What Age do You Consider to be Old?

[Al Launier]

I'm 73 & when I can't get up anymore, then I'll feel old.

[Prashun Patel]

"10 years older than I am"

I agree with this.

The only time I feel old is getting out of bed to pee @ 3am, and standing in the bathroom next to my son while brushing our teeth (I hate mirrors).

[John K Jordan]

The over 50 senior discount is a marketing ploy, I think.

I know a few people around 50 who think and move and act old. Too many french fries and getting all their exercise with the TV remote buttons might be part of the problem.

A few weeks ago I met a guy in Italy out walking a trail with a cane - he was full of life and humor at over 100.

I personally feel great at 66 and can still toss bales of hay, wrangle a 400 lb llama, and race a teenager up the hill from the barn.

JKJ

[David Helm]

Old is (and always has been) anyone 10 years older than I am at the time.

Mike

Exactly the way I feel about it, but when my daughter turned 50 it did give me pause.

[Rod Sheridan]

There are some jobs I won't do on a house, including mudding/taping. Looking over bids I noticed one offered me a senior discount because I was over 50. I didn't realize people considered 50 to be old.

What do I consider old?

2 days younger than you......................LOL

The 60 of a few decades ago isn't the 60 year old of today.....Maybe it's time to raise it to 70?

[Erik Loza]

I feel old when we go bar-hopping with friends and are out to say, 1-2AM, and it takes me a full week to recover. Seems like when I was in my 20's, I could do that every night and be functional the next day. Nowadays? No way!

Erik

[Phil Stone]

I feel old when we go bar-hopping with friends and are out to say, 1-2AM, and it takes me a full week to recover. Seems like when I was in my 20's, I could do that every night and be functional the next day. Nowadays? No way!

Erik

What is this 2AM that you speak of?

[Larry Frank]

I guess I am old as I am having to replace joints and put in new bearings. I got 60+ years out of them.. Just glad the new parts are not some cheap replacements. But like other things it is not the price of the parts but the labor costs that gets you.

I am grateful for the technology available today. Not long ago, I would have been out of luck.

[Tom M King]

My Mother had a knee replaced when she was 92, and a hip when she was 98. I asked the surgeon how old the oldest person was that he had put a hip in. He said, "106, and she went Home!"

When I was younger, an old man told me that he had gotten old enough for Christmas to come twice a year. I didn't know what he was talking about. Now I'm old enough that I understand.

[Robert Hartmann]

I firmly believe it's a state a mind. If you can do the things you want to do and you don't feel old you aren't. I just turned 52. My last fitness test (Air Force, so it's a bit easier than others) I scored a 96.5 and ran circles around 20 yr olds. This after enduring two hernia surgeries last year followed by two more to repair a damaged nerve which I'm still being treated for, which meant not much gym time. We just get smarter, know our bodies, learn our limitations and how to overcome/work around them.

...but yes, old is at least 10 years beyond me My youngest of three is 4, so in 10 years I just may feel old!

[William Payer]

+1 on depends on the individual. A friend of mine and his wife were taking their 105 year old grandfather out to dinner. This is a guy who still cuts his postage stamp sized lawn with a push type reel mower. A real go getter. As they were approaching the doors to the restaurant a gent in his seventies was exiting with a walker. The grandfather held the door open for him, and once the man was out of ear shot he told my friend" I don't want to get like that when I get old!"

Some get old early on in their years......

[Mike Null]

I always considered Morley Safer (RIP) to be old. Then I found that he was less than 5 years older than me.

[Prashun Patel]

I thought the same thing, Mike. All the 60 Minutes guys in the 80's looked like they were in their 80's. I was shocked then to find out then that Morley Safer was 10 years younger than Mike Wallace.

That ticking (and Marlin Perkins) were what I remember of Sunday evenings as a kid. Dad on the houndstooth sofa telling this distracted youth, 'you should watch this'. I do the very same now with my kids.

The ticking that once sounded so old and irrelevant to me, is now a sound of comfort that they still sometimes make 'em like they used to...

[Harry Hagan]

Johnny Carson addressed this issue on his show one night when he repeated something heard earlier in the day: "Old is anyone who's fifteen years older than you are."

He found that statement credible and so do I—most of the time.

[Malcolm McLeod]

"..The only time I feel old is getting out of bed to pee @ 3am...

"Old is getting up at 3AM to pee and when you you arrive at the toilet, you've forgotten why you're there." (Apologies to the 'author', I can't think of his name.)