"Old" when referring to a person means...

[Boojatta]

[OmahaBlueDog]

1. Life has a certain lusterous and glowing quality

..until your 40th birthday. Then you can't remember a damn thing, and any muscular injury, no matter how minor, takes forever to heal.

Now, when I see a gorgeous model, and a delightful mental fantasy starts to ensue, I suddenly realize I'm old enough to be her father.

[baldguy]

2. My 15yr old neice thinks I'm wrinkled & gray.

My 78yr old father thinks I'm just out of diapers.

[DarkTirade]

3. It's all relative.

'cause it's your neice and your dad. So they're related.

Get it? Relative?

... I'll be here all week. :P

[SOteric]

4. "Old" is anyone 15 - 20 years older than me.

No matter what my age.

[Gormy Cuss]

7. Exactly.

I notice that there are fewer old people now than there used to be.;)

[Mugu]

17. You are exactly right.

Anybody 20 years older than me is old.

Regards, Mugu

[LeftyFingerPop]

5. A man is old when, while making love...

his brain temporarily tells him that he is 19 again, forcing his body to unnaturally and momentarily behave like a 19 year old body.

Subsequently, said man is so tired and muscularly sore that tears roll down his cheeks when he tries to perform a simple act, such as feeding himself.

[BuelahWitch]

6. Anyone as old as Boojatta and above...

:hide:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Older than me.

[Deep13]

9. 90 deg. in the person's house and s/he asks if it is warm enough for me. nt

[Manifestor_of_Light]

16. They set the thermostat on "Broil".

I can't deal with that 80 degree setting in old folks' houses. They lost all their subcutaneous fat. That's why they are cold. :shrug:

My parents have gone to the Big Garage Sale in the Sky, so I'm the older generation now. That's quite a shock when it happens.

That said, I say old is 80 or so, and if you stay active and busy and laugh, then you can stay young for decades.

I'm hoping that someday I will have grandchildren!!

[Silver Swan]

10. It's all relative..

I am going on 62, and I've let my hair go gray, so no one would mistake me for a spring chicken.

Nevertheless, the other day, while trapped in a long line at the grocery store, my spouse and I had a conversation with a man who was a World War II veteran--so probably in his mid-eighties--and he mentioned that he liked to go dancing. He said he went dancing often and his partners were "young ones like you." He made my day!

[grannylib]

11. None of the above. "Old" is 30 years older than I am. eom

[Connonym]

12. Perhaps I'm odd, but I'd rather be called old than middle-aged

I guess with old I can view it as an exaggeration but with middle-aged, it's far too accurate.

[Jamastiene]

13. There is no such thing as old any more.

I'm calling it. "Old" has been done to death. It's out now. We are all forever young now.

[Bake]

14. It always refers to someone older than I!!!

Because I'm not old, dammit, so stop saying that!

Bake

[OffWithTheirHeads]

15. Never trust anyone under 30!

That's what I think.

[CreekDog]

18. Old ain't what it used to be!

:think:

[JVS]

19. I think Dave Barry defined it as when hemorrhoids are no longer primarily joking fodder.