You know you are getting old when...

[Green Maned Lion]

Title says it, I'll start:

You go to pull out a USB-C cable and wonder if you need to shut down the computer for a crazy moment.

 

[oscarvan]

When you learn the names of afflictions hitherto unknown to you...... "I got WHAT?"

 

[oscarvan]

Didn't mean to kill this thread......LOL

 

[Green Maned Lion]

Didn't mean to kill this thread......LOL

I suspect a lot of forum members can't see this thread.

 

[ECU]

 

[flman]

Funny a Gen X guy starting a thread about getting old?

 

[Green Maned Lion]

Funny a Gen X guy starting a thread about getting old?

I have arthritis, I got special dispensation to join.

 

[bigb]

when you can finally afford everything you want but you don't want it anymore.

 

[fosterama]

you know you're getting old when:

You find a suppository behind your ear and you wonder where your pencil went...

 

[OffroadHamster]

You injure yourself while sleeping, and it takes many days or even weeks to recover.

You race your 9 year old on skis, and lose.

You do a double take when you see someone who looks a lot like you when looking through a window, only to discover it is a mirror.

"get off my lawn" feels like a good summary of how you feel about most people under 30.

You make comments like "look what those stupid kids are doing" and your wife points out that they are in their 20s.

Pretty much everything anyone in their 20s does seems stupid.

 

[gas_sprinter]

I threw my back while coughing and sneezing at the same time, went to see my chiropractor, after 5x treatments, I'm back on my feet living the normal life again.

 

[45Kevin]

 

[ECU]

Have I posted in this thread already?
I don't remember.

 

[tinman]

Have I posted in this thread already?
I don't remember.

No.

 

[Mike DZ]

Title says it, I'll start:

You go to pull out a USB-C cable and wonder if you need to shut down the computer for a crazy moment.

When your first computer was a Sinclair ZX80

 

[ECU]

When your first computer was a Sinclair ZX80

And you were 30.

 

[cbaarch]

i never turned off the computer to pull wires so was never part of getting older. )-:
even worse when you are no longer getting older and you have reach your destination, you are old 👴🏻

 

[Lagom]

You’re convinced that nothing works anymore since the baby boom guys all retired.

 

[gas_sprinter]

When your first computer was a Sinclair ZX80

Mine was IBM XT 256, green color pixel CRT monitor
It ran MS DOS and we played Oregon Trails and few other games.

 

[Roamers]

Mine was IBM XT 256, green color pixel CRT monitor

Epson QX-16; we wanted to make sure the industry was mature b4 we jumped in. Coupled to Epson LQ-1500 printer and we were in business (Word Processing Service).

Not sure why anyone needs more than dual 720k floppies these days.