You Know You Are Old When

[ultrarunner]

Lots of Bakelite here.

Bakelite - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[scootr]

You might be old if half an hour of picking up sticks in the yards feels like a days work.

 

[garry1p]

How is it when you work for a living and work towards retirement everyone says.
"When I retire I'm going to sleep until noon everyday", then you retire and get up at 7 AM everyday?

 

[Runner]

You're old if you have things made of gutta percha or bakelite.

I think I have a pair of underwear made of bakelite.

 

[Runner]

How is it when you work for a living and work towards retirement everyone says.
"When I retire I'm going to sleep until noon everyday", then you retire and get up at 7 AM everyday?

I get up at 4:30am, but I know I'm old because I go to bed at 8pm.

 

[Eagle1]

How is it when you work for a living and work towards retirement everyone says.
"When I retire I'm going to sleep until noon everyday", then you retire and get up at 7 AM everyday?

Make that 6 am, dogs don't know I'm retired

 

[BackRoad]

5am! I get up excited, looking forward to every day!

Not so much before I retired...

 

[WinterDeere]

How is it when you work for a living and work towards retirement everyone says.
"When I retire I'm going to sleep until noon everyday", then you retire and get up at 7 AM everyday?

He’ll, I’m not even retired, but I haven’t been able to sleep past 5am since my early-40’s.

 

[Jstpssng]

How is it when you work for a living and work towards retirement everyone says.
"When I retire I'm going to sleep until noon everyday", then you retire and get up at 7 AM everyday?

Some people do that
Get out of bed and retire to their recliner. Before you know it they're leaving in the back of a long black limo.

Other people retire and start doing things they've always dreamed of. A year later they are wondering how they ever got anything done while also working full time.

 

[BravoXray]

How is it when you work for a living and work towards retirement everyone says.
"When I retire I'm going to sleep until noon everyday", then you retire and get up at 7 AM everyday?

In the 70s, working in construction and driving truck, I was up at 4AM-6AM, depending on the job that day. In the 80s-2000s working in a brokerage and then working out of my home office, I was usually up at 7AM. I am not a morning person, never was, but I am a night owl, rarely in bed before midnight, usually watch the late shows or read until 1:30 or 2:00AM. Now that I'm retired, I usually sleep in until 8:00AM or so, but occasionally sleep on through until 9:00AM.