You know you're getting old when.....

[Wereongunoil]

You have to scroll back miles on a date of birth form to find your year of birth🤪

And the smell of them 🤮

The stale smoke... urgh.

When you see things from your childhood in an antiques shop or museum

Someone I know saw a picture of herself in a museum. That's when you know you're really old.

Fax machines. I have an assistant that doesn't know what they are

Exjob has a fax machine, and we were still getting faxes on it pre-covid. One company complained that an invoice hadn't been paid - I asked when they emailed it and the response was 'oh, we faxed it.' So they had - it was sitting in a pile of spam faxes that no-one had bothered to look at because who faxes stuff these days? 🙄

Comparable in intelligence with the suppliers who in lockdown posted invoices to an empty locked office. They complained they hadn't been paid, as well.

Hahaha this made me laugh! 80s fashions were ... interesting!

When you have been driving for longer than some of the junior office staff have been alive, by about 10 years😱

I rather enjoy pottering around the garden!

We get parents at work born in the 00's. Or when ex patients start coming back with their own children.

When you no longer fall over.
You now “have a fall”.

You realise how useful a shoehorn is.
Some of the children you taught in your first years of teaching are grandparents.

You discover grey hairs in your eyebrows in the highly magnifying hotel bathroom mirror.

You remember going to the park with your friend and her mum giving you 2 10ps for the phone box

When you decide to get a dyson cordless instead of a dyson air wrap.

When no amount of make up makes you look fresh and dewy and instead of googling make up you are googling 'dry eye syndrome'

You remember when mobile phones were just phones and you could actually fit it in your pocket!

You remember going to school with dinner money in your glove so you didn't lose it (might have been just me, I was a notoriously absent minded child).

Never mind threepenny bits and farthings - what about half crowns? You could buy five whole Mars Bars with one of those! Luxury!

I’m wondering whether I have wandered in to gransnet accidentally!

When you can still sing the song you learnt at school about the new decimal currency coming in:

'On the 15th of February 1971
There's going to beeee
Decimal currency
With a hundred pennies in a pound.'

(To the tune of The First Day of Christmas)

You remember when a 'mobile phone' that was just a phone was way too large to fit in a pocket (and was too expensive and there was hardly any coverage anyway)

I remember when Mars bars actually had malt in them, you could taste it.
Also when Milky Way filling was darker in colour, and less sickly tasting.

To quote Fred Wedlock:

"[When] it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night"

Late 80s - bloke in winebar opposite the Royal Courts in London sitting at a table with a mobile phone on it that looked like a shoebox and everyone around him looking at him with the 'look at that poser' expression on their faces.

Thirty bob for a bar of chocolate ??! <faints clean away>

Oh God yes this!! 🤣