...you see what you are sure is a 12 yr old neighbours child getting into their car and driving it!
...when your child is constantly reminding you that the films you think of as relatively new are actually older than them and they're almost 18!
...yes to friends becoming grandmothers!
...rising from bed or a chair involves serious planning and multiple groans
...feeling depressed at the knowledge that those turning 30 this year were born the year I left school! Occasional posts on mn by new mum's referencing films/music etc that they view as old, knowing they're mums, at first thinking 'oh they must've been young mums then' nope! Same age or older than me when I had dd!
"When your children's school history lessons encompass stuff which was current affairs growing up." Omg yes! Dd left school now but I remember this (that makes it worse doesn't it? That even this is a good 5 years in the past for me?!)
Op - I did exactly that re cover versions to my parents with Paul Young (almost all his songs were covers) particularly "love of the common people" and bomb the bass "I say a little prayer" I remember singing "I say a little prayer" while tidying away at home and mum joining in and me 😱 'how do you know this song?' And mum asking me why I was singing it "weird", she then played me the original
Dd then put me in mum's position with awful (to me) cover versions of "no scrubs", "fast car", "don't you want me" which are absolute classics that shouldn't be messed with! - dd did agree with me that Tracy chapmans "fast car" is far superior.
...dd telling me not to call it a boob tube it's a sleeveless crop top (that's a bloody boob tube to me!)
"When you no longer have a right and left knee, but a good knee and a bad knee." With me its whole legs! and arms
"When you discover Heart 80's radio station in the car and listen to nothing else" I only listen to absolute 80's these days, can't be doing with new music.
"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" I can do better - my adopted home town is very old and the shops rarely change hands/purpose. Was recently discussing with friends and we could all remember which shops were what in the high street - in the 80's!
I'm also FB friends with a good few from school. Someone's YOUNGER sister popped up in my "people you might know" bit, complete with all grey (naturally) hair, wrinkles and quite old fashioned specs, I'm 46, she's 'only' 43 - but here's the bugger - she looks EXACTLY how I remember her mother! Who of course to a 14 year old seemed ancient at 44 (the age she'd have been when I met her). I'm about 22 in my head - get a right bloody shock whenever I look in a mirror (which I try to keep to a minimum tbh!)
"When you see fashion trends for the second time and the new generation think they are so ground breaking" I think I'm reaching 3rd time 😱 mum says she's on 4/5th!
I have a friend who's a depute head, the moment one of our friends grandchild was enrolled at the school hit her quite hard.
"You find yourself in the next age bracket on questionnaires." Yes when it takes flaming ages to scroll to your year of birth on drop down menus!
Celticrose - wait till you start sounding like (and agreeing with) your granny!