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You know you're getting old when...

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TornFromTheInside · 22/08/2018 15:09

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?

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rightknockered · 25/08/2018 01:45

When you start rubbing in ibuprofen gel. That stuff is magic

BonnieF · 25/08/2018 02:11

When you own T-shirts older than the young graduate who has just started in the office...

When shops & offices you remember being built at demolished and replaced....

When the child you remember as a bump graduates from university...

When England get into a penalty shoot-out at the world cup and you remember watching every single previous one they have ever been involved in...

karyatide · 25/08/2018 02:32

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Wheretheresawill1 · 25/08/2018 05:05

The student doctors we work with look like children- especially the boys.
How sad that was me once but didn’t appreciate it

PhilomenaButterfly · 25/08/2018 05:12

Yes badass, I'm FB friends with lots of people from school, they look so old! My self image is 20, I'm 51! Shock

MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig · 25/08/2018 05:41

You know you’re old when you keep seeing photos of yourself taken at various recent gatherings and you just keep thinking ‘I can’t look like that!’ Shock

TakemedowntoPotatoCity · 25/08/2018 05:44

When you fancy someone famous and then find out they were born in 1991 or something

Vitalogy · 25/08/2018 05:59

When you have to use implements to scratch the middle of your back.

seizethecuttlefish · 25/08/2018 06:04

When you're having a baby and are referred to as a geriatric mother Confused
When you use the phrase; in my day.
When you get a text or email message in text speak and have to mouth the words out loud to understand it.
When you're making clothes choices that you made as a student and the shop assistant uses the phrase; that's a brave choice.

BikeRunSki · 25/08/2018 06:45

At a parents evening in the school I teach at, the parent turn out to be an ex student!

My brother is now teaching the grandchildren of the children he taught on teaching practice.

maggienolia · 25/08/2018 07:57

When you automatically sit downstairs on a double decker bus.
When the contents of the bedside drawer change from being the pill, hangover cures and erotica to HRT, Rennies and the Lakeland catalogue.

DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 25/08/2018 08:15

When you look good in tweed.

Argeles · 25/08/2018 08:17

All music on radio 1 sounds like the same loud shite.

CurcubitaPepo · 25/08/2018 08:34

To no longer be offended when asked for ID.

Disclaimer: this hasn’t now happened for a long time.

vivalafrida · 25/08/2018 08:41

When you notice grey hairs on your nieces and nephews.

When young mums refer to you as 'the lady' to their children.

When you take ages to find and open an app, holding your phone at arm's length and using your index finger, while your adult child looks on, twitching with suppressed frustration.

When it takes you forever to get served at a busy bar. I seem to become invisible when in a pub.

Angie169 · 25/08/2018 09:33

When you do the involuntary groan when you bend over to pick something up (and then can't stand up)
When you hear a song on the radio and think this was a hit a few years ago and then the DJ tells you it's was hit in the 80s.
Then you do the Maths and realise how long ago the eighties was

ToadOfSadness · 25/08/2018 10:48

When you realise that most of your (slightly older) friends have either died or had a stroke.

When you find no pleasure in shopping any more because of the noise that is called music.

Similarly, when you no longer enjoy sunbathing in the garden because of the noise of the neighbours.

When you realise that your face is going south to join the boobs that have already gone there.

When you realise that if you adopt a pet you need to take an older one in case you die first rather than leave him/her with an uncertain old age.

When you realise that the executor of your Will is probably going to die before you do.

BikeRunSki · 25/08/2018 10:50

Your eldest sibling starts talking about retiring!

BikeRunSki · 25/08/2018 11:05

You get a little bit excited when you hear a trailer for a new R4 panel show.

BonnieF · 25/08/2018 13:24

All music on radio 1 sounds like the same loud shite.

When you realise you have no idea what the music on R1 sounds like because you haven’t listened to it this century....

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TornFromTheInside · 25/08/2018 15:11

... or when Radio 2 is sounding a bit too modern!

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OliviaStabler · 25/08/2018 15:13

When you see fashion trends for the second time and the new generation think they are so ground breaking

lynmilne65 · 25/08/2018 15:18

Yep, when Dr is younger than your grandson

BikeRunSki · 25/08/2018 15:22

Whensonrine says “you know, that old fella from Open All Hours” and I said “Ronnie Barker”. “No”, they say “David Jason”.

GoneWishing · 25/08/2018 15:25

When you realise those weird blotches on your skin aren't going anywhere, and are in fact just sun damage, despite a whole adult age of wearing daily SPF on your skin and avoiding sun whenever you can. :(

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