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Hey Pandas, How Did You Realize You’re Getting Old?

Music and other trends, hypes like TikTok, movies? Or physical signs? Why and how did you start to think you're starting to get old?

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#1

Well, this is an interesting question. You see I will be 70 in December of this year so; I am definitely OLD! So, let's see, I began to feel old last year when I realized I needed something to sit on when working in my garden. Getting up from sitting on the ground has gotten difficult. Now I do not sit on the ground without a plan on how I am going to get up! There have been lots of reminders that I have been heading towards being old over the years. I graduated high school in 1970 (I think, it's been a long time you see) and have watched the music I enjoyed back then become classics. I have watches new technology come along. When I was a girl there was no color TV (no remotes either), computers, we only had party line phone lines and dial phones, (ours was on the wall in the kitchen). I remember a car my dad bought for $300 brand new! We rented our house for $50 a month. Now all that's changed. So, I guess over the years there have been lots of signs, but I have been ignoring them.

Final score:

10points

tiana richmond 1 year ago

The fact that you're sharing this on bored panda makes me very impressed along with all the other things. You remind me of my grandma who recently passed in December. She was 81

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#2

During training sessions at job when I asked the new hires their DOB's.... Realised I was a kid or teenager when they were born 😱

Final score:

8points

Clown fish 1 year ago

Or they go wow and start treating you old

0points

#3

To answer my own question:

When I talked to my students about watching LOTR in cinema. Many didn't even know it and others called it an "old movie". Well damn... I didn't even dare to bring up my favourite movie "Smokey And The Bandit" from 1977, a movie that I grew up with.

On the plus-side: My students keep me up-to-date with the latest trends, apps, technology and so on. Even though I mostly can't share the excitement.

Also: Bruises don't fully go away anymore. And even the smallest cut leads to a scar.

Final score:

5points

Lil Miss Hobbit 1 year ago

Man, I wish I could have seen LoTR at the theatre for the first time.😍 It's not old. It's timeless.

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#4

When I realised it's odd to go to a park as an adult only for swings.

Final score:

5points

Julie Snelling 1 year ago

I love the swings and if I find one with out any kids playing on it I will have a quick swing.

2points

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#5

When I song you loved in High School is played on the Oldies station.

Final score:

5points

Lyoness 1 year ago

Yes! And when a movie I remember coming out shows up on TCM.

0points

#6

When I started groaning when I bent down to pick something off the floor. Suddenly the floor seems a long way away.

Final score:

4points

Mickysixxx 1 year ago

I can't move without a groan or a weird yelping sound lol

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#7

Last year I realized that the only new music I like is Nirvana and The Black Eyed Peas.

Final score:

4points

Mr Old School Cool

Dickvandyke 1 year ago

That’s…..sad

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#8

not me, but my son... he came home and told me he was getting old because he was at a stoplight and the car next to him was full of young (he's 29) kids. they had their music loud. he wanted to yell at them to turn it down. he was them 5 years ago.

Final score:

4points

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#9

When I discovered my " weather knee" every time it's going to rain/snow then here comes the pain

Final score:

3points

Ban-One 1 year ago

I feel you. I got the same. But my "weather knee" turns to be an "all-any kind of-weather knee" somehow.

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#10

When I realised I bend down to pick something off the floor in a very ungainly manner, just like my mum.

Final score:

3points

#11

I don't know if it's getting old or unaddressed health problems from when I was much younger...I find myself shopping for a back brace and a posture corrector for scoliosis and degenerative disc disease and scoliosis.

Final score:

3points

#12

I've been working in an alternative school for at risk teens. Only in the last year or so have I not understood the music. I've always found something I like in most the genre's but Drill rap makes me feel old! I don't understand it, it sounds like shite, theyre all poseurs and the beat is rubbish. So yeah, drill rap made me old

Final score:

3points

Cll 1 year ago

'most the. . .' um. . . .

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#13

When I have to spin or click for 5mins to get to the year I was born on, online forms and stuff

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3points

Sans Serif 1 year ago

When you're afraid the drop-down selection window won't go far enough!

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#14

Ok...I might not be too old for some ppl. I am gonna hit 18 by the end of this year. But I feel OLD. I don't even feel like I lived through 2019 to 2023...it feels like time just skipped. Its like yesterday I was 15 and laughing with my friends but now I am gonna enter the new world of adulthood. Honestly I am a little bit scared.

Final score:

2points

Lil Miss Hobbit 1 year ago

YES! Like, where did the time go? All of a sudden everyone expects things of me.🤣

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#15

when i hear people calling the xbox 360 antique but its only 2 years older than me.....

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2points

jordan (pineapple he/she)

Mickysixxx 1 year ago

Commodore 64, you put the tape in and go play outside for 8hrs then maybe your game was loaded if it didn't crash

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#16

When you see a little kid and ask what grade they're in and they say "8th."
8th grade was so big.😭

Final score:

2points

Lil Miss Hobbit

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#17

when I realized it was 2020 three years ago and not 2017

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2points

Ban-One 1 year ago

I can relate to that. I'm still convinced the 90s were ten years ago.

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#18

In 2019 I sat down wrong on a backpacking trip. I still feel it at some point every day. So, sometime between then and right now. Thanks.

