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You know that you are old when .................
Posted by rocketrobin • 3/15/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: driving test, grandchild, motorways, old, Radio
Recently when listening to the radio on my return home from work the theme of the programme was you know that you are old when.
The presenter asked people to phone in with their answer, a few of the answers given are below.
You know that you are old when you can't remember the question that you have just answered
You know that you are old when your grandchild passes their driving test.
My one is
You know that you are old when you drive at 25 mile per hour on motorways
Can you think of one?
You know that you are old when ...............
User Comments
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You clicked on a thread that stated "you know you're too old when"...
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Another one is when you pause for a moment on the middle stair, and can't remember whether you were going up or coming down.
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When you feel old.-
another one is Your sex life isn't dead ,,,, but the buzzards are circling!!
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you show up at Denny's at 4:30pm because not only can you get the early bird special but you can also be home before dark...-
when you only know people younger than yourself then you are getting old.
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When you realize you only have a few months until you qualify for the "Senior" menus. Oh, god!-
You know that you are old when you kneel down and someone as to help you back up again!
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Have you been spying on me?!?
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You ask directions to the nearest pay-phone. -
100 yrs old -
When there's more wax on the birthday cake than, you know, cake.
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I can well relate to that one lol
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you fall asleep here, there, everywhere and look sleepy all the time, cuz that what my dad do lately... hahaha... -
You let out an involuntary groan every time you bend over to pick something up -
And a hard night on the juice takes a few weeks to recover from
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You'd like to go out and listen to live music but your bedtime is around the same time the band comes on. -
You know you are getting older when the policemen look too young to be let out at night without parental supervision.-
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The locum replacing my doctor is 12 yrs old!
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... you insist that parents need a language of their own.. -
You know you are getting old when you can remember every gold medal winner in every sport at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne..
but you cannot remember where you left the keys last night. -
You know you're old when:
1/ It takes twenty minutes to have a "quick" pee and you actually have to strain and push it all the way out even though you are bursting for one.
2/ Granny porn sites are not a fetish but women you actually fancy.
3/ Flashing in the park has become more like a cold chore than a nasty joy.
4/ You spend two hours tweezering out the grey hairs on the side of your head only to discover you have plucked yourself bald.
5/ You check the obituaries in the paper every day to see what old school friends are up to.-
"5/ You check the obituaries in the paper every day to see what old school friends are up to."... that is funny
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When your coworkers don't believe your age when you tell them on a birthday
Got the nice reply: "No seriously - how old are you actually?" when saying my age last time. Ouch -
The first time I felt old is when the little girl whom I used to babysit and was my flower girl sent me a photo of herself - she was now a cheerleader at my high school!!! Ouch!
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you know when you are old when you don't enjoy anymore what you used to enjoy when you were young.
you know when you're old when you don't like watching kids shows. hehehe... -
"You know you're middle-aged when the dog lets you get to the stick first" __Bill Stott -
When a man goes past fifty a lot of things start happening to the body that young men don’t know about. All of a sudden hair growing speeds up. Hair starts growing out of your nose and ears. Even eyebrow hair starts growing and has to be trimmed.
I never realized why a lot of older men wore suspenders, now I know, older men’s hips shrinks. And testosterones levels ain’t what they use to be. I’m 66 and still going strong.-
my nose hair and eye brow hair starting growing at 40 help! lol
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When AARP begins sending you solicitations. -
You know you are old when you stop growing vertically and start growing horizontally -
when you drive past a car full of high schoolers and wonder why a 12 yr old is behind the wheel.
(and you're only 24. ugh!) -
You know that you are old when ...............
When your 12 year old asks you "Who is Bo Jackson"? -
it is impossible to run up the stairs. and it's painful to jump out of bed in the morning. sigh. -
...you sneeze "wrong" and your back hurts for three days.
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when there is candle with a cake for you hahahha -
You remember washing clothes on a board in your bathtub...I was visiting this weekend with Granny SJ and she told me a lot of stories that pretty much blew my mind.
