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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you?

Holding babies whose parents I also held as babies

@ForsythiaInBloom

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!!!

I just googled that in disbelief.... Crazy in Love was released in 2003! 😭 Noooooo......

When your kids teachers are younger than you

My hair and being called granny!

The first time I saw £sd explained in a book l was reading.

My friend's son giving me a lift in his car the other day. How could that be possible? It was surely only a couple of years ago that I used to look after him one morning a week, and change his nappy while he was here.

When I realised that V.E. Day was closer to my year of birth than my year of birth is to now ... by nearly 20 years!

Waaaah!

@BusySittingDown

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!"

This made me cackle out loud 🤣🤣🤣.

Finding out a boy who was in the year below dd1 at school is now a police officer.

When filling out the car insurance details for how long I've had a full licence & ticking the box that just says 20+ years.

@Freshprincess

you need to add year of birth on an online form and the damn counter is just spinning and spinning I had to access an online thing for work and the date stopped and 1980. They had to add me manually. I’m 50!

I was chatting to a twenty something colleague who was talking about being allowed to use WiFi when he was I’m in sixth form! We only had 6 Computers in the whole college and you only had one lesson per term on them.

Same ,I'm 48 next week ,when I was doing my diploma ,nurse training in the 90,s there was a computer room at college but it was always booked out ,we were allowed to hand write essays and assignments 🤣

Remembering how I used to sleep in a bed with blankets and an eiderdown. And then these being replaced with one of those fancy continental quilts. I still call a duvet a continental quilt.

my firstborn grandchild is now 18!
lots of my fave pop stars are now sadly passing away or retiring
using my laptop by touch typing which I learnt on a good old typewriter whereas many people never were taught to type so just either type one finger or by looking at the keys

The lyrics to Katie Melua's "The Closest Thing to Crazy" make me feel old. I hear the line "Feeling 22, acting 17" and think "those are more or less the same age, no?"

I like Heat magazine but have stopped buying it as I don't know who most of the celebrities are. My Dad's car when I was a child had a starting handle and a choke.

A patient I've known since she was two weeks old is now transferring to adult services.

Watching the latest Tears for Fears' video on You tube, theyre the same age as me, but look ancient fab song though!

My 17 year old daughter. She makes me feel out of touch and ancient.

When I had an internal scan by a Dr. that was younger than my sons, it didn't feel right!

Recently saw one of those "Facts you didn't know about..." articles about Sophie Ellis Bextor. The fact we "didn't" know was that her Mum was a Blue Peter presenter. Sophie will always be Janet Ellis' little girl to me.

@Lucinda7

I like Heat magazine but have stopped buying it as I don't know who most of the celebrities are. My Dad's car when I was a child had a starting handle and a choke.

My first car had a choke!

A student handed in an essay with the phrase "In the late 1900s"

Another one told me about this new band he was listening to, asked if I had heard of them. It was Radiohead.

DGS starting university and meeting his new (and first) steady girlfriend.

I am happy but sad at the same time.

My daughter turning 21 tomorrow. I can't remember what I did this time last week but I can remember so clearly what I was doing this time 21 years ago.

I’m late 30s and I’ve been feeling my age a lot more recently, for me it tends to be hospital appointments with a dr or nurse in their 20s that makes me feel really old! I’ve had a spine condition for a couple of years so the back thing, of oh god my back is pretty much my life lol. Music makes me feel old, the music now is so sexualised it’s untrue I’m sure it was a little bit when I was a teenager but now it seems to be shoved in front of your face.

Seeing things from my youth in museums 🤣