The first time you felt... old

[CGI_Ram]

Okay... maybe for some of you youngsters... it hasn’t happened. Lucky bastards. Anyway...

The first time you felt “old”.

Do you remember a moment?

Or... A time when you were still young... but you were doing something and you couldn’t do it like you used to be able? It hit you and you realized it in that moment.

I remember feeling this. Here’s the short story;

I played in a volleyball league. I’m not super tall, but I could jump, spike, and really good at outrageous digs. One season... I was 31. I remember several games not being “as good”.

Maybe because it was volleyball I had a good point of reference... But I remember thinking “crap I’m getting old”. It was fractions of a second, but something happened.

My athletic prime ended.

Damn.

 

[Memento]

I'm turning thirty in May. The big 3-0. I'm the eldest of four. I definitely feel old. Can't imagine how my parents feel; both of them are in their sixties.

 

[FaulkSF]

It was this past winter. I was pruning some tree limbs with a chain saw on a ladder, ladder tipped over, and fell maybe three feet. Landed on my ass and my arm followed next from the momentum. Got up a little sore.

Consulted a Dr online, got x-rays, eh mild sprain, lucked out. Still hurt three weeks later. Called Dr. More X-rays. Nada. MRI - a severe and minor sprain on two tendons. Cast the next three weeks. Going on three months of physical therapy. Still not 100%.

Really nervous about when I fall now, and the kids love to play ring around the rosies.


View: https://youtu.be/cGm8MG4IF0Q

 

[LARams_1963]

First time today?

 

[RAMSinLA]

My grandsons high school graduation...

 

[AvengerRam]

About 24 years ago...

My daughter was less than a year old, and a stomach flu left her so dehydrated that she had to stay the night at the hospital so an IV could be administered. My wife stayed with her while I attended to work matters, then I took the night shift. At around 3:00 am, a nurse checked my daughter’s temperature and, in the process, woke her up. She started crying, so I relocated to a reclining chair, and the nurse placed her on my chest. She calmed and fell back asleep, and stayed there the rest of the night. I didn’t get more than a few winks of sleep, but I truly understood the concept of fatherhood, and adulthood, after that night.

Since then, I’ve never minded “feeling old,”

 

[RamFan503]

Okay... maybe for some of you youngsters... it hasn’t happened. Lucky bastards. Anyway...

The first time you felt “old”.

Do you remember a moment?

Or... A time when you were still young... but you were doing something and you couldn’t do it like you used to be able? It hit you and you realized it in that moment.

I remember feeling this. Here’s the short story;

I played in a volleyball league. I’m not super tall, but I could jump, spike, and really good at outrageous digs. One season... I was 31. I remember several games not being “as good”.

Maybe because it was volleyball I had a good point of reference... But I remember thinking “crap I’m getting old”. It was fractions of a second, but something happened.

My athletic prime ended.

Damn.

Volleyball Danny? I never knew. Next get together, I'll bring the ball.

Don't recall when the first time I felt old but St Paddy's day weekend we did the Rocky Mountain Oyster Fry up in Virginia City. Up at 6am, set up the booth by 8, hopping in and out of the truck to unload, setting up, cooking all day, breaking down the booth, hopping in and out of the truck loading back up...... 12 hours on my feet in my crappy Irish boots (to go with my kilt), and I am only now getting over it. Just 2 years ago, we did pretty much the same act and just a little tired. This time, we went out drinking for a couple hours after the event - cuz that's what you do in Virginia City - especially after a St Paddy's weekend event centered around nuts - went back to our hotel room to take a nap and didn't wake up until the next morning. Brutal realization that I'm no longer invincible.

 

[Angry Ram]

I was 23 back in 2012, and was subbing at a school. 6th grade science class and the "lesson plan" was a video with notes. The video was Bill Nye. The tv was on one of those old carts strapped down by a couple belts.

I call roll and let them know they had to take notes to turn in. I take the video out and I here a boy say "what's that?!" I go..."its the video we're going to watch."

"That's the video?!"

"Yes? Is there a problem?"

"I don't know what that is!"

It was a VHS tape. It was at that moment I know I had officially had a period in life that I "grew up" in. Ughh.

 

[Allen2McVay]

I'm turning thirty in May. The big 3-0.

For me, it was a few seconds ago when I read your post.

'Thirty'! ... 'big 3-0'!! ... Really!!!

 

[VegasRam]

Hasn't happened yet.

 

[Psycho_X]

Several years ago when I was still 39 I was at the eye doctor and he said "Well as we start to cross over into middle aged our eyes start to lose focus ability on small print so that'll increase from here on out".... I thought... middle aged?!?!? What the fuck I'm 39? Well I'm now 42 and I have to put my glasses on top of my head like a 70 year old librarian if I have to read small print. Every time I pick up a bottle of something like ibuprofen I suddenly feel like I'm 70.

Most recently, this winter I did the splits on some slippery snow in the parking lot at work... holy shit my groin and knees never hurt so bad (and not in a good way). My left knee still isn't quite 100% months later but it took about 5 weeks before I could walk mostly normal again. You never realize how much you use something like groin muscles until you severely sprain them.

 

[RhodyRams]

When I got my AARP card in rhe mail

2 weeks later @RamFan503 son beat me in arm wrestling in STL

 

[VegasRam]

2 weeks later @RamFan503 son beat me in arm wrestling in STL

Actually, that was his 80 year old dad.

 

[RhodyRams]

Actually, that was his 80 year old dad.

Nope, the old man wasn't going to waste his time if I couldn't be Fulton ( I think that was his name)

 

[VegasRam]

@RhodyRams
The fact that you remembered Fulton's name means you ain't there yet.

 

[ScotsRam]

When I inherited some money and thought "pension" instead of "party"

 

[OldSchool]

When i started hiring people for jobs that were born after I graduated from high school.

 

[Loyal]

When i started hiring people for jobs that were born after I graduated from high school.

 

[OldSchool]

I’ll drink to that!

 

[RhodyRams]

When i started hiring people for jobs that were born after I graduated from high school.

Was talking to one of the wifes employees the other day, and just happened to mention that we met in 1986, and he said he wasnt even born yet