My Murtaugh List

I’m a huge fan of the show How I Met Your Mother. Huge.  I can even get over Doogie Howser being on it.  Anyway, recently they aired a show about how Ted has compiled a “Murtaugh List” of things he can never do anymore because of age.  How did this name come about?  Detective Murtaugh from Lethal Weapon.  It seems right before they take the bad guy down, there’s a scene where Detective Murtaugh does some feat of physical activity and says, “I’m getting too old for this sh*t.” Watch for yourself: HIMYM: Murtaugh

So, it’s no secret since I’ve hit the big 3-0, I’ve been on a downhill slope. It’s well documented.  Anyway, here’s my official Murtaugh List (it will probably grow) of why I’m old. And, I’m probably getting too old for all this sh*t anyway…

1. I can’t stand radio stations that play “today’s hits”
2. While at the Apple Store, a kid probably aged 10, totally embarrassed me at Star Wars Lego
3. My son told me I had hot breath
4. I saw a car just 3 days ago driving down a major street with the driver and passenger dancing. I thought, this is why kids shouldn’t have licenses
5. I rather appreciate talk radio and will only listen to sports radio or NPR
6. The other day I was actually listening to the radio and I heard 3 great songs strung together and then the station identification came on and it was an Easy Listening station.  Easy, freakin, Listening Man!
7. I identify my age by music
8. When I get up in the morning I used to view going to the bathroom as a good thing to do, now it’s a necessity and don’t get in my way
9. When I get up needing to go to the bathroom, all my muscles hurt, which complicates the necessity
10. I feel the need to tell you my bathroom habits
11. I complain about how much milk (soy) my family drinks a week
12. I actually told my son, as he was getting milk, to “close the refrigerator door, I’m not paying to cool the house and you’ll break the motor”
13. I enjoy going to Home Depot and Loews more than going to electronic stores (RIP CompUSA)
14. When I get online, I research gardening tips and landscaping ideas instead of going immediately to fark.com or other time wasting sites.

Okay, so that’s the list as it stands today.  I asked my twitter friends to add theirs, so here’s some good ones.

@rebeccag – For me, it’s memory. I cannot remember a thing – have to write it all down, or it’ll be gone forever! Hate that.

@chriswilliams2 – I pay attention to the price of gasoline and have never heard of most of the people who win music awards.

@runtrap – I determined I was old when I began to like flavors of candy/popsicles that were not red in color

What are some that have made your Murtaugh List?