the signs that you are getting old

[Distortedreasoning]

short background, the work phone i use to do my timecard recently updated and has rendered the app unusable. i consider myself somewhat tech savy, even with devices im not familiar with, i feel like i can figure it out with enough time. but the time card app was not happening so the past 2 weeks i been filling up my time card on the pc. i finally called tech support this morning and spent more than an hour going in circles. the feeling reminded me of old people and their  struggles with tech and tech support. 

 

"huh, wheres the settings, i dont see no settings here"

 

karma for laughing at old people and with their struggles with tech? 

 

 

[Doom Metal Alchemist]

For me, the first big one was songs that were popular when I was in high school getting air play on classic rock stations.

The other, needs a little context....

My entire life, people have always thought I was much younger than I am at any given time. My whole childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. When I was the oldest one on my tee-ball team at the age of 7, the coach talked to my mom about maybe I'm too young to be playing yet. When I was 10, people thought I was 7. When I was 13, people thought I was 10.... Skip ahead some years, I go back to school in 2011 at the age of 28. I befriend this dude in my chemistry class. He asks me when I graduated. I said 2007. He was like 2007????? Then I was like oh you mean, high school or college? He goes high school! Then I go oh, 2002 then. I graduated from college in 2007. He was shocked. He thought I was straight out of high school like he was.

Now keep in mind, I've never bought alcohol before, because I was never a drinker. Any time I ever drank, someone else bought it (pretty much always my parents).

Also, keep in mind, that back when I was a KID, I don't know what the law is now, but in California the law was/is if you are buying alcohol, the cashier legally HAS to card you if you even LOOK like you COULD be younger than 35.

So a couple or so years ago, when I was around 36, me and my singer are on our way to band practice, and we get our normal pizzas and we stop at a convenience store, because he wants some beer. He asks me to buy it for him since he was low on money at the time and he will get me back (he is definitely good for it, I have lent him a ton of money and he always pays me back very quick and I never even have to remind him).  So I bring the beer to the counter and I was I like "oh I guess I have to show you my ID." The cashier was like, "That's ok, I can see the grey in your hair." I was absolutely stupefied. 

[Sawdamizer]

Grey pubes

[André Toulon]

People ask me if my kids are my grandkids.

Look, if you wanna meet my older kids you'll have to track their mom down but she is not trying to be found

[discolé monade]

snap, crackle, and pop standing up. 

[Sawdamizer]

I said fucking grey pubes!

[scoobdog]

5 hours ago, Sawdamizer said:

I said fucking grey pubes!

You're not shaved?

Edited November 10, 2021 by scoobdog

[scoobdog]

Anyway, this week I'm on a cane because I threw my back out.

Edited November 10, 2021 by scoobdog

[tsar4]

8 hours ago, scoobdog said:

Anyway, this week I'm on a cane because I threw my back out.

Hah, I was throwing my back out in my early 20s!

[scoobdog]

36 minutes ago, tsar4 said:

Hah, I was throwing my back out in my early 20s!

So did I.  Had to crawl out of Chateau D'Amboise because of a massive lower back spasm.  Spent an hour on my back, staring at the Loire sky, inhaling bus fumes and thinking how royally fucked I was.

[molarbear]

22 hours ago, Distortedreasoning said:

short background, the work phone i use to do my timecard recently updated and has rendered the app unusable. i consider myself somewhat tech savy, even with devices im not familiar with, i feel like i can figure it out with enough time. but the time card app was not happening so the past 2 weeks i been filling up my time card on the pc. i finally called tech support this morning and spent more than an hour going in circles. the feeling reminded me of old people and their  struggles with tech and tech support. 

 

"huh, wheres the settings, i dont see no settings here"

 

karma for laughing at old people and with their struggles with tech? 

 

 

GERD

[Distortedreasoning]

20 hours ago, Sawdamizer said:

Grey pubes

dead giveaway. 

[Distortedreasoning]

16 hours ago, discolé monade said:

snap, crackle, and pop standing up. 

glad im not at that stage yet. but its coming soon. 

[Distortedreasoning]

11 hours ago, scoobdog said:

Anyway, this week I'm on a cane because I threw my back out.

doing what?

[Distortedreasoning]

2 hours ago, tsar4 said:

Hah, I was throwing my back out in my early 20s!

yeah it happened to me sometimes when i lifted something real heavy with bad technique. or if i played real physical games of ball. 

[Distortedreasoning]

1 hour ago, molarbear said:

GERD

gerd? 

