Hints that you're getting older

[babinro]

At 30 I already have a lot of 'old age' signs as a result of technology:

- I don't own a cell phone and can't work them when given one
- I don't actively use facebook, twitter or any common networking sites
- I probably know about 10 songs released in the last 10 years
- I largely consider gaming to be a single player offline experience
- I consider eating out or fast food to be a rare treat
- I feel that kids have it easy when compared to my upbringing
- I dislike nearly all post 2000 movies and cartoons when compared to those I grew up with (although t.v. has largely improved in show quality from the TGIF days)
- Standard health signs: I'm balding, starting to get grey hair and have frequent knee pain along with constant headaches.

 

[D Moness]

I tend take dates from around the mid to late-90s so I tend to think of the 80s as about 15 years ago rather than 30

I have the same kind of problem when i see something dated 1999 or before. In my mind it feels like almost yesterday (so to speak) but then i begin to calculate and then it hits me that that is 12 years ago already.

I consider FF3 ( US number) the pinnacle of rpg games.

For me that is secret of mana.

 

[DeadpanLunatic]

I have removed my words from this site.

 

[chowderface]

I'd have to say the big sign was the first time I ordered a beer and DIDN'T get carded, which was earlier this year, not long after I turned 24. In fact, even though everyone in the group I was hanging with that day was of age, the only person who got carded was the one guy who didn't order any alcohol at all. He actually was the youngest by a few months, but the chick who had that "a few months" definitely looks younger than he does.

Oh, and then there's the fact that I can describe things in my life that haven't happened in "decades", plural.

 

[Duck Sandwich]

Nothing has made me feel old quite like the job as a literacy tutor when I was in college. I was 21 at the time (and I still am). I'd leave home at around 7AM to drive to the elementary school where I worked. And on my way to work, I'd drink tea and listen to the radio, mainly for news. One day, one of the kids that I was tutoring asked me if I was married.

And also, today I heard some kids (probably about 10 years old) talking about their new phone and their phone service bill... plan.... thing. Whereas I just have a flip phone that I have a pay-as-you-go plan that I'd be paying barely anything for if I wasn't required to top it up every 45 days (I almost never call anyone/get called).

 

[AvsJoe]

Also, there are now "young people" at my work who are more or less just out of school and (the horror) weren't even alive at any point during the 80s! Unthinkable!

Hahaha... same here. I'm still quite young (turning 24 in January), but it always comes as a shock whenever I see a sports star younger than me or when someone younger than me goes to jail. As you said, people who were never alive in the 80's at all. I still kind of think of myself as a kid yet this is always a reminder that I'm well past the adult threshold.

Other things, like becoming an uncle, or the fact that a good number of my friends around my age or younger are now married with a 2 or 3 kids, some of which have probably already started school. Scary.

Again, same. My younger brother just had his first kid. *Younger brother*. My best mate from high school has two kids from two different relationships and he's a year younger than I am. When I think about this I re-realize, for the 500th time, that I'm an adult now. I'm an official role model for a new generation. I can no longer commit a crime or I'll be sent to jail (like one of my idiot friends did a few months ago). I have new responsibilities and expectations, and every decision and mistake I make has lasting, potentially lifelong consequences.

Being an adult sucks.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

22, and add one more poor soul to the hellish hangovers and "crucial eight" pile.

What's "crucial eight"?

At 25, I'm about as springy as I've always been. I can bounce around a sports court for hours with little-to-no ill effects.

It's facebook that makes me feel old and out of the loop. I miss information and planned activities just because I don't want to be involved.

 

[Togs]

What's "crucial eight"?

If I dont get eight hours sleep im a total zombie for the rest of the day.