Know what really makes you realize you’re getting older?

[raccoon]

You’ve heard a song by a group you used to love dozens of times—and just found out the song was by that group!

That was me, this morning, when the dj said “Who Says You Can't Go Home?” was by Bon Jovi, a group I really liked in the ‘80’s. I never knew that song was by Bon Jovi.

Maybe what threw me off was every time I heard that song, I thought, “Thomas Wolfe said it, and he was right.”


PS--This is one of these times when I don't know whether I should post this here or in Seniors.

[Tanuki]

1. The scary thing is

that back in the 1980s, you probably knew perfectly well that the song was by Bon Jovi, but now you have forgotten that you ever knew that! :hug:

[tigereye]

2. young people not knowing whom Nixon, Reagan, Carter or even Bush 1 were

:rofl: Oh, and lots of silver hair!

[Burma Jones]

3. Ear Hair

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. The unfortunate effects of gravity.

Sore knees.
Not giving a damn about a lot of stuff I used to give a damn about.
Looking in the mirror and seeing my mom.

[sarge43]

6. Great minds, Ocelot. n/t

[MiddleFingerMom]

9. I agree -- looking in the mirror and seeing Velveteen Ocelot's mom.was disturbing.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. Hey. You dissing my mom?

[MiddleFingerMom]

11. Nah...

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[Glassunion]

14. I'm with you on the gravity thing...

Not just for the ladies.

[raccoon]

23. Lots of times, what you said is the GOOD part of getting older:

"Not giving a damn about a lot of stuff I used to give a damn about."

:hi:

[sarge43]

5. Looking in the mirror one morning and seeing Mom or Dad looking back at you.

When I finally let my hair go gray, I had that moment, "Hi Mom, miss you."

[flvegan]

7. Nah, it's the maturity it takes to admit to still liking Bon Jovi.

:hide:

Just kidding, I still like the band too. Hell, I'm frothing at the mouth for the next Beastie Boys album. It's then that I realize that I've been listening to them for 24 years.

[monmouth]

8. An 89 year-old told me today after she heard I had a 70th birthday Saturday,

"Oh, you're just a kid." I liked it...LOL.

[XemaSab]

12. Your friends having kids

as old as you were when you met your friends. :o

[Starbucks Anarchist]

13. I sneezed and pulled a back muscle yesterday.

And I'm 30. :rofl:

[nickinSTL]

33. yeah - that'll happen

several months ago, I bent down to get socks out of my bottom drawer - and got a horrendous cramp in a back muscle.

I was in so much pain, I thought I might have to go to the ER...

When I figured out it was just in the muscle, I went and sat in my comfy chair.

I was able to go in to work by noon, but I was sore for a few days afterwards.

Bending over to get my socks! arrgh!

(I was 36 at the time)

[baldguy]

15. The injuries you walked off in your 20s lay you up for a week or more in your 40s.

I remember I was playing football, and stepped in a gopher hole. Wrapped it up, waked it off & I was playing again they same day. A year later I was skiing, hit a mogul wrong, cracked the shell of my boot & wiped out (spectacularly, by all accounts). I rented another set of equipment & went up again.

Granted, much alcohol was consumed in both instances. But still...

But a couple weeks ago, I was walking the dog & stepped on a crack in the sidewalk wrong and twisted my ankle. I couldn't walk AT ALL! It was pitiful.

[zipplewrath]

25. Shin splints

In high school I used to be prone to shin splints. I had learned to avoid them and hadn't had them in decades. So I'm in my 40's and my shins start hurting. I figure I must have injured them in some yard work I did. Go to the doc, he spends about 5 seconds listening to me and says "you've got shin splints". I respond almost angrily, "I know what shin splints are, I used to have them all the time in high school. These aren't shin splints. Shin splints go away in a day or so."

He looks at me, and with absloutely no compassion in his voice at all, completely destroy's me with the obvious by saying:

"You're not in high school anymore".

He might have well told me I was ready for the nursing home. (and I'm old enough to remember when we called it the "old folks home".)

[jberryhill]

37. That happened to me two nights ago

The neighbors saw me spontaneously just fall down, and my ankle has been hurting since.

That would have been a nothing years ago.

