I just realized today that I am officially old.

[DarkTirade]

I realized that all the teenagers going through my checkout stand at work who were buying stuff for graduation parties and getting ready to go off to college in a few months... were still in elementary school the year I graduated.

D'oh.

[PBS Poll-435]

1. Me too

Lets have a Geritol and call it a night.

[DarkTirade]

10. I don't know if my tired old digestive tract can handle that...

better throw in a fiber pill or two... :P

[mwdem]

2. It was when the checkout clerks started calling me " Ma'am"

I was still in my 20's.

[DarkTirade]

11. Yeah, I've started getting 'sir'd a lot more than I'd like.

And 'ma'am'd a few more times than I'd like too, but that's why I grew the beard... :P

[Lil Missy]

3. Oh Please!

Ya little whippersnapper! I could be your mother, if not your grandmother.

:P

[DarkTirade]

12. Still... once you pass that quarter of a century mark, there's no turning back.

:P

[Lil Missy]

63. Just wait till you turn 40ish, and discover the "B" word.

As in bifocals.

[reyd reid reed]

4. Hell,

the year I graduated, they weren't even a twinkle in their parents' eyes. Hell, their *parents* might've still been in elementary school. If that.

:scared:

[csziggy]

5. I realized I was old when a classmate of mine became a grandmother

She had her daughter at 17, her daughter had hers at 15.... Now that baby girl has HER own baby. :wtf:

[zanne]

9. That'll do it, all right.

I was delighted when my niece had a baby girl. My joy was dampened a little when I realized that I am now "great aunt Zanne". GAH!

[csziggy]

40. Yes, that happened to me last fall - now I am the Great Aunt I was named for

[hvn_nbr_2]

56. I first realized I was getting old, when one day...

I was on a college campus on Parents' Day and noticed that I was checking out the mothers instead of the students. Now, I'd be checking out the grandmothers.

[gristy]

6. Doing the math, you are somewhere between 25 and 34, depending on which graduation you refer to

So I have an observation and a suggestion.

One, you aren't old.
Two, you can use your perception that you are old in some positive ways:
a) Review and update your plans for saving for retirement - you're so old if might be too late, but maybe not ;)
b) Start getting in shape - you're never too old to start! :D
c) add your own!

I sure wish I was in my twenties!!!!

[old mark]

7. In my Twenties? Hell. no!

I wouldn't want to go through that shit again!

mark ( who will soon be 61)

[DarkTirade]

16. I've been working on B lately

although unfortunately my main form of exercise since I moved here was a winter-type activity, and so all I've had lately is jogging. Which just doesn't cut it for me.

And yeah, I know I'm 'only' 26, but I'm startin' to feel old. Hell, I think I started to feel old the minute I realized a few years back that 'legal' and 'old enough for me to date' were no longer the same thing. :P

[NewEnglandGirl]

39. 26 is old??????

Your life is just beginning! Oh, to be 26 again and know what I know now. (cliche' sounding, I know.) Sure wouldn't have made all the mistakes I have. :eyes: :)

[Elidor]

57. LOL! 26 is old!

Sad to think what you'll be saying when you hit 40, 50, 60, etc.

:rofl:

Enjoy it now. You've got miles to go before you sleep.

[Steerpike]

8. You know your old...

When AARP starts sending you recruitment information. I'm 50 years old now and there's no denying it. I got pictures in the mail of an old freind. Gray hair and wrinkles...sigh...there should be a comic strip of Charlie Brown at 50...I'd be interested in that...

Who is that Chuggo guy anyway? I don't get it...

[yellowdogintexas]

21. when your physician is YOUNGER than you! Based on that I have been old

for 12 years.

[old mark]

68. I'm so old

I remember when my doctor used to smoke!

mark

[ThomCat]

13. None of those kids were even born when I graduated.

x(

[DarkTirade]

19. Awww, but at least you're cute at your age. :P

I'm already starting to lose my looks. :(

[ThomCat]

62. No you're not.

You're incredibly adorable!

We all have to change our look slightly as we get older, but you're one of those people who will always find a way to look good. :loveya:

[Dora]

14. You're not old.

You're middle-aged.

:hide:

[DarkTirade]

17. ... ouch.

:P

[supernova]

15. How old are you?

Because pix I've seen you post, you look like I could have been your (teen-aged) mother. :P

[DarkTirade]

18. I'm more than a quarter of a century old.

:P

[supernova]

20. Well then, you're rightly a wizened old sage.

;-)

[Whoa_Nelly]

26. Then I am officially old enough to be your mother!

Dark (insert middle name here) Tirade!
You get in here RIGHT NOW and clean up this mess you left! :P

[DarkTirade]

27. You can't make me! You're not the boss of me!

:P

[supernova]

28. If you keep sticking out your tongue,

It'll freeze like that. :D

[Whoa_Nelly]

32. You ungrateful brat!

I cook, I clean, I slave, and what thanks do I get?

