You know you are getting old when _____________.

[Jamastiene]

You have to grunt to get out of the chair.

Fill in the blank.

[Indi Guy]

1. when ___________McCain looks like a whippersnapper!... n/t

[RandomThoughts]

2. when you

no longer forgive the mistakes of youth

[sarge43]

3. .... when your

kids start whining about their grey hair.

[Bertha Venation]

4. someone who was born when you were an adult became an adult herself

i.e. a dear friend's daughters, with my nephew close behind :age:

[spinbaby]

5. When you notice your son is balding.

And, deep down, you still think the 21st century is the "future."

[Doc_Technical]

6. you notice that

the sunlight is getting weaker and
gravity is getting stronger.

[alsame]

7. when you

worry that your dogs will outlive you.

[billyskank]

8. And you can't sit back down again without heaving a sigh

Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!

[Blue Diadem]

9. when you realize your baby is going to be 30.

when you have to ask a younger family member to get down on the floor to get way to the back of the cupboard because if you get down on the floor it may take 15 minutes or so before you can get yourself back up.

[IndianaJones]

10. you can pull the skin on your scrotum over your own head. nt.

[Skittles]

28. scheduling IndianaJones for an immediate ass-kicking

no explanation necessary

[old mark]

32. ...and that's the only hair up there....other than in your ears.nt

[madinmaryland]

11. GET OFF MY LAWN, KIDS!

[BarenakedLady]

12. You wonder at quarter to 3 in the afternoon if it's bedtime yet.

[redqueen]

13. When you think of teenagers and twenty-somethings as 'kids'. (nt)

[dawgmom]

18. Yup. That's the one.

I'm a big college basketball fan, but in the last few years, I find myself more and more thinking, "Oh, but they're just BABIES!!!"

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

14. It doesn't work on its own anymore!

You guys know what I mean?

[Skittles]

29. no, but us gals sure do

[FloridaJudy]

15. You find yourself going to lots of funerals,..

...and you can't remember the last time you got invited to a baby shower.

[NightWatcher]

16. when you sit on the toilet and your nuts hit the water

[Arugula Latte]

20. Friend, there is a solution to your problem:

I give you ... The Nut Bra!

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/31061/nut_bra/

[NightWatcher]

21. oh gawd, I needed that laugh today. Good to know that there's hope for me in 30 years

[suninvited]

22. Boy, did I get an education today.

And I thought WE had problems with saggy breasts.

[trof]

30. oh jeez

THANKS!

[Lil Missy]

33. ROTFLOL!!!!

[KitchenWitch]

17. You sit down on the floor and can't get up again.

[dawgmom]

19. You realize you will never wear high heels again...

...nor do you ever want to. AND you see women wearing them, and think "Idiot."

[FloridaJudy]

23. Bingo! eom

[monmouth]

24. The President Elect is exactly the same age as your son...(sigh)....n/t

[Ikonoklast]

25. Not only are you older than every professional athlete,

you are also older than all the coaches.

[Skittles]

26. you have more money than you did when you were young

but you worry about it a LOT more

[plcdude]

27. When the offspring

of one of your former students takes your class and let's you know that you taught his/her parent. Not that that has happen to me or anything.

[trof]

31. You are older than the president of the U.S. and will be from now on.

McCain would have given me a very much unwanted reprieve.

[hvn_nbr_2]

34. How I found out that I was getting old

Once I happened to be on some college campus on parents' day. I noticed that I was looking at the mothers more than the coeds.

Now, years later, I'd probably be looking at the grandmothers.

[trof]

35. You walk into the kitchen and stand there.

You pour yourself a cup of coffee.
But there was something else you were going to do besides get your coffee.
You look around for a hint.
Something?
Anything?
'What the hell else did I come in here for?'
You stand there for a minute.
'The hell with it. It'll come.'
You take your coffee back to the computer.
As soon as you sit down your wife says 'Honey? Did you get me a cup of coffee?'
'Oh. Yeah. Sorry. I'll get it.'

[Redstone]

36. When you're jealous of people who can walk into a room, and

actually remember why it was that they walked into that room in the first place.

(Though I've been that way for a LONG time, so it might not be an indicator of getting old.)

Redstone

[XemaSab]

37. You're getting fatter by the year

because of your back and knee problems, which make it difficult to get exercise.

Which themselves are caused by getting fat.

[FloridaJudy]

38. You replace all your light bulbs with compact fluorescents

Not so much because you care about the environment, but because dragging out that ladder to replace a bulb is such a friggin' chore.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

39. --You stay home most Saturday nights, and you like it that way.

--You no longer give much of a shit if some people don't think you're sufficiently "successful."
--The toys you played with as a kid start turning up in antique shops.
--You've never heard of a whole lot of (apparently very popular) celebrities and musicians.
--College students look like kindergarteners (and you start thinking they act like them, too).
--Rowdy, drunken parties where you eventually wake up hung over on some stranger's couch wondering where some of your clothes are, don't seem like fun any more.
--You don't mind not having a relationship because you don't want anybody to see you naked.
--You have developed an adversarial relationship with gravity.
--You own more than two pairs of glasses, and sometimes can't find any of them.

[CreekDog]

40. I had the perfect comeback to that line

but forgot it.

[dgibby]

41. You wonder how that old bag in your bathroom mirror got into your house.

[DemBones DemBones]

42. "Mirror, mirror on the wall, I am my mother after all." nt

[machI]

43. The sign at the Convenience Store says: 'We card everyone' and they don't card you when you buy beer

[SalmonChantedEvening]

44. You remember when this was all fields and farms.

And I do.