Your "I'm Old" Moment

I'm more freaked out by 38 that I was by 35 or even looking down the road to 40.
Thirty-eight is 20-year high school class reunion time and it was recently reinforced when as a favor to an SE friend I did some stringing for him. At one of the games I covered, I realized that I had went to high school with the mom of one of the players. That really freaked me out because it wasn't like she had gotten preggers in high school. She found out she was pregnant her senior year in college.
It was all very odd.

 

I feel that. I'm a year older than you, and my 10-year reunion is this summer. While I won't be attending, I haven't really spoke to anyone from HS in years, and it was strange when I got the reunion info and found out that several of my classmates are married with families (and haven't left a 10-mile radius from where we all grew up). In my head, they are still the people they were in high school. Time flies.

Law school was a little strange as well... early on a bunch of us went out, and I realized that many of my classmates were in sixth or seventh grade when I was a senior in high school.

 

Going to a Dimmu Borgir concert last Friday and realizing that I was old enough to be the father of 99% of the attendees.

 

When you're driving the cart up the fairway and thinking about your next shot ... and you're thinking about how to avoid walking up that hill to the green rather than what would be your best shot.

 

How has no one made a Viagra/erectile dysfunction joke yet?

 

Spnited hasn't weighed in.

 

Shit, that's the one thing on me that isn't broken.

 

I've felt like I was old since forever, so I don't think actual calendar age means anything. And if you're up on physics and gravity and all that shit, you realize that time is just a human construction, a way to give our lives meaning in the smallest sense. I am nothing, and yet I am legion.
But, man, I love three-day weekends and good beer.

 

Dude, no man with an iridescent green shirt, and an affinity for Newcastle and margaritas, can possibly be old.

 

Old soul, bro. Young at heart. "This is a snakeskin jacktet ..."

 

I had to get bifocals last year, just after turning 38 and it really bummed me out. I see so much better with them, though, so I got over it pretty quickly.

I made a new friend last year who is 10 years younger than me and I often hang out with her and her friends. Today I went to a BBQ at her house and I was the oldest person by 10 years. Instead of making me feel young, it makes me feel old. I feel like I'm always calling attention to how much older I am than them. I look younger than my age, so it's not readily apparent how much older I am.

And, as other people have mentioned, I can't drink nearly as much as I used to without getting a hangover (which I NEVER used to get) and I get worn out so much easier than I used to.

 

I dunno if someone was trying to be nice, but a woman who was in our office helping us switch over to a new layout/word processing system claimed there was no way I was born before 1980.

Not only was she off by a few years, but I have scruff all over my face. Can't even pull off looking older ...