You know you are getting old when:

[dixiegrrrrl]

It takes longer to rest than it did to get tired.

Your turn..........

[struggle4progress]

1. you wonder why there are so many youngsters around and where all the mature folk went to

[applegrove]

2. When your face falls and you laugh because for you it does not matter!

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. The things I buy now will not wear out before I do!

[begin_within]

4. someone says to you, "You look good for your age."

[pacalo]

31. Yeah, I get that all the time...

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Old sex:

[pacalo]

29. I like that cartoon.

[rurallib]

6. it's 9:30 and you barely have the energy to post on DU

I'm going to bed.

[txwhitedove]

7. Your kids offer to drop you off at the door to a nice restaurant while they park the car.

And, laugh cause they think you text too slow.
And, get mad if you sort of neglect your cell phone for 6-hours...
Even if I happen to wake up one morning feeling young and spry,
someone will be sure to call and remind me.

[EFerrari]

8. When product labels looks like a picture of ants.

[Iggo]

17. Sad, but true.

[astonamous]

60. and you can't read outside because your reading glasses will start a fire.

[ohiosmith]

9. Getting some means sleep.

;(

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. Mr. Dixie said: I remember when waking up stiff was a GOOD thing.

[ohiosmith]

18. Hahahaha!

[LibDemAlways]

56. Love it. Thanks for the laugh. (So true!)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

10. You notice they are giving TV shows to children, like Chris Hayes.

Who I think is cute and smart. If I was 30 years old, I'd hit it.

[Swede]

11. There's nothing left to learn the hard way.

:shrug:

[nolabear]

12. Your high school rock star crush is on Medicare.

*sigh*

[pacalo]

30. ...

[MilesColtrane]

13. You spend more time with your friends discussing weed killer than killer weed

[MiddleFingerMom]

14. You have to go out-of-state to find and satisfy your preference for older women...

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[WolverineDG]

16. every local election campaign sign has a friend's picture on it

and you wonder who the hell died & left your generation in charge.....

:rofl:

(true story, btw; this happened to me the last campaign season & now it's happening again)

dg

[raccoon]

19. You look at People magazine and don't recognize any of the celebrities. nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

20. I look at IMDB and don't recognize any of the people in the movies.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

32. I can relate to that one, especially since I cancelled cable

I can page through a whole issue of a celebrity mag while standing in line at the supermarket and go through half of it before I recognize anyone.

[GoCubsGo]

48. No kidding.

My paper lists the daily celebrity birthdays. I usually recognize one or two of them. After that, it's "Who the hell are these people???" Heck, I'm still trying to figure out why the hell I should give a rat's ass about Kim Kardassian or Snooki. Who the hell are these people???

[LibDemAlways]

58. Isn't that the truth? I take on-line surveys occasionally which ask me my

opinion of various "celebrities." I have no idea who they are.

[Brother Buzz]

21. You know you are getting old when when you are no longer are allowed to sit at the small table

But knowing you taught your charges well, and they now sit in you place has its rewards.

[provis99]

22. when the new car you bought at 40 is now considered an antique.

[RedCloud]

23. You can't remember where you put your memory pills.

[Brother Buzz]

24. And you need a pair of glasses to find your pair of glasses

[nadine_mn]

25. that is the saddest and truest statement in my life

of course that has always been - not just age related

[Manifestor_of_Light]

28. My glasses are on my face or within arm's reach on the nightstand.

I've been nearsighted all my life and I'm in bifocals.

I used to think nearsighted people did not go into bifocals b/c my parents had perfect vision, only wore reading glasses, and it took mom until I was in second grade to realize I needed to get my ass hauled to the eye doctor.

She said she felt really stupid.

Cheap but good glasses: www.zennioptical.com www.goggles4u.com

I have ordered from both of these places and been quite pleased. Got my last pair of glasses for $48 from goggles4u.com
Ten bucks for frames, 38 dollars for lenses with lines in them.

[raccoon]

37. Be glad--I was blind as a bat for years and didn't know it. nt

[Manifestor_of_Light]

62. A lot of kids are nearsighted and the parents and school never notice it.

And there are people a whole lot more nearsighted than I am. I am thankful I have full color and stereo vision.

