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You know you're old when🤣........

214 replies

ilovemyhamster · 20/07/2025 13:44

In my case, singing "Daisy the spider catcher" to the tune of Champion The Wonder Horse 🤣My daughter just looked at me "oh man, here she goes again with her randomness". She did evict the spider though, so all good!

OP posts:
IDontHateRainbows · 20/07/2025 14:11

I was in a 'trendy,' shop the other day which was playing rap music about buying drugs and I suddenly felt very old, like I'd turned into how I remembered my mother being when I was a teen.

LesLavandes · 20/07/2025 14:12

When you just look around you

CoffeeBeansGalore · 20/07/2025 14:13

As a school admin I checked the credentials of the boiler man as he didn't look old enough to be qualified. He was 26 & laughed 😁.

CoffeeBeansGalore · 20/07/2025 14:15

My ex boss head teacher said she felt old when she started teaching the children of her former pupils.

FrankTurnersCat · 20/07/2025 14:16

NoraLuka · 20/07/2025 14:08

When you can’t believe the lad in the white coat could possibly be old enough to be a dentist, but he is.

When you remember events that your kids learn about in history class, like the fall of the USSR. I remember my nan being shocked that we learned about the Vietnam war in history class, she was like ‘But that’s not history! That’s current affairs!’ Nope, not in the 90s it wasn’t!

Edited

Oh Jesus yes
My neice rang me to excitedly tell me what she'd learnt in History...
The Spice Girls (they were learning about various famous women)
I gently enquired if she meant a music lesson and got "NO Aunty FT's cat, definitely history as it was a very long time ago when you were a teenager"
A. Rude
B. My sister is 7 years younger & did not assist the situation by laughing
C. I was mortally offended that my teenage years were being taught in primary school history lessons!

deckchaironnabeach · 20/07/2025 14:26

When a local nightclub closes that’s been around ‘for decades’ and you wonder how come you never went there. Then realise 2 decades was 5 years after the millennium and you stopped going to nightclubs in 1979…

MyUmberSeal · 20/07/2025 14:29

Screamingabdabz · 20/07/2025 13:56

When you enjoy a “nice sit down” and then say ‘ooof’ when you get back up again.

My husbands nickname for my mum is ‘walla walla’ after the Witchdoctor song, because she constantly makes oooo and aghhh and eeeeek sound effects when getting up and sitting down.

HappiestSleeping · 20/07/2025 14:29

When you don't need drugs anymore, you just have to stand up quickly.

Phoebesparrow · 20/07/2025 14:30

When your boss at work is the same age as your eldest child and your colleagues are younger than your youngest dc

Your knees creak

You call starburst sweets opal fruits

You get a job and have to take in your birth certificate and yours is the only one written by hand,with a pen,everyone else's is printed from a computer

Nobody has heard of mad cow disease/chesney hawkes/bed jackets (all topics at work recently)

You ask for a bed jacket (complete with Google links) for Christmas

The kids think your bullshitting when you say you grew up without Google

Your birth year starts with 19 rather than 20

I'm only 47!

shellyleppard · 20/07/2025 14:31

@JDM625 even worse is a white one....😳🤣

user4287964265 · 20/07/2025 14:31

When you’re not invited to an event, but are thrilled as it’d be too noisy and no where to sit down!

Phoebesparrow · 20/07/2025 14:32

Oh and your dds boyfriend tells you he likes 'vintage music'

He was talking about Take That

OneMoreProfiterole · 20/07/2025 14:35

MagpiePi · 20/07/2025 13:57

When you think the 80s are about 20 years ago.

This. Absolutely this.

johnworf · 20/07/2025 14:39

If I'm not in bed by 9pm I feel like I've had a night on the tiles the morning after.

When ordering or buying food, I consider if it will give me indigestion/heartburn over enjoyment of it.

Having a favourite chair, towel, mug.

LyndaSnellsSniff · 20/07/2025 14:40

When you have to set aside 10 minutes every morning and evening to pluck your chin hairs.

Those bastards sprout straight back.

ConcernedOfClapham · 20/07/2025 14:44

When twenty-somethings at work think I’m pulling their leg when I tell them pubs used to open for a couple of hours at lunchtime, then close again before re-opening in the early evening 😩

thevoiceoffrustration · 20/07/2025 14:44

When you get interviewed by an actual child 🙄

Iloveeverycat · 20/07/2025 14:45

When you go to a concert and all the people there are old and realise you are the same age as them.

ConcernedOfClapham · 20/07/2025 14:47

Bring back the laughing emoji!

Almost every post on this thread is 😂😂😂

elliejjtiny · 20/07/2025 14:54

When you call the plumber and someone who looks about 13 turns up.

elliejjtiny · 20/07/2025 14:56

ConcernedOfClapham · 20/07/2025 14:44

When twenty-somethings at work think I’m pulling their leg when I tell them pubs used to open for a couple of hours at lunchtime, then close again before re-opening in the early evening 😩

My son shook his head in disbelief when i told him when i was young the smokers sat inside the pub and if you wanted to avoid the smoke you had to sit outside.

BeLilacWriter · 20/07/2025 15:01

shellyleppard · 20/07/2025 14:31

@JDM625 even worse is a white one....😳🤣

Or worse than that.....you suffer female pattern baldness of the pubic bone.😱😂
I think I have 3 left😂

shellyleppard · 20/07/2025 15:03

@BeLilacWriter ,you definitely win!!! 😧🤣

LadyPenelope68 · 20/07/2025 15:04

Kpo58 · 20/07/2025 13:52

When you have to scroll really far down on the year section for date of birth when signing up for things online.

Oh gosh, yes, I’m with you on this one 😂

ConcernedOfClapham · 20/07/2025 15:07

When you forget what you came on here to post 😒