They always start with: You know you’re old when and you breek laughing because a lot of your colleagues don’t remember drinking Fresca and eating Kreols.
That’s all fun and games.
But this week, I nogal did realise that I’m now heading into my 38th year on this planet.
That was when one of my all-time football heroes began his own head coaching job.
On Wednesday, Thierry Henry was unveiled as Monaco coach.
It kind of blew my mind, because I remember the first time I saw him play... in 1998.
It was a Wednesday night Champions League match - a quarterfinal second leg against Manchester United.
Monaco went to Old Trafford with their teenage strike duo of Henry and David Trezeguet.
Trezeguet scored a rocket in the fifth minute to knock the Red Devils out on away goals.
But Henry caught the eye as his pace hurt Alex Ferguson’s manne. Henry would end the tournament with seven goals.
And I followed his career from then on, watching him destroy Bafana Bafana in the 1998 World Cup group game.
Then he joined my club, Arsenal, at the beginning of the 1999-2000 season and watched him score 226 goals for the Gunners, bringing us two Premier League titles and two FA Cups.
I even got to see him play on SA soil for France at the World Cup here in 2010 when he came on as a sub against Uruguay in a group game at Cape Town Stadium.
Now Henry has come full circle and is head coach of Monaco, the club where he started.
It’s a trip. Because not even at Benni McCarthy’s unveiling as Cape Town City boss last year - with speakers blasting his TKZee hit Shibobo - did I feel the drift of time.
But the times, they are a-changing.