I feel old...

the nice young fella at the hardware store asked if there was anything else he could help me with. "Got any plastic Jerry cans?" I asked. Cocked his head like a dog and said, "A what?"

I know what a Jerry can is. But I feel old for other reasons, mainly my body. I gave 120% for so long that now if I try and give 100% I'm down for a week or two recovering. I feel old because I'm getting old

In reply to Nick (picaso) Comstock:

Are we talking about workin or drinkin?

I felt old a couple years ago when a PYT came up to me and said "I'm gonna hang with you cause that creepy old guy is hitting on me."

He way 23. I was so old I didn't even register as anything other than "dad".

I ran into my junior high history teacher. I always liked him so I struck up a conversation. I later realized that it had 20 years since I was in his class.

gearheadmb wrote: In reply to Nick (picaso) Comstock: Are we talking about workin or drinkin?

Both

Nick (picaso) Comstock wrote:

gearheadmb wrote: In reply to Nick (picaso) Comstock: Are we talking about workin or drinkin?

Both

I feel you brother.

stroker wrote: the nice young fella ...

You feel old because you are old. Who the berkeley says E36 M3 like that? Are you writing this like something you read in readers digest?

I'm bald, my beard is grey, and I recently noticed grey hair on my chest. The music is terrible, I wear a hangover for a week, and can't throw weight around like when I was a youngin. Lazy kids and their faceplaces and instabooks. Get off my lawn. My last blind date, a year younger than I, thought I was old enough to be her dad. I'm not even 30 yet. Time isn't doing me any favors.

In reply to revrico:

If your dates are blind, who cares if you have grey hair.

Some times I feel old, but not today, even with 3 days of hard racing at Loudon and being very sore. Yesterday, the guy pitted across the pavement from me won the ama amature supermotorard race, and he is 7 years older than me, still rocking it against the kids at 54 !

Edit: just found out he is doing another 3 races today and has been at the track for the advanced school and practice since Tuesday !

Sometimes I feel old but then like the other day I had a rental car and I reverted back to my younger days and I tried to see if I could do a brake torque or a neutral drop (you can't). But I was able to throw down some handbrake hi-jinks. So I might look old but inside I'm still that 20 year old kid.

Already do. Today's music is awful out there. Keep going back to the classics

KyAllroad wrote: I felt old a couple years ago when a PYT came up to me and said "I'm gonna hang with you cause that creepy old guy is hitting on me." He way 23. I was so old I didn't even register as anything other than "dad".

That's brutal.

My niece graduates HS next year. I held her when she was a newborn. oooff

I am at the grocery store now to beat the crowd to pick up food for the grill tonight. I parked the Buick and was admiring the Acura sedan next to me that was also metallic red but a bit darker with a nice pearl effect when the owner came out. We talked a couple minutes about our old men cars, local politicians and other chatter usually saved for ranting at the barber shop. The wife complains I'm 40 going on 70.

One of the guys in my hockey league sat down next to me last Sunday and asked "How are you doing,young man". He's 76, I'm 64. Some days I feel my age, others I don't.

Datsun310Guy wrote: Sometimes I feel old but then like the other day I had a rental car and I reverted back to my younger days and I tried to see if I could do a brake torque or a neutral drop (you can't). But I was able to throw down some handbrake hi-jinks. So I might look old but inside I'm still that 20 year old kid.

Dude. I feel you. I was racing some rices out s2000 in a rental camaro.

My body tells me I am old. My brain doesn't agree.

calteg wrote:

KyAllroad wrote: I felt old a couple years ago when a PYT came up to me and said "I'm gonna hang with you cause that creepy old guy is hitting on me." He way 23. I was so old I didn't even register as anything other than "dad".

That's brutal. My niece graduates HS next year. I held her when she was a newborn. oooff

My niece turns 21 in October. Although as old as that makes me feel, it makes her mom feel older. Then again she was "29" until I was 30 and her daughter graduated HS.

I look forward to getting old. It makes it more acceptable for me to act like a cranky old man.

About 15 years ago, I was at the grocery store and after we had gotten our groceries I grabbed a "Sport Truck" mag from the rack. As I was paying the young male checker asked me "Is this for your grandson?". My wife got to laughing so hard I thought she was going to choke(We don't have any kids or grand-kids) and then the kid got an embarrassed look and handed me my change without another word.

A couple weeks later getting groceries again and the kid is just coming in to work and comes up to me and wants to apologize. Guess he noticed what I was driving.

I crossed over the 50 mark regarding number of MRIs I've had in my lifetime this week.

I realized I'm getting old when stock class autocross cars became the most appealing to me.

I took The Wife's Fiat in for a windshield a while ago and a cute girl was getting one in a Corolla. She asked if there was usually a girl driving it. I said there was and she replied how lucky the were having a cool dad that bought hem a Fiat instead of a used Toyota.

Tonight I've been texting my niece who somehow turned 22 already about meeting her for dinner while she's here for a teacher conference. I shouldn't be that old.

Well, I'm 67 and I guess I'm considered old by people on this forum. But I sure don't feel old. I may be retired, but I've still got energy, ideas, drive, and want to do things. So I guess I'm the antithesis of the OP stroker. The only difference is, thirty years from now, stroker will be around 70, a I'll either be 97 or dead.

Old is relative - hearing that my first gf from junior high is married now, and expecting, and it wasn't an accident - suddenly brings home the fact that I'm a LOT older than most of the players I have to beat on the sports fields.