Things that make you feel old

[MisterCreosote]

Sometimes I forget what day it is until I look at my pill case to take my daily medication.

Discuss.

 

[Vombatus]

Waking up.

 

[cranberry]

Emojis.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Kendall Jenner.

 

[MisterCreosote]

Appetite for Destruction turns 30 in nine months.

 

[da man]

Everything.

 

[Starman]

When I describe the Beatles, JFK or the moon landings to my nieces/nephews, I am talking about something as removed in history from them as World War I was when I was their age.

When I was the age of my HS senior nephew, the music of Al Jolson was as new to me as the White Album is to him.

The main difference? Color film and video.

 

[da man]

I made a reference to "Ah, Grasshopper, snatch the pebble from my hand" to a couple of adults after our tennis drill last night, and they had no clue. One of them asked me if it was from a Jackie Chan movie.

 

[Ace]

When people accuse me of making Dad jokes.

Oh, and the only joints that I experience are in my hips and ankles.

 

[MisterCreosote]

My nephew loves the new Star Trek movies, but he couldn't pick William Shatner out of a lineup.

 

[exmediahack]

I'm the only 40 year old in a morning newsroom when no one else over 24. I feel fifty years older than them.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

When I know that staying up late for postseason baseball will make me a wreck the next day even when I'm stone cold sober.

 

[da man]

My nephew loves the new Star Trek movies, but he couldn't pick William Shatner out of a lineup.

That's interesting. I would think out of all the original Trek actors, Shatner's been the one who's done the best job of staying relevant in pop culture through the years.

 

[Buck]

• Waking up
• the punishing ferocity of my hangovers on those rare occasions when I can enjoy more than a polite out amount of adult beverages
• The constant stream of marketing, TV, movies and music for which I am not the intended audience: I don't like it, and the people who create it are fine with that because they didn't make it with me in mind.
• international news
• national news
• local news
• the terrible quality of our local newspapers and local news TV broadcasts
• political discourse
• not smoking
• dumb male fashion trends
• dumb people
• people
• balding
• gray facial hair
• time
• life

 

[Vombatus]

• Waking up
• the punishing ferocity of my hangovers on those rare occasions when I can enjoy more than a polite out amount of adult beverages
• The constant stream of marketing, TV, movies and music for which I am not the intended audience: I don't like it, and the people who create it are fine with that because they didn't make it with me in mind.
• international news
• national news
• local news
• the terrible quality of our local newspapers and local news TV broadcasts
• political discourse
• not smoking
• dumb male fashion trends
• dumb people
• people
• balding
• gray facial hair
• time
• life

Let's add a couple:

• declining health
  
• gloom
• despair
• and agony on me
• deep, dark depression
• excessive misery
• bad luck
• no luck at all

 

[User 11148]

One spring when I was a doctoral student, I happened into teaching a particularly strong section of undergrads who were about to graduate.

They're entering their 40s now.

 

[Buck]

On the bright side, I like being middle aged, and I look forward to being an old man.
Not too old. I'm not into that, but definitely a senior.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Let's add a couple:

• declining health
  
• gloom
• despair
• and agony on me
• deep, dark depression
• excessive misery
• bad luck
• no luck at all

I don't know if anyone else got this, but I did. Well done.

 

[Bronco77]

Listening to a 25-ish sports copy editor at a South Florida publication ask, "Who was Joe Robbie?"

 

[John]

Gray hair on my head is fine, actually kind of like it, but the emergence of grays elsewhere is an unwelcome development for this single 44-year-old.