Gettin Old
Here's a couple of facts

1. I hate halloween, the sheer prospect of little children scares the hell outta me.
2. I hate all this new pop rubbish, dire straights is where its at
3. Yes, i have slippers, and yes, i have a dressing gown.

You know whats depressing about all this? I'm only 14.

I might aswell go and listen to the archers with my dad.

No apologies for length or girth (i'm still developing)
(homochicken, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 21:56, Reply)

When I am looking after small children,
women have stopped giving me "you dirty teenaged slut" looks and started asking me where I bought their clothes. Do I really look old enough to have a toddler?
( gracielou, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 21:40, Reply)

Am I getting old?
Well I'm only 21 but there is evidence to say that I am:

1-I can't sit down or stand up without groaning
2-I went out last night drinking; the first time in 4 months I worked out
3-I'm only just ready to reintroduce solids to my stomach after last night
4-Footballers are younger than me
5-Musicians, sorry, lets make that pop musicians are also younger than me; and I don't understand how anyone could like any of it.
6-I have CD's older than people I've worked with
7-1990 was not that long ago; but people born in that year are probably having sex by now
8-Little David, my cousin, just passed his driving test
9-I've noticed a joy in walking
10-I feel like the cashiers think i'm odd when i buy sweets, and am then outstanded that a standard sized chocolate bar can cost as much as 50p
11-I keep carrier bags, boxes, and odd bits of cardboard - just in case
12-I'm thinking of trading in my motorbike (Yamaha R6) for something, more sensible
13-I've ordered a cup of tea in a pub on a Friday night, and I wasn't even driving
14-Isn't tea great?
15-I take great interest in property prices as I want to buy a house
16-I hate going to town because there are too many people there
17-There is no joy in Christmas anymore
18-My friends and I have known each other for over 10 years
19-I use the words 'therefore' and 'concur' often, as do I use inverted commas
20-I can now go to bed with my [very attractive] girlfriend without contemplating sex
21-I know people who are going bald
22-I now do exercise for the sakes of exercise

Phew! Thats enough for now. I don't think I'm old; but I do appear to be hyper-maturing! Who knows what I'll be like when I'm 30....

God help me [and my girlfriend who will have to put up with me!]
(Smoking Joe, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 20:39, Reply)

Jesus, mom, it's you!
When I take off my glasses, look in the mirror and see my dear old crepey-necked mother staring back at me.
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 20:37, Reply)

One Last One
I worry that these anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) will prevent me from being anti-social by reading my book in public.
(jamesthegill opens new tabs with his scroll wheel, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 20:36, Reply)

Pfft.
Your old bastards!

*offers pipe and slippers*
( Laughing Boy, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 20:29, Reply)

At work
An old guy at work once asked me if my wife minded me working weekends. I was 19 and most certainly not married.
(DoctorJ last upset some twat who doesn't like swearing on, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 20:14, Reply)

#4. So the other day, I was walking down the street and suddenly I turned into a Republican.
I'm getting old. Or maybe this is what six years in a red state can do to you.

So I walk by a music shop the other day, where they've got a big poster in the window for Green Day's new album, "American Idiot." And I sigh long and loud,
'cause number one: Green Day is still around. Sigh.
and number two: "hey, love it or leave it, cabron."

Love it or Leave it. Sah. I am now officially more conservative than my parents.

I'm thinking about killing myself now, before it progresses any further.
(fantastic german, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 20:11, Reply)

I now realize what crap the TV shows I watched as a kid were.
And as such, I've gained an entirely new appreciation for Thundercats!
It's even better than the original Batman series with Adam West.

Also, Ninja Turtles is crap, too. I can't believe I used to watch it religiously every day after school.
(BlurOfSerenity, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 20:06, Reply)

ok well
My favourite programme is "Time Team", enough said.
(Biggsy, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 19:51, Reply)

you're only as young as the woman you feel
and I have a couple of 18 year olds on hand should I feel lecherous :p

*sigh* going back to university aged 28 and surrounded by people who have never heard of Danger Mouse....
(washing_machine, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 19:48, Reply)

It makes me feel really old...
- When most of the people posting replies to this question are in their early twenties or younger.. i'm 35..so i suppose technically, that does actually me me old..bollocks.
I
(neilus maximus, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 19:43, Reply)

