Tell me about a time when you felt old

Mid 50s - frequently get offered a seat on the tube! ( I always politely decline!)

I’m a perfectly able bodied 54 and the first time I ever felt ‘old’ was last month, on a crowded train home a woman I’d say was mid thirties asked if I needed help getting my bag up onto the rack. I accepted as it was so kind of her to offer and she took me by surprise but I spent the rest of the journey feeling ancient!

I remember commenting to work colleagues that I had heard on the news that Charles Manson had died and being met with a lot of blank looks and looks that said ‘Who?’ 😂

Talking of the old rotary dial bakelite telephones as some previous posters have, I remember visiting the Science Museum in London with my three then teenage DDs.

We were in the section that plotted the history of telephone communication right from Alexander Graham Bell up to modern mobile phones. Their jaws dropped when I indicated a cabinet with these rotary dial phones and told them that we used to have one of those when I was growing up.

Firstly, when I realised that the teachers at my children's primary school were suddenly all younger than me.

Secondly, when I began to realise that my children were learning stuff in their school history lessons that had been current affairs to me when I was growing up. I mean, Margaret Thatcher, the Falklands conflict, Ronald Reagan had somehow morphed from being on the news each night into suddenly being history!! How?

I was born in 1966 and am 59 at the moment. However, I am pretty sure that my daughters (three of them, and the youngest is now 23) all think that I must have already been ancient on the day I was born.

Work with primary kids. It’s the best way stay up to date with culture as they tell you what they watch on TV, which films they like, what music they like.

Also they ask your age and you say “How old do you think I am?” and they come out with stuff like “38?” (I’m 60 soon!) as that’s older than their parents, and really really old in their eyes!

Being chatted up , whilst waiting for a train when I was 27 by a guy who was about 22 who then asked me how old I was .
’ He said ‘you still look really fit though ‘ 🤣

Ha ha ha haaaa!

wow!

When I mistook a computer science teacher at my son's school for an A level student, thankfully I didn't do the usual "what are you studying, etc". Only when the school receptionist addressed him as "Mr whatever" and asked could he pass in the water bottle on his way to taking his class, it dropped that Teachers, Drs etc looked like youngsters not peers and I was getting old. I'm trying not to think old though :)

My nephew asked me "what is this weird disk?" It was a CD.
I felt about a million years old

Oh mine was most certainly when I took my kids out to Manchester Arndale for new shoes when things reopened after lockdown , and we stumbled upon the shop, kickgame.
I was just stood like a lost soul in my mask looking at these trainers individually vacuum wrapped in clear plastic for £100s and 100s of pounds and feeling like the world had gone nuts . I remember telling another mum looking similarly perplexed that I felt like I’d walked out of lockdown and landed on another planet and she agreed wholeheartedly . Everything just felt very strange and I felt a million years old.

You should get a senior rail card if you're over sixty! It's quite a big discount if you travel by train more than two or three times a year.

I had DC at a young age so now I'm mid 50s and they're both mid 30s. Up until now it was OK but it does now make me feel so old to think that they'll soon be 40. How can I have kids that are nearly 40? I remember being 40, feels like it was 5 minutes ago!

Also virtually everything I see a doctor about now is put down to my age. That's quite depressing.

I downloaded the app for my new broadband provider, got kicked out of it several times and had to uninstall and reinstall it, each time, swearing mightily all the while.
Finally got it to work but I don't know if it was glitchy or whether I just couldn't navigate it properly. So when asked if I enjoyed the app /give feedback I said the app was glitchy.
I miss the simplicity of the '90s!

Tried to buy stamps in the supermarket. The very nice young woman serving me couldn't seem to find them in the cupboard - which I thought was strange because I could clearly see them in plain sight.

Turns out she didn't know what books of stamps looked like, because, she said, she had never actually had to post a physical letter before!

When my kids were chatting shit so I said "Whatcha talkin bout Willis?" 😂

I changed my pillow and have had a crick in my neck for 5 days. I’m mid 40’s.

Few days ago at a gig with friends, all of us in our 50s. Lead singer about 30 and bouncing around like a puppy, We chuckled indulgently as the youngsters created a mosh pit and started stage diving. We were leaning against the walls for support as it went on quite late and we had work the next day. Good gig though.

I work at my old high school and thoroughly enjoy the expressions of kids when I tell them I either went there myself with their mum/dad, or that me and one of the other staff members (there's a few of us) were there together back in the day.
One of the younger teachers is actually the daughter of two of my old teachers as well!

One of the kids at school didn't have their mobile and asked to use the office phone to call their parent about home time arrangements (secondary school).

We had to explain to them how to use a landline and which way up to hold the receiver.

I was telling some of my younger colleagues that when I started my first job, I was given a branded ashtray, as we could smoke at our desks.

they were more shocked at the fact I had no email or teams and had to pick up the phone to talk to peoples

My lovely GP!!

I'd gone to see her about some "womens' problem" and she said to me,

"the most common cause of this in women of our age . . ."

Women of our age!! I thought - GPs are much older than me. I am absolutely not old enough to have a GP around my own age 😂😂. I was probably late 30s/early 40s, but felt double that after she said that.

She was an amazing GP, so I forgave her. I was so upset when she left the practice.

It's realising that you have nothing culturally in common with "young people" any more. For a long time you sort of jog along knowing more or less what's in the charts and knowing a lot of the "in" words and expressions. Then suddenly you don't. They (or you) are talking a different language.

Yup.

I teach & delight in their teen faces when I tell them that mobile phones weren't a thing for most people until I was about 22, & then you paid per text! Hilarious. They then think I'm ANCIENT. I'm recently 54.

They wonder how you arranged a night out, & are confused when I say that you arranged a time & a place & then went; if you were delayed, well folk waited for you. Their faces!

This & the first time I had 'You taught my mum/dad' , which wasn't that long into my teaching career, perhaps 13 years, when I was 35. I'm waiting on my first 'You taught my granny' as I've been in the same school 31 years 🙈.

When I realised I could be the fitness instructors mum at the gym I go to. I'm mid 40's and he was in his 20's.