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I remember with clarity....I was 32 at the time (oh how I would truly appreciate being that young again)...I was at a restaurant..a McDonald's in fact..I was standing in line, the young teenish-sumthin girl said out loud...."May I take your Order Sir"....I actually turned around to see if there was a guy older then me standing there.....I mean...could I be now considered "old"....that's it..call it quits...cancel Christmas....stick a fork in me I was done...one might ask me..."Is there a point to this"...well..just the other day I was in a KFC (yes I know..the cholesterol is not good for my heart..but dammit...I wanted fried chicken)..and once again..I heard a young teenish-sumthin girl say out loud "May I take your Order Sir"..and a man turned around to see who she was speaking too..then he realized she was talking to him....I just patted him on the shoulder and said "Get used to it son..it won't be the first time"...and laughed...lol..

I remember with clarity....I was 32 at the time (oh how I would truly appreciate being that young again)...I was at a restaurant..a McDonald's in fact..I was standing in line, the young teenish-sumthin girl said out loud...."May I take your Order Sir"....I actually turned around to see if there was a guy older then me standing there.....I mean...could I be now considered "old"....that's it..call it quits...cancel Christmas....stick a fork in me I was done...one might ask me..."Is there a point to this"...well..just the other day I was in a KFC (yes I know..the cholesterol is not good for my heart..but dammit...I wanted fried chicken)..and once again..I heard a young teenish-sumthin girl say out loud "May I take your Order Sir"..and a man turned around to see who she was speaking too..then he realized she was talking to him....I just patted him on the shoulder and said "Get used to it son..it won't be the first time"...and laughed...lol..

If you want to say that is your defining moment, how about being 19 and having a man about twice your age calling you "sir." I'm 30 now and I STILL remember that.

Of course, I was carded outside a club just after my 29th birthday (I'm 30 now) and the bouncer looked at my ID and said, "you do NOT look your age." He said he thought I was pushing 20! :lol:

How about going to the GP and the doctor talking to you as he would to another doctor?

The first time that happened was a bit of a shock.

I remember with clarity....I was 32 at the time (oh how I would truly appreciate being that young again)...I was at a restaurant..a McDonald's in fact..I was standing in line, the young teenish-sumthin girl said out loud...."May I take your Order Sir"....I actually turned around to see if there was a guy older then me standing there.....I mean...could I be now considered "old"....that's it..call it quits...cancel Christmas....stick a fork in me I was done...one might ask me..."Is there a point to this"...well..just the other day I was in a KFC (yes I know..the cholesterol is not good for my heart..but dammit...I wanted fried chicken)..and once again..I heard a young teenish-sumthin girl say out loud "May I take your Order Sir"..and a man turned around to see who she was speaking too..then he realized she was talking to him....I just patted him on the shoulder and said "Get used to it son..it won't be the first time"...and laughed...lol..

If you want to say that is your defining moment, how about being 19 and having a man about twice your age calling you "sir." I'm 30 now and I STILL remember that.

Of course, I was carded outside a club just after my 29th birthday (I'm 30 now) and the bouncer looked at my ID and said, "you do NOT look your age." He said he thought I was pushing 20! :lol:

Unfortunately..the crow's feet around my eyes and my salt and pepper hair (a whole lot more salt then there used to be) gives me away..lol..I don't think I'd be going into any clubs...last club I danced in they were playing Hendrix.

Oh, forgot a bit, and the realisation that you understood every word.

I remember with clarity....I was 32 at the time (oh how I would truly appreciate being that young again)...I was at a restaurant..a McDonald's in fact..I was standing in line, the young teenish-sumthin girl said out loud...."May I take your Order Sir"....I actually turned around to see if there was a guy older then me standing there.....I mean...could I be now considered "old"....that's it..call it quits...cancel Christmas....stick a fork in me I was done...one might ask me..."Is there a point to this"...well..just the other day I was in a KFC (yes I know..the cholesterol is not good for my heart..but dammit...I wanted fried chicken)..and once again..I heard a young teenish-sumthin girl say out loud "May I take your Order Sir"..and a man turned around to see who she was speaking too..then he realized she was talking to him....I just patted him on the shoulder and said "Get used to it son..it won't be the first time"...and laughed...lol..

If you want to say that is your defining moment, how about being 19 and having a man about twice your age calling you "sir." I'm 30 now and I STILL remember that.

Of course, I was carded outside a club just after my 29th birthday (I'm 30 now) and the bouncer looked at my ID and said, "you do NOT look your age." He said he thought I was pushing 20! :lol:

Unfortunately..the crow's feet around my eyes and my salt and pepper hair (a whole lot more salt then there used to be) gives me away..lol..I don't think I'd be going into any clubs...last club I danced in they were playing Hendrix.

G'wan, go to a nightclub. You know you want to.

Unfortunately..the crow's feet around my eyes and my salt and pepper hair (a whole lot more salt then there used to be) gives me away..lol..I don't think I'd be going into any clubs...last club I danced in they were playing Hendrix.
It wasn't a dance club. :lol:

If someone were to try to take me to one, "in ten minutes I'll be late for the door/I like that old time rock 'n roll."

Surely you jest?..Like I understand any of that stuff, they so mistakenly call "Music" these days.....I remember a younger co-worker who was mumbling "Who let the dogs out"...I tapped him on the shoulder and asked him.."Who brought in dogs to a hospital"?

