you know that you are getting old when....

["couldbecousin"]

  ... you think how glad you are not to have had kids, because they'd be growing up in a world
  you don't comprehend or even recognize, so you wouldn't know how to protect them. 

["couldbecousin"]

  ... you listen to melancholy songs that sound like the musings of someone on the wrong side
   of fifty, possibly close to death, and you totally get what the old codger is going on about. 

   

[odeon]

The wrong side of fifty?

["couldbecousin"]

The wrong side of fifty?

    The old side, fifty-and-older. 

[Natalia Evans]

80's music is now oldies music
You have to scroll further down for the year you were born in
NBA players are now younger than you
Celebrities from your childhood are dying
Kids who were born when you were in 6th grade are now turning 18 and about to finish high school

[odeon]

OMG, welcome back!

[odeon]

The wrong side of fifty?

    The old side, fifty-and-older. 

The experienced side of fifty.

["couldbecousin"]

  I spend a little too much time on Reddit, and I find myself having uncharitably cranky 
  "Fucking millennials!" moments, wondering why the hell so many of them are still "in school" and
  living with their parents at ages 23, 26, 29.  Why at least 50% of them claim to have "depression and
  anxiety," meaning what?  That they are clinically depressed and anxious, or just that they are
  sad, worried, and lacking in everyday coping skills?  It irks me to see how often they seem to use the
  word "amazing," as a baseline relationship requirement, as in the case of a guy who told a fairly new
  date that it wasn't working out for him because every moment they spent together "wasn't amazing."
  I'm becoming a mean old bag, smugly sitting in judgment of broke, struggling young people while
  comfortable in my own very fortunate, secure circumstances.  Not cool, not fair, but hard to resist. 

[odeon]

  I spend a little too much time on Reddit, and I find myself having uncharitably cranky 
  "Fucking millennials!" moments, wondering why the hell so many of them are still "in school" and
  living with their parents at ages 23, 26, 29.  Why at least 50% of them claim to have "depression and
  anxiety," meaning what?  That they are clinically depressed and anxious, or just that they are
  sad, worried, and lacking in everyday coping skills?  It irks me to see how often they seem to use the
  word "amazing," as a baseline relationship requirement, as in the case of a guy who told a fairly new
  date that it wasn't working out for him because every moment they spent together "wasn't amazing."
  I'm becoming a mean old bag, smugly sitting in judgment of broke, struggling young people while
  comfortable in my own very fortunate, secure circumstances.  Not cool, not fair, but hard to resist. 

That'll teach 'em.

[Icequeen]

  I spend a little too much time on Reddit, and I find myself having uncharitably cranky 
  "Fucking millennials!" moments, wondering why the hell so many of them are still "in school" and
  living with their parents at ages 23, 26, 29.  Why at least 50% of them claim to have "depression and
  anxiety," meaning what?  That they are clinically depressed and anxious, or just that they are
  sad, worried, and lacking in everyday coping skills?  It irks me to see how often they seem to use the
  word "amazing," as a baseline relationship requirement, as in the case of a guy who told a fairly new
  date that it wasn't working out for him because every moment they spent together "wasn't amazing."
  I'm becoming a mean old bag, smugly sitting in judgment of broke, struggling young people while
  comfortable in my own very fortunate, secure circumstances.  Not cool, not fair, but hard to resist. 

That'll teach 'em.

I will not judge...I have no right to. I once was one of those "broke, struggling young people" who didn't leave home until I was almost 30.   

...and my everyday coping skills are still somewhat lacking or supplemented sometimes.

["couldbecousin"]

  Supplements are fine.  Supplements are good. 

[Parts]

When you start using the phrase  'I remember when' way too often

[odeon]

When you start using the phrase  'I remember when' way too often

I remember when I never used that phrase.

["couldbecousin"]

  ... when you are beginning your second half century. 

["couldbecousin"]

  ... when you always have antacids in your possession!