You suddenly realize you are getting old.

Gramps49Gramps49 Shipmate
I had mentioned Leo is the first pope younger than me.

Another one I realized is when you have more doctors than close friends.

Saw a meme yesterday.

My mind thinks it is 29.
My humor is that of a 12 year old.
But my body realizes it survived the Civil War.
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  • American or English?
  • ArethosemyfeetArethosemyfeet Shipmate, Heaven Host
    American or English?

    Be optimistic: Spanish.
  • alienfromzogalienfromzog Shipmate
    American or English?

    Be optimistic: Spanish.

    Caesar's civil war?
  • The_RivThe_Riv Shipmate
    Cain & Abel?
  • CaissaCaissa Shipmate
    G-d and Lucifer?
  • Gramps49Gramps49 Shipmate
    https://forums.shipoffools.com/post/quote/6410/Comment_731598
    Caissa wrote: »
    G-d and Lucifer?

    I think some would say that one is still going on.

    Regard's the English Civil War. The family name did survive.

    I do not think I have any direct connection to the Spanish Civil War.
  • rhubarbrhubarb Shipmate
    I wonder at what age you are officially old. I can remember that when I was a child most adults were ancient but now they seem young.
  • SojournerSojourner Shipmate
    How about three score and ten, or eighty if you are strong…
  • Ex_OrganistEx_Organist Shipmate
    rhubarb wrote: »
    I wonder at what age you are officially old. I can remember that when I was a child most adults were ancient but now they seem young.

    It is all relative. About 40 years ago I was visiting my elderly parents. Walking round the estate of bungalows for the aged where they lived, my father pointed out one house where the occupant was "really old" as she was over 80. My father was in his early 90s at the time.
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    I remember a doctor asking my mother, then in her eighties, what sort of things she did - 'Driving old dears to the supermarket'.
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    My gran was like that. She used to go to the Over 60s club, and she always used to go and get the teas for the ladies on her table. She was a sprightly 80 year old - the other ladies were all in their 60s, but had terrible problems with their legs.
    And it's scary to realise that I'm officially an old lady now! I'm about to move into an almshouse, and you have to be over 60 to qualify.
  • PuzzlerPuzzler Shipmate
    My late mother-in-law, a retired solicitor, still had a few clients she supported with Wills, Trusts etc. She referred to them as her “ old ladies”, though in some cases she was older than them.
  • North East QuineNorth East Quine Purgatory Host
    Early young -teens
    Middle young - twenties
    Old young - thirties
    Early middle age -forties
    Middle middle age -fifties
    Old middle age -sixties
    Early old - seventies
    Middle old - eighties
    Old old - nineties

    By this reckoning I have a few years of being "middle-aged" to go.
  • BoogieBoogie Heaven Host
    rhubarb wrote: »
    I wonder at what age you are officially old. I can remember that when I was a child most adults were ancient but now they seem young.

    When I was 16 I thought 30 was really old.

    For quite some time I had 70 as officially 'old'. But now that I'm 68 ...
  • Graven ImageGraven Image Shipmate
    Most senior discounts start at fifty-five. To live in senior housing, you also have to be fifty-five.
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    Most senior discounts start at fifty-five. To live in senior housing, you also have to be fifty-five.

    Please don't. That's - younger than me.
  • Gramps49Gramps49 Shipmate
    Most senior discounts start at fifty-five. To live in senior housing, you also have to be fifty-five.

    Wife realized she was old when we went to a movie theater and the ticket attendant asked if she wanted the senior discount. Technically, she was 54 at the time. But I told her take the discount. And that was 20 some years ago.
  • AravisAravis Shipmate
    I heard a different perspective some years ago from a friend who is an opera singer.
    “Turning fifty was fine,” she said. “It was only a number. The real shock was when my agent rang me about a performance of The Marriage of Figaro. I just assumed Susanna, I’ve played Susanna many times, and then she said they were offering me the Countess! I mean, the Countess is an excellent part. But it is an Older Woman and that was a real blow.”

    Not a problem that had ever occurred to me…
  • Jane RJane R Shipmate
    You know you're really old when pensioners start to look young.

    Of course the way things are going, most millennials probably won't get their pensions until they're about 75...
  • NenyaNenya All Saints Host, Ecclesiantics & MW Host
    My father retired at 65 and he seemed really old. Now I'm that age :flushed: . My parents celebrated their Ruby Wedding Anniversary the same year that Mr Nen and I were married and it seemed to us then a lifetime. And next year... :flushed:
  • RockyRogerRockyRoger Shipmate
    You know you are vintage (not old) if, when watching any film, even where English is spoke, you always have the subtitles on.
  • NenyaNenya All Saints Host, Ecclesiantics & MW Host
    RockyRoger wrote: »
    You know you are vintage (not old) if, when watching any film, even where English is spoke, you always have the subtitles on.

    We are not quite at that point but we do find ourselves saying to each other on a regular basis, "What did s/he say?" :flushed:
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host
    Once upon a time, over twenty years ago, my mother told me she was going to get a gift for a fifty year old. Immediately I wondered which of her friends was turning fifty.

    It was me!! :lol:
  • Gramps49Gramps49 Shipmate
    RockyRoger wrote: »
    You know you are vintage (not old) if, when watching any film, even where English is spoke, you always have the subtitles on.

