OT: Things that make you feel old.

[Dawgpile]

I am sooo glad I was young, wild & crazy before there were cell phones & evidence.

Oh ****, this x100000

 

[harrydawg.sixpack]

Steve Air McNair is dead - about my age.
Peyton Manning will be soon retired in the next year or two.
My son is a senior in HS
My youngest son is bigger than I am - I appear to be shrinking

 

[drt7891]

Very few people in high school now don't remember the days you could not talk on the phone and be online at the same time.... or having to dialup to check your email.

 

[HD6]

DS and I were doing our picks on This Is Our Show, and I made a comment about "this isn't your father's Miami", but then I realized I'm the father in that equation. Miami was good when I was growing up. They aren't my Miami any more. Made me feel old.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

When you go out in the street in your neighborhood to tell some punk kid that just got his license to slow down.

 

[kired]

When you go visit a doctor that is obviously years younger than you.

 

[FlabLoser]

Pretty much everything in this thread. And hangovers. 2-3 days if I really get after it.

What is it with hangovers? I used to never get them. Now at an older age, they kick my ***.

I understood a hangover is really a dehydration effect. And its true that a big glass of water before bed does a lot to limit the hangover.

But still, this was never ever an issue for me until I started feeling old.

Also - I can't sleep late after a night of drinking. In fact, I wake up earlier. HATE that.

 

[PBRME]

Or tell the neighbor kids to stay off your lawn. Of course this little hooligan was climbing my fence as a shortcut to his back yard.

 

[DAWG61]

When you throw out an 80's or 90's movie/music reference and get blank stares back

 

[horshack.sixpack]

The first time I told my kids that they sounded like a broken record...

 

[CivilDog]

Watched a video of a guy squalling tires last night and all I could think was "Damn, what a waste sitting there wasting money and eating those tires up"

 

[WayboDawg]

My first year at State, I actually looked forward to getting to my seat in the student section 2 hours before the game with my friends and then standing the whole game in the hot sun with drunk screaming kids and loud cowbells. Now, I'd much rather sit in the shaded area of the stands with the calm and collected alumni, or just watch the game at home.

 

[horshack.sixpack]

Whenever I see some kid doing a burn out all I can think is daddy is still buying his gas and tires. That and practical things like "I wonder how long until his transmission/u joints/rear end crap out." Then I imagine what kind of creative story he'd tell his dad if he dropped the drive shaft right there. Then I get jealous that daddy isn't still buying my gas and tires so I can do burnouts...

 

[WayboDawg]

I think the same thing when I see pictures on facebook of folks down at the creek doing their absolute best to destroy a $7000 four wheeler. A lot of that is young unmarried guys with too much oil field/offshore money to burn.

 

[cowbell88]

My wife and I just had our first child. We're both in late 30s. I'm not prepared how to handle it when someone says "you have the cutest Grandson". This happened to one of out friends who are the same age.

 

[MSU_Dawg127]

When you teach 15,16,17 year old kids who have no remembrance of 9/11 it makes you realize you're aging a lot faster than you thought.

 

[CivilEngineerDog]

Speaking at MSU Student Chapter of ASCE and realizing I graduated before anyone

at the meeting was born@!#

 

[esplanade91]

Man, you guys are old. I'm out of school and have a full time job and I was 10 years old when 9/11 happened. How does that make you feel?

 

[Wooly17er]

How about being old enough to wish every morning that your rear end would crap out? Or checking the size of your doctor's hands before telling him your symptoms.

 

[dawgstudent]

Good thing I can see user's email addresses.

 

[Drebin]

When you realize the harmless act of checking out a hot female makes you a creepy old man is a kick in the nuts.

I can reaffirm this. My now high school daughter brings her little friends over to swim, and it can be a little uncomfortable. It also makes me feel old as balls. Oh, and it also reminds me that sixteen and seventeen year old girls are way hotter today than they were when I was that age (back in the mid 80s for those keeping score).

 

[KurtRambis4]

We're going

to have to see pics to determine how creepy this is....

 

[Lettucexxxx]

Exactly. That cash will burn out faster than their braincells.

 

[Digging dog]

Having 4 boxes of cassettes mostly from 80's and early 90's and no longer owning or wanting to find a cassette player.

 

[Drebin]

to have to see pics to determine how creepy this is....

Taking pics of them would be even creepier. And if my daughter wound up in one of the pics I wouldn't want you creeps looking at it.

 

[LandArchDawg]

THIS.

 

[Carlos_Spiceyweiner]

When I apparently injured my left shoulder....while sleeping....

 

[Wicked Pissah]

People born after the black album and use your illusion came out can buy alcohol

 

[Dawghouse]

When I apparently injured my left shoulder....while sleeping....

i woke up one day with a messed up ankle, it's been messed up now for almost 2 years and they can't diagnose it. they just tell me it's inflammation. feels like someone is stabbing me in the heel with an ice pick.

sucks balls getting old.

 

[horshack.sixpack]

I know a small Aisan lady doctor good for just such occasions...

 

[Bulldog Bruce]

Having a colleague at work introduce his mother to you and she is slightly younger than you.

 

[uptowndawg]

Lil Romeo turned 24 last month

It's like dat wodi

 

[missouridawg]

I'm 175 lbs and for some reason, I'm getting les and less bendy enough to comfortably put on a damn seatbelt. That's when it hit me.

 

[dirtydawg40]

I did great til forty, tore my left arm up lifting an 80lb bag of quick crete, while living with that for two years, then ruptured disc that requires surgery, which I refuse to have, now on Tuesday, I find out I have torn rotator cuff in right shoulder! Now, I'm 48 and I refuse to let all of this stop me! Ibuprophen and miller lite!

 

[dirtydawg40]

P.S., I benched 400, squated 615, and dead lifted 500 my sr year in high school!
Doc says I shoulda tried the band!

 

[missouridawg]

i woke up one day with a messed up ankle, it's been messed up now for almost 2 years and they can't diagnose it. they just tell me it's inflammation. feels like someone is stabbing me in the heel with an ice pick.

sucks balls getting old.

plantar facshitis or however you spell it

 

[TBone.sixpack]

Hell yeah. That is the spirit. I am still throwing the weight around myself. If I stop for 2 weeks you can literally see the muscle shrink. That is what kills me. I have always been a partier but I am about to give it up so I can lift and stay as in shape as possible.

 

[kired]

A day will come when most kids don't know what spinning tires are... traction control & all.

Plus the fact that "ridin around" isn't popular anymore - we're probably not far from that day.

 

[GreaterCowbell]

Trying to get enough flow not to piss on

Your shoes, while your seven year old son can pressure wash tar off a asphalt truck. It's like NASCAR installed a restricted plate.

 

[msu84grad]

Remembering when football games were played in the middle of thunderstorms...

Lightning, heavy rain, some wind, no shut downs for lightning. During one game in 1981 at Scott Field it was raining so hard that ringing your cowbell would leave many soaked.