You know you are getting old when:

[Tiki Tom]

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

I was startled the first time the barber asked if it was ok to trim my eyebrows. Now, I hope he will do so automatically. Goes without saying.

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

"True dat."

 

[Trenchfriend]

Last sunday, when we drove to my father in hospital in neighbour-smalltown, my mother only gets in because of the Corona-shit and I waited outside. While waiting, a couple parked right in front of the entrance and the woman brought her man into, by supporting him. Because you have to ring in the lobby and wait until you can speak through the intercom with the hospital admission, I also heard, that shey said her man is 38.
I don't know, but to me, beeing 36, he looked older, more like a 45 year old.

Or has my cognition changed?

 

[Tiki Tom]

More than once I have been aghast to learn that some old geezer who is bald, grey, wrinkled, toothless, feeble, unsteady, half-blind, half-deaf, and border-line demented is actually a few years younger than me. It has gotten so that I really don't want to know how old a person is.

 

[Zombie_61]

"It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage."
Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones Jr.

 

[Tiki Tom]

"It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage."
Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones Jr.

And the genetics.

 

[Hercule]

I was startled the first time the barber asked if it was ok to trim my eyebrows. Now, I hope he will do so automatically. Goes without saying.

I know, right? I was taken aback the first time too. That was something my dad had done! So my response has typically been "if you think they need it." Recently I've been searching for a new barber (the latest, of about five, seems to be a keeper) and this last one didn't do my eyebrows and I genuinely missed it. Not so fond of this Edward Teller thing I've got going on.

 

[Turnip]

...you’re drinking Coke not for taste, refreshment or caffeine but just for easier burping after your meal.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Coke, or Coke syrup, used to be prescribed fairly often by family doctors as a cure for colicky babies. That's how I got hooked on the stuff.

You can still buy "cola syrup" in small bottles in the digestive section at most drug stores. A spoonful works quite well in settling a nauseous stomach.

 

[Trenchfriend]

A spoonful works quite well in settling a nauseous stomach.

Must be the Theobromine, I think.

 

[MisterCairo]

Me: Girls, who are you listening to?
Girls: Billie Eilish
Me: Who?
Girls: She's a famous pop singer, what, you've never heard of her?
Me: Famous pop singer? Like Shaun Cassidy, or Leif Garrett, or Tiffany or Debbie Gibson?
Girls: Who?
Me: QED

 

[Turnip]

...“your“ music gets bargained away on lousy sampler sets running on heavy rotation in shopping channels.

 

[Bushman]

When you can't eat the whole lunch meal you could have 10 years ago.

 

[Tiki Tom]

When you can't eat the whole lunch meal you could have 10 years ago.

Yes. These days I go for a light lunch or even a vegetarian lunch. A decade or two ago, I could eat two pounds of chilly cheese fries at lunch and still go back to work. No more, I’m afraid.

 

[Turnip]

...you read the obituaries first instead of sports news, or read news papers at all.

 

[Turnip]

...going out means meeting the chaps for breakfast at the local IKEA restaurant.

 

[Zombie_61]

Me: Girls, who are you listening to?
Girls: Billie Eilish
Me: Who?
Girls: She's a famous pop singer, what, you've never heard of her?
Me: Famous pop singer? Like Shaun Cassidy, or Leif Garrett, or Tiffany or Debbie Gibson?
Girls: Who?
Me: QED

QED? Who's in that band?

...“your“ music gets bargained away on lousy sampler sets running on heavy rotation in shopping channels.

Or you only ever hear the Muzak cover version on elevators.

 

[Tiki Tom]

...you read the obituaries first instead of sports news, or read news papers at all.

Not too long ago I stopped by a newsstand and bought an old fashioned paper newspaper. Kid at the counter made some comment that I was old school or something like that. I said I missed reading an actual newspaper with my coffee. Staring at electronics is not the same.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Me: Girls, who are you listening to?
Girls: Billie Eilish
Me: Who?
Girls: She's a famous pop singer, what, you've never heard of her?
Me: Famous pop singer? Like Shaun Cassidy, or Leif Garrett, or Tiffany or Debbie Gibson?
Girls: Who?
Me: QED

The fact that they still use the term "pop singer" is somehow reassuring.

 

[Zombie_61]

The fact that they still use the term "pop singer" is somehow reassuring.

On the other hand, sometimes it seems all music, regardless of genre, is getting tossed into the "pop" category. But then, most of the music produced within the last 20 years or so is rubbish, so maybe that label is deserved.

 

[Trenchfriend]

I was car-driver, three times the last days. I drove my parents to the doc, etc., in their car.
And did it feel great, after a long time? Nope. It felt the same as in my last year as car-driver, 2017. Boring.

I think, I'm old.