Anyone who has passed the age of, say, 30 knows that you start to notice little signs that you’re not as young as you used to be. For me, it was noticing that after napping on the couch instead of my bed, it felt like my body had been hit by a small truck.
4.
“A wee lassie at my son’s school called me a ‘dilf,’ and I went all moral and disgusted and wanted to talk to her parents.”
8.
“I asked a guy in his 50s about this. He said things eventually just keep hurting, but everything hurts the same, so you don’t really notice it anymore. Ten years later, and he’s right.”
10.
“I’m 32 and go to college…so yeah. Every time I have class, I have this realization LOL.”
12.
“I’m a track coach, 27 years old. They did a coaches’ 4x100m relay at the last meet of the year, just for fun. So of course I run it, and just immediately strain the crap out of my quad. Took, like, a week to feel better, too.”
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“Bought my first house four years ago and began getting pissed when I kept seeing the neighbor kids walk across my grass on the Ring camera. That’s when it hit me: I’m one of those guys now. I’m 32.”
15.
“When at work, instead of being referred to as a young’un, the bosses commiserate with me and talk about the young’uns. I was always the youngest at any workplace, but no longer.”
16.
“Seeing the latest ‘bombshell’ 18-year-old model the media is drooling over and thinking to myself, ‘Ew no, she looks like a child!'”
17.
“‘Music these days stinks.’ My father said it. I think Mozart’s father even said it. And now I say it. :)))”
20.
“When I bought a freezer. I kind of felt like I had to buy stuff that’s more practical than fun.”
21.
“Watching The Last Of Us Season 2, when Ellie and Dina hook up. The camera kept lingering on them, and I was getting a bit creeped out because ‘Oh wow, they’re not gonna show these *kids* having sex, are they?!’ These ‘kids,’ it turns out, are 21 and 23. I’m just old enough now that they feel like kids to me. Ouch.”
23.
“When I heard someone talking about having sex in the shower and my first thought was, ‘That sounds like a recipe for disaster. One of you could fall and hit your head!'”
24.
“Going on a walk, and some kids come and tell me there’s a kitten in the storm drain. I think, ‘Damn, they need an adult…ah s***, it’s me, isn’t it?'”
25.
“Me at 30: still going out, can hang with college/early 20s, loves new tech and busy cities. Me at 31: dive bars, annoyed with college kids, can’t stand technology, and want to get away from society. ‘Twas an eventful year.”
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“For me…I have always loved TV shows and movies. Some of my favorite shows ever premiered around 2000. So when I read things like ’25th anniversary,’ or when I see those actors in new roles, aged and all…yeah, it hits me.”
27.
“I went to one of those indoor trampoline parks. My body let me know it was a bad idea pretty quick.”
If you’ve had any “oh no, I’m old” moments, let us know about them in the comments!