Using any tool that vibrate much like a string trimmer will irritate where my spine is pinched and I’ll regret it for months. It makes me feel useless. Fusing 4 discs in my upper back or neck would almost guaranteed make me feel more useless.
I definitely can’t pretend I’m young anymore. It isn’t just pain, and when it is pain it’s not the worst pain. It makes me unable to feel my arm. I had to get an epidural of steroids to get the inflammation down to get feeling back, and I seem to be at least mildly allergic to that .
all my friends are either dead or my enemies
After about an hour of using the mouse or controller gaming, I have to take a few seconds to massage my hand because it gets sore and stiff.
Didn’t happen until I got into my 30’s 😔
Early 40s here, and carpal tunnel is finally kicking in
Waking up with a new pain and having to make it the new normal.
So very much this. Waking up now includes logging what does and does not hurt. It sucks.
It actually takes effort for me to get out of my car. Like I’m having to pull myself out.
It takes me longer to recover from the consequences of playing ice hockey.
A girl that stopped me on the street to ask directions concluded the exchange with “Thank you sir.”
Also, the waiters now automatically bring the bill to me when I have lunch with coworkers.
That first happened to me at 18 and it was so weird. I was helping out at my old school for an interschool music festival—a week of all sorts of different workshops and rehearsals between different schools, culminating in a concert at the end. During a break I was tinkering around on the piano, and a student came up to me and said “excuse me, sir…[some question about the timetable or something, that I definitely didn’t have the level of authority to know the answer to]”. I have her the best answer I could and she went on her way, but I was just stuck there feeling way too old.
In the south that’s just being nice, not age
I think they mean specifically to them, and not their coworkers
Yes, all my coworkers, including my managers are now younger than me. So when a manager takes everyone out, the waiters assume that I’m the one treating everyone to lunch.
My knee hurts when it’s raining.
It’s interesting to me that I don’t see myself aging in the bathroom mirror…until I put on my glasses. Then it’s obvious. Also, I didn’t used to need glasses. But nature’s gaussian blur filter is awesome. My wife looks as good as the day I met her too!
Eyesight started going in mid 40s. Still not happy about it.
I had perfect vision for decades and then it suddenly went to shit. Found out there’s no preventing it, no lifestyle changes to make it better. It’s just gone. Presbyopia can’t be prevented or fixed. Feels bad, man.
Damn, that’s a long run!
I got gout and shingles
My poor wife got shingles at 39 last year. Her doc was like “yeah it’s definitely shingles, welcome to firmly middle aged”
They Might Be Older (Still)
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In my teens and early 20s I used to enjoy snowboarding. I was never any good at it, but at least I could make it down the mountain. Tried again in my 30s, and I could barely even stand on the board. Never made it off the practice hill.
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Getting in and out of cars is painful now. Especially since I drive 90s and 2000s Japanese sports cars, which have a tendency to sit so low that it feels like your ass is dragging on the pavement when you drive them. I have no idea how I’m going to be able to continue driving them 20, 30, 40 years from now. I don’t want a giant modern car. Even sedans are SUV-sized these days.
What do you drive?
Currently a 350Z Roadster Touring. But in the past I’ve had a Genesis Coupe 3.8 BK1, an RSX Type-S, a 3rd gen Eclipse Spyder GT, a second gen 240SX, and an eighth gen Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart. All with a manual, of course.
62 years old. Boarding just a little (bunny slope) once or twice a year. Heading up next week.
Congrats on staying in shape. My body is falling apart at 37, because I didn’t take care of myself.
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New technology is harder to adopt.
I have this theory that, unless it’s an area of interest, professional or otherwise, you stop learning about tech when you leave school.
Holidays are a blur. I don’t remember individual years anymore, and every year I’m started at how quickly it became Christmas already.
Ffs we’re halfway through February already. I was just putting up the tree like 3 days ago.
Too real. Not just holidays, weeks and months go by and it’s like “shit when did it get to 2025??”
Covid made it especially bad. Covid started five years ago. Started, like we first heard the term “Covid”
It’s still March… 2020
COVID really did destroy the flow of time for me.
Are you also in your 30s? Haha
Children, which to me is everyone born in the 2005+ are already turning 20. Hell, the iPhone can already vote.
Btw I was born in 2004 and I’m 20
Also, Gangnam style. 13 years ago.
