Any teenager who knows anything at all is on board with this thinking.
what’s club music
Ha! I do many and I am happy with that. Thanks for posting. It gave me a chuckle. : )
Everything but 19. I get up later. I’m usually done puking by noon.
Apparently I’ve been old since I was a teenager, excepting all the aches and pains. I’ve always hated loud parties and gotten up early.
Of course I grew up on a ranch.
At the risk of sounding 'old', newer music isn't as good -- or more specifically, SINGERS aren't usually as good. Autotune has completely changed who can make music. In the older days, if you couldn't sing, you couldn't sing. Period.
There are still some great singers today (Adele, Michael Buble, etc.), but they're more an exception than the rule.
Remembering a time that this was a relatively free and proud Nation...
Speaking of details of living through WWII and having people look at you with a blank stare...
7. Thinking that new music isn’t as good as it used to be
I don’t just think it, I know it. Today’s popular culture is inferior.
I turn 63 in a couple weeks. I guess that’s old.
I can balance on one foot while putting my socks and shoes on. I don’t own slippers unless you count my down booties I wear when winter camping.
Modern music does suck. Stores play 70’s soft rock, not current techno autotune garbage.
I’ve always moaned about politics and I’ve never enjoyed a loud raucous night out nor have I really cared about fashion or how I look.
27. Challenging your offspring to swim races in the pool just to prove that you still got it.
“6. Not caring about the latest fashion trends”
Haven’t cared about this crap for over 50 years.
“16. Talking to yourself”
And the reason I talk to myself is that I aways get the right answer.
And arms-length menu reading? I am more likely to use the flashlight on my cell phone to see it.
I got there when I was in my 20s.
4. Preferring a quiet drink over a night out
I got there when I was in my 20s. I always found it annoying to pay a lot to sit in a loud bar such that you could hardly hear the person next to you. I'd much rather go someplace quiet, enjoy my drink and the conversation with whoever I was with.
5. Enjoying an early night
Do naps count? If so I got there in my teens.
6. Not caring about the latest fashion trends
Again, got there in my teens. I never went for acid washed jeans for example. I correctly identified them as stupid and a waste of money right away. The clothes I buy have been "in fashion" with men since before I was born (eg, 2 button polo shirts, black or brown leather dress shoes, khakis, etc etc) I rewatched Thunderball which came out in 1964 recently and noticed that everything Sean Connery was wearing then would not be out of style for men now.
7. Thinking that new music isn't as good as it used to be
I got there around the year 2000 when there was much much less of what we now call Classic Rock being played on the radio. I was 30 then.
9. Using phrases like 'back in my day' or 'remember when*?'
see my previous answers.
13. Noticing something you wore in your youth is now back in fashion
See above answer. If you dress on the more conservative side - especially for men - other than a brief period of insanity in the 70s - men's fashion really hasn't changed in 60 years at least.
16. Talking to yourself
Who doesn't have an inner monologue? That's all of us. I've always done that.
17. Moaning about politics
I noticed things really started going to chit when Obama was elected in 08.
19. Getting up at 6am naturally
I almost never sleep in that late.
23. Listening to the radio or podcasts instead of club music
Then I've been old since I was in my early teens. I hate club music and dance music and always have.
I have always removed my shoes when entering my home from the outdoors...
All except getting up at 6:00 I’m usually up at 1:30 -2:00.
(Gotta pee) then I can’t get back to sleep.
5. Enjoying an early night (I am, and have always been, a fastidious night owl)
11. Caring less about how you look. (If it means I spend time preening in front of the mirror, No. If it means not going out in public wearing Pajama Bottoms, Yes.)
12. Taking shoes off as soon as you get inside - slippers have become a necessity! (Nope. Don't do this.)
15. Reading menus at arm's length. (I have bifocals. Does this mean I can say I don't do this? And isn't that what the magnify feature on a smart phone is for?)
19. Getting up at 6am naturally (I get up at 8:00 AM naturally. However, I am awake at many times during the night. But I stubbornly stay in bed until 8:00 AM)
20. First 'Who?' when watching the Brit Awards. (I don't watch the Brit Awards, any Awards, or television at all, and have not since the late Nineties.)
21. Looking forward to gardening. (I am trying, to help out my wife who is aging with me, but...I left the Navy because I hated having dirty hands. Still do.)
25. Checking the weather forecast hourly. (My wife does that nearly by the minute. I NEVER look at the weather. My weather report is simply going out of the door and looking at the sky.)
These make me feel smug and completely superior...:)
Ronald Reagon once said: “You know you’re getting old, when faced with two temptations, you choose the one that gets you home by 9PM.
I don’t watch television. I don’t drive at night because of deer. I write down everything.
One that I liked which isn’t on the list, hits you in your 40s, “when you bend down to get something off the floor you look to see if there is anything else while you are there”, that bending over thing sneaks up on you gentle like.
As far as loud bars and nightclubs, it is hard to do your magic of getting her out to the parking lot, or at least elsewhere, if you can’t talk to her.
Bkmk