You know your getting old when...

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You walk past bonmarche and see some shorts think how nice they are think I bet they are really comfortable and happily go buy them.

Im early 30s.

Anybody else had a getting old moment recently?

When you have to explain to your much much younger colleague what a cassette or a Walkman is .

Grey hair on my head and in my eyebrows.

A hangover when you so much as sniff anything alcoholic.

Weight goes on incredibly easily but is more and more difficult to lose again.

Everyone - actors, teachers, police officers, doctors etc - are all really young. Some of my dc's teachers weren't even born when I started my own teacher training!

Criticising young people's hairstyles and dress sense.

The idea of a great night is one where there's plenty to watch on TV or listen to on the radio with a good cup of tea and an interesting magazine to read.

When you show your dc photos from your childhood and talk about them being from the "olden days".

Going to a museum and seeing items from your childhood and early adulthood.

When you’re out having dinner and a good time and someone says the word mystery and you do your best Toyah impersonation of, “Its a Mystery, It’s a Mystery!” and only you, your husband and a couple who look about 95, find it amusing because no one else, no one at all has even heard of Toyah!

I told my DC to "turn that bloody dreadful music off" the other day. I was also moaning that it's impossible to tell what Nicki Minaj is saying. I have turned into my mother

When the teachers teaching your child are pupils you taught!

Someone buys you handcream as a gift, and you're actually pleased to receive it.

I know it’s the biggest cliche in the world, but really aren’t the policemen looking young?

Wondering if you are dead when you wake up and nothing hurts

"Turn down that infernal racket"(DC music)

It wasn't like that in my day

Telling my kids about what schools were like/times before everyone had even a house phone let alone mobile/pre internet days(with them both horrified and fascinated in equal measure)

Looking at cotton traders brochures and thinking that looks comfy

You are overjoyed to see that it is raining because it will be good for the garden.

When you walk into a department store or somewhere like TKMaxx and head straight for the homeware/bedding/furniture department!

When you don't give a flying flip about what others might think.

When you are true to yourself and don't put up with bullplop from others.

When you dress/behave however you feel/want instead of what others expect of you.

I'm 35!

The moment you realise you can no longer tick the age 25-34 box on a form 😭😭😭

The falling over one made me laugh.
I’m always falling over, to the poster who didn’t get it, now when I fall people run to help incase I’ve broken anything.
I know I’m old as I’ve lost all my strength. Really weak now.
Also my legs and knees constantly ache.

When I bend down to get something, I think what else can I do when I am down there

Thinking about 25 years ago in my head as 1975 so nothing has existed since 2000 then (definitely not 19 years)

Mentioning to my brother in the car about someone who used to spend a lot of time in the phone where we grew up - cue the teenagers from the back of the car - "what's a phone box?"

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When a young man offers to carry your suitcase on to a train, it was only a cabin size case!!!

Looking at the clock and wondering if it's too early to go to bed. It's 6.30!

In the words of Billy Connolly ' never trust a fart after 60'. I'm struggling at 55.......

When you tell your colleagues that when you started teaching you had a blackboard in your classroom instead of an interactive whiteboard, they look at you as if you've walked straight out of a museum and you realise that they weren't even born when you started teaching.

I accepted that policemen look young, years ago. Now I'm old enough that 'experts' rolled out on news programmes and documentaries, look really young.

When you look at one of those shopping trolleys on wheels and think how handy one might be for heavy shopping / books etc.
Bending down becomes a thing that you have to plan for.
Being comfy and warm becomes way more important than looking good.
You don’t look forward as much to hot weather cause quite frankly having to shave legs, arm pits and deal with your abundant pubic hair just seems too much bother.
Remake songs, films or TV programmes come along and you wonder why they bother when the original was only 10 years or so ago, then with a sinking heart realise it was at least 20 years if not longer.
Those programmes like Back in Time for Whatever are like your life story rather than interesting history.
If you have teenagers you realise you have clothes older than them somewhere in your wardrobe.
Good things are, you will complain about shocking service in restaurants, you finally feel comfortable in your own skin, and you really don’t give a fuck about what idiot people think about you.
You realise life really is too short and getting shorter by the day, so start prioritising what you want to do.

In the words of Billy Connolly ' never trust a fart after 60'

Re falling over. You know you are old when you no longer fall over.
You have a fall.
Only old people have a fall, fucking ageism at its worst.

A pp said “when you fancy Jeremy Corbin.”
If you start to fancy JC you have more to worry about than growing old.

Seeing an adult whose grandparent you remember.

Totally get the falling over one. I have fallen over a hundred times between birth and 38, no problem, laughed it off and got straight back up. Gets a bit harder the older you get, takes a bit longer to recover. More damage seems to be done!

When your junk mail becomes items about "over 50 life plans" pensions and bloody funerals! It's insulting not least because given my grandparents all lived well into 80's and one into 90's I'm likely to live at least another 50 years (I hope).

"I accepted that policemen look young, years ago. Now I'm old enough that 'experts' rolled out on news programmes and documentaries, look really young." Totally agree. Too many politicians are younger than me too.

Dd gets fed up because if I've dropped anything while she's been out soon as she's in I'm getting her to pick it up (in my defence I do also have a disability that's the main reason why)

I've said it before but bears repeating - dd has a bad habit of reminding me that certain films/music/tv I recommend to her isn't "that old" "mum it's older than me!" She's 18!

Never mind clothes older than her I have cups and pens older than her!

My mum has stuff older than me though which is actually quite impressive (I'm 46)

When the thought of clothes shopping makes you shudder and quick grabs off the rack from any nearby supermarket seems like a wonderful idea.