[tsar4]

16 hours ago, scoobdog said:

So did I.  Had to crawl out of Chateau D'Amboise because of a massive lower back spasm.  Spent an hour on my back, staring at the Loire sky, inhaling bus fumes and thinking how royally fucked I was.

Mine was the shift of product in a container.  My back didn't feel right, but I carried on working the rest of the day.  The temp outside had dropped over that time & I didn't wear a jacket.  As soon as my body hit the cold air, I folded into an upside-down "L" shape.  My coworkers who were leaving were all laughing at me & it took a lot of effort to get across the parking lot and into my Camaro.  A couple years later, getting hit from behind in that car screwed it up even more.

Now at least, when I feel it starting to go, I know how to pop it back into place.  It will work if I can do it as soon as I feel it going, otherwise it will tighten up into something only a chiropractor can shove into place.

[katt_goddess]

On 11/10/2021 at 9:44 AM, Sawdamizer said:

I said fucking grey pubes!

Colored lengthening mascara.

Someone is going to go try this now.

You know you are old when the peanut you babysat for now has kids of their own...in college.

[naraku360]

The first sign I noticed was that I'd gotten older.

[Baby_Yoda]

People don’t believe i am my age, tbh.

i’m 31 but people think im a kid or in my 20s.

being Nigerian and Mexican it’s a toss up. I could live forever like the guy who played Amistad or i could end up looking like the bitch who shot Selena

we’ll see

[scoobdog]

You’re always going to be hot.  You would be hot with T-Rex arms.

[Baby_Yoda]

Just now, scoobdog said:

You’re always going to be hot.  You would be hot with T-Rex arms.

I would be a dinosaur if i could

[The_annoying_one]

Not being able to find things that are right in front of you.

Forgetting what you're doing right in the middle of doing it.

[BooThickemz]

Will say this one time i was looking for my phone hard body and it was in my hand.

[crackymckrackin]

I can tell you the weather by how much my knees hurt.

[Vamped]

The songs on the pop stations annoy me.

What are you even talking about?

   

[stilgar]

22 hours ago, Baby_Yoda said:

People don’t believe i am my age, tbh.

i’m 31 but people think im a kid or in my 20s.

People have thought I've looked 25 since I was 15. It helps that my hair has barely gone grey, especially compared to my brothers.

[BlackNoir]

Someone makes you a birthday thread

[Dr. MrsGirlfriend]

I can relate to feeling the weather in your knees/back. Sadly, the slightest changes completely fuck mine up. But that is more due to permanent horse related injuries. 

I got a random spam call the other day leaving a message about forgiving part of my school loans. I actually had to ask my younger coworker if he thought it was legit. In my defense, with all the talk about Biden forgiving loans and I work at a university (government agency) I was really hoping I would qualify finally. He just Google the number and laughed at me.

[lily_cat]

I got depressed with the pandemic, so to have a little bit of fun and just leave my surroundings I started gambling. So now I've been finding myself at casinos with all these seniors. 😂

I try to make the trek to the different casinos either late at night or very early morning. If I get there by midday, I see the busses that bring in the seniors. But even though I'm significantly younger, this activity made me feel old old for some reason.

 

[Vamped]

15 hours ago, Dr. MrsGirlfriend said:

I can relate to feeling the weather in your knees/back. Sadly, the slightest changes completely fuck mine up. But that is more due to permanent horse related injuries. 

I got a random spam call the other day leaving a message about forgiving part of my school loans. I actually had to ask my younger coworker if he thought it was legit. In my defense, with all the talk about Biden forgiving loans and I work at a university (government agency) I was really hoping I would qualify finally. He just Google the number and laughed at me.

If it doesn't come from your loan servicer, then its a scam. Plus if my loan servicer is going to call me, they send an email. They need to go ahead and forgive my loans too ... the way things are looking now ... no way, they'll get that money back anyway 

[Vamped]

8 hours ago, lily_cat said:

I got depressed with the pandemic, so to have a little bit of fun and just leave my surroundings I started gambling. So now I've been finding myself at casinos with all these seniors. 😂

I try to make the trek to the different casinos either late at night or very early morning. If I get there by midday, I see the busses that bring in the seniors. But even though I'm significantly younger, this activity made me feel old old for some reason.

 

I always wonder what the thrill of the casinos were for old people. XD

There are casinos in MS and the greyhound racing track in AR that I'm always hearing the old people talking about going there all the time.  I'm not a gambler. If I lose 20 bucks Im out. 

[Vamped]

I was sitting in my bed watching a show and when I got up I had to actively straighten my back up. I was like .... WTF this is some stuff my mom and grandma do. 