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2points

Cll 1 year ago

So. Events are chairs now? Well that's interesting.

-1point

#19

Yesterday I saw a meme that said something about changing “years” to “levels” when talking about how old you are, as in “Level 43” sounds more badda*s than being 43 years old like some old person. 43 is old!? I’m older than 43, but I’m not old!? Am I? UGH!!! LOL

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2points

Clown fish 1 year ago

I'm now going to follow you based on this comment because I spat my beer lol

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#20

2003 was 20 years ago

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2points

#21

2013 Working at a bank and a kid came in to open an account. ID said he was born in 1993. I told him he had to be 18 to open an account without a parent. He stared at me….I stared at him….and then I realized. I thought OMG. I REMEMBER 1993…..like really well. How the #ell was that 20 years ago!!!???? Now, 10 years later, still can’t figure out how I can remember things that happened over THIRTY years ago!

Final score:

2points

Just Another Girl

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#22

When my body told me so. Fortunately I don’t look or act old. Btw, I am staring at 50 in the eyes.

Final score:

2points

Chris Osborn 1 year ago

Same same same, and I'll be 53 this year. I don't know how? I mean I just graduated high school a few years ago. 🙃😁

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#23

I graduated high school in 2004. It is now 2023... So thats how.

Final score:

1point

Leading-The-Banned

#24

For me it was waking up in pain and seeing my first white hair.

Final score:

1point

Lonely Tentacle

Mickysixxx 1 year ago

It's a slippery slope from the first white hair

1point

#25

https://youtu.be/N4e_IZFwTfM this song is to reliable that's when I knew I was getting old

Final score:

1point

#26

When u can't have too much sweet anymore.

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Cll 1 year ago

'Sweet' is an adjective. Have no clue what you're on about.

-1point

#27

When u realise it's time to have children and u are a child yourself.

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Ches Yamada 1 year ago

I'm 46 and going through perimenopause - no kids, never wanted them. "It's time to have kids" is a societal construct, something you're pressured into. You don't have to. Ever. Unless, of course, you want to. And then as long as you're able you can.

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#28

I'm 22 and I feel like I belong in the 1950s

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Sans Serif 1 year ago

Was a kid in the 50s - you would have enjoyed it!!

1point

#29

Sleep hurts me.

Actual sleep. I mean, I've been an insomniac all my life but now sleeping on my favorite side cramps my arm and hip; sleeping on the other strains an old injury (tore the muscles off my rib cage). Sleeping upright like I started to do a few years back to reduce headaches, hurts my sciatica as well as a few other issues.

I just want my limited, 3 or 4 hour long sleeps back ;_;

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0points

#30

After reading comments from people in their 40's & 50's about being old . . . I'm in my 70's . . . pretechnological revolution generation.

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Ban-One

I like to wine, dine and travel. Married. European. High School Teacher since more than 20 years. Besides my wife, our English Bulldog Girl is my love.Love to read (S. King and Horror). I like old-school V8 Power - Firebird Forever. Looking at you, Burt. May you rest in peace. Yes, I live in the past...it's a better place - especially nowadays.

I like to wine, dine and travel. Married. European. High School Teacher since more than 20 years. Besides my wife, our English Bulldog Girl is my love.Love to read (S. King and Horror). I like old-school V8 Power - Firebird Forever. Looking at you, Burt. May you rest in peace. Yes, I live in the past...it's a better place - especially nowadays.

Diana Lopetaitė

Hey there, Pandas! My name is Diana (though some prefer to refer to me as Diane, Deanna, and even Liana sometimes), and I am a Community Post Moderator Lead for Bored Panda. As my position title states, I am one of the people (employed Pandas for bamboo) over here who work with the community side of things on this website to ensure all is well, and while at that, I also help various creators and artists get recognition for the incredible work they do by connecting them to a large worldwide audience. Other than that, outside of work, you can find me brewing a nice cup of coffee, making a pizza from scratch, or baking brownies. I also love traveling, concerts, and cats (heavy on that, because I am a cat mom).

Hey there, Pandas! My name is Diana (though some prefer to refer to me as Diane, Deanna, and even Liana sometimes), and I am a Community Post Moderator Lead for Bored Panda. As my position title states, I am one of the people (employed Pandas for bamboo) over here who work with the community side of things on this website to ensure all is well, and while at that, I also help various creators and artists get recognition for the incredible work they do by connecting them to a large worldwide audience. Other than that, outside of work, you can find me brewing a nice cup of coffee, making a pizza from scratch, or baking brownies. I also love traveling, concerts, and cats (heavy on that, because I am a cat mom).

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Claire the Devils Advocate 1 year ago

Before the age of 50, I could still honestly say, that age is just a number. However, as I'm nearing the 60 year mark, it's definitely not just a number. I feel differently both physically and mentally.

3points

Dickvandyke 1 year ago

Agreed

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Claire the Devils Advocate 1 year ago

Before the age of 50, I could still honestly say, that age is just a number. However, as I'm nearing the 60 year mark, it's definitely not just a number. I feel differently both physically and mentally.

3points

Dickvandyke 1 year ago

Agreed

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