You know you're getting old when...

[TornFromTheInside]

It comes to all. That realisation that our immortality is for limited time only.

Life gives us little timely reminders of our age.
What are the little signs that youth is firmly in your rear view mirror?

Torn my ds 3 absolutely loves Status Quo!!

When your children's school history lessons encompass stuff which was current affairs growing up.

The miners' strike, the Falklands Conflict, the Cold War, Margaret Thatcher etc. Those were happening when I was a teenager and young adult. They had passed into history by the time my own children were teenagers.

When you realise you recognise less than half of this year's Strictly line up.

When your kids think you're cool because you seem to know the words to a hit they're listening too...

only for you to say 'who is this?' and they can't fathom how you know the lyrics.
They tell you so and so is genius and his lyrics are amazing...

Only for you to put them straight 'he's rubbish and this isn't his song, it's a cover version of a song by...' and their illusions are shattered, along with your ego.

Ahh, he handled it well.

@ FlashingBeacon

Telling my neice her grandad has a crush on Jessica Rabbit, she doesnt know who she is or Roger Rabbit 😩

Also telling 16 year old to put some clothes on when she is in skirt and crop top

When you decide to get a round in with cash... have a £20.00 note in your hand, expecting change - then hearing the actual cost...

There's a lot to be said for just punching in a pin code and mentally blocking out the cost!

You know you're getting old when your eldest grandchild is only 4 years younger than when you met her grandad.

You know you were a bit young for it really when you realise your eldest grandchild is 13 and only 4 years younger than when you met her grandad.

Listening to the radio in the car and dh, who always was a font of cutting edge musical knowledge turns it off because "it's all twiddly beepy electronic shite."

Tell him he's fucking about with the SatNav, not the radio and he's too old to be able to tell!

When you no longer have a right and left knee, but a good knee and a bad knee.

When you tell you 12 year old you were staying in the same hotel as Ronan Keating and they are like ... who?

When you open a parcel and think, ‘that’s a nice useful piece of string. I shall keep that string safe.’

When you forget your PIN and never manage to remember it meaning a call of shame to the bank.

When your garden suddenly becomes an obsession rather than a convenient place to sit outside.

When you are delighted that an evening engagement is cancelled because you can have another night in watching tv.

When people stop saying 'you fell'.

Instead, they say 'had a fall'.

When you are delighted that an evening engagement is cancelled because you can have another night in watching tv.

And the really funny thing is - I think others the social circle probably think the same!

When you discover Heart 80's radio station in the car and listen to nothing else

When your colleagues talk about 90s clothes and music as 'retro'

When the phrase 'I've done that more time's than you've had hot dinners' actually holds true!

When you go into a vintage clothes shop expecting clothes from the 50s-70s, and it's full of 90s club clothes.

When you don't recognise the name of a pub/club/restaurant and ask what it was before. And you don't recognise that name either 😱

Matilda you are so right about the string!

You know you're old when you...

• I can't remember what I was gonna say now+

The best answer I've heard is "you know you're old ....when your kids retire" said by 80 something!!!