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🤪

When a cracking Friday night consists of curling up on the sofa with a cuppa watching the latest shenanigans of Albert Square, the cobbles of Corrie and Emmerdale

When you remember being at Brownies and a good Brownie was always supposed to be have 10p and a piece of string to hand! There were other "necessities" but I can't remember them!

Also when my ds started college and I bought him a lever arch file not realising ALL the work is done and accessed online.

... your colleague points out that you qualified before they were born.

I’ve worked with people young enough to be my grandchildren.

When you meet the parent of a child you teach and realise that the parent used to be in your class.

When you think a fellow teacher can't possibly be old enough to be a teacher because you had taught her when you were in Foundation.

When you work in a school and have to collar a random year 8 to read you an invoice number on a statement because the print is so bloody small.

Then the aforementioned year 8 suggests that you "get new glasses miss".

Just you wait thirty odd years sonny jim, it comes to us all.

Love this thread. I am doing my best to keep the past alive - my mum taught me to cook in imperial measures so I taught my DC the same way. When my DS cooked pancakes for his GF recently using 4 ounces of flour, she looked at him as though he came from a different country. My measuring jugs and scales are old admittedly, but I still think new ones have fluid ounces and ounces as an option? So it can't be that unusual?

I once dropped a DD at school and waved a student to cross before I drove into a space. I said "look at him, it does seem overkill to make sixth formers wear suits these days"

"Mum that's my chemistry teacher"

I'm going to comfort myself by looking at scarf rings on Etsy. (Until now I always dismissed scarf rings as middle aged...but I AM middle aged - why do I still feel like I'm 17?! What happened to the intervening three decades?! Seriously)

I'm going to look at a chain for my glasses too as I keep having to take them off (like lots of us here!)

In my head they will make me look like a sexy looking intellectual librarian. In reality I'll look like my grandmother. No doubt I'll also spend some time trying to find where I put my glasses without realising they are dangling over my bosom (now I'm older it's called a bosom)

At nearly 70 i(sadly) can remember all of these 🫣

You remember living in a bedsit.

And pre-decimal coins.