A diopter is a meter, 39.37 inches. If you are a minus, take 39.37 inches and divide that by your number on your prescription. It's a reciprocal. Farsighted people have positive numbers in their scrips.

My good eye focuses at about 6 inches, my bad eye at 4 inches. However, I learned to read at three and always had my nose in a book. Then mom took me to the doctor and found out why.

I think people who start reading at an early age tend to be nearsighted.

[BiggJawn]

26. When you start to wonder if maybe...

... the pr0n just isn't that exciting anymore... Couldn't be plumbing problems, right?

[pink-o]

27. When someone born when you were 20...

Is freaking out because he's almost 40 and heading towards a mid-life crisis.:wow:

[Matariki]

46. AND he's your boyfriend

:evilgrin:

[dixiegrrrrl]

50. or your son.

[zanana1]

67. You remember going to hear JFK speak. nt

[Lydia Leftcoast]

33. When you realize that the first college students you taught are now 45 years old

:-(

[astral]

34. I relate to way too many of these statements.

Needing my glasses to find my glasses is a daily affair . . . . . and when it comes to 'getting some' I fall asleep before my head hits the pillow.

[WinkyDink]

35. When you are part of a fanbase that derides you & suggests your concert presence hurts the artist.

[KC]

36. When

you go see a new doctor for a checkup and he looks like a teenager !

[raccoon]

38. You can remember 50 years ago....nt

[raccoon]

39. The POTUS is younger than you.

You don't know who or what Lady Gaga is.

[sarge43]

40. The recruits I wrangled are now collecting Social Security. n/t

[frogmarch]

41. When you've

outlived your dad by 52 years.

[KamaAina]

42. ...you meet females half or even a third your age

and long to be 30, or 20 again...

[Kat45]

43. You see a good looking guy, then realize you're old enough to be his mother...

and he's an adult well over college age.

[progressoid]

45. Or,

you see a good looking woman, then realize you're old enough to be her father.

:sigh:

[raccoon]

49. All the time....nt

[RebelOne]

52. Yeah, that sucks. n/t

[Kat45]

44. you never sleep through the night without getting up at least once or twice

Really hate that in the winter when I freeze my butt off when I get out of bed.

[dr.strangelove]

47. You remember 30 years ago like it was yesterday, but can't remember what you had for lunch yesterday

I swear this happens to me all the time.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

51. You go to an antique show

(as I did today) and a lot of the stuff looks familiar - the same furniture and dishes you grew up with.

[dixiegrrrrl]

53. They call it "vintage" now on Etsy, and I used to own ALL of it!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

68. They call it "Mid-century" now.

We called it 1950s and 1960s stuff.

Now they've brought back the pukeworthy colors of the seventies -- I don't want to look at Harvest Gold, Avocado Green and Burnt Orange. No way.

:banghead:

I don't like Art Deco because I probably saw too much of it when I was young, and it was from my parents' generation.

[madinmaryland]

54. The first thing you read in the local newspaper is the Obituaries.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

55. you actually enjoy playing Mahjong on the computer.

[LibDemAlways]

57. The rock star you were way too young for is now married to

someone young enough to be your daughter or (as actually happened to my husband) a hot young woman asks you if you're married, because if you aren't, she'd like to introduce you to her mother.

[msanthrope]

59. You have to put DU on 'large fonts' instead of 'normal.' nt

[DFW]

61. Your children are older than you were when you met your spouse

....and THEY call you old!

[LeftishBrit]

63. When you can remember a time before videos, mobile phones, computer games or the Internet

And then you listen to some of your college students talking nostalgically about how'they just don't make computer games like they did when we were young'.

When you can remember a time when people sent telegrams instead of faxes.

When you realize that the Conservative Prime Minister is actually younger than you are!

[mysuzuki2]

64. the principal of your high school is younger than your children.

[lizerdbits]

65. You spend Friday night

dumping out your old/unused spices and rearranging stuff in your kitchen cabinets. You're not sure you can finish it all by 10:00 which is the latest reasonable bedtime.

[LiberalEsto]

66. Your doctors are younger than you nt

[Gabi Hayes]

69. you find the milk carton in the cupboard

course, happened to me when I was about 29, so there's that....

what?