    We do. Mrs. Gramps is hard of hearing. Helps her understand what is going on.
  • PuzzlerPuzzler Shipmate
    My daughter who is 54 was horrified when I informed her that u3a is for people aged 55 and over. In my group, 75+ would be more accurate.
  • SandemaniacSandemaniac Shipmate
    When you reach down for a cricket ball and can suddenly reach no further....
  • When you get down to tie a shoe lace and think, "Is there anything else I can do while I'm down here?"
  • ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
    Today I was just automatically given a “senior discount.” 😳
  • ChastMastr wrote: »
    Today I was just automatically given a “senior discount.” 😳
    That started happening some time ago for me ... I think (for men) that hair loss may have something to do with it!

  • The RogueThe Rogue Shipmate
    When my father-in-law retired one thing he did was to visit the elderly in the church just to spend time with them. He stopped doing this when he realised he is older than anyone he might visit.
  • Tree BeeTree Bee Shipmate
    Puzzler wrote: »
    My daughter who is 54 was horrified when I informed her that u3a is for people aged 55 and over. In my group, 75+ would be more accurate.

    While shopping in my lunch hour on my 55th birthday I was approached by a member of U3A looking for new members. I was horrified!
  • Graven ImageGraven Image Shipmate
    When your children are eligible for a senior discount.
  • MrsBeakyMrsBeaky Shipmate
    When your children are eligible for a senior discount.

    I'm not quite there yet but all four of mine have now turned 40 and I clearly remember my own 40th birthday with all of them at the celebration......
  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    Old is at least 5 years older than I am at any given time.

    I am often told I don't look my age (71), but later this month I'm 72, which is the age at which my Mum died.

    I feel a bit weird about that.
  • I have been realising recently that in the next few years, I will have been married as long as my parents were.

    And that my children will be the same age as I was when my dad died.

    And I will be the same age as when his dad died - another ten years to get to my dads age.

    It is shocking when you realise that you really are a generation on from critical times.
  • PuzzlerPuzzler Shipmate
    A friend who is 18 months older than me has been telling for far too long about the troubles of being old. It seems I am finally catching up with her now I am in my eightieth year.
  • CaissaCaissa Shipmate
    I find it hard to claim to be old at 61 when I am often on the pickleball court with 3 players who are older than I am and in good shape. The oldest player in our group last summer was 82 and incredibly spry.
  • TubbsTubbs Admin Emeritus, Epiphanies Host
    When I bought cake for the team to mark my work anniversary and one of the team said I'd worked there longer than he'd been alive. I still let him have some cake.
  • That was gracious @Tubbs, I don't know that I could have been that kind!!

    I've been feeling old for about 22 years, I can date it pretty accurately from when Cheery son was ill. Every Registrar that came around for chats with paperwork to be completed seemed to be a teenager to me and I wasn't yet 40! Things have improved slightly since then as they have aged. Some of the Registrars are now full Consultants and working at the same hospital!!
  • Gramps49Gramps49 Shipmate
    Tubbs wrote: »
    When I bought cake for the team to mark my work anniversary and one of the team said I'd worked there longer than he'd been alive. I still let him have some cake.

    You mean, to eat it?

    Last night we went out to celebrate Mrs Gramp's 76. When we told the waitress that, she remarked, you don't look it. To which we assured her it will be coming for her faster than she thinks it will. She quickly left.
  • TinaTina Shipmate Posts: 44
    When you hear music described as 'Dad rock' and realise they're not referring to the Stones, Dire Straits etc, but stuff that came out in the Noughties.
  • SandemaniacSandemaniac Shipmate
    When you meet someone at an event who knows you, but you can't read their name badge so can't place them...
  • quetzalcoatlquetzalcoatl Shipmate
    A few years ago, I realised I don't care about most things. I think this is about getting old, but maybe I am reverting to psychopathy. I don't care.
  • I realised when on a tour and there was something someone had said in 1970, and I asked if they were still alive. I realise now that it was ridiculous, as they would have been 140, but to me, 1970 is maybe 20 years ago. Not 50.

    But to make you all feel young again, it was at the Anne Frank House, and the guide pointed out that Anne might have still been alive - late 90s, but still entirely possible.
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    edited May 14
    Tina wrote: »
    When you hear music described as 'Dad rock' and realise they're not referring to the Stones, Dire Straits etc, but stuff that came out in the Noughties.

    I did "Wake me up when September ends" at an open mike recently and introduced it as a recent song. And by comparison with most of my covers it is. It's 21 years old.

    Most of my covers are late 60s through to 80s. Some of them are older than me, to be fair.
  • When I casually mentioned to our young GP - a good doctor - that my father died at 76, his brother died at 76, their father died at 76 and that I was feeling a little uneasy at having exceeded that age, he laughed. And wrote something in his notes.
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    I mentioned 'Allo, 'Allo in a Discord server, and one of the moderators reminded me that most of the other users (it's a Doctor Who Discord) would probably not have been alive when it was being made. And, oh God I just looked it up, it was actually made between 1984 and 1992!
  • RockyRogerRockyRoger Shipmate
    Listen very carefully, I'll say this only once: 'we are old'.

    Heavens to murgatroyd! ..... how did that happen?
  • RuthRuth Shipmate
    RockyRoger wrote: »
    Listen very carefully, I'll say this only once: 'we are old'.

    Heavens to murgatroyd! ..... how did that happen?

    We got lucky. Consider the alternative. I'm trying to keep that in mind as I get older.
  • Jengie JonJengie Jon Shipmate
    I keep getting told at church not to get old, they do not seem to buy it that the alternative is worse.
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