Here's one
I have moved into a house in Littleover near Derby in the last couple of months, and I've been really surprised that the kids in the area seem really polite (though they might not be after I ignored the trick-or-treaters tonight, having given away all my stuff to last night's early birds). Seriously, they exhibit cap-doffing levels of good manners when I walk past them on the street. I can only imagine this is because my smart Rover car and geriatric dress sense make me an old man, and they're just respecting their elders.
(DoctorJ last upset some twat who doesn't like swearing on, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 19:35, Reply)

it all happened very suddenly
sitting down after dinner ranting at the television as usual! when in comes daughter no1 with her tongue pierced,by god I surprised even me, shouted and roared for ages until I realised .........................I WAS POINTING WITH MY FATHERS FINGER........lots of muttering and I put my slippers on, had a large scotch and since then have gradually dwindled away until I'm a mere shadow of the youth I was
( Dill, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 19:24, Reply)

<SIGH>
I am now experiencing the third generation of friends' relationships: they're getting divorced. i haven't even got a girlfriend!
I'm starting to wear beige. Beige slacks, brown boots and a brown suade jacket
My GP is younger than me
I worry about not having a pension
I go "owowowow" when I stand up due to a bad back and it takes me five minutes before I can walk upright. But i don't complain....
I like listening to Terry Wogan on my way to work
I drive a knackered Orion
I can't believe it's nearly Christmas again
My friends at my local are 40+
I stop in the middle of the room because I've forgotten what it was I was going to do
I own three copies of Dark Side of the Moon: an original, the 20th Anniversary and the 30th Anniversary editions. Add to that that I've seen Pink Floyd in concert twice and the last time was 10 years ago!
I love my cat
I'm getting into "proper" photography (with film and stuff)
I want a dark room
Or a shed
I get very distressed and irate when people don't use the apostrophe properly
Kids in the office wonder what the hell I'm talking about when I mention using log tables at school
When my dad was 35, i was 11. Jesus.
I want to buy a dinner jacket (tux)
tv.cream.org is one of my favourite web sites
I saw Star Wars (ANH) when it came out in the cinema the first time round
I can say stuff like "Do you remember the drought of '77?", or "where were you when Elvis died?"
I remember Neighbours before Kylie and Jason were in it
I just don't get Bo Selecta (I actually think it's shite)
Last year I bumped uglies with an "older woman". She was 47 (cute though) and her daughter was the same age as me
Any female under the age of 25 is a "girl", not a "woman"
Me and some mates are off to Amsterdam next year for a stag do. And planning where to go to shoot arty photos instead of what sort of grass to get muntied on
All my socks are black
I can iron a shirt
It really doesn't bother me if I am not considered "cool"
One of my favourite phrases is "little bastards, bring back National Service, that'll sort them out..."

There are tons more but I've gone on for too long. Been lurking for ages and kinda making up for it!
(Ghostlight, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 19:21, Reply)

I must be an old man
You know you're banging on a bit when your fellow medical students remark during a session on practising musculoskeletal examination that you have "An old man's body". I'm 22.
(DoctorJ last upset some twat who doesn't like swearing on, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 19:19, Reply)

I'm old before my time.
I know this because:

- I find clubbing tremendously boring.
- I always wish they'd turn down the music in pubs.
- I drink something I'll enjoy, rather than to get drunk.
- I'm a member of a rambling club.
- I find that a cup of Earl Grey & Vanilla tea will make all the world's ills vanish.
- I've recently incorporated my dad's taste in music into my own.
- I think clothes are ridiculously overpriced, and only buy them in the sales.
- I constantly correct people's spelling, punctuation and grammar.
- People come to me if they don't know what a word means.
- I think the common looks so beautiful in autumn that I wander round with my camera taking photos.
- I start to shout at the TV during politics shows.
- I enjoy countdown.
- I despair at the state of the country and the future.
- Far from being my main goal, money seems to be of almost no significance to life.
- I think babies are the cutest things in the world.
- I think I want to settle down with someone and go for evening walks in the countryside, hand in hand as we talk aimlessly about life, the universe and everything, watching the sun go down behind the hills; both momentarily struck by a sense of the incredible beauty of the universe, awoken from our reverie by our faithful dog bounding happily back towards us...
...sorry, off in my own little world.
- I daydream.

