You know you are getting old when:

[GHT]

YOU know you're getting old when you watch the Grammys and AC DC opens. You say to yourself, wow they are really old and then you realize that they are your age and you grew up with them. That really hurts.

Have you ever thought, when you have read about the death of a celebrity, someone whose concert you went to, in your youth, on seeing their age, you were surprised how old they were, and then realise that it's only a few years older than yourself. Happens a lot the longer you stay on your perch.

 

[Sloan1874]

I remember my dad being shocked when George Harrison died, commenting that it hardly seemed yesterday that he was young man jumping in the back of his car with the rest of the band to be driven to a gig. Quite a good memory by all accounts...

 

[Dan Allen]

You know you're getting old when you don't need to fall down to end up covered in bruises.

I know what you mean...With the aspirin and fish oil the doctor has me on coupled with the naturally thinning of the skin as it ages I now have to be extra nice to the wife/secretary of war. A harsh look can bring on severe bruising.

 

[Zombie_61]

Have you ever thought, when you have read about the death of a celebrity, someone whose concert you went to, in your youth, on seeing their age, you were surprised how old they were, and then realise that it's only a few years older than yourself. Happens a lot the longer you stay on your perch.

About 15 years ago my wife and I went to a concert and, while sitting in the audience waiting for the show to start, I realized it would be the first time I'd attended a concert where I was older than everyone who would be on stage performing.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I have often felt the same way about baseball players. I'm not only older than all of the players on the field, but I'm also older than many of the managers and coaches. How ridiculous that is. Managers and coaches are baggy-pantsed, wrinkly-faced old codgers who played ball in the twenties, not people younger than me.

 

[Harp]

Managers and coaches are baggy-pantsed, wrinkly-faced old codgers who played ball in the twenties.

Casey Stengelese memories. And Leo the Lion too. :coffee:

 

[LizzieMaine]

Eddie Popowski and the "Popowski flip." Where are you, Eddie, now that we need you?

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Given the ubiquitousness of Disney in our popular culture, you know you're getting old when there are Disney characters and movies that you remember that most kids have never heard of.

 

[HudsonHawk]

I have often felt the same way about baseball players. I'm not only older than all of the players on the field, but I'm also older than many of the managers and coaches. How ridiculous that is. Managers and coaches are baggy-pantsed, wrinkly-faced old codgers who played ball in the twenties, not people younger than me.

It doesn't seem that long ago when I would think "wow, there are Big Leaguers younger than me." Now there are Hall of Famers younger than me.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Hopefully the baseball commissioner is not younger than you yet.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Nobody should be older than the Baseball Commissioner.

 

[HudsonHawk]

Hopefully the baseball commissioner is not younger than you yet.

For a point of comparison the current baseball commissioner is 55.

Now some of you please have the courtesy to warn us before you start throwing things.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I am, at this moment, not older than the baseball commissioner. But the shoes I'm wearing are.

 

[Stearmen]

For a point of comparison the current baseball commissioner is 55.

Now some of you please have the courtesy to warn us before you start throwing things.

Darn! I really am old!

 

[Stearmen]

I have often felt the same way about baseball players. I'm not only older than all of the players on the field, but I'm also older than many of the managers and coaches. How ridiculous that is. Managers and coaches are baggy-pantsed, wrinkly-faced old codgers who played ball in the twenties, not people younger than me.

That's funny! I was talking to a friend about Peyton Manning possibly retiring. I made the comment that he is an old Geezer, which in quarterback years he is. Then I found out he was born in 1976, I am old enough to be his father! That just isn't right.

 

[Zombie_61]

Given the ubiquitousness of Disney in our popular culture, you know you're getting old when there are Disney characters and movies that you remember that most kids have never heard of.

This isn't limited strictly to Disney characters and movies--I've worked with people younger than myself, and occasionally people who were approximately my age, who had never heard of some of the movies from the 1930s and 1940s that my friends and I grew up watching.

Also, a friend once relayed a story about him, his wife, and a couple of friends leaving the theater after seeing James Cameron's Titanic in 1997. He made some sort of wisecrack about everyone dying at the end, and a teenaged girl waiting in line for the next showing yelled, "Oh, thanks for ruining it for us!" at him. :twitch:

 

[GHT]

Also, a friend once relayed a story about him, his wife, and a couple of friends leaving the theater after seeing James Cameron's Titanic in 1997. He made some sort of wisecrack about everyone dying at the end, and a teenaged girl waiting in line for the next showing yelled, "Oh, thanks for ruining it for us!" at him. :twitch:

My sister-in-law's daughter, who at the time was about thirteen, was watching the 1970's epic: Frank Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth. The scene was the stable, Mary was in labour. My neice says aloud: "I wonder if she has a boy or a girl!" That young lady is now 51, and still blushes at her faux pas.

 

[jamespowers]

Darn! I really am old!

Yes, yes you are.

 

[Stearmen]

This isn't limited strictly to Disney characters and movies--I've worked with people younger than myself, and occasionally people who were approximately my age, who had never heard of some of the movies from the 1930s and 1940s that my friends and I grew up watching.

Also, a friend once relayed a story about him, his wife, and a couple of friends leaving the theater after seeing James Cameron's Titanic in 1997. He made some sort of wisecrack about everyone dying at the end, and a teenaged girl waiting in line for the next showing yelled, "Oh, thanks for ruining it for us!" at him. :twitch:

I know people my age who will absolutely never watch a B&W movie under any circumstance! Of course, we all grew up with B&W TVs.

 

[Stearmen]

Yes, yes you are.

:heh: