You know you're getting old when....

[perdidobay]

When you're watching HGTV and they describe a house like the one you grew up in (and was new at the time) as a "mid-century modern"

Also, when you see a tv ad for Kmart that features a tree like the one you had as a kid with the big bulbs, and they call it a "retro" tree

 

[bluerendezvous]

When your former students, come to visit so they can be sure that you're still teaching. They want their little one to be in your Kindergarten class! It's flattering, but it sure makes me feel ancient! I'm only 39!

 

[tevagirl]

When you don't know what an Ipod, MP3, or Bluetooth does and really hope no one gets you one for a present so you don't have to learn.

 

[TheGoofster]

When you are talking to kids and you sprinkle into your conversation "When I was a kid" or "In my day".

 

[TheGoofster]

When you have more medicine and vitamins at home than do many small pharmacies.

 

[Alex2kMommy]

When you reach the point that 'highlighting' isn't covering enough gray anymore, so you either need to color all of it, or go naturally gray.

 

[twinklebug]

You know your getting... ummm ...

what was I going to say?

 

[Sandy V.]

When your teenagers want you to listen to this "great new song" and you have to explain to them that it's a remake of a classic that was originaly recorded when YOU were a teenager 30+ years ago!!

Note to my kids: "Walk this Way" is an Aerosmith song, not something that Run-D.M.C. created!

 

[TheGoofster]

Just remembered a joke about this.
Three old ladies are sitting around the table talking about how hard it is getting old.
The first lady says, "sometimes I'll call somebody on the phone, and when they answer I can't remember if they are calling me, or if I'm calling them."
The Second lady says, "I know what you mean, sometimes I'll go upstairs, only to stop at the top and not remember if I am just coming up, or need to be going down."
The third lady say, "Well, so far, I haven't seem to have had any problems at all with my memory (and she knocks on the table three times for luck) - Oh, Come on in, the door's open!"

 

[minnieandme]

When you go in a room for something and when you get there, you forget what it is you went in there for.

 

[Bareacuda]

When you have to teach kids to use a rotary phone!

 

[vegasnative]

Apparently it is when you went to school with someone who is now head coach for a HS football team.
I was watching the news last week and they highlighted HS football and one school had a winning coach on there and I simply said "hey, I went to school with him" and DH says "you KNOW your getting old when you went to school with someone and he is now a HS football coach"
Thanks honey!

 

[vegasnative]

When you have to teach kids to use a rotary phone!

Yeah, or like my youngest, he looks at my cell phone and says "CHEESE". Will he even know that phones NEVER used to take pictures?