When did you realize "Oh damn, I'm OLD"??

[BULLDOG]

I keep forgetting you identify as male. I think it's the avatar

Don't go saying nuthin bad about Ivanka's tits. She paid a lot of money for them.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

My mom took us to see Pippin on Broadway. Irene Ryan had just left but Ben Vereen was still there

Recently my wife was on the back deck playing tunes and she picked the Irene Ryan song Just No Time (?) where she say she’s had troubles and fears of 66 years but the only thing she’d trade them for is 67 more…

It was then I realized, yup, I’ve been around

 

[LibertyWeeps]

Some poor young cashier yesterday was forced to ask for my ID.
Of course, I didn't take my frustration out on her. I smiled and handed my drivers license to her and said, "Is this the dumbest law in the history of mankind? You can tell by looking at me I'm just a bit over 21."
She laughed and said, "I have to ask people for ID if they're buying a lighter."
How fucked up is that?
I don't know if it's state law or corporate policy (this was a Target) but it's rampant anymore. Dehumanizing bullshit.

That would be Target corporate policy.
They have to ask to cover themselves legally.

Anything that can be constued as useable for something bad, deadly, or offensive.

Which pretty much includes everything, but most items considered "for adult usage only", many stores have to ask because of legal corporate policy.

 

[80zephyr]

When I pulled my 66 Mustang into a fast food place 10 years ago. 4 teen girls were leaving the restaurant and one said "thats a beautiful car, what is that"?

Sigh.

 

[Lockback]

That would be Target corporate policy.
They have to ask to cover themselves legally.

Anything that can be constued as useable for something bad, deadly, or offensive.

Which pretty much includes everything, but most items considered "for adult usage only", many stores have to ask because of legal corporate policy.

As Shakespeare said, "The first thing we do is kill all the lawyers ..."

 

[Independent thinker]

Well all have that moment when something happens, someone says something, or a comment is made somewhere that makes us say to ourselves....

OH HELL, I'M OLD!!!

For me, it was when I was working at a fast food TexMex place called Two Pesos (that no longer exists).
I was at the grill one day standing next to a teenager (I was in my mid-late 20s) who was also grlling up some food.

We were joking around, I don't remember what about.....and one my my responses was "Hey BooBoo, thats some pic a nic basket".
I used my best Yogi voice I could.

He turned and looked at me and said "What the **** was THAT"???
I looked at him and asked if he ever watched cartoons growing up, and he said he did.
I asked if he ever saw a Yogi Bear cartoon, and he said no.

It was then, at that moment in time, I felt the snap of AGE hitting me like getting out of bed too fast and getting the bends.


When did YOU have your "OLD AGE EPIPHANY"?

I think my first time was when I was going through a fast food drive in and a pretty young girl was handing me my order and I was flirting with her a little bit. She saw what I was wearing and said, "Oh, my dad has a shirt just like that".

 

[Lockback]

I think my first time was when I was going through a fast food drive in and a pretty young girl was handing me my order and I was flirting with her a little bit. She saw what I was wearing and said, "Oh, my dad has a shirt just like that".

That's a wood killer right there.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I think I first realized that I was no longer young was when we elected Obama, and he is younger than me. I think I win because his hair is white, while mine is till mostly brown.

 

[d0gbreath]

I think my first time was when I was going through a fast food drive in and a pretty young girl was handing me my order and I was flirting with her a little bit. She saw what I was wearing and said, "Oh, my dad has a shirt just like that".

Her goto for guys like you.

 

[BackAgain]

When did you realize "Oh damn, I'm OLD"??​

It wasn’t the first time. But, recently, I had to travel to another city )a few hours distant by car) to get some medical exams and some treatments etc. I spent hours there going from appointment to appointment and then to waiting rooms. There I did a LOT more waiting.

I was bored so I was reading some stuff on my IPhone. I had my legs crossed. BAD IDEA. ( have awful knees.). Anyway, a nurse came out to the huge waiting area and called my name. I raised my hand to acknowledge her and stood up.

Oops. My knee had gone entirely to sleep. So my first step sent me to the floor. Within a mere moment, there were like 8 nurses on me with machines and equipment.

I wasn’t really hurt. Just kinda embarrassed.

And that was one time I felt wickedly old.

 

[Sparker]

I don't have a specific moment. But today my legs felt like I ran a marathon yesterday.

 

[Leo123]

I think my first time was when I was going through a fast food drive in and a pretty young girl was handing me my order and I was flirting with her a little bit. She saw what I was wearing and said, "Oh, my dad has a shirt just like that".

Women always like men who remind them of their dad.

 

[Leo123]

I was cutting wood (oak tree/chain saw) and loading rounds in our trailer. I loaded about 4 rounds and pooped out. He loaded the rest of the trailer without even breathing hard. I thought, 'yup, I'm old.'

 

[LibertyWeeps]

I was cutting wood (oak tree/chain saw) and loading rounds in our trailer. I loaded about 4 rounds and pooped out. He loaded the rest of the trailer without even breathing hard. I thought, 'yup, I'm old.'

Shit, I live upstairs and its gotten hard for me to get up and down the stairs.
I get about the steps up, and then my legs are done for the day. I have to pull myself up by the handrail and my right hand.
I push agains the wall with my left hand, so I can put all the weight on my hands, so I can lift my leg up to the next step.

And no, I can't move at the moment. And I don't know when I will be able to.

So I'm reminded every day of my age.

 

[Cellblock2429]

/—-/ In the mid 1980s, when my neighbors 10 year old asked, who were the Beatles.

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

When I started getting mail from AARP.

But really...time is messed up bad! Everyone knows it. There's some unGodly time compression thing going on. Like time is an ice skater and she's pulling her arms in.

 

[SaxonJackson]

When did you realize "Oh damn, I'm OLD"??​

This morning -- for the 3000th time.

 

[HaShev]

Famous people who were asked that question [fictitious humor]:

George Burns: "When I was cast as God in the Movies".

Charlie Manson: "when an inmate asked me why I was on prison and I told him it was for the Sharon Tate Murders and he asked me who Sharon Tate was."

Bernie Sanders: "When my hunched shoulders caused my head to sink so far down my chest and I realized I could clean my belly button with my tongue now"

Jeffrie Toobin: "when I was yankin my limp noodle for 10 hours straight and all that came out was dust and sand from the Jersey shore, which I haven't been to since the 90's."

Gov Pritzker: " When I started smelling parmesan cheese everywhere I went even though I hadn't eaten Italian all week, I realized it was me I was smelling"

George Clooney: "when we created the upcoming Ocean's 14 movie around the concept of AGING criminals pulling one last job"