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You know your getting old when...

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PH03b3 · 25/04/2019 17:23

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?

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TheLastNigel · 25/04/2019 22:03

When you aren't bothered about the fact that you have no Friday or Saturday day night plans anymore. In fact you're quite pleased. Once apon a time I would ah w been horrified to not be going out all weekend

CheeseCakeSunflowers · 25/04/2019 22:11

You discover that your line manager is a few months younger than your youngest dc.

Squeegle · 25/04/2019 22:22

When your younger colleague describes what she listens to as “modern music”, implication being that I wouldn’t know it as I am obviously not “modern” (which is true)

Graphista · 25/04/2019 22:53

"When you see a promising young footballer (D’Margio Wright-Phillips) and you realise you remember when both his dad (Shaun Wright-Phillips) and his grandad (Ian Wright) were promising young players...."

Omg

Fuck

Off!!!

An ex boyfriend was a HUGE fan of his NO WAY his GRANDSON is bloody playing?!!!!

"when your at a party and you can't wait to go home and then y m c a starts to play and your up on the dance floor doing all the moves"

When your dd and her friends have never even heard of cha cha slide, let alone others of this Ilk. It's not even an old song it's a new song! (ahem 19 yo 😱)

When bloody HISTORY teachers tell your kids to ask you - not their grandparents about certain events and items. (Miners strike, fax machines, yuppies, LP's...)

"When you realise colleagues were born after 9/11 and learned about it at school as history." I find it incredibly sad that dd doesn't remember and will never experience a world pre 9/11 she was only 7 months when it happened.

My dd in many other ways makes it easier than I suspect her friends of the same age do for their parents as she's unusual in being something of a technophobe, quite conservative in outlook and dress and tends to listen to 80's/90's music and watch movies from then too.

If she were into more modern interests I'm sure I'd be driven nuts!

Giggorata · 25/04/2019 23:30

Never mind policemen and teachers... when judges start looking young ☹️...

WhatNowRandy · 26/04/2019 00:16

I'm not quite 40 yet, so definitely not calling myself old! It's an easier illusion to keep when you mostly spend time with people older than you who are constantly telling you how young you still are, and to wait till your "nearly 50/60/70"...

I even had an "oh my god, we're proper adults!" moment today, when DH told me about a bonus he's getting, and instead of dreaming of some new gadget he wants, happily said it'll go nicely towards the work the house needs.

The thing that gets me is when you're out and about, happily getting on with your business, feeling fine, back not hurting too bad, listening to your tunes... and then you catch a glimpse in a window somewhere or this middle-aged looking woman just ambling along, and it genuinely takes you a little moment to recognise yourself. :(

WhatNowRandy · 26/04/2019 00:27

Under 18
18-25 etc
When you go up to the next box that’s a tragedy

I filled a form today that had a box for under 18, 18-25, 26-35, and the next one (which I of course have to click) went to 36-55! Why do the 40s not get a box of their own?! To say nothing that everyone above 55 obviously must share a box, were they 56 or 112.

frenchonion · 26/04/2019 00:42

I've gone backwards. I started garden pottering, antiques roadshow watching, archers listening when I was in my early 20s. Lots of years later I've taken up an adrenaline sport and I'm partying more than I ever have. And having more and better sex than I ever have. Although I do still get moments of shock that the millennium was fucking ages ago 😂

Seahorseshoe · 26/04/2019 01:14

When you spot someone you went to school with and think "blimey, they look old". I haven't seen them for 34 years - what did I expect!

Pubes vanishing. Evebrows vanishing.

Chin hair - just the one, but he's a wiry little blighter! Fast growing too.

Hated having Clarke's shoes at school, I'm constantly looking online for them now.

My first finger joint nobble.

Movie heartthrobs don't make your heart throb anymore as they're as old as your DS - mere babes.

Having said all this, being able to grow old is a privilege, not everybody gets too do it.

Time40 · 26/04/2019 01:27

When you start walking around gardens and actually looking at plants.

Squeegle · 26/04/2019 06:34

When you go to your child’s school and an actual jacket you wore in the 80s is on the wall as part of a history exhibition Shock

ScribblyGum · 26/04/2019 06:42

When you start rewatching Baywatch and it’s this dude with the moustache you’re all “oh hello there handsome” when he appears on screen, and wish there were a lot more scenes with him running.

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 26/04/2019 08:09

When "Sweet Caroline" comes on in the background and you find yourself tapping along...

Dontsayyouloveme · 26/04/2019 08:19

jelly that made me laugh out loud!!!! 😂😂

justthecat · 26/04/2019 08:19

When you put your hands in your pockets and there’s a tissue and a boiled sweet there.
I got excited walking into the garden section of Homebase the other day

rslsys · 26/04/2019 08:27

The news telling you that a musician who provided the soundtrack to your youth has died. Then the shock of finding they were in their 70s and realising they were not that much older than you are . . .

origamiunicorn · 26/04/2019 08:29

When you make an 80s childhood reference (He-Man) and no one you're speaking to gets it. 🤣

When police and firefighters are younger than you.

Decormad38 · 26/04/2019 08:31

When you stop writing ..you know you’re getting old.
I’ve got old. End of.

ssd · 26/04/2019 08:35

When you instantly get annoyed that these thread are always started by young whippersnappers in their early 30s and straight away you think ffs you're not old

SauvingnonBlanketyBlanc · 26/04/2019 09:09

When its sunny outside with a bit of a breeze and the first thing you think of is how much washing you can get dry.Im 39 Blush

SauvingnonBlanketyBlanc · 26/04/2019 09:12

Thought of another.
I recently thought a teacher in ds school looked familiar,spoke to her and realised she was a friends niece who I had visited when she was born.Seemed like yesterday,she is 24.Felt old.as.fuck.

JellySlice · 26/04/2019 10:48

Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh, the horror!

I've just walked into the granny shop of granny shops, Edinburgh Woollen Mill, and found tops I like!

I'm too young for this. I am traumatised.

sashh · 26/04/2019 10:55

Not only do you know how to write out a cheque but you can remember spending on them in shops.

When you are buying a present for a teenage relative and you have no idea what to get so you ask a random bunch of teenagers what they suggest.

chocolatelog · 26/04/2019 11:07

When you buy clothes for comfort instead of style/fashion.

When your in a shop and head for the big knickers instead of the thongs and fancy lingerie 🤦🏻‍♀️

When your doing the washing and come across dd's thongs and you can't help but think of how uncomfortable they look 🙈

I'm only in my early 30s

amusedbush · 26/04/2019 11:56

I'll be 29 in a couple of weeks and it's a really weird age. Like, I have a favourite reusable shopping bag but I also feel like everything in Next is still "too old" in style for me Grin