I turned 20 just over two months ago...
(Nothing to see, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 18:55, Reply)

I saw the Rocky Horror Picture Show for the first time last night.
(I made it to college without ever having seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I'm such a square.)
So it's midnight, me and my people are all standing there with the big V's on our foreheads. And all the regulars, who are up on stage dressed as Frankenfurter and whatever, or standing out in the aisles shouting out the lines, were still in high school.
My group--all male except for me--had been warned not to pick up any of the girls here because they were all younger than they looked.
Afterwards, we all went to the International (ha!) House of Pancakes with this one group of people we'd met, only to have them leave early because the oldest was *sixteen* and their parents were waiting up for them.

#2. I've got a bad back. Doesn't actually make me old--it runs in my family--but you should hear me trying to climb up onto my top bunk.

#3. In addition to the home improvement shows, I watch a lot of Law and Order. I'm one step away from Matlock.
(fantastic german, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 18:31, Reply)

Im 23
both my current and my last girlfriend refer to me as "old man" they're both the same age at 20.
i have this thick, thick black hair that grows out of my nose and protrudes quite profoundly, i pull it out all the time with a pair of tweezers, but it's back a few days later.
Taking a shit is no longer the 2 minute affair it used to be, now its take a paper and warn the family to stay downstairs.
First thing in the morning and last thing at night first thing i do is stick on the news, plus i always check it on my phone throughout the day
( Kingtoke was shit at life on, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 18:23, Reply)

Turned 30 last week
Found myself advocating the return of National Service the other day.

As Reef once said - "Yer old, yer old, yer old, yer old, yer old..."
( TooMuch2AM, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 18:20, Reply)

enthusing to my sister,
who is younger by ten years,about my collection of rare vinyl, she pipes up "so is that like a cd then?" im only 30 :(
( nbby notkins, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 18:05, Reply)

I started to realise I'm getting old
the day three maybe 7th grade schoolgirls approached me and - addressing me as "Sie"* - asked very politely whether I knew if this was the house where one could buy "dope". And I couldn't even tell them.

*Yes, german. Sorry if the joke doesn't translate.
(klezka, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 17:49, Reply)

Arse 'tache.
Yep I have developed a distinctly hairy line across the top of my bummocks. It must have snuck up on me when I wasn't looking.
Oh and really long hairs in my ears, fun to pluck though. And I made some bread the other day,oh the shame.........
(bettyswollocks, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 17:21, Reply)

i'm 21 and a half
I find myself agreeing to ASBOs, even though most of them tread all over civil liberties.
I enjoy museums.
I listen to radio 2.
My bones hurt all the time.
(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 17:16, Reply)

Whenever I drive through a country village
I have an odd urge to stop and look around a bit. Also, the other week I went into Homebase and spent half an hour in there and I only wanted to buy some lightbulbs.

I'm turning into my dad!
(amazingmikeyc internet ninja, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 17:08, Reply)

Old you say?
Well my ever increasing interest in personal hygine, covering grey hairs, soft furnishings and almost fanatical dedication to interior design, keeping my flat clean, cooking and dinner parties.

Shit, maybe that's really turning gay? Could you repeat the question?
(Chinychinchin .................................................., Sat 30 Oct 2004, 17:07, Reply)

When your favorite musician(s) died when you were four years old

oh wait....
(Corn Dog, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 17:04, Reply)

Despite only being 17,
I despair when I realise that people born in the 90s are now beginning their sexual awakenings.
I complain about Tesco's lack of facilities for pedestrians...
And today I used the word "outrageous" without irony whilst demoaning the dangers of alcohol.
Oh, and I now appreciate really really bad kids' TV shows in a way no 11 year-old can.
( Malchick, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 16:18, Reply)

My creaky mind is straining under the weight of remembering....
A few years ago, I was standing in the yard of my apartment, when somd late-teenagers walked past. They were having a pretty lively discussion that got really quiet as they passed me. I thought "what the fuck?"

A few minutes later, a couple of similarly aged teenage girls were passing, so I asked "when you look at me, do you see a regular guy, or a grown-up."

It was like a flaming arrow into the hindenburg.

Now I'm back in college, so I feel old whenever any of the 19-22 year-old hotties pass me without so much as a glance...(sigh)
( mr_dog, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 16:10, Reply)

Too Young
The fact that when I see a young 16-18 year old with her mum, I go for the mum!
(bigplums, Sat 30 Oct 2004, 16:06, Reply)