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

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

SiobhanSharp · Today 10:50

I remember threepenny bits. And farthings.

Can you lend us two groats? Just till Trinity Sunday.

I just love this thread! I've been recognising the memories and laughing in recognition. 🌹

When I bought my 1st record, Now 1.

@Tookeffort81 or "old money!"

You get a new hairdo midweek, and not the weekend to go out in that night.

When you dry your hands using a Dyson Airblade, the skin on the back of your hands ripples like some nature documentary of wind over the Saharan sands.

You are shocked that x celeb has died because they are only late 50s or something, and then you read they were 89

You start going downstairs sideways when no one is looking because your knees are stiff in the morning

You do a little bouncy double knee bend when you get up from a long stint at the desk to get your knees moving

Stretching is now immensely satisfying, because actually all of you is a bit stiff, not just your knees

You walk around thinking ‘Jesus the mid nighties are back then’ when you see kids in their homage gear. Also the 80s (and mom jeans were shit then too.)

You’ve lived through 3 new versions of pride and prejudice

You remember Kate winslett when she was an ingenue. Now she looks like your mum… Oh wait, Kate’s younger than you.

The last time your curly hair was fashionable you were 14. So you spent all of your prime having unfashionably curly hair.

Oh YES

You worked in an office without a computer.

True - but if I got rid of it, how would those lovely, helpful young men from the bank, Amazon and BT who regularly call me to warn me about all the "unusual activities" on my accounts and the problems they have detected with our (non) BTconnection get in touch? I might get scammed, 😐

Oops - I thought I had quoted a PP in my post above, who said that having a landline is a sign that you are getting old.

Another sign of getting old - making frequent mistakes with the quote function!

@Oldnproud do you have a mobile?

The land line is part of out internet package, so I’d be wasting money if I didn’t have it.

When I started working at HMRC calculators weren't invented.

You had paper, pen and loads of tables to look up % and tax free allowance proportions in.

My mother still lives in the house they bought in 1984. The living room has never been decorated and there is still the same carpet. Still has the same washing machine and the same brown landline phone on the wall.

When I was a teenager a can of coke was 14p.

I might be 50 or so (not so much of a so) but I still think the world was black and white when my parents where young. 😉

Yes. The landline comes with the broadband though, so we keep the traditional phone plugged in so even older oldies with no mobile but free weekend and evening calls to other landlines can call us for free!

I thought I was the only person who did that. In fact (maybe because I am older than you), I am pretty certain that it was still black and white until I was about 5.
I can only guess that was the age when my dad started taking photos in colour 😁

When your hair thins, migrating to your face, and the strength from your fingernails migrates to your toenails.

When the 'aids' in the Sunday supplements look like a really good idea. Yes I do need an armchair tray and a longhandled contraption to help me put my socks on

When your GP is younger than your youngest child.

Ouch!! They'd get a Paddington stare from me for that!

Oh I hate that. Just imagine if you were born in 1950. Why can't they let you type it in or hold down your finger til you get there??

And you get sick of scrolling and whizz the list, so that it stops at 1907 and you have to scroll up again. Slowly, by increment.