ANSWERS: 100
  • The floor seems to get farther away when you try to bend down and pick something up.
  • You realize you have spent 18 years in school.
  • when you cant install a new DVD player,this is what my dad says- ""f*ck%^ this d*74n SH**a4S!!!""
  • your fav song is playing in the elevator lol.
  • ...your social security number is 1 ...you eat at 4:30, fall asleep at 6:00, and wake up at 5:30. ...your cell phone is in an army carry case, and has to take another seat when you go to restaurants. ...you go from being the rebble teenager that listened to the 'in' music, to the old guy who tells the rebbles to "Turn off that hypie crap!" ...you start to take an intrest in things like hemroidal cremes, and coupons. ...you have an un-natural supply of 'Sweet n' Low'
  • When all your bones crack not just your knuckles -- lol
  • When you wake up sore & stiff from just sleeping in the wrong position.
  • When your Doctor looks like a pubescent teenager, and when he says strip off you feel like slapping him and saying you dirty little devil
  • When 80's music is called "old School"
  • Parts of the body start to sagg, but for me I got a long way to go before that starts to happen. Im only 14yrs old
  • you would rather stay in than go out or everything hurts when you get up.
  • Hot tubs are no longer sexy and fun - they're a requirement after moving furniture or something similar.
  • it's harder and harder to get out of bed in the morning.
  • You forget how old you are.
  • When EVERYONE calls you Sir or Mamm
  • When you remember seeing the debut of the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. When you know exactly why a remote control is called a "clicker" and actually think a better name might have been a "thunker". When you remember dial telephones and adjusting the "aerial" on your TV, which picked up four stations - ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS, which was called something else back then. When you live in the USA and remember seeing gas for 31 cents a gallon due to "gas wars". Cars all had V-8 engines. King-sized Cokes that came in glass bottles and cost a dime. When an oz of pot was called a "lid".
  • You have aches just from normal movement.
  • when your birthday is in an updated history book
  • You break a hip doing simple things. Like peeling an orange.
  • When you look in the mirror and see cracks... When you grey!
  • When you're looking for your glasses and realize you already have them on your face.
  • A song from the first album you bought when you got your own place plays on the "oldies" station. "Tusk" is NOT an oldie, dammit!
  • you stop growing up, and start growing out.
  • When I have every public bathroom strategically mapped out in the city of Richmond.
  • After making a bowel movement you realize you SMELL just like what you remember smelling when your father came out of the bathroom! As a employer..you realize you are hiring kids that were born AFTER you graduated from College. And when you get a "Senior Discount" at Wendy's with OUT asking!
  • Everything has headed south and it's not for a Florida vacation. You have underwear older than most of the people you meet. Your bags have wrinkles and your wrinkles have bags. In any funeral procession, the hearse is following you. Your blood type is discontinued. You don't buy green bananas.
  • ...every morning at 7:30am you take a leak, 8:30am take a dump and 9:30am, wake up... OR when you remember yesterday like it was years ago...
  • G'day Steelhamster, Thank you for your question When you listen to the oldies station and you remember when they first came out. Regards
  • When at the drug store, instead of going toward the lip gloss and eyeliner, you go for the hair color and wrinkle cream.
  • When you remember one of your favorite things was getting up early on Saturday morning and having cereal while watching your favorite cartoons and it was special because cartoons ONLY came on Saturdays. I have told my kids this and they look at me with this expression of disbelief.
  • ...your pants fit up to your chest.
  • ...you see your pass life being "unfolded" before
  • You ask a question like: "You know you're getting old when.."..Ha ha..j/k..
  • You think you've finally got your head together, but then your body starts falling apart! It takes twice as long to look half as good! You look forward to quiet evenings! You start saying,'In this day and age...' or 'when I was YOUR age...'
  • When you're finally comfortable with the skin you're in! No fuss - no muss!!
  • When your farts are wet and your dreams are dry When you have grey pubes
  • You buy a tartan shopping trolley and go to the shops and buy 40 tins of cat food and trip over on the pavement on the way home .
  • ...you have to do "warm ups" just to get out of bed and all of the above answers make sense to you.
  • ...it occurs to you you might be.
  • when your in an lift and you drop something and when you bend over to pick it up you loose skin touches the flor befor your hand does.
  • When the music you listened to as a kid is now on the classic rock station. I remember when I heard Bon Jovi on the local classic rock station...I about died! I'm only in my 20s!!
