You know you are old when . . .

[Jim Yergin]

I drove the woodie to work today. As I parked at the office, a couple were getting out of their car. They complimented the woodie and asked what year it was made. When I told them 1941 the woman asked if I had purchased it new! Geez, I am "only" 55!

Jim Yergin

[1940plymouth]

Jim,

I know the feeling, I am eight years younger than my Plymouth and I have been asked the same thing:)

But then again, both my hair and beard are very grey

[Don Coatney]

You should have told her you bought it new after you graduated from colledge.

[FiredomeVorhese]

I get the opposite.

"Oh did your grandpa let you drive it today?"

[Joe Flanagan]

You know you're old when you have to ask them to repeat the question.

Twice.

[John Mulders]

lol !!

[Norm's Coupe]

That's funny. I had a similar experience when I was in my late 40's at a fast food joint one day. Ordered my sandwich and drink, then the teenie bopper ask if I wanted the senior discount.

However, looking from the other side of the fence. Have you ever noticed how many of today's cops look like they just got out of high school, or should still be in high school? Wife and I comment on that often.

[RobertKB]

About 15 years ago when I was 45, I suddenly realized there were more people younger than me than older. Made me realize never to waste time as we have a pretty limited number of years on this wonderful planet.

[Ed Fleming]

Boy do I know how that feels .I had the same question asked to me at a A and W cruise in this summer .My 23 year old daugther was with me I though she was going to die laughing. My ply is a 48 IM 57 It just makes your day dont it

[P15Mike]

That's too funny ... I'm now 40 and over the last couple years i've noticed people starting to call me sir.. ! I guess that's another tell-tale sign i've already creasted that mountain .....

Mike

[P-12 Tommy]

It's scary to look in the mirror and realize you look like your father!

Boy, does time fly or what?

Tom

[Norm's Coupe]

It's scary to look in the mirror and realize you look like your father!

Boy, does time fly or what?

Tom

Actually, since I look in the mirror at least once a day in the mornings, I never seem to notice a change. Guess that's because it's gradual.

But.........they claim when people get older they slow down. I don't believe that one either. That's because, like you say, time seems to fly faster as we age, so we aren't slowing down. We're going faster.

[P-12 Tommy]

Actually' date=' since I look in the mirror at least once a day in the mornings, I never seem to notice a change. Guess that's because it's gradual.

But.........they claim when people get older they slow down. I don't believe that one either. That's because, like you say, time seems to fly faster as we age, so we aren't slowing down. We're going faster.[/quote'] Ain't that the truth?

Tom

[Olddaddy]

You know you're old when you see two babes walking down the street and the one that looks really hot to you..........turns out to be the other one's mother!

[BobT-47P15]

How about that old saying for older guys......."there may be snow on the roof, but

there's still fire in the furnace".....

[martybose]

That's funny. I had a similar experience when I was in my late 40's at a fast food joint one day. Ordered my sandwich and drink' date=' then the teenie bopper ask if I wanted the senior discount.[/quote']

I could qualify for a senior discount now, but way back when my problem was just the opposite. I started growing a beard when I was 26 because I got tired of being carded every time I tried to buy a beer at a pizza joint!

Marty

[Oldguy48]

This post reminds me of a time, years ago, when it was lunch time at work. One of the guys, who was nearing retirement age, made the comment that "Time seems to go by so much faster as you get older". Another fellow on the crew, with a straight face, said "Gee, Warren, life for you must be a @#$%^&$ blur!!!! We all laughed the rest of the day:D Just one of those "Memory Makers" I guess.

[Norm's Coupe]

On the other side of the fence.

Back in the 80's when I was in my early 40's I use to be in a bowling league. On another set of the lanes was a mixed league. I never paid any attention to the other league bowling on the lanes next to ours. Was the first night of the season and was about half done for the night, when all of a sudden this attractive young girl that was about 18 or 19 at the time from the mixed league comes over, was all smiles and gives me a big hug and starts hanging onto me. We started talking and just having fun when it wasn't our turn to bowl. At the end of the night when time to go home, she gives me another big hug and says, see you next week. That's when the real fun started. All the guys on my team started saying I was robbing the cradle, and would be in trouble if the wife stopped in at the alley and saw us. That went on for about 6 weeks. Finally in that sixth week my wife did stop in to ask me about something during the league. Of course, there I was sitting with this attractive young girl talking and laughing with her. Then the girl gets up and gives my wife a big hug and starts talking to her too.:D

Then I had to fess up to the guys later. Moral of the story. The girl was the daughter of a close friend/ex neighbor of ours. They had moved from the neighborhood a couple of years prior to this. Her and a group of other neighborhood girls and my daughter use to all hang out together, including being in the girl scouts and 4H together.:D We were just talking about old times when they grew up all those times. But..........sure had those other guys on the team eating their hearts out for awhile anyway.

[Joe Flanagan]

When my father was in his 80's, he and I were driving down the road one day and there was this old guy walking on the shoulder. My father says, "Get out of the road, you old geezer!" Then a second later he said, half under his breath, "He's probably younger than I am."

[Vazlov1949]

I think the woman who asked what year your car was and asked you if you bought it new is like most people who live in that other world without old cars and trucks. When you said "1941" it was so incomprehensible to her little modern world brain that she probably didn't even understand. And didn't care anyway. She was just making small talk. To those people old cars are just old cars and if they happen to be shiny they are cute and if they are not shiny they are junk. I had this experience many times over the years before my truck was painted. When it was in primer people slammed doors up against it. After it was painted all the women were all " oh how sweet", kinda like they would approach a puppy. If it looks like it may be worth money you are a stud. If it looks like its 60 years old you must be a loser. Its the old " if I have to explain you probably won't understand."

[Joe Flanagan]

That's exactly what it is. The second you see the mystified glaze in their eyes, disengage. Change the subject to ipods or gigabytes or something. My oldest brother, who loves whatever is bigger, better, and newest, used to live in a tract housing development. Whenever I went over there, I had to read the numbers until I got to his. That's because every house looked so much like the next, I couldn't recognize his place. It looked just like the one on either side of it, even down to the single tree planted in the front yard. When I moved into an old neighborhood with old houses, he told my father that I had moved into "a yesteryear community." Then, when I told him I was rebuilding the Plymouth, he says, "So what are you going to have when you're finished? An old car?" And I can't tell you how many people have asked me if I'm going to sell it when I'm finished. The only way they can understand why you'd do something like this is if there was money involved.

OK, I'm finished. Carry on.