# You Know You're Getting Old When
**URL:** https://talkingsober.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/175496
**Category:** Just for Fun
**Created:** [December 8, 2023, 8:13pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/175496 "2023-12-08T20:13:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@WilliamBloke](https://talkingsober.com/u/WilliamBloke)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2023, 8:13pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/175496/1 "2023-12-08T20:13:10Z")
Yes, the reality has at last hit you: You’re no “spring chicken” anymore! What are some of those little tell-tale signs you’ve been seeing?
When 80’s music is classified as “Oldies”.
When you saw the pilot episode of Sesame Street…when it originally aired.
When you start receiving AARP junk mail.
When you refer to a CD as an “album”.
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### Author:  [@anon68572606](https://talkingsober.com/u/anon68572606)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2023, 8:35pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/175496/2 "2023-12-08T20:35:27Z")
When you can’t stay up passed 9:30 pm on weekends and wake up before your alarm wakes you up.
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### Author:  [@Cjp](https://talkingsober.com/u/Cjp)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2023, 8:42pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/175496/3 "2023-12-08T20:42:04Z")
When your niece doesnt know what a newspaper is
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### Author:  [@RosaCanDo](https://talkingsober.com/u/RosaCanDo)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2023, 8:44pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/175496/4 "2023-12-08T20:44:12Z")
When the optometrist says, well you don’t need bifocals “yet” 😅
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### Author:  [@TMAC](https://talkingsober.com/u/TMAC)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2023, 8:53pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/175496/5 "2023-12-08T20:53:05Z")
When most evening events **start** after my bedtime.
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### Author:  [@WilliamBloke](https://talkingsober.com/u/WilliamBloke)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2023, 9:02pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/175496/6 "2023-12-08T21:02:20Z")
You have less and less tolerance for crowds and noise, and avoid social gatherings.
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### Author:  [@anon68572606](https://talkingsober.com/u/anon68572606)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2023, 9:05pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/175496/7 "2023-12-08T21:05:21Z")
When you have less tolerance for things.
Leaving this as a blanketed general statement left for interpretation.
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### Author:  [@DresdenLaPage](https://talkingsober.com/u/DresdenLaPage)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2023, 9:06pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/175496/8 "2023-12-08T21:06:06Z")
When I see a real policeman and I think it’s a teenager in fancy dress
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### Author:  [@TMAC](https://talkingsober.com/u/TMAC)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2023, 9:12pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/175496/9 "2023-12-08T21:12:12Z")
Wanted to add -
I had a major spinal surgery about a year and a half ago.
I was 33 at the time. It was the first time that I had a doctor, let alone a freakin’ neurosurgeon, that was the same age as me.
It was also, oddly, performed at a children’s hospital. I was there for 5 or 6 days to recover. It’s easy to assert dominance and crush any opposition when you’re the only person in the place with a mustache and tattoos.
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### Author:  [@Runningfree](https://talkingsober.com/u/Runningfree)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2023, 9:27pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/175496/10 "2023-12-08T21:27:07Z")
When you go to the doctor for your checkup and ask about a few brown spots on your face (ya know, to make sure it’s not cancer) and get told they are AGING spots 😭
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### Author:  [@WilliamBloke](https://talkingsober.com/u/WilliamBloke)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2023, 9:35pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/175496/11 "2023-12-08T21:35:25Z")
You almost need some bolt cutters to trim your hard, thickening toenails.
You start growing hair out of orofices that don’t need it.
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### Author:  [@WilliamBloke](https://talkingsober.com/u/WilliamBloke)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2023, 9:53pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/175496/12 "2023-12-08T21:53:52Z")
More and more you find yourself favouring slip-on shoes.
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### Author:  [@JennyH](https://talkingsober.com/u/JennyH)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2023, 9:55pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/175496/13 "2023-12-08T21:55:29Z")
Yes! What is it with men losing it on top but growing it out of their ears!?
And women have the delights of chin hairs that appear overnight 😬
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### Author:  [@WilliamBloke](https://talkingsober.com/u/WilliamBloke)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2023, 9:57pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/175496/14 "2023-12-08T21:57:01Z")
Yes, nature is SO unfair!
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### Author:  [@JennyH](https://talkingsober.com/u/JennyH)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2023, 9:58pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/175496/15 "2023-12-08T21:58:55Z")
For me it is seeing all the teenage girls being obsessed with Friends. I was a teenager when it first came out and now I see them dressing like we used to, but there is no way I could get away with it now (cropped tops, spaghetti strap tiny dresses)
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### Author:  [@WilliamBloke](https://talkingsober.com/u/WilliamBloke)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2023, 11:05pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/175496/16 "2023-12-08T23:05:10Z")
Shopping for men’s clothing is a depressing affair. Seems everthing is designed for skinny 20-year-old dudes: tight-fitting pants. Tight-fitting shirts. “Slim Fit” suits. Outfits look fantastic on the store mannequin, but when you try on those same items you look like crap.
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### Author:  [@Yoda-Stevie](https://talkingsober.com/u/Yoda-Stevie)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2023, 12:24am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/175496/17 "2023-12-09T00:24:44Z")
When you realize your hair isn’t thinning, it’s redeploying to your brows, ears, and nose.
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### Author:  [@HoofHearted](https://talkingsober.com/u/HoofHearted)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2023, 12:29am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/175496/18 "2023-12-09T00:29:08Z")
When you can finally order off the back page of the Dennys menu.
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### Author:  [@Jasty2](https://talkingsober.com/u/Jasty2)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2023, 12:36am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/175496/19 "2023-12-09T00:36:02Z")
The fact that I have to take a picture of the back of the medicine bottle, and then blow it up, so I can read the dosage
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### Author:  [@Jasty2](https://talkingsober.com/u/Jasty2)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2023, 12:37am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-when/175496/20 "2023-12-09T00:37:13Z")
Also when I get out of bed I’m the morning and start walking, everything cracks. Everything fucking cracks.
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