Things that make you feel old

Sometimes I forget what day it is until I look at my pill case to take my daily medication.

Discuss.

 

Waking up.

 

Emojis.

 

Kendall Jenner.

 

Appetite for Destruction turns 30 in nine months.

 

Everything.

 

When I describe the Beatles, JFK or the moon landings to my nieces/nephews, I am talking about something as removed in history from them as World War I was when I was their age.

When I was the age of my HS senior nephew, the music of Al Jolson was as new to me as the White Album is to him.

The main difference? Color film and video.

 

I made a reference to "Ah, Grasshopper, snatch the pebble from my hand" to a couple of adults after our tennis drill last night, and they had no clue. One of them asked me if it was from a Jackie Chan movie.

 

When people accuse me of making Dad jokes.

Oh, and the only joints that I experience are in my hips and ankles.

 

My nephew loves the new Star Trek movies, but he couldn't pick William Shatner out of a lineup.

 

I'm the only 40 year old in a morning newsroom when no one else over 24. I feel fifty years older than them.

 

When I know that staying up late for postseason baseball will make me a wreck the next day even when I'm stone cold sober.