When you're sat at the breakfast table and you hear snap, crackle and pop and you're not even eating.
When the sharp pain in your thumb as you sew a button on, isn't from the needle, but is the joint itself! (as I discovered this very morning )
Or one of my favourites from UK motoring-journalist Jeremy Clarkson - "when you're looking down at the water in the basin as you shave, you look up into the mirror, and you realise that your face is still looking down..."
When you used to sneak out of the house at 9pm to go to a party, but now you sneak out of the party at 9pm to go home
You start talking about something that happened in the last year or two and someone says: 'dude, that was like 20 years go.'
you have that weird moment when you realise that your workmate is actually young enough to be your child (Dirty old man feelings optional)
... when young people start to annoy the fuck out of you. ... when every muscle and joint in your body aches... constantly... for no reason. ... when you have to ask or check your phone to find out what day it is.
When your co-workers could be your grandchildren. When your resume goes back more than 50 years. When toys saved from your childhood are now considered antiques, implying that you are also an antique. When you start saying "back when I was a kid..." When you start getting applications for AARP. Even worse, when you start thinking, "yeah, that's probably a pretty good idea" and start to fill out the forms. When you have lots of answers to "You know you're getting old when" threads based on personal experience.
You know you're getting old when... -Athletes younger than you retire. -There are mayors who are younger than you. -There are billionaires who are younger than you. -There are diabetic people who are younger than you. -You remember a time when certain words were spelled differently. -Time flies so fast for you that you just list modern songs in the Oldies list. -You thought the Beatles were old, but a longer time has passed since you first heard of them. -You lack baby and toddler photos of yourself because the quality of the photos have declined. -Your mom tells you to change the radio channel because the Mamas & the Papas are too intense for her. -There are younger people who make economic predictions or give suggestions on entrepreneurship on YouTube. -There are events that happened after you became an adult, but there are now adults who were born after those events. -It has been a long time since certain YouTubers have gotten married and you've been watching them since they were teenagers.
I remember going into EJ Korvettes (anyone remember that chain?) to buy some albums - yes, vinyl. Two much younger girls were also browsing. One pulls out Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and says to her friend, "Hey look! Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings!" BTW, EJ Korvettes was Eight Jewish Korean Veterans.
I mean, to be fair, a lot of songs I enjoy are on the classic rock station. I'm fifteen going on sixteen, for reference.
When other students are shocked that a) you didn't have the internet at school or b) a computer or c) a cell/mobile phone, and that you bought your first phone yourself, with your own money you got from working that job you had for 3 years already. As an adult.
When you dislocate your ankle on a trampoline and the radiologist tells you "people our age can't really do that kind of stuff anymore" ...
does he never see high school or college athletes with ankle injuries? Even I, a fresh young thing, broke my own ankle a few months ago. I think ankles get screwed up regardless of age.
During a visit to the Redi-Clinic for a foot injury, the doctor told me in all seriousness it was time, at my age, to stop playing basketball. I was 33.
... When you find yourself saying, "Its much faster on the A3502". From an (old) Radio 4 comedy song.
