Feelin' old

[jnyork]

I guess it finally had to happen. Saw my first advertisement for a "vintage AR-15" today . Kinda gave me that "just swallowed a big rock" feeling like the first time a waitress asked me if I wanted the senior citizens menu

 

[Mt Shooter]

feeling like the first time a waitress asked me if I wanted the senior citizens menu

I feel your pain, I was asked if I wanted the senior discount for a breakfast. My pride was quickly over taken by my wallet.

I did some thinking and the hunting rifle I have been carrying around for as long as I remember is over 100 years old. Was made in 1906 I have been using it since the 60's.

 

[chuckusaret]

Naw, Vintage AR15, You are old when you buy a C&R weapon that was your issue weapon when you first entered military service. I think I was a senior citzens before they started the senior citizen discounts.

 

[Zach S]

Someone once guessed my age at 34. I was 25 at the time...

I'm 28. I guess I cant really relate.

 

[jnyork]

I'm 28. I guess I cant really relate.

Never fear, your turn's coming. (Assuming, of course, clean living and a little luck )

 

[rogertc1]

When I started Jr ROTC I drilled with Garands in 1969. They swithched to the M14 in 70. AT Ft Rileys Officer Basic I had a M-16 in 1971. Then back to the 14's at the school. The 14's like the Garand were heavy boogers to drill with.

 

[FullClip]

My "Old Geezer" moment came at a bar. Having a couple beers with some guys from work. The TV was talking about the anniversery of the Moon Landing. I asked the guys if they remebered that day.............

They said they weren't born then.!!!

And with guns..I've seen the full circle. 1911s to Wunder-Nines to Glocks back to 1911s. Likewise with lever actions thanks to Marlin.

 

[senior]

I REALLY felt my age when an old high school and army chum contacted me and asked if I was going the class reunion of 1951. Guess we were lucky, old age and Korea didn't do either of us in! lol

 

[SundownRider]

AT 40 I'm old enough to know better but young enough to make the same mistakes more than once.

 

[Dave B]

It's worse when they give you the senior menu or discount without asking.

 

[statelineblues]

I was standing behind a very pretty lady in the checkout line when her young son, seated in the cart, looked up at me, pointed his finger and yelled loud enough for the entire store to hear - "Grampa!!"
Adding insult to injury, the young woman turned around and said, "You know, you do look like my father!"

I was 42 at the time...

 

[mljdeckard]

"....sir."

 

[AStone]

At 50-something going on 30-something, I can relate.

I look in the mirror and say, "No, wait, that can't be me".

I'm very active, work out lots, dance frenetically (older "rave" kid),
often dancing circles around 20-somethings;
my gf (love of my life) is considerably younger.

Yet, in the last year or two,
I'm starting to get offers for senior discounts.

Best of all worlds, I guess. Sure, I'll take a savings.

 

[John-Melb]

I got a laugh when looking at some photos we took in Sydney a few months ago, we had taken my daughter there to celebrate her birthday.

"Who is the old, bald sod standing next to Lauren, and why is he smoking my pipe?"

 

[bikerdoc]

When you all get to be 61 check back with me!

 

[Jim K]

It gets me when some guy on the site asks about "this really old antique gun that was made in 1950." Yikes! To me that is a new gun.

Jim

 

[paintballdude902]

i got mine a few weeks ago when a kid called me "sir" kinda creeped me out since im not even 21 yet

 

[AStone]

What was the name of that late 60's/early 70's cult film in which there was a youth rebellion, and people over 30 got dosed with LSD and put out on the farm?

The twist at the end of the film was that the leader of the rebellion was just about to turn 30.

I remember one of the last lines in the film was a much younger kid saying to him something like,
"Dude, you're really old", and seeing the expression on his face as it dawned on him that his time was nearly over.

Added by edit: Wild in the Streets
IIRC, the title song was "born to be wild" by Steppenwolf.

 

[MachIVshooter]

I envy those of you who lived during better times. I hate this world we live in today. Instant gratification, no one cares about quality, me-me-me attitudes abound (even in those 20 years my senior), the political state of the country (and world) is pathetic.

I feel that I was born 50 or 60 years too late. Everything built today is junk and 21st century people suck.

 

[carguy2244]

"Sir, do you need help to the car with those bags?"

I used to answer, " How about you pick up the bags, and I'll carry you and the bags to my car."

Now with arthritis in my shoulder...I just politely decline.

Getting old is tough, but it beats the alternative.

 

[Bozo]

Well, I am old enough to know better, but still too young to resist, however, when last year buying an ar-15 and the sales force oogling it, I made the remark that it had been 40 years since I last was issued one, I got a few looks. It never occurred to me that I was old.

 

[Isher]

Hoo Boy -

Old? Try ancient.

Nevertheless, this weekend was a yard of one inch minus rock

Four yards of topsoil, and 400 bulbs, plus or minus, for next spring.

Now, I will never live to see what I am putting in place in the yard,

In its full glory

But someone will.

And did find the time to run a few mags thru the CZ 97b,

While my 9mms whimpered in the closet.


isher

 

[Oyeboten]

Oye...


Went to a restaurant awhile ago with a new girlfriend...


The people there know me from many prior occasions...


Anyway, they were just being friendly and admiring, asking 'Oh! She's so lovely!...your daughter?'


Eeeeeeeeesh..!


I said..."I sure hope not!'


Lol...

 

[AStone]

'Oh! She's so lovely!...your daughter?'

I, too, have experienced that.

My former gf was even younger than my present one. We enjoyed going somewhere public, let the assumptions build that we were just friends or even family, then smacking each other on the lips, just to mess with preconceptions rooted in agism. That occasionally drew some interesting stares of dis-belief.

To keep this somewhat gun related, and related to the OP, my current partner is a gun "appreciator". Can't say an enthusiast or lover - she doesn't own one (yet) - but does appreciate them and goes shooting. Hasn't fired an AR yet, but we hope to remedy that soon.

 

[pikid89]

Im only 20 but ive been asked at my 8 year old brother soccer practice if im his dad lol