  • When you have underwear older than everyone else in a nightclub.
  • You know you're getting old when, given the choice between sex and watching American Idol, you choose American Idol.
  • When I can't remember why I came into the room and what I was going to do... (sigh)
  • your to afraid to run down the stairs for fear of falling and throwing your back out...LOL
  • You begin to sound like one of your parents!
  • You passed the age when you thought your parents were SO OLD, years ago. And, the NFL players you used to think were old, are now young enough to be your kids.
  • When you are tired all the time even after you wake up?
  • When you start talking about the "good Ole days". It takes you all night to do what you use to do all night. when your children say "dad when you were alive......"
  • Your joints are more accurate than the National Weather Service. Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off. Your back goes out more than you do. The twinkle in your eye is only the reflection of the sun on your bifocals. You feel like the morning after when you haven't been anywhere the night before. You finally got your head together, now your body is falling apart. Your supply of brain cells is finally down to a manageable size. You wake up with that morning-after feeling and you didn't do anything the night before. You don't care where your wife goes, just so you don't have to go along. It takes twice as long to look half as good. Many of your co-workers were born the same year that you got your last promotion. People call at 9 PM and ask, "Did I wake you?" You can live without sex but not without glasses. The clothes you've put away until they come back in style... have come back in style. You look forward to a dull evening. Your mind makes contracts your body can't keep. The pharmacist has become your new best friend. There's nothing left to learn the hard way. You come to the conclusion that your worst enemy is gravity. You start video taping daytime game shows. You quit trying to hold your stomach in, no matter who walks into the room. Your idea of a night out is sitting on the patio. You look for your glasses for half-an-hour, then find they've been on your head all the time. You wake up, looking like your driver's license picture. Happy hour is a nap. You begin every other sentence with, "Nowadays..." You constantly talk about the price of gasoline. You don't remember when your wild oats turned to shredded wheat. You sing along with the elevator music. You are proud of your lawn mower. You wonder how you could be over the hill when you don't remember being on top of it. Getting lucky means you find your car in the parking lot. The little gray-haired lady you help across the street is your wife. Your idea of weight lifting is standing up. Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can't remember them either. Your ears are hairier than your head. You have a party and the neighbors don't even realize it. It takes longer to rest than it did to get tired. You talk about "good grass" and you're referring to someone's lawn. The end of your tie doesn't come anywhere near the top of your pants. You give up all your bad habits and you still don't feel good. Your childhood toys are now in a museum. You can't remember the last time you laid on the floor to watch television. You confuse having a clear conscience with having a bad memory. You frequently find yourself telling people what a loaf of bread USED to cost. You know all the answers, but nobody asks you the questions. You enjoy hearing about other people's operations. You got cable for the weather channel. Old Folks MTV! Your new easy chair has more options than your car. Your little black book only contains names ending in M.D. Everything hurts and what doesn't hurt, doesn't work. You find yourself beginning to like accordion music. You have too much room in the house and not enough in the medicine cabinet. You get into a heated argument about pension plans. "Getting a little action" means you don't need to take a laxative. Conversations with people your own age often turn into "dueling ailments." You buy a compass for the dash of your car. You take a metal detector to the beach. The car that you bought brand new becomes an antique. You are cautioned to slow down by the doctor instead of by the police. You realize that caution is the only thing you care to exercise. You don't remember being absentminded. You have more patience; but actually, it's just that you don't care any more. Your memory is shorter and your complaining is longer. Your drugs of preference are now vitamins. You tip more and carry less. You read more and remember less. You get propositioned by AARP. Younger women start opening doors for you. You begin to become invisible in the dating and mating game. The highway patrol sigh or shake their heads but don't give you a ticket. You scout for a warmer place to spend the long, cold winters. You are no longer 'promising'. Younger men ask you for advice. You work on your short game. Youthful injuries return with a vengeance. Youthful indiscretions harden into bad habits. You shop for health insurance the way you once shopped for a new car. Your medical expenses go up 50%. A 'late night' now ends at 11 pm. You learn where your prostrate is. You develop a knack for wearing hats.
  • You go to a baseball game and your older than all the players
  • When gravity takes hold on your butt & boobies. When you hear a song on the radio, you can remember where you were when you first heard it but when you hear the year it came out, you kinda cringe.
