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When did you finally feel old?
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Today fucker. Why you got to remind me I just turned 40. Fuck!
When the moms at the skatepark seemed too young to flirt with.
Shortly after turning 34, it occurred to me I was closer to my 50th birthday than 18th.
Yeah somewhere between 32 and 34. So long youth, I guess I had my go.
My joints were already telling me I'm old. Did you really have to point that out to all the other 34 year Olds on here?
When I noticed how excited I get about good quality appliances.
IMO fuck everyone who doesn't care about good quality appliances. They are to blame for how common shitty ones are these days. Especially developers who just get something that looks nice but actually sucks when you use it.
Glares at oven that takes forever to preheat, doesn't keep the temperature even once it does, and has a drawer oven that takes even longer to preheat than the shitty main oven takes to preheat and COOK things
I sell appliances and the number of times I hear “It’s for a rental”, as a reason to get the cheapest thing, is depressing.
As someone that is on the marketing side of individuals renting condos for vacations, the ones that buy the quality stuff, are able to get more revenue per booking, and a better retention. It not only applies to the kitchen, but to things you wouldn't expect, like sheets, towels, and toilet paper. Go cheap on any of those, and you'll read about it in a 2 star review.
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I was at Warped Tour many years ago, talking with randos in the campground. I mentioned which bands I was there to see, and this guy gave me a huge smile and yelled 'You're old' in my face.
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Well, throwing out my lower back bending over a table a couple weeks ago sure didn't help...
The worst I have ever thrown my back out was picking up a pair of scissors. I was in my 20s.
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I took four naps on my day off. I'm 32.
That may as well just mean you're overworked (or something else) though. I do stuff like this in my 20s
Could be a nutrient deficiency, too. I've gotten myself out of that exhausted state with b-complex and magnesium supplements. It's quick, too, if that's the real problem. I felt normal and alert again within 15 minutes of taking the supplements.
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When a little boy in the supermarket called me "sir"... I'm 18
Within the past few years, once my neck problems started getting worse and I finally went for an MRI and was diagnosed with arthritis.
0/10, do not recommend.
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I was speaking to someone at a party recently and realised they where both in their 20s and born after 9/11. Was quite a moment.
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When I honestly felt that what my homemade juice/blended smoothie thingy needed more of was celery and that without enough celery it was too sweet and lacked body. That was the day there was no more pretending. Only a year before had I suffered through my first back injury, so they can go together.
Otherwise, the beginnings of it for me were when I noticed warming up for physical exercise took longer. 10-15 minute bicycle commutes used to require no warm up at all. Then I’d feel warmed up only by the end of them. That’s when I knew I was turning the corner.
When I realized I could say "I've been doing this for 20 years".
When I realized that the games I enjoyed in college were released over twenty years ago.
When I started sharing aches and pains over lunch with friends.
When I turned 50 this year...
At my BF's cousin's 18th birthday party, a small family do at the uncle and aunt's house. The living room was full of people 60+, so as 30 something young people we naturally headed out into the hallway to hang with the cousins and their friends. All these young people barely registered us and just moved aside to let us past, they didn't even look at us, just carried on talking to each other. We got to the kitchen and looked at each other and just went oh shit, we're old aren't we. Grabbed drinks and headed back to the old folk, at least they would speak to us!
The first time was when even the "old man" veteran professional athletes were younger than me.
When I had to fill a survey and I filled age group 25-35 instead of 18-25
When I address my peers suddenly as "old white men", and then realize they're just as old as me.
Cellulite. :(
When my cousin's babies that used to play in my grandmothers house had children of their own
When I got blackout drunk last week and I'm still feeling the hangover effects.....I'm 29 for fuck sake! Let me do what I did ten years ago and still come out strong!
When I was 23, I was in a conversation with some teenagers and realized I didn't understand half the things they said.
The gap grew at 30. Teens and social media challenges? Planking? Chili powder? Tide pods?
Now at 40... YouTube drama? Lil skizzle doing a pop tart on Biancas Insta made her reem? I don't even wanna know.
I'm concerned that I'm not sure if you were making up words or not.
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When I was 21, and I got the first of my "arthritis."
It's in quotes because years later it was diagnosed as an entirely different (and even more debilitating) disease, but I still effectively have arthritis a lot of the time, I just now also have constant insomnia and fatigue.
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People have started calling me ma'am.
When kids born after I could drive started getting their licenses. That's when I knew I was a grown up for real.
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I've always enjoyed some classic rock, when I was a kid I used to listen to the oldies station and groove to some Steppenwolf or whatever. One day I was driving to work, radio tuned to the classic rock station, and they played Pearl Jam.
Multiple times a month ever since the day I was taught what birthdays are.
When I started to need to constantly crack my lower back.
When I looked in the mirror one day and saw all the gray in my hair and beard.
My partner keeps calling me 'old man' but it makes me feel more like a slug than old...
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