That's it! You can no longer play with Chuggo! He's a bad influence and a curmudgeon to boot!


Now, go to your room, play some Xbox while you think about THAT! Hah! :spank:

[DarkTirade]

49. Wait... does that mean you're buying me an Xbox?

:P

[Left Is Write]

36. What a coincidence! I am more than a quarter of a century old also.

:D

[underpants]

22. They were born only two years before "Smells like Teen spirit" was released

:hi:

[DarkTirade]

24. ... okay, now I feel REALLY old.

:P

[yellowdogintexas]

23. The definitive 'old' question for my generation: where were you when the President was shot

if you are old enough, you only think of JFK and you know exactly where you were.

So I was in 10th grade, biology class.

only young whippersnappers think you are referring to the wounding of Ronny Raygun

[DarkTirade]

25. Err... neither actually.

:yoiks:

[yellowdogintexas]

33. so I am old enough to be your grandmother, most likely nt

[Art_from_Ark]

67. Damn

I guess that makes me "old"

To tell the truth, I never really thought of Reagan as "The President"

[Ptah]

29. You are seven years younger than i was when my son was born.

and he is your age.

[DarkTirade]

52. Time flies.

You really don't look it though. :)

[AwakeAtLast]

30. Nikki Sixx will be 50 this year

but he can still rock out! -----> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJDDxHIaaVk&feature=related

I'm in love with that song right now.

[Left Is Write]

37. In ten years, will we call him Nikki Sixxty?

[Pacifist Patriot]

31. *Insert expletive here*

They were born the year I graduated college.

[Left Is Write]

38. Youngster.

:P

[Pacifist Patriot]

44. LOL!

I am creeping up on 40 positively kicking and screaming!!

[Left Is Write]

45. My 42nd birthday is tomorrow.

So there.

:P

[av8rdave]

34. That´s nothing!

On Friday I was at a college town bar with my son, his gf and a few of their friends celebrating his birthday. I realized as I looked around that not only was I the oldest in the room, I was the oldest by like 25 years. Nobody in that room was even an amorous thought when I graduated - from college!

[Left Is Write]

35. Er....they weren't even BORN yet when I graduated.

[redqueen]

41. Welcome to geezerhood!

Have a cane! :hi:






edit: Oh. My. God... you're only 26?! :rofl:

Oh just wait sonny... it gets so much better. :7

[DarkTirade]

50. ... can I still have a cane though?

I've always wanted either a really cool carved one, or maybe a sword-cane or something. :P

[redqueen]

54. Sure!

You can practice shakin it at whippersnappers. :P

[DarkTirade]

58. Shaking canes sounds like good exercise... it'll probably help keep me healthy enough to live at

least into a fairly old age... like 45 or something. :P

[Starry Messenger]

42. I realized that I was old

the last time I watched The Breakfast Club and I started feeling sympathy for the school principal. :o

[DarkTirade]

51. That's not just old... that's WRONG.

:P

[Starry Messenger]

53. I know.

The realization came with creeping horror at what I had become.


MPK

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

43. When kids you used to babysit now have 5 kids, THEN you are old.

[DarkTirade]

59. All at once or one or two at a time?

:P

[edbermac]

46. I got old when some kid on a bus offered me his seat.

Felt like smacking the little punk. :mad:

[DarkTirade]

60. That's another thing...

I find myself referring to annoying teenagers as 'little punks'. :banghead:

[Gormy Cuss]

47. GET OFF MY LAWN!

I did the math and I'm old enough to say that to you, whippersnapper.

[Fox Mulder]

48. I know how you feel man.

I see the same thing at Sprawl Mart. It depresses me.

[Bake]

55. Ahhh, you young punk!! GET OFF MY LAWN!!

Old, my ass!

:rofl:

Bake

[ElsewheresDaughter]

61. ahh you're still a puppy!....christ, their parents were elementary school when I graduated

[GreenPartyVoter]

64. The kids I babysat for are having kids of their own now. LOL

[grannylib]

65. I felt really old for the first time when I realized my grandkids

will be driving in a couple of years - my granddaughter is 13 and my grandson is 12, and they'll both get farm permits at 15, holy cats...
And normally I don't feel all that old, I don't consider 49 to be ancient or anything, but that realization really got to me.

[DarkTirade]

66. My mom's probably about to hit that point... my neice is that age too.

:)