Topic: I'm getting old...

[DJ Doena]

I know it's nothing compared to some of you guys but it feels that way.

Today I found my Abiturzeugnis (high school diploma). It was dated May 27th 1997 - 15 years ago.

I moved away from Berlin in April 2002 - 10 years ago.

I've been working for my company for 10.5 years. Since March 2005 here in Karlsruhe - 7 years ago.


And I'm only 34!

[addicted2dvd]

graduated high school 15 years ago? I really feel for you!  I have had a daughter for longer then that! 

But seriously though... I know what you mean.

[kahless]

Always a question of perspective! I'm 51 - young for somebody who is 99 and old for somebody who is 34!   

[Kathy]

You young whippersnappers are always complaining...

I graduated 1975 - 37 years ago

I moved into my first apartment in 1976.

Worked misc. jobs while I had fun until I was in my 30s and decided I'd better grow up and get a "real" job.

I've been a nurse for close to 25 years!

If this is you... ...I guess that makes me  


Two of my favorite lines from some elderly patients:

"Getting old isn't for cowards"

"The only thing golden about my golden years is my urine"

 
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[kahless]

Two of my favorite lines from some elderly patients:

"Getting old isn't for cowards"

"The only thing golden about my golden years is my urine"

 

 

[Rogmeister]

I am 59...and last year marked the 40th anniversary of my graduating class.  Take that, you young whippersnappers! 

[Kathy]

I am 59...and last year marked the 40th anniversary of my graduating class.  Take that, you young whippersnappers! 

Oh my...I feel so young! 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

And I'm only 34!

Congrats!
Only 33 more years to go until retirement castle. ... If they don't prolong life-working-time any further, that is.

[Blair]

I'm 35 and I don't wanna grow up  ("I"m a Toys R Us kid." )

I've always viewed age from the perspective of my parents' ages. Only in the past two or three years have I finally started considered my father to be "old" because of new unavoidable pains and bad eyesight. So, I'm not going to be old until I am around that age, and I still have half of a century to go!

[Achim]

I always get a chuckle when my father forgets his age and refers to some people as the "old ones" . He is almost 78, so in the range I consider old So, it's all relative. Like I would have thought 44 is old in my young days, now I obviously say "I am as old as I feel ".

I look like 55.
I am 44.
I feel like 33.
[...] like 23. (This thing worked better ten years ago, now this gap has opened up. )
I behave like 13.

[hal9g]

I  graduated high school in 1969!

I got out of the Navy after 6 years of service in 1977.

Worked in the IT industry for another 33 years...

and retired 2 years ago to play golf and do whatever the hell I want to!

I turned 61 one week ago today!

That should make you ALL feel better!

[DJ Doena]

I turned 61 one week ago today!

I knew you were one of our older ones.

I mean, look at your hair, it'a already all white!

[GSyren]

Ok, I'll go one better than Hal.
I'm 65 and I'm retiring at the end of this month after working 30 years as a developer for the same company.

[hal9g]

Ok, I'll go one better than Hal.
I'm 65 and I'm retiring at the end of this month after working 30 years as a developer for the same company.

Congratulations on your retirement!

[Kathy]

Some of my favorite memories are of a woman I used to help out. I loved her stories and wish I would have written them all down.

She was born in 1899 and I used to tease her that if she lived until the year 2000 she would have lived in 3 centuries. I told her I was going to call the Buffalo News and make her a celebrity. Oh did she hate that - she couldn't stand the thought of people thinking she was "old"!