You know you are getting old when:

[NoraGlover]

My dad says "You're getting old when you mow a lot and yell on TV". That's why he doesn't have a lawnmower and a TV.

 

[MikeBravo]

Bless 'im, Ringo was (any talent disparity aside - though I'll take his songwriting contribution to the Beatles over Harrisons - bar Piggies - eight days a week) truly the Keef of the Beatles, in that he was never the pretty one, but he's grown into his looks in a way that has ultimately aged better than the others.

Apparently when the Beatles toured the US in 1964 all the girls went ga-ga for Ringo.

 

[Edward]

Apparently when the Beatles toured the US in 1964 all the girls went ga-ga for Ringo.

Power, money and fame - all aphrodisiacs of the highest order!

 

[Zombie_61]

My dad says "You're getting old when you mow a lot and yell on TV". That's why he doesn't have a lawnmower and a TV.

During the 20-21 years that we've employed him and his crew our gardener's hair has turned mostly gray. Maybe mowing makes you old?

 

[Edward]

Herself stopped letting me watch certain politics-realted shows on television as they only wind me up and I keep yelling at them. Thing is..... I've realised I like being wound up and yelling at the TV. I'm slowly turning into Abe Simpson....

 

[Turnip]

As long as you don’t suffer from German Alzheimer, forgetting everything but grumpy attitude, there’s nothing wrong becoming an old sack, like me...

 

[tonyb]

...you think what you could additionally accomplish at the occasion once being down lacing your shoes.

Or at least thinking about making every trip up and down the basement steps count for something.

 

[GHT]

You know that you are definitely in the second half of life if you refuse to go anywhere where you can't sit down.

 

[tonyb]

… thoughts of taking up skiing again (living as I do an easy drive from world class slopes) are quickly and easily dismissed.

 

[belfastboy]

Power, money and fame - all aphrodisiacs of the highest order!

Yep, Onassis and Kissinger never had problems attracting the babes.

 

[GHT]

Nothing makes me feel as old as having to scroll down to find my year of birth.

 

[Zombie_61]

Nothing makes me feel as old as having to scroll down to find my year of birth.

It's worse if you scroll down to find the list ends before it gets to your year of birth.

 

[Hercule]

You know you're getting old when you miss it when your barber doesn't trim your eyebrows.

 

[Zombie_61]

You know you're getting old when you miss it when your barber doesn't trim your eyebrows.

Barber...hmm...barber...barber...barber? Oh, right, that was a person who would cut your hair for a fee back in the olden days before the Coronavirus revealed just how stupid our elected leaders are.

As for the eyebrows I trim my own when I trim my beard, usually once a week or so. Not gutsy enough to attempt to cut my own hair though. Not yet, anyway; maybe after so much of it falls out that I can cut my hair and trim my beard/brows at the same time.

 

[scottyrocks]

I didn't really felt old, but worth to tell, I think:
Yesterday, I came back from supermarket with my shoppping trolley. At the last part of my way, uphill, two teengirls went before me, circa 13/14 yo. One girl probably from our smalltown, looking totally normal, but the other girl probably visitor, looking exactly like these styled big city-Instagram/Youtube fitness b.....s.
This kind:

While a car wanted to pass the small uphill street (which is actually a redirection), I stepped aside with my trolley and waited until it passed. The two girls went on and then there was again much more distance between us.

But when I reached the hiltop, the style girl turned around and called:
"Why do ( formal "Sie") you got your shirt IN your pants?

Me: "What?"

She: "Why do you got your shirt IN your pants? That doesn't now look thaaat good."

Me: "That's totally different. Sometimes I got it in, sometimes out. Always like I'm in the mood for."

Silence...

Discussion succesful "averted".

I think that whole story was just an excuse to post that picture.

 

[Zombie_61]

I think that whole story was just an excuse to post that picture.

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

 

[Edward]

Barber...hmm...barber...barber...barber? Oh, right, that was a person who would cut your hair for a fee back in the olden days

I haven't visited a barber since I fiest went to a number 1 all over in 2004; since 2006, I've been strictly a razor man. One day, I'll treat myself to a staight razor shave in a Barber's - "all off bar the eyebrows, my good man!"

 

[KILO NOVEMBER]

Another gift from my mailbox. Today I got a 5 x 9 inch post card advertising a great "lifestyle" in a "continuing care community" a few hours drive from here. The "babes" pictured in the photograph must have been close to 20 years older than me.
The "makes me feel old" part was that it wasn't addressed to "Postal Customer", or "Resident". It was addressed to me.

 

[tonyb]

^^^^^
It seems that every few weeks I get a solicitation from one undertaker or another. The ones offering cremation only do a lot of direct mail advertising.

 

[Tiki Tom]

Another gift from my mailbox. Today I got a 5 x 9 inch post card advertising a great "lifestyle" in a "continuing care community" a few hours drive from here. The "babes" pictured in the photograph must have been close to 20 years older than me.

Oddly enough, I've seen several articles lately talking about how, as the 1960s and 1970s hipsters enter their 60s and 70s, Senior Living Centers have become hotbeds (pun intended) of loose morals and STDs. On the one hand, it is a little scary to think about. On the other hand, we just want everyone to be happy.