Things That Make You Feel Old (4 Viewers)

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guidomerkinsrules said:
Ha!
I beat that system- I waited til I wa granddad age to have kids
No way they’ll ever catch up to me
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In my neck of the woods I was great-grandad age at 52 when my daughter was born :hihi:

Not kidding. When Ella was born I worked with 3 women who were grandmothers in their mid 30's and whose moms were great grandmoms in their early 50's.

My great-great grandfather was born in 1835 and fought in the civil war.
 
My mother became a grandmother at 38. And today I got an invite to my daughters 40th birthday. Feels very strange. Luckily I am still not the oldest generation since both my parents are still alive
 
saintmdterps said:
In my neck of the woods I was great-grandad age at 52 when my daughter was born :hihi:

Not kidding. When Ella was born I worked with 3 women who were grandmothers in their mid 30's and whose moms were great grandmoms in their early 50's.

My great-great grandfather was born in 1835 and fought in the civil war.
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One particular issue I think I’ve experienced lately (I don’t think it’s paranoia)
Me: 5’9” dumpy, pasty, bald white guy in advanced middle age

My oldest: 6’1” olive complexion, LOTS of curly hair and bean pole thin

Cashiers & Waitstaff (silently judging maybe): *what exactly is the relationship here?!?*

🤮😡😵‍💫
 
saintmdterps said:
I went down that road years ago. 5' 10" tall and 190 with 5% body fat. What I found is that those intense, legal supplement-driven workouts took a toll on the articular cartilage in my joints.

Now I run 3x per week, lift weights 4x per week. Length of runs 4-8 miles, 40-45 min workouts. I'm doing okay for 63.

I'm remembering the day when I benched 315 then immediately drove to the start of a 10-mile race which I ran at sub 8 1/2 min pace. Now I feel old. **** on this thread.
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Wow, that's impressive my friend....I average 3-5 miles (depending on how I feel) running on the treadmill, and the days I'm not fishing and skip the gym I'll walk/hike 6-10 miles.....and I'm 3 years younger than you....

Rock on brother....I need to get back to lifting again....right after I retired I became a gym rat and got my bench press reps up to 8-10 (220lbs).....now I doubt I could press 180....
 
sfidc3 said:
Wow, that's impressive my friend....I average 3-5 miles (depending on how I feel) running on the treadmill, and the days I'm not fishing and skip the gym I'll walk/hike 6-10 miles.....and I'm 3 years younger than you....

Rock on brother....I need to get back to lifting again....right after I retired I became a gym rat and got my bench press reps up to 8-10 (220lbs).....now I doubt I could press 180....
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You’re still doing great! Yes we need a “things that make me feel young” thread.

I’d have started that one when I was dating the breathtaking 49 year-old, but that ended in a mushroom cloud and a crater after a month :hihi:
 
Seems like every now and then another brick crumbles reminding me that I'm getting older. Today it was a pickle jar my wife wanted me to open. Never felt so helpless trying to open that damn thing. Finally gave up and ran hot water on the lid to help get it open. There was a time where it felt like I could twist the jar in half if I wanted. Those days are gone....oh...and the icing on the cake is my hand and shoulder hurt when I was done.
 
Being a not too intensive work day today, got into a discussion with a couple of our system techs who are in their 20s. One got onto the topic of 80s movies and going old school. The amount of movies that live line by line in my head that they had never heard of broke my heart. Movies that shaped my childhood didn't even exist in their universe and I got a little sad. Blew their minds when I told them Tom Hanks started out as a TV sitcom star.
 
Madmarsha said:
That reminds me of something that happened to my BFF and I in a history class. It was, I think, 10th grade and we had been assigned to do a report on Puerto Rico. We were in front of the class giving our report and the teacher -- I remember your name, Mr. Ed Howes -- told us to point to where it was on the pull-down map. So we turned around to face the map to do so and for some reason, this map didn't have PR on it!! No idea why but it was not there. We are looking at each other and starting to giggle and then turned around and told Mr. Howes and the class that we couldn't point to it because it wasn't on the map.

Well, he didn't believe us. Of course, the problem was we were dumb female 10th grade students -- and giggling -- and he got mad. So he got up and stormed to the front of the room and HE would show us where Puerto Rico was unaware that the map that had been hanging in his room for who knows how long was completely useless.

To this day, I still don't know where Puerto Rico is.
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Did the teacher apologize to you or say you should at least know where Puerto Rico should be on a map
 
When I was a kid my grandmother would go to bed at like 8pm and wake up at 4, 4:30 in the morning

I would always wonder why she just didn't stay up later and get up later at a normal time

Learning now because your body doesn't work like that, it's tired when it's tired
 
Optimus Prime said:
Did the teacher apologize to you or say you should at least know where Puerto Rico should be on a map
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Nope.

You know, my dad was a history teacher at the same school. I never investigated to see if his map was better.
 

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