You Know You're Old When:

Last night a cute blonde girl bought me a drink. However, she knew me because she’s my kids’ summer camp counselor. This incident got me thinking about how you know you’re old—today is my 53rd birthday. So I decided to start a list: You know you’re old when…

1. A cute blonde buys you a drink, and she’s your kids’ summer camp counselor.

2. You have to leave the place where she bought you the drink because the music is too loud for your tinnitus.

3. You leave by jumping in your filthy minivan.

4. You stop on the way home to buy baby-bottle liners.

5. You cancel your babysitter at summer camp because you’re too tired to go out at 9:00 pm.

6. The only CDs that you buy are from Starbucks. (My wife thought of this one.)

Please add your ideas to this list so that we may commiserate!

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You know you’re old when you feel like that you should answer your Facebook birthday wishes (over 100) and then Facebook smacks you down.

Comments

[Eduard]

Well... you know you're old when you no longer feel disadvantaged by your lack of experience.

[Rajesh]

:) - when women friends who were once asking you to take their friends out for a date, start asking you if you knew someone who could take their friend out.

When it takes you a bit to figure out what 'bring sexy back' really means!

:)

Hope you had fun.

[Larry]

You start worrying about the next morning while it is still the night before.

[Danny Tuppeny]

I started reading the comments for more funny lines, but there are so many I gave up. You should update your post with the whole lot without peoples boring comments in between ;-)

[frances]

Happy belated birthday!

Having small children at a relatively advanced age means I have these "I know I'm old when" moments every day. :-/

You know you're reeeeally old when:

-- You explain to your daughter that you not only had no personal computers in elementary school, you had no PCs (or Macs) in secondary school or college, either;

-- Ditto that on cell phones, microwave ovens, DVRs, PDAs, iPods, etc.;

-- You're pondering what to do with your record collection, and have to explain to your kids what a record is, to boot;

-- You stop making fun of ED commercials and start paying attention to them;

-- You get your fourth AARP solicitation this week;

-- Two words: statin drugs.

[MikeTrap]

...You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.

...You actually eat breakfast food at breakfast time.

...Your houseplants are alive, and you can't smoke any of them.

[Mike Castro de Maria]

How you can't brought music on iTune !!! Please help inde producer Guy,be a social art buyer. Take a look on my last CD, I'm sure you will love it : "Sweet Sugar Lounge" by Mike Castro de Maria
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=261200168&s=143442
You will fell younger after listen it, guaranty pure pleasure and better than Starbucks compilation !!!

[Dan Limbach]

You track the ages of top pro athletes who are older than you. When you can't find any, you are old. Michael Jordan's retirement marked the end of my youth.

[Prescott]

When, uh, just a sec. I'll be right back. I gotta go pee again.

Hau`oli la hanau!

[Dave Barton]

When you think of your parents at your age now and recall how old (make that ancient) they seemed at the time.

[Roberto]

You know you are getting old when you have tons of knowledge and passion to share and you see beginner mistakes miles away.

Congrats...

r0b3rt0

btw 53 is not old, old is when....

[Hooshyar Naraghi]

I had to mention this one:

When your eyes fail to recognize the bloody characters on the second page in order to complete posting your comment.

[Hooshyar Naraghi]

Happy Birthday, Guy!

I am a couple of years behind you. You know you're getting old, when

- the high-school girl in the neighborhood you were in love with but didn't get a chance to marry tells you on the phone her daughter just graduated from college. Ouch!

- you have to describe TV Series like "The Virginian" and "My Favorite Martian" to the entire web team during lunch or late dinner in your dotcom company to show off that you also watch TV re-runs, but not "The Friends."

- On the same TV thing, you want to socialize with the kiddos, so you proudly reveal "Did you know Mozilla's client program Thunderbird used to be the name of an animated TV series too?"

- you end up introducing President Ronald Reagan (yeah, forget about the Vietnam War) to the same web team.

- you have a pleasant conversation with a college grad girl on your CalTrain ride and by the time both get off on King Street in SF she says "Thank you so much for giving me hints how to deal with my old manager."

- you see your AYSO soccer player on Santa Cruz Avenue in Menlo Park and he says "Coach Hoosh, let me introduce you to my wife and son."

[alex]

When you start making this kind of lists.

Hppy Brth day. ;- )

[Guy]

Happy B-Day, man.
I've been reading your blog for a few weeks now, and enjoy every minute of it.
Keep it up!

Cheers.
Guy.

[Pat Phelan]

Your kids friends start calling you Mr.
People in stores start calling you sir
a treat is an early night
Happy birthday Guy

[Kast]

You're old when your son wins every time you play videogames with him (well, not so old, maybe: your wife still reminds you that ONLY CHILDREN PLAY VIDEOGAMES !).

[Tomaz]

You are to old when you start thinking about your age ;)

Happy birthday Guy.

[Dr.Mani]

You know you're getting old when most of the people who remember your birthday are 'enemies' (friends are more 'diplomatic' and pretend to forget!)

You know you're getting old when you have more to feel nostalgic about, than feel excited about wanting to change!

You know you're getting old when you get invitations - and they are for the weddings of kids you once got invitations to 1st and 2nd birthday parties!

But here's my favorite:

"A woman is as old as she looks. A man is as old as he THINKS he is!"

Happy birthday, Guy - and here's to many more where those came from :)

All success
Dr.Mani

[Cathryn Hrudicka]

You know you're old when...the people who are CEOs at start-ups you work with are young enough to have been in kindergarten when you got your first job after college...or they don't remember the Vietnam War or what really happened at Watergate.

You know you're still young when...you are able to keep your sense of humor and find things to laugh about when people 15 years younger are whining all around you about trivial stuff...and you can dance as well as they can.

Happy Birthday, Guy! You still rock and always will.;-)

Cheers and many more happy ones,

Cathryn Hrudicka, Chief Imagination Officer
Creative Sage(tm)

[Henk]

One of my professors in college once said: you're old when you spend more money on keeping your health than on destroying it.

He's also 53 btw ;)

And happy birthday!

[Carlos]

I think you're old when you read a post titled "you know you're old when..." just to feel younger.

HBD Guy.

[Indus Khaitan]

How do you know if a VC is now a VC emeritus (Humour intended :-))

1. He blogs (and blogs vehemently).
2. He starts a company for $10000 (and promotes it aggressively)
3. He talks about growing old
4. He talks more about speaking engagements than technology startups
5. He has written 8 books (and is working on the 9th one).

Happy Birthday!

[Julian Schrader]

Happy Birthday, Guy!

[tlanger]

You know you're old when the realization hits; you could keel over at any moment and no one would be too surprised!

You know you're very old when people are surprised you haven't keeled over yet!

HBD - your work is much appreciated!