You Know You Are Old When

[Jstpssng]

That happened to me at TSC, but I had 50 and 80# sacks of feed. I swallowed my pride and graciously answered YES!
Older and wiser beats young and stupid.

The last time I bought grain at TSC it was (two) 50 lb bags, which I then tossed over my shoulder and headed out the door. In hindsight it was a dumb move which my back paid for, but what happened next made me feel even more stupid. I generally hold my hand out at arm's length because the automatic doors are so slow. This time I didn't and walked into the darned thing... with 100 lbs of grain on my shoulder.

 

[TractorTech]

Yeah, being older doesn't mean you can't do it anymore and may even let you live longer with less pain.

Work smarter, not harder!

 

[Pixguy]

To us it was when the baseball players seem like kids.

 

[jjeff]

Or when you realize successful head coaches are younger than you?

 

[MoKelly]

To us it was when the baseball players seem like kids.

Or, when all your childhood hero’s are dead.

Bob Gibson, Lou Brock, etc.

 

[Jstpssng]

To us it was when the baseball players seem like kids.

The first time for me was when all of the girls at McDonald's looked too young (AKA jailbait). Now that's come around full circle. Many of them are close to my age again but serve as reminders why I don't eat there much- fat, toothless, and way too expensive for what I get.

 

[ultrarunner]

Or when patients checking in for surgery seemed so old and now many are younger or one is a grade school or high school classmate and looks so old!

 

[jjeff]

Or when you follow your parents and grandparents footsteps and watch the wheel and sometimes jeopardy every weeknight.

 

[masseyrider]

You're fully aware how much a funeral costs.
It's part of the conversation with your remaining friends.
You have almost the same variety and number of pills as the local pharmacy.
You're on a first name basis with your pharmacist.
You go to the pharmacy more frequently than the grocer.
When you talk with friends you feel comfortable telling them about all the possible side effects of their new meds.
Your friends rate the food and drink at the different funerals you've been to lately.
You skip doing things with your tractor on days your hip makes it difficult to climb on.
You'd like a new truck but they're to high to be climbing in and out all the time.
You need friends to help pull you out of a sports car.
You watch GRIT and the old rerun channel because that was good TV.
The movie starlets you found hot as a kid are dead or a 100.
You can't name one of the new ones under 60.

 

[masscity]

When I was 39 and my Dad was 65 when he came to visit me, I had 4 times more gray hair than him.

When 50 something and the Barber asked me if I wanted my eyebrows trimmed.