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 I realise I can't remember what I posted on this thread less than 24 hours ago and have to scroll back.

When we get a mid week invite looking for reasons to decline because a night out and full on job is just too much now and exhausts me for the rest of the week.

I'm 50 and have discovered the secret to avoiding feeling old is having friends who are 20yrs older!

Yes - some circles I mix in, I'm "one of the younger folk"

Walking quite fast, I thought, to the rail station - but having a younger person whizz by me from behind at fluid speed and running up the stairs onto the platform before me, and not a bit out of breath.

Trying to explain to my DN what a telex (pre internet days) and how it worked.

Being asked if there was internet when I was at work (there was!!) 🌹

When I tell my kids stuff about my childhood/youth and they are astounded/dismayed/ find it hysterically funny including:
• Blockbuster video if you wanted to see a film.
• Penpals including ones you never met (but is this so different to social media "friends"?)
• Getting photographs developed at Boots - having to buy a film, make it last, taking 24 photos only and then waiting a week for development and hoping your finger hadn't been over the lens this time.
• Going for a primary school leaving dinner (small private school) at our form teacher's house and given alcohol (I am still quite shocked myself looking back).
• Attending a Sunday school camp as an officer/ helper only in my teens myself. No one was DBS checked. Some questionable things happened and were laughed off.

Like other pps I still feel quite young ... just not in my knees, or back, or eyesight, or memory ... what was I saying?

I said to dd the other day that she was throwing some 70s vibes in her flowery dress, she said to stop using "modern" language like vibe....

hahahahahahaha...

How uncultured are these 20 somethings! 😄my 12 year old loves & quite easily quotes Friends at any moment lol

There is a youtube channel called FBE and they do lots of react videos. DD and I watched one for Blockbusters and another for an advert for the Internet. I felt about a million years old - I'm 35!

Standing at a train station listening to two younger women talking about Brooklyn Beckham and one of them said 'wasn't his mum in a girl band?'

My did is going on her y5 residential trip next week. The kit list suggested a disposable camera ( they are visiting Dorset, not the 00’s). I brought one from Amazon (£13.99!!!) and had to show her to use it. The concept of looking through a little lens window, holding down a flash button and winding it on were difficult enough- but the fact you can’t delete or instantly view the pics blew her mind! She couldn’t understand where the picture came out! Ffs! These were cutting edge in my unidays! We’ll have an educational trip to boots in a fortnight to get them printed! On actual paper! Like a cave person might! She’s very excited 😆

My 19 year old colleague told me I type "like a mum" as I type with my fingers not with my thumbs, apparently this is a thing. I'm 39 so I am old enough to be her mum I suppose.

Having sons aged 40 and 38.
Not being able to walk briskly now
Saying "Oof" when I walk up stairs

I'm only in my late 20s but I have siblings who are significantly younger than me (youngest is 16 years younger)

A few years ago I told my youngest sister that on demand stuff like iPlayer and Netflix wasn't a thing when I was a child and neither was Google, she really thought I was joking because she can't remember a time before these things.

I also had to explain to her what a CD was.

But my husband is 18 years older than me and I often make him feel old - I once pointed out to him that on his wife's first day of primary school Tony Blair was prime minister and that made him feel like a dinosaur

Burying 3 children. Then I remember I've only been to 5 funerals and most of them were my DC's... and feel slightly young again

Sleep 😴 lack of it makes me feel old

I excitedly asked my partner to buy me a cashmere cardigan for my birthday.. I knew it was over at that moment!!

I stopped caring about getting older.
That's how I know
55 next birthday, I don't even bother to say I'm 54.

When the internet chap saw DH’s army kit (cadets at school) and asked if my son was on active service. DS1 is 9…but I am old enough to have an 18 year old without anyone blinking so it wasn’t unreasonable.

The fact my first born is 25-i was 19 when I had her

I fell over the other day-not one person laughed-they all rushed over to check I was OK

I work with teenagers and it's strange to think most of them are younger than my own kids

I got asked if I have any grandchildren yet

I shudder in winter when I see the postie wearing shorts

I've bought and am enjoying my new bird feeder and top it up daily

I use my pull along shopping trolley with no hint of shame

I remember music that my kids call vintage the first time round

I'm 44

Oh and explaining to the kids that when I was young,if you wanted fish you went to the fishmongers
Meat from the butchers
Veg from the market
Tinned goods from the small corner shop
Wool from the wool shop
Books from the library-no google
Etc

Also no such thing as apple pay

They thought I was taking the piss and rang their granddad to confirm it-

The pitying looks I got when he told them I wasn't pulling their leg had to be seen to be believed

Nothing wrong with a nice piece of cashmere - I'm addicted! 🌹

Googling an old looking celebrity's age and finding out they are younger than me.

When clothes from the late 90s are called vintage. 😳

@Paperyfish 🤣 at this and printing the photos like cavemen would 🤣

i used to be good with social media. Now i dont even understand how tiktok works.

Also the words “aesthetic”. Gen z use that words sooo much. I think its become slang or something i just domt understand 😀😀

I joined the WI.

I remember old dial up telephones with letters printed next to the numbers. My grandma always used to answer the phone "Tonbridge 7578" and booking an international call with the operator.