Certain music, watching my nieces drive (they were 3 when I met them) and graduate from high school, and looking at my grey hairs all make me feel old. Trying to convince myself that age is just a number and trying to do things to make me feel good about myself seem to be helping, so far.

I'm only 19, but I do feel old when I realized that my nephew is starting to turn into a "big boy," i.e. not wanting to be so affectionate as he used to be.

Also, when younger people call me "ma'am." That's really odd.

Im under 20 yet I feel old when I go to the movie theater on friday nights. There are just so many middle school kids who think they rule the world. To think that I used to be like that.

Right! Me too! And that I have sciatica. SCIATICA!!! I'm 26!!!!!! I am too young to feel this old. Once I got out of college and realized that I was pretty much older than anyone IN college... that made me feel old, to realize I was now an adult. :rolleyes: I know it's silly... *sigh*

I feel old when Mal is complaining about being 15 years younger than me. :)

I remember being able to stay up all night my freshman/sophomore years of college. I would go over to hang out at the girls dorm with friends and we would be up until 4am, with 8am classes. I had no problem doing that.

Now, however, I feel tired if I'm not in bed by 11pm. I can't sleep late in the mornings, as I'm usually up by 9am anyway.

95% of this site.....

I don't generally feel old (at 36), except for a couple of things. First, when I'm talking to a younger person and I have to explain who the Talking Heads are. Second, when I see mention of some group like Maroon 5, and have absolutely no idea what they sound like. I wanted to keep up with this sort of thing, but radio in Connecticut died, and it isn't really worth my time to look for it.

My friends..Which isn't a bad thing.

The average age of my friends (Both Genders) is about 20-21..I'm going on 27. I live like i'm 20 and still feel like it.

I still get carded at the beer store...I love it.

Ever have a kid ask you what a Smurf is? That's a reality check I wasn't prepared for.

I used to be a teacher. Some of those kids now introduce me to their kids.

My son kicking my ass in just about every sport :)

Two words -- beer belly

having the music I grew up with now on the "old-time" radio stations

I have to say that I enjoy almost all of getting older. I'm extraordinarily blessed, and I'm grateful for just about everything that's come my way.

In general, kids keep me young. I've got lots of neices and nephews, and they put the biggest smiles on my faces.

Back in my day, kids stole their father's Playboys -- and our dad's all got them... :D

In my new place of employment... I am the oldest guy in the office. I took me a while to figure out why I was getting treated so well, then I realized they were just giving respect to their elder...

I am only partly kidding about this...

It just boggles my mind that there are people born in the 80s who now qualify as fully grown adults.

These same people have never known a time without rap music, never dialed a phone, and think there is such a thing as "old school" personal computers and video games.

It makes me feel old (and horrified) when I see people wearing leg warmers =:eek:= and recycling the worst pop music of the 80s. I think they must have forgotten how bad it was the first time around, then I realize they might not necessarily even remember those days.

Generally, though, I don't feel old. While I'm still bouncing around acting silly and going to concerts, other people people my age are going grey, dragging around kids, and fighting the battle of the bulge. In a lot of ways I pretty much live the lifestyle of a 20-something so I'm not complaining. :D

And now they've been ordered. ::sob::

1. first grey hairs
2. when your kids think the music you like sucks.

I don't feel old at all. I'm still a baby. Being eighteen will do that to you.

Knowing that there's stuff in my closet that is older than you are...

Young whippersnapper :D

Not sure if its been mentioned yet, but:

Going to bed early (before midnight), especially if its a weekend.

Falling asleep while watching primetime TV.

Nubile girls are children. If she doesn't have lines around her eyes she's eyecandy. The most completely attractive women now, I find, often have kids old enough to get themselves off to school, or drive, or sometimes even have children of their own :(

playing counter strike... I don't care how old you are, everyone acts like a 12-year-old in that game -_-

My friends are largely appalled that I listen to the oldies stations. Yeah I'm still only 19. Fuck'em, no-one else plays the Beatles.

I feel old when I see the (relative) youth around, theyre a pack of stuck up bastards. I find myself saying "When I was that age I had respect!" and then I feel old.

Pumas are back in style, that makes me feel old. Omg, Lacoste is back too!!!

People getting their drivers licenses today were <i>born</i> in 1990.

This is a good thing... if you even remotely complained of feeling old I would have to kick your sweet butt... :lol:

I'm a mother of a teenager.

I'm over thirty.

My back hurts.

Waaahhhh!!!

The day I looked at a gorgeous young man, and my only thought was, "he would be great for my daughter". That really made me feel old!

I feel old every day. The scary part about it, is that I'm only 23 years old. Teen girls still look at me and gawk at me fairly often, so that kinda helps. It's when I bring up things like Voltron, Thundercats or 8-bit gaming systems that they're like "wtf?".

My daughter bringing home school projects that I remember doing when I went to school.

Today was cress grown on wet blotting paper.

I'm proud of her, but it seems like it was only last month I was doing that stuff.

In my head I'm still the same kid I was at 12, and the guy that first bought a beer at 17, and the person that went to university in the scary big city.

Then I realise that I'm now officially no longer in my early 30s (just gone 35). That means that I'm almost half way through the game.

