What do you hate about getting older?

**Cycl1** · 12-06-2012, 08:39 AM

having to pee like an hour before the alarm will go off.

waking up sore for no reason. (a lot better when i got a new bed)

feeling like crap when i dont get enough sleep. Used to be able to say up late ever night for a long time before the crash. Now it seems like 1 day and i am done.

**00clone** · 12-06-2012, 08:40 AM

Realizing that the smiles I'm getting at the mall from the good looking young women are because of my toddler or newborn, not because of their dad.

**klamath632** · 12-06-2012, 08:43 AM

Originally Posted by IcSyU

When I was in high school I could go to the YMCA and play basketball for 6 hours straight and barely be tired. Now if I play for an hour my legs are wiped out. Then in high school I was right back at it the next day. Now my legs have other plans the day after I play basketball for an extended period of time.

23 is a real *****.

This, but for me that happened around 30. I really miss being able to play basketball for hours on end.

**cowgirl836** · 12-06-2012, 08:44 AM

Originally Posted by 00clone

Realizing that the smiles I'm getting at the mall from the good looking young women are because of my toddler or newborn, not because of their dad.

hey now, that may not be true! It could be for both. There is something so adorable about a big strong man holding a little baby or the hand of a toddler. Even more so when she's babbling on about something and Dad is all "yep, I see, very nice, yes, you did, yes, I'm watching."

**Cyclophile1** · 12-06-2012, 08:45 AM

Creaky joints that sometimes give me some pain, despite the fact that I haven't done anything the previous day or two. Hey right ankle, what did I ever do to you?! Oh yeah...I broke you 25 years ago, and now you're paying me back for it.

And, now I have to do a workout just to keep a damn pat of butter off my waistline, when I could eat nearly a whole pizza when I was twenty and not worry about body fat.

Hair not growing in places where I want it and growing in places where I don't want it - classic but also very true.

My arm isn't long enough for me to tell time now - that guy reading a book at arms length, yeah that's me now.

When one of the kids wants to play legos or a board game down on the floor, I say "Okay, but maybe we can do it at the kitchen table because the floor hurts Daddy's back after about a half hour." That's just weak but it's true. (Note for the young people - have kids earlier in life. It's fun trying and the body will thank you later).

The hobbies I really love are very expensive, while the ones I merely like are not.

The dawning of the fact that there is more information and knowledge being produced and discovered that I'm falling behind in seemingly every area which at one time or another I felt like I could converse intelligently. Finding myself saying, "I may not be up on all that" going from occasional to frequent.

I could go on but you youngsters are going to say it's too long as it is.

Cheers

**00clone** · 12-06-2012, 08:45 AM

Originally Posted by cowgirl836

hey now, that may not be true! It could be for both. There is something so adorable about a big strong man holding a little baby or the hand of a toddler. Even more so when she's babbling on about something and Dad is all "yep, I see, very nice, yes, you did, yes, I'm watching."

My ego thanks you.

**oldman** · 12-06-2012, 08:46 AM

Sore muscles. When I was young, 24 hrs was peak hurt, then back to new the next day. Now 24 hrs is the warning that the next day is gonna be a REAL B****!

**clone2011** · 12-06-2012, 08:47 AM

I'm 24 and can't walk up/down a set of stairs without pain in my right knee. Double the pain in the right & add pain in the left when I'm in ski boots on stairs, which is pretty much every day in the winter these days. Bad genetics, multiple tears & subsequent surgeries, and an inability to give up being active in recreational games/sports as much as it may hurt afterward.

I don't even want to know what it'll be like 20, 30 years down the road.

**Cycl1** · 12-06-2012, 08:49 AM

Originally Posted by Cyclophile1

The hobbies I really love are very expensive, while the ones I merely like are not.

is scotch a hobby?

**Cyclonepride** · 12-06-2012, 08:50 AM

Originally Posted by klamath632

When you get old, in life, things get taken from you. That's a part of life. But you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life's this game of inches. The margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early and you don't quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast and you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us.

This sounds like a pick up line.

**00clone** · 12-06-2012, 08:50 AM

Originally Posted by clone2011

I'm 24 and can't walk up/down a set of stairs without pain in my right knee. Double the pain in the right & add pain in the left when I'm in ski boots on stairs, which is pretty much every day in the winter these days. Bad genetics, multiple tears & subsequent surgeries, and an inability to give up being active in recreational games/sports as much as it may hurt afterward.

I don't even want to know what it'll be like 20, 30 years down the road.

I'm seeing fox racing and K2 stickers on your hoveround.

**Cycl1** · 12-06-2012, 08:51 AM

Originally Posted by clone2011

I'm 24 and can't walk up/down a set of stairs without pain in my right knee. Double the pain in the right & add pain in the left when I'm in ski boots on stairs, which is pretty much every day in the winter these days. Bad genetics, multiple tears & subsequent surgeries, and an inability to give up being active in recreational games/sports as much as it may hurt afterward.

I don't even want to know what it'll be like 20, 30 years down the road.

I am just hoping the damage i did to my knees was done when i was young enough, and that it wont haunt me forever.