: the Playboy centerfold goes to a different college than you, but you wander around campus looking for girls who might have made the cut stage 3: the Playboy centerfold is a airbrushed, transparently phony version of the girls you used to date before you were married. stage 4: the Playboy centerfold is the kind of young hottie you would want to squeeze into your Mazarati, if your ex-wife hadn't taken it in the divorce stage 5: the Playboy centerfold is young enough to be your daughter, or maybe even your granddaughter... why doesn't that girl put some clothes on, for krissakes?! stage 6: the Playboy centerfold is the fantasy figure of your nursing home dreams... quick, where's my viagra?