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25 April 2007

You know you're getting old(er) when ...
post by: ericb at: 19:11 | 28 comments
you'd rather listen to an NPR show drone on about the housing bubble than listen to music.
posted by LoriFLA 25 April | 19:19
When you look at a provocatively dressed young woman and instead of thinking 'hubba-hubba' you think 'does your mother know you're wearing that?'
posted by jonmc 25 April | 19:22
That's not old, Jon, that's dead. You feelin' okay, boyo?
posted by scarabic 25 April | 19:35
I'm fine, scarabic. Older women dressed provocatively still get the hubba-hubba, it's just that the young ones bring out the protective older brother in me now. Encroaching middle age and all that shit.
posted by jonmc 25 April | 19:38
You pay the I.R.S. what you owe them after 6 years of being to poor to even matter?
posted by nola 25 April | 19:44
when 40 isn't a threat; it's a promise.
posted by jason's_planet 25 April | 19:54
You refer to how things were "when I was your age."
posted by Miko 25 April | 19:54
They start playing the shows you watched as a child on "Nick at Nite".
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 25 April | 20:03
Less hair where you want it more where you don't.
posted by arse_hat 25 April | 20:05
You do laundry on Saturday night.
posted by StickyCarpet 25 April | 20:26
You have an answer to "You know you're getting old(er) when..."
posted by mischief 25 April | 20:43
You get a whiff of yourself in the morning and realize that's how your dad smelled back when you thought he was getting old.
posted by PaxDigita 25 April | 20:52
You read this thread and realize that every single comment applies to you. (Even smelling like your dad.)
posted by mudpuppie 25 April | 21:02
*You realize that Nick At Nite has already shown the programs you watched as a child, and has since moved on into your adulthood.

*"Oldies radio" no longer means "music from before you were born".
posted by bmarkey 25 April | 21:03
You have wet farts and dry dreams.
posted by alteredcarbon 25 April | 21:15
* They don't even play the songs anymore on what you knew as "oldies radio".

** The song's on today's oldies radio is the Top 40 crap you disparaged when you were 25.
posted by mischief 25 April | 21:21
There's probably a better way to word that last one.
posted by mischief 25 April | 21:23
You have returned to the quandary of: "principle" or "principal"?
posted by mischief 25 April | 21:24
Those issues of Reader's Digest just can't come fast enough
posted by AwkwardPause 25 April | 22:19
a corollary of jon's:

You look at a hot young guy and think: "if I had a daughter, he'd be exactly the sort of boy I'd like her to date"

(thinking about an employee I had a couple of years ago... yowza!)
posted by gaspode 25 April | 22:22
You're older than your doctor.
posted by arse_hat 25 April | 22:29
when I, ahem, I mean, you can't deal with the upgrades to the software at work because in the brain there's no more room for or interest in learning whatever the changes are

you can't read the security code on the back of your credit card because the type is too small
posted by Claudia_SF 26 April | 01:20
You wake up in the morning, groggily make your way to the bathroom, look in the mirror and say...

"Dad?"
posted by chillmost 26 April | 02:19
NO...i don't want to go to a) a nightclub b) a loud gig full of hipsters, I want to go to BED, because I am TIRED!!!!!

;P
posted by By the Grace of God 26 April | 02:36
You switch to MTV (by mistake, whilst looking for the Food Channel), have no idea who anybody is and think "what the hell's that noise, it's got no melody, you can't hear the words, look at the state of him ..."
posted by essexjan 26 April | 03:28
You not only listen to Fleetwood Mac, but find yourself to have gone through a mystical, magical, transformation from a Stevie person to a Christine person.

People younger than you are in the elevated risk "older mother" category for their pregnancies.

Psssst - wanna know my cholesterol totals? I just got my test results back!
posted by rainbaby 26 April | 05:57
Almost like what jon said, but more to the point: You're chatting her up and start thinking about how to work toward asking for her phone number, but at the same time you're thinking, "Hell, I have neckties older than her."

ej, I started saying that in '86 when Run-DMC was the first rap group I heard.
posted by PaxDigita 26 April | 07:09
You spill half the black powder down the side of your musket and drop the minee ball twice before you get off a shot on the wild boar and then the wild boar gives you the galloping shits and you drink a whole bottle of Dr. Thompson's Miracle Celery and Morphine Tonic and you fall asleep in a hollow log and have a wonderful dream of the future but when you wake up you can't remember it.
posted by Divine_Wino 26 April | 08:57
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