Poll #22494 Grey
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I felt old when I found my
First grey hair on the crown of my head
6 (19.4%)
First grey hair on my face (e.g. eyebrows, mustache, beard)
3 (9.7%)
First grey hair on my ears
2 (6.5%)
First grey hair on my torso
2 (6.5%)
First grey pube
6 (19.4%)
Picture in the attic
18 (58.1%)
(This post brought to you by finding my first grey pube a couple of weeks ago. You’re welcome!)
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Maybe I’ll feel different when it all goes grey/white, but in the meantime everything that makes me feel painfully old is existential. >_>
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Also, on my last day at middle school. (I spent most of a lunchtime staring around the place in nostalgia, while my friend Daniel from two years below muttered impatiently about me being no fun today.)
Also, on finding my first *wiry* hairs erupting sideways from my ears, long before any turned grey. I mean, like... "Ear pubes"?!? No-one ever warned me that could be a thing! =:oO
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You can sort of see the left one in my "boss-eyed" icon (from about 13/14 years ago), though by then they were about to be swallowed by the big white central chin-blob that appeared next.
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My first set of bifocals, on the other hand...
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This. Old and also poor, since they cost three times as much as I'd previously paid for new glasses.
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Alternatively, perhaps I should take up running.
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None of these things made me feel old, though. Meeting adults and discovering I remember the year they were born, however... I hope this is something that eventually becomes old news.
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What makes me feel old? Realizing that Depeche Mode's music is older now than the Beatles' music was when I first heard Depeche Mode.
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* Adopted.
The hair, somewhat less: I got my first few grey hairs in high school and figured I was going to be completely silver by 35 like my dad. Instead I'm nearly 40 and it's still barely visible (under the blue).
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I first felt old... reasonably recently, actually, when I worked out that latest partner is only just not-in-the-creepy-zone in age - you know the whole half your age plus seven thing? I'm 41, which makes my cut off point 27.5, and he's 28...
And then I got diagnosed with arthritis in my knees. So, it's like, old has hit me suddenly and now I'm REALLY old?
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