My personal favorite reason I know I'm getting old is when radio hosts announce they're about to play an oldie and a song like Ironic by Alanis Morissette comes on and I feel like it came out just yesterday...God that was like 13yrs ago. -
you realize that you are old enough to have a grown child!-
you realise that you are old when people start saying you are old fashioned!
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you find yourself muttering about noisy teenagers and their music
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Re the awful music - how embarrassing. I do that ALL the time, these days.
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You know that you are old when you wish you were 10 years younger.. -
You know you are old when kids ask you what it was like in the "olden days."
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When you go for a regular medical checkup the doctor finds it impossible to stop at "you're in good shape" and must add "for a man your age." -
When you take a step and a fart just slips out. -
When a museum of natural history wants to examine you.
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When archaeologists are interested in becoming your boyfriend.
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when your babysitter tells you she's never heard of Sting. -
when news interests you (us)...
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I have no idea what you folks are on about.
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when you feel old and have more gray hair then natural hair color -
.....When you start having great grandkids! (I have 3 now) -
...you used to buy killer weed but now you're shopping for weed killer. -
When you are having a conversation about music icons and the person turns to you and says "Who's Jerry Garcia?" "Grateful Dead?...never heard of them!" -
When gray and the word ache go together. -
When you get this flyer from work...
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Oh I'm havin a blonde moment...I don't get it... -
When you start forgetting names! -
your age is higher than your IQ-
well... *bites tongue*
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your skin has more spots than a leopard's
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Your roots are holding you down. -
You know that you are old when ...............
your in an elevator and some 18 year old tells you that your piercings are pretty cool and that you don't see "older people with that kind of style" anymore
when you go to get up out of your chair and it takes you two tries
when you bitch about the kids running down the hall at 8:00 pm in your apartment building
when you start to use the term "as long as your under my roof, you'll live by my rules!".
when you get out of bed at 10:00 am and feel the need for a nap by 3:30 pm.
when your ankles or knees crunch and crack and someone asks you if you just stepped on a pencil or tortilla chip. -
when your torso is getting smaller and your feet are getting bigger.
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when kids start to call you 'Uncle'..hahaha -
You know you're getting old when you answer blogs like this one. You know you're getting old when you get a quote on having your legs removed from your varicose veins. You know you are getting old when your Ouija Board refuses to give you an answer. You know when you're getting old, because your dermatologist refuses to take your money any more. Being old, you know your factory's still open, but it ain't making anything. You are old when your knees and joints make more noise than box cars on a freight train.You know! -
When salepeople ask if you get the seniors' discount.
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You know you are old when you remember playing Atari video games.
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You know you are old when the grandchildren show you, very patiently, how to use electronic gizmos.
Then they say, just a touch patronisingly, "go on gran, it is easy, even you can do it". -
When I start thinking about how old I am. :-) -
it takes time to stand up -
Its 5 in the morning and ur ready to go home!!!!!!!
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When someone compliments you about your nice crocodile leather shoes and you realize your barefooted. -
That's.....funny!!!!
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Hahaha, glad you liked it.
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when you miss the things you do when you were young -
when you prefer a 15 minute nap to sex in the afternoon
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When you begin to lecture kids my age -_- -
watching news becomes more and more important...
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I soooo agree with that
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.................when you don't know that you are old. -
I was trying to think of any reasons to be envious of the young. After all, the young:
may not read novels for pleasure,
may not spell well,
may not recognise good grammar if it bit them in the bum,
may not expect their marriages to last till death,
probably can't bake their own cakes,
didn't weep when Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin died tragically young,
didn't learn two foreign languages at school etc etc
Then I remembered my arthritic fingers, vulnerable lower back and the 3 teeth that I broke. Plus I don't know an ipod from a facebook or a twitter.
Perhaps it is a cosmic trick, to make us love the age we are currently.
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