One Friday night, i asked a bouncer who was standing outside of a local country bar how the vibe was inside and his response was “the older crowd is on Saturday nights”. That was the moment my youth was ripped out from under me 😂
18 when I had my son… I accepted old age once I hit 30 and I was being bullied. Lmao. (My son’s BFFs moms are 40-60). It really hit home when it went from “haha” to him defending me but still… 🙁
I was observing a group of my personally trained engineers give presentations on an intricate new technology. Little did I know that they were upset that I wasn’t there to critique them, when I was standing there towards the back of an otherwise small room.
When they asked where I had been, I realized at that moment I had crossed over the “invisible old person” line. My response was: I was engaging a personal cloaking field. All of them are gamers, and I think they actually believed me.
Started feeling like a car with an expired warranty about 35-36. Found out at 40 I get migraines now. At 44, I found out I have celiac. I’ve been fighting a chronic achilles issue for the last 4-5 years (which, as a runner, really sucks ass)… and and and… basically my health is going to shit.
When I look in the mirror I look almost exactly like my dad did in his 40s, which just weird.
This skibidi toilet BS is … mystifying. Like… are we just competing to see who can make up the most brainless nonsense now and that’s supposed to be funny? I remember the songSkibidi by Little Big, which was catchy enough… but brainrot stuff just doesn’t register, and I think it might be because I’m too old to get it.
New shit comes out and I don’t get it so I don’t like it and then some young person starts talking about old shit, and they’re referring to the same shit I still think is the new shit.
I always loved watching the Oscars from the red carpet pre-show to the very end. One year I realized I barely knew who any of the actors were and I hadn’t seen their movies and I didn’t give a shit. Now I don’t watch movies anymore because they mostly don’t make them for me.
I was sat on the floor for hours building the C-3PO Lego and when I got up, my lower back sounded like cracking bubble wrap and I laid there like “fuck I’m old.”
Having lots of games that you want to play. But you now feel that you need 2-3 days just to really get into one, but you don’t have 2-3 days. So what little time you have either gets wasted on doomscrolling your games list, or something braindead like a shooter or an older game you have played 1000 times before
Being called “ma’am” consistently. The first time or two I chalked up to a fluke, to people being polite, but it started happening on a regular basis. Then I knew. My card of youth got revoked, and my hip replacement surgery now inevitably looms on the horizon.
Looking at the top hits music chart for the first time in a while and not even remotely having a clue who or what is going on. Having always been really into music that was hard to face..
Newer employee and I were shooting the shit, talking about past work experiences and I told her I worked at RadioShack before the job I am at now. She deadass asked me what kind of music I played there.
There comes a day when your peers’ kids are adults and you do the math and realize they didn’t have them young. My friends’ kids that were born when they were working adults are in college and shit…I’m legit middle-aged lol
Drinking, I may have two-three drinks and the next day I have a horrible headache that takes one to two business days to go away… don’t get me started on shots….
The first time I through my back out. Picture it! Houston summer 2016! There I was with my military physique still. Just got out 8 months prior. Nowhere near the amount of physical activity I did before I got out. Was hanging up some clothes and getting ready to drive 5 hours to Louisiana to see the family for the fourth.
Well had an empty hangaler laying on my bed and figured well go ahead and hang this in the closet. In what felt like one fluid motion, I grabbed the empty hanger off the bed and extended my arm out to the left to stow it on the closet rod. Soon as the hanger hook hit the rod I felt the most direct snap, crackle, and OH GOD pain in my back. 26 years old and through my back out from an empty hanger… didn’t help that this is also the trip that I found out my AC went out in my car. My uncle also died right around that time so that didn’t make matters any easier. But yeah, back pain is no joke and sure as shit a wake up call to take better care of yourself.
When my (30f) youngest sibling;my baby brother (15m), who up to now I still call babybro and I still at times tease on babying him, just recently introduced his first girlfriend, and I’m so proud of him. I see how he treats his gf and how he asks me for advices for “girl things” ..
