Intel inside Mental outside

Re-telling Anecdotes quite often is a serious syndrome for old age. One that you might have experience with your grand parents and increasingly with our parents nowadays. Usually it starts with "When I was in" or "When I was ten" or "In those days" and those sorts. These are the cues for you to let your mind wander on that hot chick you saw that day on the road or keeping a count on the number of times you have heard this story before. Having said that I realized that I was telling people far too much anecdotes myself and that surely is not a good sign. So what am I doing, am I getting old. I should be making anecdotes now for god sakes and not telling it. It can mean another thing apart from getting old i.e. I have experienced a lot of things in life and there is nothing much for myself to go and make an anecdote about. But even thats not true you see, I am still a virgin. So anybody out there with a mind that could explain the phenomenon, please do so !