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Originally Posted by flamesfever
I tend to feel old(er):
- when getting together with friends, the main topic of interest seems to center on aches and pains.
- when it won't be long before the grandkids start thinking about which University they hope to attend.
- when you look forward to an afternoon nap.
- when the police look like teenagers.
- when everyone you meet addresses you as "Sir".
- when you look in the mirror, and the image doesn't jive with how you think of yourself.
- when you don't leave the paper without checking the obits.
- when you think of your youth, and you can remember things like Foster Hewitt doing the NHL ply-by-play, Syl Apps as the Captain of the Maple Leafs, and George Armstrong the captain of the Marlies.
- when you can also remember watching Joe Louis fight Jersey Joe Walcott, looking through a store window at a the latest new device called a television.
- when you can remember listening on the radio to Lux Family Theater, Boston Blacky and the Inner Sanctum.
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you could have just said "when you check the paper". only old people read newspapers anymore