Actually the other day when I was bopping around in my kitchen to Chappell Roan and realized how much older I am than her. I broke down into tears. I was really thinking if I was “allowed” to listen to her while in my late 30s. I’m having an existential crisis
When not a single doctor, radiologist, physical therapist, or (in acts of desperation) acupuncturist or chiropractor can figure out how to fix this pinched nerve in my back.
One thing I’ve really started to notice is how much older I am than almost every main character in every TV show or movie (the characters, not the actors. They just look better a lot longer)
When I realized I couldn’t really dance anymore. I was always naturally a good dancer and hit the club all the time, but I might as well just do the Carlton and call it a night. It’s mostly in my head since I realize I’m not that girl anymore.
Took my daughter to my old high school football field…hadn’t been there since I graduated in 1994. Shocked how pristine it was, well manicured…
I remembered how I used to run up and down that field in practice all day every day…and invited my daughter to run a 100 yard sprint with me…. Well…
I started strong, but by the time I got to the 35 yard line… I popped a quad, strained both hamstrings and my groin said fuck are you doin bruh!?… 😂
I pulled up… Limped to the 50 and was like yeah… I used to do 10 of these after practice in pads in 90 degrees with no water till it was over…well…not No more…. But it felt good to run that last one…on that field…with my kid. Loved it!
When sleeping in was painful. As a teen I thought being retired would be awesome. I could sleep until noon if I wanted. I realized I was old when I had to get up at 7 not because I wanted to but because laying in bed was making my back, my hip, or some other uncooperative body part ache!
I was a really major collegiate runner, and generally have always been extremely physically capable. Having a back injury like that so young, really opens your eyes and makes you realize how fragile the human body is. One mistake and you’re in immense pain and can’t do half the stuff you’re used too.
Ironically, stopping methamphetamine. I felt like Superman physically for the most part of my adult life then I got sober at 40 and all those years of sleep deprivation & not eating consistently hit me like a freight train
I’m an adult with my own place now. Not a kid anymore who can rely on others to navigate the new & complicated ways of adulting. Turning 29 recently also hit hard. 😂
For me, it was when I realized my money was allocated before I even had it. “Okay, when I get paid Friday, x amount goes to this bill, gotta pay this one by Tuesday…”
I always hated shopping with my mom when I was younger because she’d gingerly take us through the home good sections of stores before we’d go to the toy section…. which is where I wanted to go originally. NOW I enjoy going through the home goods sections and looking at things like throw blankets, cool gizmos for a kitchen, etc.
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I dont get emotional as I used to.
(76m) It’s been a minute.
I did the dishes and my back hurt for about a week.
You hear me cracking from a mile away
I always liked older women when I was younger then suddenly, they’re just the same age as me now
When I put on a sport coat with jeans and thought “yep, I can pull this off now”.
I started going to the doctor without my mother
Every morning
One Friday night, i asked a bouncer who was standing outside of a local country bar how the vibe was inside and his response was “the older crowd is on Saturday nights”. That was the moment my youth was ripped out from under me 😂
When I started getting back pain from doing things that never would have phased me before.
I had to slow down in the parking lot so mom could keep up with me.
I’m 18 but my knees hurt when I stand
When I had to move out
When an adult let’s slip that they were born after I graduated high school.
My coworkers didn’t know who The Fray was when I pointed out the song ‘Never Say Never’ that was playing on the speaker system 3 weeks ago.
They didn’t recognize the song ‘Higher’ by Matt Nathanson either when it came on last Thursday.
They had no clue who Matt Nathanson is. I’m basically the pudgy uncle now.
When the music I grew up with is now considered dad rock.
Blink 182, Sum 41, Korn, Slipknot, Lamb Of God, Avengend Sevenfold, Linkin Park are all now called dad rock….
When they stopped asking me for ID
18 when I had my son… I accepted old age once I hit 30 and I was being bullied. Lmao. (My son’s BFFs moms are 40-60). It really hit home when it went from “haha” to him defending me but still… 🙁
The moment i pulled my lighter out of my pocket when a slow song was played at a rockconcert and realised everybody was holding their phone up instead
Yeah, has been a while that ive been at a concert
When I got a 20 year old roommate. I’m definitely in my 40s.
