When was the first time you found out your were old?

[andymays]

For me it was at 35 and a really hot waitress came to the table and called me sir. That's when I knew it was over.

[Tom]

When I started to forget things I just did.

[Tom]

When I started to forget things I just did. x

[Bettowin]

Originally Posted by andymays

For me it was at 35 and a really hot waitress came to the table and called me sir. That's when I knew it was over.

What did she or other hot waitresses call you before then?

[Dave Schwartz]

One day I was filling out an online product registration. When it got to "Age" it had:

18-26
27-34
35-45
46-55
56 to we don't care.

Okay, I am kidding, but while filling out this form I realized that the product I was registering was not for my demographic and that they really did not care what I though about anything.

[JBmadera]

Originally Posted by Tom

When I started to forget things I just did. x

oh man, spit my drink out when I saw this........

for me it was when I had to start asking my daughter to read road signs, menus etc.

[highnote]

Thinking about middle age always makes me think of the song by The Who, "Dreaming from the Waist".

Drive like a priest and then I'm shooting lights
I'm burning tires with some guy whose hair is turning white
I know the girls that I pass, they just ain't impressed
I'm too old to give up, but too young to rest


Whenever I hear this song I think that he should have changed the last line to "I'm too old to get 'em, but too young to rest"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awqEiIW7eyo

Here are the lyrics in their entirety:

I feel like I want to break out of the house
My heart is a-pumping, I've got sand in my mouth
I feel like I'm heading up to a cardiac arrest
I want to scream in the night, I want a manifest

I've got that wide awake, give-and-take, five o'clock-in-the-morning feeling
I've got the hots for the sluts in the well thumbed pages of a magazine
I want to drive, want to fly like I do in the dreams I've never really been in
I want to hump, want to jump, want to heat up, cool down in a dream machine

I'm dreaming ... from the waist on down
I'm dreaming ... but I feel tired and bound
I'm dreaming ... of a day when a cold shower helps my health
I'm dreaming ... dreaming - of the day I can control myself
Day I can control myself

Drive like a priest and then I'm shooting lights
I'm burning tires with some guy whose hair is turning white
I know the girls that I pass, they just ain't impressed
I'm too old to give up, but too young to rest

I've got that numb-to-a-thumb over-dubbed
Feeling social when the world is sleeping
The plot starts to thicken then I sicken and I feel I'm cemented down
I'm so juiced that the whorey lady's sad sad story has me quietly weeping
But here comes the morning
Here comes the yawning demented clown

I'm dreaming ... but I know it's all hot air
I'm dreaming ... I'll get back to that rocking chair
I'm dreaming ... of the day I can share the wealth
I'm dreaming ... dreaming - of the day I can control myself
Day I can control myself
Hey, hey!
The day I can control myself

[BlueShoe]

When I could no longer afford to get to the track late. Once upon a time I could zoom into the parking lot, hit the ground running, zig zag through the lot, through the gate, sprint for the windows, get my bet down in time, all this with a hangover. Then one day was left gasping, barely able to stand, watching with dismay as my selection romped at good odds, off long before I could get to a window. That was about half a lifetime ago.

[Robert Goren]

When I walked in to a simulcast center and there was someone who looked younger than me there.

[Grits]

Seriously? Just now, reading the thread header on the main page in a room full of men:

"When was the first time you"

(And the question didn't end in)

had sex?

I'm not only old, I'm stunned, though this is a public messageboard.

[PhantomOnTour]

I looked up one day and realized I had some kids working for me who were born in the 90's.
They know nothing of the OJ Simpson trial...well, they know he did it.

[Pace Cap'n]

When I was 15 and the lady at the drive-up beer stand outside of town started selling me beer.

[magwell]

Was when I realized I was getting used to all the rejection from young hot women....

[The Judge]

and when I got to the top it dawned on me that I had touched each and every stair, didn't skip a one. Don't know if that was the first time I hit every stair but it was the first time I realized it. I knew I was old.

[Marshall Bennett]

When my hands started shaking opening the mail.