trackhub

You have just put gas in your car at a highway service area. You go inside to use the mens' room. A MA state trooper is coming out. He holds the door open for you,
says "Good Morning sir!" and you realize, he doesn't look old enough (to you) to buy beer.

People are shocked, just shocked!, that "you ride a bicycle at your age".

You still have a land line phone, because you just cannot find it in yourself to put 100% faith in cellular technology.

You used to have a passbook savings account that paid 5.5% annual interest.

You remember when people paid for darn near everything with cash.

You took something called "Personal Typing" in high school.

You wore short gym shorts, in public, in the 70s, and no one thought anything about it at all.

Shp4man

When the only thing you really use your cellphone for- is a phone!

Zinger

Lol

When your heart skips a beat upon learning the price of your Cialis



Or when this guy you admired (That no one knows who it is anymore) looks like this now.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/msubikeproject/3008883681/

rubic

Well, like wine, we do get better with age.

overthehillmedi

Some wine does but........

robtown

Happened this morning - and the mother looked young!

check, check
check, check, got some Avocet cycling shoes from my 20's

Artkansas 

When you hear people 1/3 of your age whining about how old they are and how things were better when they were kids.

Zinger

My Avocets 'bout got holes in the soles.....And the heels where they rub the cranks.
I still wear 'em sometimes....Something else they shouldn't have stopped making.

Northwestrider

When someone on another bike passes you and, you don't care.

terrymorse 

When, after summiting Mount Hamilton, another cyclist congratulates you for conquering the climb as "a man who's getting on in years."

That was last Tuesday's ride.

t4mv

Well, I'd give George some credit; some friends and I went on a retro ride (colloquially known as old farts') with him and some other "old guys" and I wouldn't exactly call them slow..

Or how about this guy?


Saw him at Interbike a few years ago and I must say he's aging very well. 'Still cuts a mean figure on a bike.

eja_ bottecchia

This thread is depressing the Heck out of me...I need some Geritol.

Zinger

Cool. If you see George again, tell him he still has a fan who remembers him.

irwin7638

I've been old for a long, long time by that standard.

Marc

USMCRet

For me, it was hearing my favorite songs on the oldies channel the first time.

Altair 4

Hah! I've heard versions of my favs on "Muzak!"

CraigB

I heard on the radio the other day that Ralph Macchio is now as old as Pat Morita was when they made "The Karate Kid." That made me feel old.

BR46

When you try to explain to the people that you work with what a party line was. That it had nothing to do with drinking.

rubic

The fact that this brings back memories is evidence that I am old. Yikes!!

overthehillmedi

Party lines, the way people kept up with the local gossip before facebook and such. One long, two shorts here.

zacster

When you realize "classic rock" is older, much, much, older, than the oldies music that passed for ancient when you were a kid. Really, how many times can you listen to "Hotel California" before you realize it's 40 years old or so. When it was new, 40 year old music took you back to the depression. Music from the 50s/early 60s was oldies.

Bikey Mikey

...you watched Howdy Doody when it was originally broadcast.

...you listened(not me) to live broadcasts of the Lone Ranger, The Shadow, or some other program on the Radio. TV didn't exist.

...you remember when ALL home telephones where rotary dial.

...you where alive when TV dinners actually were in the supermarket for the very first time(again, a tad before my time).

Bent Bill

When you see a car with antique plates
and it was your second new car

a77impala

When my grey hair was no longer premature. I started getting grey at 18.

rydabent

ejaYou are old if you know what Geritol was!!!!