I was observing a group of my personally trained engineers give presentations on an intricate new technology. Little did I know that they were upset that I wasn’t there to critique them, when I was standing there towards the back of an otherwise small room.
When they asked where I had been, I realized at that moment I had crossed over the “invisible old person” line. My response was: I was engaging a personal cloaking field. All of them are gamers, and I think they actually believed me.
When I started having to go to bed at 9 pm.
When I started having to look up stuff on urban dictionary with much more frequency.
I’m sitting here and my whole body hurts
Mentally: I worry about gray hairs
Physically: I found them
When I started getting hit on… A lot.
When “in my day” was suddenly in my vocabulary
Choosing not to stretch wasn’t an option anymore
When I checked my 401k
I sneezed and pulled a muscle real bad. Like out of commission. A sneeze. 🤧
The parents at my daughter’s nursery talk to me like I’m one of them. It’s really weird.
When your hangover lasts longer than the event it is time to slow it down.
Went to jump up onto a pickup’s tailgate, didn’t get high enough and fell into the bed of the truck lol
It used to be an easy hop…
Sneezes started to hurt. Everything.
Exiting my vehicle is never easy or quick anymore.
There have been so many, I’ve lost track.
Started feeling like a car with an expired warranty about 35-36. Found out at 40 I get migraines now. At 44, I found out I have celiac. I’ve been fighting a chronic achilles issue for the last 4-5 years (which, as a runner, really sucks ass)… and and and… basically my health is going to shit.
When I look in the mirror I look almost exactly like my dad did in his 40s, which just weird.
This skibidi toilet BS is … mystifying. Like… are we just competing to see who can make up the most brainless nonsense now and that’s supposed to be funny? I remember the song Skibidi by Little Big, which was catchy enough… but brainrot stuff just doesn’t register, and I think it might be because I’m too old to get it.
New shit comes out and I don’t get it so I don’t like it and then some young person starts talking about old shit, and they’re referring to the same shit I still think is the new shit.
I was older than the footballers I watched then I got older than most of the managers.
When i hugged the new washing machine my parents suprised me and my now ex with because ours broke and we couldn’t afford one at the time…
When I cannot get out of a chair without a loud groan escaping my mouth
When I started saying “they don’t make ’em like they used to” unironically.
I always loved watching the Oscars from the red carpet pre-show to the very end. One year I realized I barely knew who any of the actors were and I hadn’t seen their movies and I didn’t give a shit. Now I don’t watch movies anymore because they mostly don’t make them for me.
White hair and unable to sleep in without interruption
Younger women would be attracted to me, want to date me but were put off by what others would say about an age gap
Joint pain
Doing my taxes 🙄
When the teenage cashiers at the grocery store started calling me sir.
With age being relative, it’s when some 5yo girl at the playground told me that if I’m 6 then I’m really old and I’m like I’m 7
When the comfort of saying “tomorrow” starts to degrade
If you fall down and people laugh you are young.
If you fall down and people panic you are old.
Recently… people on the nostalgia subreddit are now asking for 2010s cultural memories to reminisce on.
I have been getting grey hairs on my hair by my ears, but eh. Those feel earned from life stress.
But kids feeling nostalgic over the 2010s is just not right to me, lol.
When I had to catch my breath after kneeling down to tie my shoe
When all the 20 year olds are in the club
I was sat on the floor for hours building the C-3PO Lego and when I got up, my lower back sounded like cracking bubble wrap and I laid there like “fuck I’m old.”
When my friends were getting divorced and some were remarrying.
People will leave their kids with me. Like I’m backup babysitter now
When a beautiful, 19 year old classmate asked what age I was turning on my birthday, and I had to say 30. I really felt like her peer!
And later, being 37 and realizing that it meant I was in my “late 30s” (shudder).
