You know you're getting old ...

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  1. OurJud

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    YKYGOW… the soles of your feet ache every single morning when you get out of bed, and for no obvious reason. My feet have just spent the last 8 hours doing absolutely nothing, and they ache more than they do at the end of the working day when I’ve been on them constantly for 10 hours!
     
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    YKYGOW it takes a minute to work out what YKYGOW means...
     
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    YKYGOW when you see two strands of white hair in your sideburn for the first time.
     
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    Pfft. I got my first grays when I was 16, and 28 years later I've got plenty more, but I still ain't old.
     
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    ... when you realize that you forgot that mobile phones exist in your stories
     
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    ... when you see two strands of white in your son's hair.
     
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    When you stop caring about white hairs.
     
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    When you talk about going to visit your aged mother, and someone who overhears the conversation looks at you and says, incredulously, "just how old is your mother?"
     
  9. Rad Scribbler

    Rad Scribbler Faber est suae quisque fortunae Contributor

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    YKYGOW ... your computer plays up and you yearn for the old pen & paper days.
     
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    YKYGOW you read a book about the old Burma-Shave signs and you remember seeing them and you realize most people born have never even heard of them, much less seen them.
     
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    Homer Potvin A tombstone hand and a graveyard mind Staff Supporter Contributor

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    Tom Waits keeps the memory alive.
     
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  12. GrahamLewis

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    I must not be old then because I never long for those days.
     
  13. GrahamLewis

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    Nope, 44 ain't old.
     
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    When none of today's slang means anything to you.
     
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