Tell me about a time when you felt old

The first time I can recall was 15 years ago when taking my DD to a baby / toddler group where 1 of her friends used to call me 'nanny'. But in recent years, I'm regularly offered seats on the tube, and I am happy to accept. Just being in the office reminds me how old I am everyday, I'm surrounded by colleagues in their 20s and early 30s.

At uni aged 21 being called a mature student and when I had my daughter at 30 being called a geriatric mother! 😂

When my work colleagues said they remembered their parents listening to Take That as they were growing up. My parents listened to The Beatles and the Rolling Stones 😅

Realising that there are two whole generations between me (Millennial) and babies being born today (Gen. Beta).

When my daughter was looking at the A level History syllabus that went up to 1997. Which is the year I took my History A level.

I was offered a seat on the tube!!

I went to the optician in my early 40s and was diagnosed by a bright early 20s optician with dry eyes. One eye had been blurry, and while the drops definitely helped, I still felt a difference in one eye. She asked me what I had google self diagnosed and when I said I hadn’t been googling this she said ‘sorry, they told us at uni to ask that’. Then when I came back saying I was still a bit blurry in one eye and wanted to know why, she said ‘sometimes you just get an idea in your head’.

The kid I used to baby sit when I was 13-16 now has a job and a beard and a mortgage and a wife.
How dare he? Little shit 😂

When I was about 25 a colleague miserably told me "I'm old enough to be your mother" and without thinking I blurted out "my mum's younger than you"
I felt bad at the time but 14 years on and pushing 40, I often think of it and feel bad

When my dad, my actual dad, so obviously older than me, asked me when I was putting my name down for an old persons bungalow. Just to be clear he doesn't live in an old people's bungalow and somehow seems to have forgotten he's 25 years older than me. I was 59, and he was deadly serious.

I can think of twice when I went to the pub and on the ordering app it stated that only people born on or before a certain date could be served (So day month and year 18 years prior) and the year it stated was 2006 went "Nooooo thats no adult that's still a baby!" and the other time was at Christmas when my (significantly) younger brother wished me a "Merry Rizzmas" instead of a "Merry Christmas" and I had to Google it because I'd never heard it before.

Oh tell me about this. My youngest bridesmaid was 7 at our wedding. She's now 40, a primary school teacher and has children of her own.

How did that all happen?

Secondary school teacher and I’ve recently had to explain: phone boxes, house phones (answer phones with a tape blew their minds), Beyonce being in Destiny’s Child, 4 tv channels, manually rewinding videos as opposed to scrubbing through.

All of which made me feel older than Cleopatra’s nan.

I grew up rurally, on a large farm in Australia. I was at work in a capital city and a name came up on my emails - a fairly unique name. I bumped into the person and said, I've got an unusual question for you. Do you come from this tiny little town? (closest town to where I grew up only 100 kids in the local primary school)

Her reply Um, yes.
Me: Did you grow up on a farm out there- gave parent and brothers names?
Her looking at me like I'm a stalker - yeah...
Me - OMG, I used to baby sit you!

I think she was about 3 years old when I (then 14) started looking after her and her brothers. I looked after them for a few years.

The little gorgeous bridesmaids we had at our wedding are 31 this year. I was younger than they are now when we got married.

Tell me about it! I graduated in 1993 - 33 years ago this year. My youngest will graduate this summer. It’s crazy and doesn’t feel
likr so much time has passed. I’d love to go back to those days just for 24-hours!

I know pretty much nothing about current music. Probably started to lose touch about 10/12 years ago but now I’m hopeless! I know some names but really could t tell you their songs etc.
I’m mid-50s.
No way could I stand at a gig now - it’s seats all the way … even if I stood up first if the concert at least I can sit down during the slow numbers!

I had a meeting with a design agency at work and told a young man he’d left the size sticker on the peak of his baseball cap. I had no idea people do that on purpose 🤷 I also mentioned Bonnie Tyler and Su Pollard at work and no one had any idea what I was on about. I’ll be in the corner sucking on a Werther’s Original

🤣😂

When the primary one kids who sometimes got mixed up started calling me granny instead of mummy

When I was in my fifties and a young lad in primary school I taught at, asked me if everything was in black and white, like in his grandads’s day… then his friend piped up with, did you ever see a dinosaur close up miss?😂

Returning to work after some years as a SAHM and getting to know some of my new colleagues... some of whom were born in my last year at uni when I got together with DH.
It came about through discussing 9/11 and my colleagues were babies 😱

When I started teaching, my y7s were totally obsessed with Osama Bin Laden. It was still the era of blackboards, OHPs and booking the TV trolley/ rewinding the VHS and my colleagues would still have been in nappies.

My colleague was also confused when I talked about the computer with internet
access in the school library and thought my school was behind the times, it was actually quite ahead. I doubt they'd know what I mean if I drop in the coveted computer with CD Rom.

I was the final year group to have typewriting lessons

Yes! I absolutely feel like the 90’s were about ten years ago. I graduated in 1995 - which does not feel anywhere near 31 years ago.

Sorry I could have written it more clearly!

My wife (Same sex relationship) was who the lady referred to as my son and she was also 41!! And not masculine looking for those wondering!! 😅🙈

Watching the Winter Olympics and everyone in their 30s is treated like the “granddad/mother” of the sport.