[carlyhippy]

16. geeze, dupe #1

gasping for air when I try to bend over and tie my shoes

sucking air after going up a couple flights of stairs

not knowing any of the new music at all

teenagers thinking I am old (they don't realize it has not been THAT long since I was a teenager, I guess it's been a long time, BUT IT DOESN'T FEEL LIKE IT DAMMET

[carlyhippy]

17. dupe #2

gasping for air when I try to bend over and tie my shoes

sucking air after going up a couple flights of stairs

not knowing any of the new music at all

teenagers thinking I am old (they don't realize it has not been THAT long since I was a teenager, I guess it's been a long time, BUT IT DOESN'T FEEL LIKE IT DAMMET

[carlyhippy]

18. my overhanging elbow fat, my gut hanging over my pants, my chin disappearing into my neck

gasping for air when I try to bend over and tie my shoes

sucking air after going up a couple flights of stairs

not knowing any of the new music at all

my recent habit of REPEATING MYSELF 3 TIMES ON A MESSAGE BOARD

teenagers thinking I am old (they don't realize it has not been THAT long since I was a teenager, I guess it's been a long time, BUT IT DOESN'T FEEL LIKE IT DAMMET

[hyphenate]

19. That's a journey I have taken quite often lately

I was quite young in the 60s, and I was in love with Mark Lindsay, the Monkees, and a few others, but there was a lot of music I overlooked. So imagine my surprise to discover groups like Ambrosia, and the Walker Brothers, and Engelbert Humperdinck. I think I was too young to really get into Engelbert, but I've made up for it in the last couple of years.

I've also spent time discovering Alan Parsons Project and other progressive bands, as I spent the 70s and early 80s mostly with John Denver.

[raccoon]

24. Me too! "I was in love with Mark Lindsay, the Monkees" nt

[Hayabusa]

20. Even I, a 26-year old, can be made to feel old...

I remember playing the original Super Mario Bros. as well as 2-3 on my Nintendo when I was 6. This was in 1990 and those games were top of the line. Now, the current generation of young gamers have either not played the original of the series' I love at all, or have been exposed to them by their parents on Game Boy Advances or Wii's Virtual Console. Knowing that makes me feel old.

Then, there's the kicker. A video game message board has a rule that you must be 13 to sign on to the boards. On a "Born in the 80s" board someone came up with this gem: The people who are just now being allowed to post on these boards don't remember 9/11. That "hit me" worse than the video game example.

Yeah, I'm sure that those of you that are older than me have better examples, but I just wanted to share mine.

I also have moments where I feel very, very young, too...

[hyphenate]

21. I've had a few other revelations

to add....

My niece turned 32 this year. And I remember the time when my sister told me she was pregnant with her. And the day she was born, and then I remember my own 30th birthday party--a small affair with about 8 people. Seems there are some moments during those years that refuse to let go!

I was talking with someone about a week or so ago, and mentioned what song I consider the WORST song I've ever heard--that stupid "humps" song. Am I too old to enjoy it? Probably. The second worst song, IMO, is "My Sharona." So yeah--when you start compiling a list of what you consider the worst songs ever written, you know you've gotten too old.

[SwissTony]

22. Seeing someone who is 25-30 and thinking...

they're 18 years old!!! They seem so young.

[zipplewrath]

26. I call 'em 12 year olds

The young, just out of college, new hires that run around here. I call 'em the 12 year olds. 'Cause they have to be 12 because I'm still 28 right? And who keeps projecting that image of an old guy in my mirror dammit?

[uncommon]

29. Ha. I am in that group and while I feel relatively young most of the time,

I realize the time is slipping away and I am not 18 anymore...

[zipplewrath]

27. Using in advertising

You hear some song being used to sell ED meds, or term life insurance, or AARP memberships, or some such geriatric product, and you think "man, I haven't heard that since high school". And then you realize, they knew that.

[Minimus]

28. I found a gray eyebrow!

Good lord!

[bif]

30. Hearing, "Did you know Paul McCartney was in a band

before the Wings?

[Flaxbee]

31. talking to the nice young woman at the bank about a movie from 1990....

and realizing she was only 2 or 3 when it was released. Jeez.

[Deep13]

32. Practicing lawyers who graduated high school in 1999. nt

[Dr Morbius]

34. One my coworkers, who's half my age, today used the phrase,

"Back in the day I was watching Dragonball Z."

And I looked at him and said, "Back in the day?"

And then he and another coworker were waxing nostalgic about the first time they played Mortal Combat. I tried explaining to them that I had outgrown video games before Mortal Combat was created, but was ignored in their passion for the subject.

When people are nostalgic for things you were too old to appreciate in the first place, you're old.

[Curmudgeoness]

35. For me, it was when I started to be interested in my bowel movements. nt

[livetohike]

36. I thought it was when all the doctors look like they are

still in high school! I have a birthday coming next week. It's not getting any better :-).

[Old Troop]

38. When I kept outgrowing my play clothes.