At what point did you first feel "old"

For me, it was when they were born after I graduated high school.

Also, the one major leaguer I went to high school with retired a couple years ago after a fairly long career.

And I second SF's note about visiting college campuses with my daughter. It kind of gives you a new perspective on things.

 

Never once. Got carded for beer the other night. 8)

I didn't feel as young as I usually do when I was talking to a kid in the supermarket a few weeks ago who has no memory of the Braves being bad.

 

Lee, that kid also probably has no memory of the Hawks being good.

As someone said earlier, I've made a deal with myself not to feel old until I'm older than every single active ballplayer.

Keep goin' Roger!

I'm sure I've told this story dozens of times, but last summer I was at the dressmaker's getting a bridesmaid dress for my brother's wedding, and a lady walked in and asked me if it was for prom.

;D 8)

Made my decade !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Well, since you are only 23 or 24...

;D

 

That's why I love coverin' colleges. I keep getting older; they stay the same age.

 

When I finally moved on to a real college, not a community college where there's lots of older students, at 24.

Damn, did I ever feel old.

Of course, I'm also the same guy who kinda freaked when he turned 20. Wanted to be a teen forevah, for some weird reason.

 

When I hit 25, and realized that I'm that much closer to 30.

When the Minor Leaguers that I covered were all younger than me.

 

A recent conversation I had with an intern...

Me: Oh, you're a Royals fan. They were my team growing up.

Intern: Yeah, it's hard to be one since they suck so badly...

Me: I remember watching them in the series against the Phillies and being so pissed when they lost. I tell you, Game 6 of the 1985 series may have been one of my best sports memories ever...

Intern: I was born in 1986.

End of conversation...  

 

At first, it was when I realized more than half of the pro athletes I covered were younger than me. Just recently, it was when I realized most of them, save for a a cagey veteran like Maddux, Clemens, etc., are younger than me.

 

Realizing that one of the major leaguers I covered in his first spring training as a rookie was Julio Franco.

 

I was fairly obviously checking out this hot girl at the beach, very very very OMG. And the look in her eye was like "EEEWWWWW, someones dad just checked me out". I was 32.

 

I can't stand being called, "sir." I always say, "I'm not that old, and I sure ain't that respectable."