Wow!

This makes me feel old... Right here:

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=89009

What info can I give to a young man of 18 years?
Take it easy.
Calm down.
Have fun.
Don't worry.
Have lots of safe sex.
Follow your heart.
Follow your dick sometimes too. (safely)

I wouldn't listen to me either. Shit. How can you tell an 18 year old male anything?

I have been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Would I change my experiences? Not for anything in the world. Those experiences made me who I am!

Oh, please..... :rolleyes:

explain! lol. It's so true though.. those are my favorite cartoon's. I grew up on them. hell, even the Super Mario Brothers Super Show I was watching. teens these days don't know those things, and that scares me :( Or I talk about my commodore 64/128 computer and they still don't know what I'm talking about. It's like i'm talking greek to them. :(

I caught myself wishing that I could see *real* news programming again with Cronkite.

Son, :D, I think some of us older types need to sit you down and explain what cartoons were really like in days of old... :D

Mal, this wouldn't be thread-jacking, would it?

My favorite cartoons were "Beanie & Cecil", "Huckleberry Hound", and "Yogi Bear & BooBoo".

Damn, I'm older than dirt. :)

I remember when the last two were on during prime time.


dang, I'm old, too.

Some more... "Woody Wood Pecker" (now doesn't that take on a whole new meaning?), "Road Runner", and the whole Bugs, Daffy, Elmer crowd.

Losing my hair makes me feel old.

I can still sing the theme song to "Mighty Mouse".

I was too old to be cool to watch the "Flintstones" or the "Jetsons".

The last one, I promise. "Rocky and Bulwinkle", the cartoons, not the movie.

My friend's grandfather just turned 100 years old. He's older than...

the Great War
the roaring 20s
automobiles
the depression
World War II
nuclear power
television
McCarthyism
the Korean War
the 60s
computers
the Vietnam War
the information age

... just to name a few. And he's almost as old as airplanes and motion pictures. So he makes me feel very, very young. Who knows what we will have lived through by the time we reach 100 years of age?

So you're not as old as you think. :)

Great perspective, CopperTop. :)

I don't feel old, just well seasoned, like a thick piece of wood. Okay, a little old:

* My grandfather on my father's side was born just _before_ the Civil War (He would have said, War Between the States). He was in his 60s when my dad was born, but still..

* More of my frontage moves up and down when I run.
* Few film fans I meet anymore are interested in anything before the '80s.
* When I was born, there were fewer than 100 computers in the United States, and the British Empire still existed.
* I can't eat chain restaurant junk food anymore; just can't stomach it. No Mickey Ds, Burger King, Taco Bell, KFC, or whatever. But pizza will be with me always, thank god. And non-franchise burritos.
* I remember hating Richard Nixon with a passion.

Who didn't hate Nixon? On the other hand, I wasn't that fond of LBJ either. I have to admit, though, that he became president in an unpopular way. I still can't forget Jackie in her pink suit witnessing his swearing in. Must have been a tough thing for a newly made widow to do.

In that vein, you're _really_ an old guy if you remember who David Frye was. And you're really, really old if you remember who Vaughn Meader was. And you're absolutely an antique if you still have any of their albums (I still have vinyl of Frye's "Richard Nixon -- A Fantasy.")

I have THe First Family (and vol 2) and The First Family Rides Again, on vinly- Vaughn Meader is a riot... the first ladies tour of the white house if classic...

My son asking when he first saw an original “star trek” (Captain Kirk era) rerun: “Dad, why is his phone so big?”

The question asked after telling someone that no, there was no way to recover the data on an old 8 inch Apple II diskette: “There must be some way… how did people read floppies before there were computers?”

And the biggie:
Realizing that each of these events (the first that came to mind) occurred almost a decade ago.

ARGH!

Knowing that a kid I used to babysit is now a well respected broker with a huge firm of his own and my little brother has hired his firm to set up a trust for his 4 kids! Just seems weird in a way....

When I ask younger kids (13 or 14) if they remember TV shows like Ninja Turtles or movies like The Lion King and they have no idea what I'm talking about because they were either too young to know about it...or weren't born yet :|.

Then I realize I'm not old! I'm a young man still and I won't be old for many many many years to come. And even then I'll still probably act like a kid :p

Asta!!

- having a child going into kindergarten this yr
- being divorced
- thinking that I graduated 8 frickin yrs ago
- seeing all the cool toys coming back that were popular when I was a kid (gloworm, care bears, cabbage patch kids, rainbow brite, strawberry shortcake, hello kitty)
- the 80s returning
- hearing songs from the 90s that take me back

I was just talking about this at the Toronto meet-up last night, but whenever I meet someone I can have an adult conversation with, then I find out that they're younger than my little brother, so: adults that are younger than him make me feel old.

My youngest brother is 14 now and in a few years, he'll be an adult and I'll be 30. Now I know that's not old (which I consider to be about Charlatan's age :lol: ...well maybe old is more like 70 or higher), but it makes me reflect on my age.

Also, when I watch the Oscars, seeing certain entertainers on the deathlist (is that what it's called?). That makes me feel old.

I feel old sometimes because there is an age gap of up to four years between me and my friends.