stuff that makes you feel old

[ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba]

• the first time my DS1 could reach higher up than me
• when DS1 turned 18
• grunting when getting out of bed or armchair
• you need to add year of birth on an online form and the damn counter is just spinning and spinning

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The fact that some doctors, teachers, police etc look about 12. Then I realise they actually don't look 12, they just um, look younger than I do and I'm forgetting that I'm not 19.

@fudgecat

Handles to wind the windows in cars 😁

My car has those for the rear windows! And it's only a 2014 model :)

My eldest turns 18 tomorrow

Seeing my old college mates and thinking they look older. I still think of them as 16

Seeing my mum shuffling about.

Looking in the mirror and seeing my dad 😫

Yy to 90s being considered retro. C'mon man, it was like last year! My friends have just been on a back to 2000s weekend - what do you mean back to? Isn't that NOW? Then I remember that my nephew was born in 1999 and is nearly 23 🤯.

Oh yes, seeing someone from school that I haven't seen since school and thinking "ooh no, it can't possibly be them as they look almost middle aged...oh!"

@BusySittingDown

Yy to 90s being considered retro. C'mon man, it was like last year! My friends have just been on a back to 2000s weekend - what do you mean back to? Isn't that NOW? Then I remember that my nephew was born in 1999 and is nearly 23 🤯.

Oh that's depressing! Back to the 2000's.. dear god..

When my 18yr old says "mum do you know this song?" And it's something by the cure or the smiths or whoever and I say "yes dear I remember when it came out"

@BusySittingDown

The fact that some doctors, teachers, police etc look about 12. Then I realise they actually don't look 12, they just um, look younger than I do and I'm forgetting that I'm not 19.

I was on an easyJet flight a few years ago and the cabin crew did their spiel where they name all the crew. The captain was Max Somebody and I inwardly panicked thinking 'how could someone named Max be old enough to be a pilot??' Right enough, when all the passengers were disembarking, 'Max' appeared and he did look like a teenager

Having to explain to my children what a phonebox was for ("Why didn't people just use mobiles?"), what a milk float was, that we didn't have streaming TV when we were kids, and that we didn't do ICT at primary school.

Looking in the mirror
DS will be 29 this week and I was no spring chicken when he was born
Watching the Hit List and not knowing half the tracks

Dd asking me if it was all black and white back in the olden days when I was a child… in the 90s

I have colleagues that were born when I started Uni.

Haha! I can identify with nearly all of these.

I heard something on the radio phone in the other day that made me think “WHAT TAF? I’m sooo old!”

They wanted Beyoncé’s “Crazy Right Now” played for their daughter going away to Uni….because it was No1 when she was born.

No, no, no!! It’s only been a couple of years since that was in the charts!!!

Definitely agreeing with these.

A led zeppelin album celebrated its 50th birthday recently.... I nearly fell over!

"30 years ago" immediately think of 1970's...... I then realise that it was 1991 and almost fall over.

Talking to niece the other day about her uni town and mentioning that I used to love the clubs there, when she asked me which ones I had this horrible realisation that I was clubbing there the year she was born 🙈

@Wobblysausage

Dd asking me if it was all black and white back in the olden days when I was a child… in the 90s

Yep had that one, also had DS ask what I did during WWII I was born in the 80's!!

@MedusasBadHairDay, I haven't had that myself but I would deserve it. I used to ask my mum what it was like in Victorian times 😂. I was obsessed with the musical Oliver when I was little.

Having to use hand signals as part of my driving test

When Withnail says “Look at me, I’m 30 in a month!”. Withnail has always been older than me

When I realised that the babies I had delivered would be having babies of their own 🥴

The tiredness! I used to be able to shop all day and go out all night. Or finish a heavy week off work with going out clubbing. We often didnt leave the house until 9pm
Now I'm usually exhausted and more exhausted after tea. I'm ready for a book and bed by 9pm.

For me to go out conditions have to be exactly right because I hate the cold, I no longer like the dark and I hate rain.

I judge whether or not I can get on the floor and back up again. I usually cannot. I used to sit on the floor to watch tv.

My two adult children both turning 40. Also, reading the news and seeing something about a person in their mid '60,s and thinking i dont look that old! They usually describe them as pensioners.

A while back 6 music did a special celebrating 25 years since ‘Definitely Maybe’ was released. Like, a quarter of a century?!

I said to DH that “Oasis is to our kids like the Beatles were to us”. Then realised we had the maths wrong and Oasis is to our kids like Elvis was to us.

I don’t understand TikTok.

@ratspeaker

When I heard someone saying" did you know the guy who wrote Umbrella Academy used to be in a band"?

Haha my DD has recently started watching this and I said oh, yes, that was written by Gerard Way from My Chemical Romance. And she said 'that old band you listen to?'

Realising that I went to see STEPS when they first toured and now they've been on the go for nearly 25 years

Thinking back to when i was a child and my dad had a pager and a mobile phone luke a hiuse brick with an aerial. A screen just big enough to see the number typed in and a short message. Cost about 50p to send the text and we had no internet. Also seeing grey hairs poking out the top of my head and being excited to buy things like lamps and cushions!