You know you're getting old when:

@PapaJeff59

Hey! This is an interesting thread. Let's keep it going.

You know you're getting old when:

A nap seems a blessing rather than a punishment (reference, the forceful naps we had to take as a child 😅).

• ...out of several options for leisure, you pick the one that gets you home by 9:30 p.m. if not earlier.
• ...someone calls you "old man" or "ma'am" for the first time. (That happened to me a few weeks ago & I'm still annoyed)
• ...when filling out a form on a website, you get to the field that says "year of birth" & you gotta spin that b**** like you're on Wheel of Fortune!
• ...you tell the above to a young person--& then have to explain what Wheel of Fortune is.
• ...you have a This-Young-Person-Does-Not-Know-What-I'm-Talking-About moment (see above). It can be about anything: a movie, a once-popular singer/actor, an economic recession, anything.
• ...you discover that you don't know the celebrity who's currently involved in a tax audit/nasty divorce/DUI arrest/whatever...& you don't give a jolly d**n who (s)he is or what (s)he's doing, either.
• ...you tell a twentysomething girl your age & she says "that's my dad!"

I could list a few more but I won't...better to give other people here a chance instead.

When, buying chocolates doesn't excites you anymore 😅🫣

You're done with self pity, posturing, and any semblance of pretense. You don't mind using those SAT words you studied for in high school that you never had the chance to use.

@PatienceImpatiens Amen. Once I hit 40, I stopped caring about what other people think of me. We don't have time for that kind of foolishness.

@PapaJeff59

You know you're getting old when:

You don't always know when you pee.

@PapaJeff59

You can’t get into or out of a chair without groaning.

@PapaJeff59. You know you’re getting Old when, People in line let you go in front of them because they think you don’t have the time to wait like everyone else .

@PapaJeff59 You know you’re getting Old when you don’t know Any of the Bands or Songs they sing in the Top Ten Count Down .

@PapaJeff59

"You know you're getting old when:"

When you reference "Star Wars: New Hope" as being the first movie and you saw it at the theaters when it released

You know you're getting old when you wonder "why does that hurt, I didn't even do anything for that to hurt?"

😆 Yes! Or:

...when something hurts because you slept in the wrong position. I've done that 😂

@PapaJeff59 Shite, When everything just hurts for no reason. .

A good while back, I started making memes about this same subject...(even before I discovered 7Cups!) If you're interested you can read a few of 'em here.

...and now I'm writing down a few more.

I should do an art book about this, with hand lettering or cartoons or something.

@slowdecline48. Sounds like a great Idea just make sure you do it Old school with no computer this and digital that Like you said hand written and drawn like the good old days Cartoons .

@OnlyDarkness Yeah. I am so going to use a few of what I've read here, too. We're all coming up with some gems!

@PapaJeff59

"You know you're NOT old when:"

You don’t know what to do with this:

@PapaJeff59 You know you’re Old when, You can remember having to get up and physically change the channel on the Tv to 1 of the 3 channels that were available .

@OnlyDarkness

Nope never did, that is what the kids are for.
"Hey Bobby, turn on channel 12. The news is coming on. And while you're there, adjust the ears"

@Barltik2065 Only problem was Barltik I was Bobby. LOL .

@OnlyDarkness

As were I.
Only thing I didn't do was climb the antenna tower to turn it.

@Barltik2065

@OnlyDarkness

YKYGOW ...you can remember when Ted Turner was alive--& why people hated him.

You know your getting old when;

You can't remember if you took all your meds this morning.

When you try and explain to a young person how a dail up telephone worked.

When you can remember watching Star Trek on a black and white TV, with snowy UHF reception.

@ShakenNotStirred932 I've done the first one!... 😜

@PapaJeff59 You know you’re Old when you can remember being able to see the entire Disneyland Park in 1 visit and actually get to ride most of the rides . And it didn’t cost you like two months salary to go .

YKYGOW

...you can remember when Michael Jackson was black. And still looked like a human being. And was alive.