  • When hair starts growing out of places where you didn't know hair could grow out of.
  • You're alive.
  • - When your favorite songs are played on oldies night. - When you say things like 20 years ago I ________ . - When you don't get upset about certain things anymore. - When your leisure activities change. - Body changes like weight gain & aches and pains. - Some tv shows that were the "latest and greatest" when you started watching them are now in their 20th season. (Real World, for example. Also, MTV). - When you meet young adults you realize you are old enough to be their parent. - The kids you served Happy Meals to when you worked at McDonalds are now older than you were when you worked there.
  • When you start repeating phrases, that your parents said to you when you were kid, in casual conversation.
  • Here's another one... You hear they just made a movie called Hairspray with John Travolta and you think "didn't they just make that movie with Rikki Lake?" and then you realize the Rikki Lake version is already 19 years old.
  • Everything hurts and what doesn't hurt doesn't work.
  • The layered tank tops and other fashions that kids are wearing these days just seem stupid. Time speeds up. Things that were fun when you were a kid just look painful/tiring now.
  • you know you're getting old when you make a joke at work about the backstreet boys and none of the kids know who the hell that is. the backstreet boys!!! what the hell!!!! i thought that group would be known by everyone for forever and ever. clueless kids today.i'm so old now...(i'll be 22 next month).
  • you remember telephone party lines ... your thirty yr old shoes are back in style.. you've done everything on your list of things to try before you die.
  • You forget your grandchild's,your son or daughters names!
  • Michael J. Fox is on the cover of AARP magazine. (American Association of Retired People)
  • you look at others and think , i would never wear that
  • If your get up and go has already gone and went.
  • Geez, I had to answer this one with a great story...and now I forgot what I was going to write.
  • Policeman and Doctors look younger.
  • It is hard to keep track of all you medical appointments and you are taking more medications that you ever had before in your whole life.
  • I don't care for new music,and prefer classic blues ,rock and traditional ethnic.
  • When you feel embarrased telling people your age.
  • You remember when Pluto was a planet.
  • Dancing is work instead of fun!!
  • The current time is greater than the previous time.
  • Here is one for you...In high school the whole class took a field trip to watch someone cook a package of hot dogs in this machine in under three minutes... We took a field trip to this business to see a microwave oven!
  • your bones can detect when it is going to rain!
  • When you are trying to read small print and hold it up to the light and you still can't read it, so you get a magnifying glass and still can't, so then you have to take the small print and magnifying glass to the light.
  • You get the "hereafters". I can't remember what I'm here after!
  • Things that used to bother me don't and others that didn't now do.
  • naps seem appealing.
  • Getting wrinkles on my hands and loud rap music makes me feel like getting crucified
  • chocolate bars & biscuits are getting smaller they were twice the size when i was a kid lol
  • I can tell I am slightly older as my coworker was shocked that I was alive when the Beatles were still making and breaking records.
  • Tying fishing knots is almost impossible. That line and that final hoop I have to thread makes me wanna cuss...lol everytime.
  • i find myself starting sentences with the phrase: "back when i was younger".
  • I was looking up the calories in a grape...how pathetic is that.
  • I get injured much easier, doing things that didn't do anything to me! Like wakeboarding! I love wakeboarding but I think I just tore my ACL again. Thanks
  • It takes me a lot longer to get round my post delivery and my knees creak like an old wooden ship . Oh yeah , I've started taking a tartan wheeled trolley down to the shops and filling it up with cat food whilst moaning at the kids. Oh yeah , every now and then I have my friends around and we drink cocoa and suck Werther Original mints whilst watching Cocoon.
  • all i feel is pain,and when every little thing i used to like irritates me now,like loud music.,sitting inthe bar,hearing every bone in my body creaking,
  • you're getting wiser.
  • this may be a dup, but I'm not gonna check 90 other answers... How about "when you can't remember a god-damned thing!"
  • you feel old...not til then
  • All you can see is your feet!
  • All you can see is your feet! That was the answer from my aunt who was 105 at the
  • All you can see is your feet! That was the answer from my aunt who was 105 at the time.....
  • I'll get back to you when I get that first sign :-)
  • Your children call you 'grandma'
  • When you so called golden years are really golden pee.
  • You know ur getting old, when its either falling off you or growing on you!!
  • you find your first gray pubic hair!!!!
  • you see gray hairs coming out in the shower

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