OT - You Know You're Getting Old When...

Fred19Flintstone

You receive an invitation to join AARP.  I got one yesterday and Wilma is still having fun calling me "Old Man."

lousubcap

@Fred19Flintstone I resemble that comment.  I vaguely recall that I received my AARP invite on the day I turned 50.  Quite a data base for sure.  And that was long ago...

TexanOfTheNorth

For me, working with people younger than my own kids.

Chubbs

Man you guys are old  

Sookie

Someone today brought up the TV show "Love American Style" and I knew what it was AND sang a portion of the theme song.

DoubleEgger

Who the heck gets to retire at 50 anyway? 

jaydub58

Gee, I wish I could remember back to when I got my AARP invite!

Cookbook_Chip

I played golf with some groomsman at my nieces wedding last month. All the young dudes trying to crush it and shanking all over the course. I tee up, swing easy and straight down the fairway she goes!  I expect a bunch of high-fives, which I get, along with "alright, Mr Chip!  Old guys rule!"  Crap. Old guys?

HofstraJet

Your nieces and nephews call the music you listen to "oldies."

DoubleEgger

HofstraJet said:

Your nieces and nephews call the music you listen to "oldies."

I really started feeling old when I could remember when the songs on the classic rock station came out. 

Cookbook_Chip

DoubleEgger said:

HofstraJet said:

Your nieces and nephews call the music you listen to "oldies."

I really started feeling old when I could remember when the songs on the classic rock station came out. 

Sheesh. Even classic rock stations are playing '90s grunge now

theyolksonyou

There's a dad on my youngest sons baseball team who was born the year I was legal to drink.....

YukonRon

Taking my son to the music store, and he seeing a vinyl album for the first time, and watching him looking for the place you plug in the earbuds so you can listen to it. I thought it best not to show him an 8 track. Where did the 60's  and 70's go?

Cookbook_Chip

What's a music store?

Legume

Cookbook_Chip said:

What's a music store?

  I think he just called you old @YukonRon

YukonRon

@Legume @Cookbook_Chip There is no coincidence that in every known language from the beginning of human speech, there is no phrase that resembles "there is nothing more joyful than getting old and closer to death."
Yep, that is how I think.
Thanks guys.

RiverDoc

One of my favorite shirts!

Cookbook_Chip

I actually am excited to see what's next. But there's a great saying "everyone wants to go to heaven. But not today."  Yep.

DoubleEgger

This was my youth...

YukonRon

That is exactly what I am talking about.  I fear that my children might find my old Albums with the foldout cover.....and what may be left in the seams....

gpsegg

Anyone remember when you actually had to dial a telephone? or play a record?

YukonRon

Does anyone remember party lines on the phone as an less expensive option to a private line? When several people shared the same line to speak with others, and it was not a conference call?

theyolksonyou

Rolling down a window in the car?  Taping a show? Hell, rotating the antenna for the tv?

theyolksonyou

Using pliers to change from channel 3 to channel 12. "And smack it on the side while you're there"

Skiddymarker

DoubleEgger said:

This was my youth...

Knew I liked you for some reason - still one the best bands there is, along with the Stones. All of my kids and grandkids have been raised listening to AC/DC. My granddaughter used to sit in her car seat screaming "Dirty Feet, Dogs and Sheep" as the lyrics to Dirty Deeds....

Me, I still remember when being gay meant you were just happy.....

HofstraJet

theyolksonyou said:

Using pliers to change from channel 3 to channel 12. "And smack it on the side while you're there"

Watching whatever came on next because you didn't feel like getting up to change the channel.

Fred19Flintstone

HofstraJet said:

theyolksonyou said:

Using pliers to change from channel 3 to channel 12. "And smack it on the side while you're there"

Watching whatever came on next because you didn't feel like getting up to change the channel.

My Dad never had that problem.  He had four kids.

theyolksonyou

HofstraJet said:

theyolksonyou said:

Using pliers to change from channel 3 to channel 12. "And smack it on the side while you're there"

Watching whatever came on next because you didn't feel like getting up to change the channel.

My dad made me do it. 

HofstraJet

DoubleEgger said:

This was my youth...

Brian Johnson appeared at the New Years Eve Billy Joel concert I attended in Orlando last year to do You Shook Me All Night Long. Was in the front row.

DoubleEgger

^^^wow

DoubleEgger

theyolksonyou said:

Rolling down a window in the car?  Taping a show? Hell, rotating the antenna for the tv?

I was my dad's remote control and antenna adjuster....