What makes you feel old?

[CoryWolfHeart]

Things that have made me feel old recently (I'm 39)

1 - getting the new iPhone and realising it looks the same and is just as shit as the one I got 7 years ago (as the ones from a year a two ago seem better, I've obviously missed something - something else to make me feel old!)

2 - how crap music videos are nowadays Where is the narrative? Or concept? It's all just people dancing in a desert. I want a tiny film. Give me something like the video to Murder on the Dancefoor by Sophie Ellis Bextor or Hey Ya by OutKast any day.

What has made you feel old recently? Please tell me I'm not alone and that life, as I suspected, has indeed gone to the dogs.

When filling in online forms it takes me about five minutes of scrolling to find my year of birth.

I'm more excited to go to the garden centre to buy bedding plants (10 years ago I didn't even know what bedding plants were!) than I am to buy clothes next week so I feel you!

2000 fashion coming back in!

I think "I see to wear that!" And shudder at the memory haha

Going to a parents evening thinking the sixth formers and teachers looks the same.

Also I saw some teens hide a spliff from me in the park and that really confirmed that I am perceived as An Adult Who May Lecture

This happened to me a few years ago and I didn't even think about what it meant!

Ah sorry, they still seem like the cutting edge of pop culture for me too, if it helps

How do you type that is different from them?

For me a couple of things
I am a bit pudgy at the moment and bodily aches make me
Feel old

How frequently the grey grows back

And how long it takes me to find my year of birth from a drop
Down menu

I was wondering seeing this too, I'm scared to find out if I type 'old'!

Finding Gardeners World absolutely fascinating. Becoming obsessed with birds. Hating nearly all music on the radio.
Getting really irate about spelling mistakes and poor grammar.
Realising that all my heroes from my youth are elderly or dying off.

Seeing 'old' photos of my town from 1990s. Like when you see oldy worldy black and white pics that are vaguely recognisable of where you live, but all the people are long dead - except now these photos I remember the town looking like that.

When I moved schools and packed up the classroom I'd been in for 15years, and the kids saw floppy discs and asked what they were.

Yes.

Although it was a few years ago this started happening to me. No idea which were teacher and which were 6th formers. The move to 6th formers wearing business suits has been very unhelpful in this respect

Also yes to the scrolling for a long time to find my dob on on-line forms

Oh I've become obsessed with birds in my garden. Thought that was a lockdown thing but maybe it's an old thing!

How do you type that is different from them?

Can't speak for pp, but I hold my phone in both hands and use both thumbs.
My (adult) dc use one hand.

My hands

For me it reminds me of my mother who went on and on about birds past a certain age. It was a family joke. I now find I am doing the same.

With your forefinger.

And re heroes from your youth dying off - I recently went to a 'reunion' gig that one of my most favourite bands did. I'd loved them so much in my late teens/early 20s. I was nervous about going because it was at a really cool venue and thought me and my mates would stand out like a sore thumb, with everyone else being so young and hip. I was so relieved to walk in and find that the crowd were all really old. Then I realised they were the same age as me.

I felt old when I realised recently that my DD1 is now within a year of being the same age as I was when I gave birth to her. She is almost 27. I was 28 when I had her.

In fact, I feel old now realising that my three DDs are, just about, all now in their twenties! Where did my little girls go?

Having one of the kids I teach ask my what an ipod is, and then having. to explain that before ipods we had walkmans 😂

Hangovers!

Yes, ditto. My daughter is now older than I was when I had her!

Realising clothes you wore in your 20s are now classed as 'vintage'.. to me 'vintage' is anything from the 50s or 60s!!

Having dinner with friends last night overlooking the pool area at a "cool" hotel... We didn't "feel" old, we just ARE old(er) in our late 50's/60's - but we all got a twinge seeing all the young women walking round in bikinis, all the boys watching them - knowing they were going to have a fun night full of frolics & flirtation Wouldn't want to go back to that time EVER, but ya know...

Realising that the son of a girl I went to school with, who (scandalously!) had a baby at 16, is now 40 years old. Forty. Fucking hell