[Dr. MrsGirlfriend]

12 hours ago, Vamped said:

If it doesn't come from your loan servicer, then its a scam. Plus if my loan servicer is going to call me, they send an email. They need to go ahead and forgive my loans too ... the way things are looking now ... no way, they'll get that money back anyway 

I've thankfully been paying mine for past 4 years and worked at a non profit then the university. So I hope at least for the public servant rule to change from 10 to 5 years. I thankfully don't have as many loans as most people do but it would still be nice. 

[scoobdog]

I'm envious of Vamped being able to get up and straighten her back.

[Doom Metal Alchemist]

Oh, I forgot one.... Finding Martha Stewart hot. I've known who she was since I was a young kid but it took me to hit my mid-30s to start finding her hot.

[scoobdog]

That's not you being old, that's just you being... kinda thirsty.

[Doom Metal Alchemist]

4 minutes ago, scoobdog said:

That's not you being old, that's just you being... kinda thirsty.

[katt_goddess]

On 11/14/2021 at 4:12 PM, BlackNoir said:

Someone makes you a birthday thread

Dude, one year there were like 4 hatchday threads to me. 

Because apparently I'm so old I might get too tired to scroll down to see if there are any such threads.

I'm still crabby that AARP doesn't send stickers with their spam anymore. What the hell else am I supposed to put on my walker?

[tsar4]

1 hour ago, katt_goddess said:

Dude, one year there were like 4 hatchday threads to me. 

Because apparently I'm so old I might get too tired to scroll down to see if there are any such threads.

I'm still crabby that AARP doesn't send stickers with their spam anymore. What the hell else am I supposed to put on my walker?

To Heck with AARP!  What you need is another cat or five!

[Distortedreasoning]

3 hours ago, tsar4 said:

To Heck with AARP!  What you need is another cat or five!

 

[Distortedreasoning]

20 hours ago, Doom Metal Alchemist said:

Oh, I forgot one.... Finding Martha Stewart hot. I've known who she was since I was a young kid but it took me to hit my mid-30s to start finding her hot.

martha?

[Distortedreasoning]

On 11/13/2021 at 2:04 PM, Baby_Yoda said:

People don’t believe i am my age, tbh.

i’m 31 but people think im a kid or in my 20s.

being Nigerian and Mexican it’s a toss up. I could live forever like the guy who played Amistad or i could end up looking like the bitch who shot Selena

we’ll see

 

yolanda!

[Distortedreasoning]

On 11/14/2021 at 12:27 PM, stilgar said:

People have thought I've looked 25 since I was 15. It helps that my hair has barely gone grey, especially compared to my brothers.

i dont think youve ever shown your picture on here. 

[Distortedreasoning]

On 11/14/2021 at 11:19 PM, lily_cat said:

I got depressed with the pandemic, so to have a little bit of fun and just leave my surroundings I started gambling. So now I've been finding myself at casinos with all these seniors. 😂

I try to make the trek to the different casinos either late at night or very early morning. If I get there by midday, I see the busses that bring in the seniors. But even though I'm significantly younger, this activity made me feel old old for some reason.

 

a random lilly cat appears.

you feeling older cuz you hanging around a lot of older people 😂

[Distortedreasoning]

On 11/15/2021 at 7:59 AM, Vamped said:

If it doesn't come from your loan servicer, then its a scam. Plus if my loan servicer is going to call me, they send an email. They need to go ahead and forgive my loans too ... the way things are looking now ... no way, they'll get that money back anyway 

it should be coming from the department of education in the mail. thats the only source i would trust. emails and phone calls i dont answer unless i know the number. 

[Vamped]

7 hours ago, Distortedreasoning said:

it should be coming from the department of education in the mail. thats the only source i would trust. emails and phone calls i dont answer unless i know the number. 

The department of education uses loan servicers but it's only like 3 or 4 companies

[bnmjy]

Sleep just isn't as restorative as it once was.

You can't trash your body with drugs and alcohol and expect to wake up perfectly fine next morning.

[BooThickemz]

18 hours ago, Distortedreasoning said:

yolanda!

Ya tu sabe

[Real_AirCooledGirl]

At a party I hosted for my local trans group, most of the other people who were there thought I was 25. I've had people think I was in my mid to late 20s. Two people at a Halloween party I went to with that same group also guessed younger than my actual age when I asked them to guess my age. Maybe it's because I don't smoke, drink, or do hard drugs. Maybe it's also the breast mints working their mojo.