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You know your growing old when........
Vampir
Member Posts: 4,239
You know your growing old when.
1. You are as an average with few outliars are home and asleep by 10.
2. You trade in one of the fastest stock production motorcycles because it is a pain to ride(very legitimate reason with how long and hard to turn a ZX14 is)
3. You have a PDA that has an organized schedule and to do list.
4. Both you and your best friend are in extremely long term relationships and live with significant others.
5. Both you and your best friend have nearly forsaken all drinking, and any kind of stupid activity.
6. You have to get glasses.
Sad thing is im feeling old at 18 happy but starting to feel old.
98% of the teenage population does or has tried smoking pot. If you''re one of the 2% who hasn''t, copy & paste this in your signature.
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Does #1 count if you fall asleep at 6ish, and then wake up at 10ish, then go back to bed around 3am, and wake up around 7am?
#2 I'd only trade in a motorcylce if it wasn't a custom job. And well, Omaha drivers, and the roads they drive on, are not cycle friendly.
#3 What's a PDA?(I know what a PDA is. I just happen to be of the opinion that 98% of people that own them do so to be a pretentious tit, rather than an actual need.)
#4 Anything longer than it takes to get mine is a long term relationship. And I've yet to meet one that was significant.
#5 Drinking is probably the only thing making 99% of my friends tolerable.
#6 Guilty. Though, I was told at age 12 I needed glasses for reading, and never bothered. FWIW shitty vision runs in the family. Both my parents wore glasses, and my sister was legally blind for a while until she had corrective surgery. She still has to wear hard contact lenses to see straight. And I imagine as she gets into her 30's in the next few years, her vision will start slipping, and at some point she will be for all intents and purposes, blind. I'll be blind and deaf, if all goes well. and totally batshit insane, so when death comes, it'll be a big surprise to me.
Come back and talk to me when waking up out of bed feels like you got run over by a truck.
Or when your hair starts to change to a nice shade of Silver.
Or even better when your three daughters tell you that your old and everyone calls you an old man because you are walking on a cane.
All that already and I am only 28.
Currently playing:
LOTRO & WoW (not much WoW though because Mines of Moria rocks!!!!)
Looking Foward too:
Bioware games (Dragon Age & Star Wars The Old Republic)
It's the kids. I didn't start getting grey hairs til I was 30, and the spawn was hatched. Suddenly, the beard starts getting grey in it, and I'm going silver at the temples as well now. The occasional, rapidly plucked grey chest hair, and so forth. Thankfully, near as I can tell, the snowball isn't picking up speed, at the soon to be age of 35. I'd like to keep it that way, too.
Get busy living or get busy dieing.
but compared to how i used to be ive become an old man.
98% of the teenage population does or has tried smoking pot. If you''re one of the 2% who hasn''t, copy & paste this in your signature.
yea.... i know what you mean... its like all the fun stupid things you used to do are suddenly gone, and vanish. I guess thats just becoming an adult for you... but it is hard giving up those good times.
Getting Older When:
1) My shoulder stays stiffer for a couple extra days after pitching. In college I would close 3 games in a weekend series.
2) Had my one year wedding anniversary
3) Actually planning out (to a certain degree) when we are going to have a kid(s)
4) Next year I will be 30
FWIW...My entire family wears glasses and has since either early childhood or highschool, however I have gotten by without them and with good vision. I guess to a degree I am concerned that it will end up catching up with me. Now that I think about it, I might go out and eat a bag of carrots to keep them going strong.
"It is easier to be cruel than wise. The road to wisdom is long and difficult... so most people just turn out to be assholes" Feng (Christopher Walken)
I'm 30 and feel like I'm going on 60 with the pain I wake up to every morning.
Screw everyone. I'm looking forward to being the grumpy old man that yells at the kids to stay out of the lawn.
I wish I had grey hair. This hair line is getting out of hand and the only way to hide it is to bic my head, and shaving with clippers is already a PITA.
And no. Looking younger then you are is not a blessing, and I hate everyone that told me I would appreciate it when I was 30. I would drink more, but they keep asking for ID and it pisses me off.
Wish Darkfall would release.
LOL - I guess mine is not as bad as yours, but you know your old when you spend an entire afternoon explaining to your nephew that Clubber Lane is actually Mr. T and Mr. T is a real person...
GET OFF MY LAWN! Damn teenagers.
hmm. Growing old...