I caught brought up the Y2K bug in a conversation at work today and realized none of my colleagues in the conversation had any recollection of it
Having lots of games that you want to play. But you now feel that you need 2-3 days just to really get into one, but you don’t have 2-3 days. So what little time you have either gets wasted on doomscrolling your games list, or something braindead like a shooter or an older game you have played 1000 times before
When I started seeing wedding photos and baby photos of my school and college friends on social media.
When I returned home from college and so much had changed in my hometown.
I’m a nostalgic person so I tend to remember the past fondly.
I pulled a muscle in my neck sneezing
It when when my family physician used the phrase “You know, a man your age … ” for the first time.
The cops all look young.
49 ouch
Joined the Army at 29. Yep, that did it.
Being called “ma’am” consistently. The first time or two I chalked up to a fluke, to people being polite, but it started happening on a regular basis. Then I knew. My card of youth got revoked, and my hip replacement surgery now inevitably looms on the horizon.
Looking at the top hits music chart for the first time in a while and not even remotely having a clue who or what is going on. Having always been really into music that was hard to face..
When my kids called Blink 182 “dad rock”
I see uni/college students as kids now
Newer employee and I were shooting the shit, talking about past work experiences and I told her I worked at RadioShack before the job I am at now. She deadass asked me what kind of music I played there.
A couple of young guys were starting stuff with a young girl near me, didn’t end well- for me. But hey, she was ok.
I turned thirty and a switched flipped
Now I have physical ailments that trade shifts seamlessly and the concept of peace is way in the rear view
I asked my 97 year old mother that question just recently and she said, “I’ll let you know when I get there!”
There comes a day when your peers’ kids are adults and you do the math and realize they didn’t have them young. My friends’ kids that were born when they were working adults are in college and shit…I’m legit middle-aged lol
didn’t recognize the SNL musical guest
Drinking, I may have two-three drinks and the next day I have a horrible headache that takes one to two business days to go away… don’t get me started on shots….
Someone asked me how I threw my back out.
“I stood up out of my recliner and it just popped.”
Cue the Matt Damon aging meme and fade me.
Hearing my knees sound like a marching band whenever I crouch
When I broke my hip at 37.
I am 41 i still feel young
So i guess i have not gotten to that moment yet.
I got excited about buying a new duster and couldn’t wait to get home to use it.
Knee problems
When I realized I was enjoying talking with my father about politics
When I started noticing particular milestones for things I was fond of growing up. For example, the Nintendo DS turns old enough to drink this year.
The first time I through my back out. Picture it! Houston summer 2016! There I was with my military physique still. Just got out 8 months prior. Nowhere near the amount of physical activity I did before I got out. Was hanging up some clothes and getting ready to drive 5 hours to Louisiana to see the family for the fourth.
Well had an empty hangaler laying on my bed and figured well go ahead and hang this in the closet. In what felt like one fluid motion, I grabbed the empty hanger off the bed and extended my arm out to the left to stow it on the closet rod. Soon as the hanger hook hit the rod I felt the most direct snap, crackle, and OH GOD pain in my back. 26 years old and through my back out from an empty hanger… didn’t help that this is also the trip that I found out my AC went out in my car. My uncle also died right around that time so that didn’t make matters any easier. But yeah, back pain is no joke and sure as shit a wake up call to take better care of yourself.
When my (30f) youngest sibling;my baby brother (15m), who up to now I still call babybro and I still at times tease on babying him, just recently introduced his first girlfriend, and I’m so proud of him. I see how he treats his gf and how he asks me for advices for “girl things” ..
Actually the other day when I was bopping around in my kitchen to Chappell Roan and realized how much older I am than her. I broke down into tears. I was really thinking if I was “allowed” to listen to her while in my late 30s. I’m having an existential crisis
When not a single doctor, radiologist, physical therapist, or (in acts of desperation) acupuncturist or chiropractor can figure out how to fix this pinched nerve in my back.
I hate going out and I hate noise
Henry Danger seen as nostalgic thing now.
