I was called "elderly" today by a 13 year old kid.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

I'm only 60 years old.

I told him I was going to go get my cane and beat him with it. Somehow I don't think he believed me. (He's a neighborhood kid who likes to stop by and chat with me when he sees me outside. I've known him about 3 years.)

Dayum, I feel elderly.

[MuseRider]

1. I'm 61 and a few months ago

the young woman who does the hair washing at the salon where I get my hair cut was telling me a story about a crazy old man she saw in San Francisco. She went on and on and then said he HAD to have been 60years old. It was really funny when I told her how old I am since I was in there to try and get my hair bleached out because I WANT them to take my hair to grey hair and did not have any. LOL, she didn't stop for a minute.

Funny isn't it?

[Tobin S.]

2. I guess I thought 60 was old when I was that age as well.

At 42, I'm thinking that it's possible that someone who is 60 could be my older sibling.

It's all a matter of perspective.

My mom and dad are 63. They still seem vibrant and healthy to me. I don't think of them as old.

[LiberalElite]

3. When I really started to feel old

was 20 or so years ago, when I was talking with a young associate lawyer I worked for about my seeing the Beatles in Shea Stadium in 1965. (I don't know how we got on that subject except he was interested in entertainment law) ANYWAY, his reaction to my story was "Oh I wish I had been alive then!" Thanks, kid. :-/

[panader0]

4. Well, I'll be 65 in 3 weeks and I can wipe a tiger's ass with sandpaper!

I can piss higher in the air than you've been away from home!
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[TeamPooka]

5. Relax. Take a nap. You'll feel better. :)

[rug]

6. Next time tell him he missed the 60s.

[herding cats]

7. It's all relative.

I'm many years your junior, but I'd still be old to a 13 year old. They're babies to most of us!

Heck, if you're old enough to be their parent, then you're really old to someone that young. Which means someone who is as young as their 30's to put it in perspective for you.

It's not a thing, really. It just means your still associating with people who are basically really young.

However, if you were telling them to get off your lawn, prior to you threat about beating them with the cane, you may want to rethink how you relate to their generation.

[seveneyes]

8. Welcome to the end ...

[NV Whino]

9. I hope you called him a young whippersnapper and told him to get off your lawn.

[hamsterjill]

19. You know, I hate it when the little shits get on my lawn!

I never understood that until I got this old!

Now, I like my grass looking good!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. You are not old, my dear Prisoner_Number_Six!

I'll be 72 this year!

Now, that's old.

[sarge43]

11. 73 in January. Nah, not old.

We are maturing nicely, full bodied, with a sassy after glow and we look splendid in purple.

Elderly is nothing to be ashamed of -- it's a victory.

[recycled60]

20. 74 next Feb.

Any day looking down on the grass rather than up at the roots is a good day.

[trof]

22. Meh. Raise you two.

[SwissTony]

12. When I was 7 or 8, I thought my friend's brothers were old.

I think they were 18 and 20.

Now I'm heading towards 65 . I'll be there before Xmas.

[libodem]

13. I'm 59

And I cringe a little when someone refers to me as mam and not miss.

Oh, well, I still look good. Eff 'em

[DFW]

14. Yesterday, my wife was talking to some professor at a café here in Vancouver

He was a fellow German who had done a biking tour through British Columbia. He looked like an older guy, I figured between 8 and 12 years older than we are (63). Turns out the guy was 59, and here I was looking at him as if her were a generation older.

Moral of the story, it's all relative, and it's all perception.

[lunatica]

15. He was probably being polite. Other kids would just say you're 'Old'.

Last Thursday I turned 67 year old. I'm in my late 60s. Individual numbers don't matter anymore since anything older than 60 is early, mid and late 60s, etc. I plan to continue working for at least 10 more years.

Or maybe I'll move to someplace where I can live on Social Security and what I can make on my art. Being a hermit is something that would come very naturally to me.

[fizzgig]

16. i'm in my mid-30s and supervise kids half my age

i know they think i'm a crazy old lady.

[hay rick]

17. I'm too old to die young.

Other than that, big numbers suck.

[Snobblevitch]

18. I had a great aunt who worked as an aide in a nursing home.

She was taking care of two men who were 71 and 73. She was 85 at the time. She died at 96 in a car accident.

[GoneOffShore]

21. Own it. I go to a place that does a "Senior Discount"...

And always ask for the "Old Guy" or "Old Fart" price.

[Liberal_in_LA]

23. give him a break. recall when you thought 30 year olds were old

[trackfan]

24. I guess it's all relative.

When I was in my 20s, my landlady/next door neighbor was a cousin of my dad's who was in her 70s. One of the renters in another of her units was a lady in her mid 80s. When my landlady talked about her she would say, "You know Lidia, the elderly lady..."