Heh, nightclubs as I know them ain't about the music. Dancing certainly, but it's rare to get a song that doesn't suck played. Guess I needa find a club that's more suited to my tastes.

In anycase, my point is that I'm young and loving it, but being up to one's wrists in formaldehyde soaked cadavers does tend to give you an air about you that doctors relate to easily. Meh.

You think you're old at 32? Funny.
You'll always think you're old, because you've never been as old as you are now. At 20 I remember I was feeling old. I'm 24 and I think I'm damn old. at 40 I'll wonder how I could feel old at 20. But then when I'll be 60, i'll remember the good days of my 'youth' (the 40's). 32 is definately not old, it is not even one third of your life.
If you think you're old because they call you sir, remember how you felt when you worked for the first time.
Carpe diem.

You think you're old at 32? Funny.
You'll always think you're old, because you've never been as old as you are now. At 20 I remember I was feeling old. I'm 24 and I think I'm damn old. at 40 I'll wonder how I could feel old at 20. But then when I'll be 60, i'll remember the good days of my 'youth' (the 40's). 32 is definately not old, it is not even one third of your life.
Carpe diem.

Were you talking to Filamai or me psylos..I passed up 32 long ago..lol

I'm nowhere near 32 yet! I'm young.

Just pointing out that it's an odd (old) feeling for your doctor to talk to you as an intellectual equal.

Were you talking to Filamai or me psylos..I passed up 32 long ago..lolSo, but you're still not as old as you will be 20 years from now.

Were you talking to Filamai or me psylos..I passed up 32 long ago..lolSo, but you're still not as old as you will be 20 years from now.

Shoot..i can only hope I'll still be upright in 20 yrs..lol at leastwise, not without using one of those electric wheelchairs or a walker..

Were you talking to Filamai or me psylos..I passed up 32 long ago..lolSo, but you're still not as old as you will be 20 years from now.

Shoot..i can only hope I'll still be upright in 20 yrs..lol at leastwise, not without using one of those electric wheelchairs or a walker..

If my great-granny can survive being knocked down by a 4wd at age 98 without even breaking a bone, I'm sure you'll be fine.

She can walk, too, I might add. Tough as the rag-doll that always survives the plane crash she is...

Shoot..i can only hope I'll still be upright in 20 yrs..lol at leastwise, not without using one of those electric wheelchairs or a walker..Of course you will. I don't know your age, but I predict at least 100 years of happy life for you still (based on your vigor on these forums).

I don't know if I felt old, but when I was 17 and working at Staples, and I was helping a guy buy a cellphone. All while we were talking about cellphones, his two kids were running around and causing chaos. He scolded his kids, then he turned to me and said, "What do you do when your kids misbehave?" No joke, unfortunately.

I felt old on my last birthday when I realized the old expression "girls half your age" finally applied to girls that I could legally run into in bars....

But since I refuse to either look or act my age, it generally doesn't enter my thinking.

Besides, my grandfather and his two brothers all made it past 95. His sister will be 101 this year. So I'm hoping that I'm not even half way done yet....

-Z-

I felt old on my last birthday when I realized the old expression "girls half your age" finally applied to girls that I could legally run into in bars....

But since I refuse to either look or act my age, it generally doesn't enter my thinking.

Besides, my grandfather and his two brothers all made it past 95. His sister will be 101 this year. So I'm hoping that I'm not even half way done yet....

-Z-

That's the spirt Zep...we're not gonna make it easy for old age to get us, now dammit....where is my viagra and my walker..and my geritol..and my Medicare card..lol...

I felt old on my last birthday when I realized the old expression "girls half your age" finally applied to girls that I could legally run into in bars....

But since I refuse to either look or act my age, it generally doesn't enter my thinking.

Besides, my grandfather and his two brothers all made it past 95. His sister will be 101 this year. So I'm hoping that I'm not even half way done yet....

-Z-

That's the spirt Zep...we're not gonna make it easy for old age to get us, now dammit....where is my viagra and my walker..and my geritol..and my Medicare card..lol...


lol - I ain't that far along ... yet...

But my theory is that you never give up. You might slow down a bit, but you keep setting the best pace you can.

I find it's the ones that start saying "Oh, I'm too old to do that..." who wind up withering away.

-Z-

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I don't know if I felt old, but when I was 17 and working at Staples, and I was helping a guy buy a cellphone. All while we were talking about cellphones, his two kids were running around and causing chaos. He scolded his kids, then he turned to me and said, "What do you do when your kids misbehave?" No joke, unfortunately.
:lol:

And I thought I had it bad.

turning 30 last year was the worst day of my life :cry:
I thought turning 30 was going to be awful, and I hated it... but I found out that GETTING there was a lot worse than BEING there.

I feel weary and old already.

I'll be 18 in October.

I felt old on my last birthday when I realized the old expression "girls half your age" finally applied to girls that I could legally run into in bars....


The Cubans have a saying - "You should marry a girl half your age plus seven".

MEH. Not old yet.

:D

Jim

I still feel young most of the time, although the occasional cramp or ache reminds me of aging. The first time I felt old was when I was an undergrad and saw a t-shirt worn by a freshman that reminded me that the year he started kindergarten was the year I graduated from high school.

But the oldest I've felt recently was when my 13 year old daughter, while we were talking about our summer vacation, asked if she would be able to call her boyfriend on my cell phone while we're camping. Ugh.

*walks in with a cane*
It was so long ago I forget...