When it hurts to drink
My knees and back told me
One thing I’ve really started to notice is how much older I am than almost every main character in every TV show or movie (the characters, not the actors. They just look better a lot longer)
When I realized I couldn’t really dance anymore. I was always naturally a good dancer and hit the club all the time, but I might as well just do the Carlton and call it a night. It’s mostly in my head since I realize I’m not that girl anymore.
Took my daughter to my old high school football field…hadn’t been there since I graduated in 1994. Shocked how pristine it was, well manicured…
I remembered how I used to run up and down that field in practice all day every day…and invited my daughter to run a 100 yard sprint with me…. Well…
I started strong, but by the time I got to the 35 yard line… I popped a quad, strained both hamstrings and my groin said fuck are you doin bruh!?… 😂
I pulled up… Limped to the 50 and was like yeah… I used to do 10 of these after practice in pads in 90 degrees with no water till it was over…well…not No more…. But it felt good to run that last one…on that field…with my kid. Loved it!
When I didn’t recognize any of the younger stars/musicians on the mtv vmas
I looked in the mirror and realized I no longer had that youthful puffiness in my face (also known as baby fat).
My friend’s daughter came over to my house and saw my turntable and asked “What is that?”
I pulled a muscle getting out of bed last week
When I replied to this!!!
When I started to notice that my actions have real life consequences🫠
I sneezed and pulled something in my back at 31
When 90% of the top 100 songs of the year are awful.
When sleeping in was painful. As a teen I thought being retired would be awesome. I could sleep until noon if I wanted. I realized I was old when I had to get up at 7 not because I wanted to but because laying in bed was making my back, my hip, or some other uncooperative body part ache!
Got my first grays this year. A lot of them.
When I got home from kindergarten and started dinner, lol.
I got a major back injury (prolapsed disc).
I was a really major collegiate runner, and generally have always been extremely physically capable. Having a back injury like that so young, really opens your eyes and makes you realize how fragile the human body is. One mistake and you’re in immense pain and can’t do half the stuff you’re used too.
Right now as I lie awake unable to sleep is a curse
When green day was inducted into the hall of fame
When i started to be happy about home stuff
My back surgery. Mid 30s hit hard
Arthritis
I went to the store and the clerk called me “unc”. I’m fucking 31 lmfao. Also being around actual young people will make you realize.
Everything playing on the wireless sounds like the same shit
I taught middle school when I first graduated from college. The kids I taught have now graduated from college.
About ten years ago I asked my nephew if he ever watched Harry Potter.
He said no, he didn’t care for old movies.
Ironically, stopping methamphetamine. I felt like Superman physically for the most part of my adult life then I got sober at 40 and all those years of sleep deprivation & not eating consistently hit me like a freight train
I’m an adult with my own place now. Not a kid anymore who can rely on others to navigate the new & complicated ways of adulting. Turning 29 recently also hit hard. 😂
You turn from a miss to a mam; I don’t even know when that happened.
For me, it was when I realized my money was allocated before I even had it. “Okay, when I get paid Friday, x amount goes to this bill, gotta pay this one by Tuesday…”
When I had to scroll longer when looking for my birth year on online forums
I’ll be watching a sappy romantic movie and I’ll say “oh boy here they go again” and visibly cringe when something cutesy happens. I may be jaded too.
I pulled a muscle when I was reaching for a box of Cheez-Its on a shelf and it hurt so much I went to urgent care
Looking at kids these days
I said “back in my day” unironically.
This morning I coughed and threw my neck out right at the base. Shit’s been hurting all day. I’m only 25 😭
Just got my hearing checked and I need a hearing aid.
I always hated shopping with my mom when I was younger because she’d gingerly take us through the home good sections of stores before we’d go to the toy section…. which is where I wanted to go originally. NOW I enjoy going through the home goods sections and looking at things like throw blankets, cool gizmos for a kitchen, etc.
No matter what my child wants to do, my honest answer is always that I want to sleep.
I got excited about getting a new fridge. 😩
When my knees started hurting