Having a beard or a goatee that has more grey than brown in it.
Find staying at home more fun than actually going out.
Sleep being the next thing to sex.
Watching court tv and or cops on a daily ritual and thinking its a great programming choice.
Watching Oprah and knowing she is a Goddess.
When you walk your legs or your feet crackle with every other step.
When you get off work you go for a ice cold coke instead of that nice MGD or Mickeys you used to drink.
You think a shower/bath is more a place to relax after a hard day than your bed.
You have a daily supply of metamucil cause you need your fiber.
When having nook nook.. you spouse says you used to be a tri-shot tiger now you are a one shot wonder(cause you spouse is left wondering)!
You look at exersize as the event of going to your car in the morning and warming it up.
You use the word nook instead of the proper word it should be.
You like sausage, biscuits and gravy and other heart stopping high cholesterol foods.
You think cooking at home is better than eating out.
Those are just some samples.
You know you are getting old when:
Two hot women approach you in the mall and start talking to you like they have known you for a long time. Then you realize that they are the 1st graders who lived up the street when you graduated high school.
Agent_X7 AKA J Star
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You young-uns don't know what old is. And yer all spoiled rotten anyways. You got it so easy now you can't even imagine what it was like when I was a young-un.
By God, we didn't even have computers. No one did. Oh ok, maybe they had one in the basement of the pentagon or sumthin but that's about it. If we wanted to type sumthin we did it on a typewritter (look it up you greasy haired hooligans).
And with no computers we didn't have computer games. If we wanted to play make believe knights in shining armor crap we put friggen buckets on our heads and whacked each other with sticks...that's right, we whacked each other with sticks. Now a days they'd call that "assault and battery" but back then they just said it "builds character".
We did lot's of character building back then, by God. If your parents told you to work...you worked. And if you didn't work they whacked you with a stick (that's how we learned the game). And the more they whacked you the more it built your character. I got character running out my ears by God.
And we didn't have none of these fancy ass electronic gadgets neither. Christ I don't even know what half them things are. If you wanted to remember sumthin you just remembered it. If you was stupid or senile you wrote it down to help. Didn't need no electronic organizer gadgets back then by God.
And no cell phones neither. Never heard of such a thing. People these days always yakkin on their damned cell phones. And they take 'em everywhere. So damn spoilt rotten. Any little thing goes wrong you just call someone for help.
Back in my day if you got stranded in a three day blizzard in the middle of nowhere you couldn't just call for help. We was self-reliant in them days, by God. If you got stranded in a blizzard you know what ya did? You either sat there and died or got out and walked that's what! Built character it did.
And we didn't have all this fancy ass "health consciousness" crap neither. My Ma fried our food in lard and we LIKED IT. Weren't nothin wrong with it. And if we didn't like it we got whacked with a stick and told to start likin it. Couple good whacks with a stick and that sh-t starts tasting pretty damn good I can tell you.
We ate real butter and food cooked with lard; bacon every mornin; whole milk and real cream; Hamburgers drippin grease and all sorts a sh-t that would kill you pansy ass kids if you so much as looked at it. Because these days every damn thing is "bad for you".
Bad for You!! Food is BAD FOR YOU? We didn't know nuthin about that. We ate real food and we didn't drop dead. But you kids these days, Oh my god; if it ain't low fat, low sodium, low calorie crap you faint at the thought of eating it. Christ in my day I like as not knew the critter on a first name basis before I ate it. And had to kill it myself. It built character.
That's why you young-uns these days is so spoiled rotten. Ya never had to build no character like we did.
You jump down from a chair, instead of being cushioned by youthful spring, your knees jar all the way through to your feet and back to your teeth.
You suddenly find your self drinking wine and watching documentaries instead of downing tequila slammers, a bottle bong and then passing out over the TV.
You no longer care if your clothes are fashionable, just as long as they comfortable.
Policemen look really young.
You think more, speak less and when moved to communicate it is usually imparted with a not little weathered cynicism.
You get dragged to the coolest new club in town, find yourself confronted with what appears to be a blend of roman orgy and school dance and begin to pine for your favourite chair and that book you really want to finish.
You find yourself with an offspring that can utterly destroy you on the latest console racer no matter HOW HARD YOU TRY, where once you ruled supreme amongst your peers on 'Mario Kart' and 'F-Zero'.
You find your first grey pubic hair.