What are the signs you've noticed that you're getting older?
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Are you also in your 30s? Haha
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It actually takes effort for me to get out of my car. Like I'm having to pull myself out.
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Hehe. On mine the cruise, high beam and fog light indicators don't dim with the rest of the dash board.
Luckily they're all along the top row in the centre, so I drape the glasses cleaning cloth over the dashboard to form a little curtain.
I'm in a rural area.
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Early 40s here, and carpal tunnel is finally kicking in
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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.
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2 drinks making me feel 100% worse
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Oh man I hear ya in headlights and dashboard lights. NIght driving is getting to be pretty rough for me.
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I didn't know you could botox that!
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I'll tell you when you're older
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Apparently so! Decolletage injection it's called.
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- Eyesight is getting worse. It's hard to read in dim light, and driving at night can be rough.
- Takes my body longer to recuperate from anything that it doesn't like - injuries, alcohol, upset stomach.
- Age spots. I thought they were just freckles but my dermatologist says they're age spots. I'm only 43!
Aging is funny, because there's always someone who thinks you're ancient, and there's always someone who thinks you're still super young. I was at a bar a couple weeks ago, and these two dudes were complaining about how old they were getting.... so I asked, turns out they were the ripe old age of twenty-eight. Which made me laugh a little, because 28 is still pretty young. And when I told them I was 43 they couldn't believe it. I guess in my twenties I didn't have an accurate idea of what people in their forties looked like either. Conversely when I made some comment to my parents about being middle-aged, they laughed at me because "you're in your forties, you're not middle-aged!". So it's all relative. My dad said something that stuck with me: you may feel like you're getting older, but when you're my age (he's 75) you'll realize how young you still were, and how much energy you had. And that's helped me be aware that even though there are some aspects of aging that I really hate, there are plenty of good healthy years left.
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I no longer feel a sense of unrealised potential for myself I guess. That's it, I've got what I've got.
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What do you drive?
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Too real. Not just holidays, weeks and months go by and it's like "shit when did it get to 2025??"
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Covid made it especially bad. Covid started five years ago. Started, like we first heard the term "Covid"
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It's still March... 2020
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all my friends are either dead or my enemies
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Hair falling out
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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.
