You know you're old when🤣........

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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!

Yes, to deal with getting older I usually try to get used to the next one a bit in advance and then I just get confused.

Only here to find out who or what clippy is…lol

I saw a support band for a concert a few years ago, it was a hot day (like 28°ish) and they all had bobble hats on. I overheated just looking at them! 🤣

I also don't know who/what clippy is

When 9pm is bedtime, rather than getting ready to go out time.

Off topic, but it was my dad's job to turn the mangle every Sunday evening when he and mum were newly weds.....not for the washing, mum used to use it to dry her bum-length hair.

On topic...I went to a gig not long ago (it was a Stone Roses tribute band...bloody good they were too), and I was asked by a 17 year old if they could "adopt me as their cool nanna". I didn't know whether to laugh or cry...I'm 59 years old.

Heres Clippy

I’d forgotten that.

Nobody knows why you need a pencil for a cassette tape.

When your adult daughter picks you up in her car and drives you to the garden centre for a look round, asks you whether she can come with you to a Royal Horticultural Society show next year; then takes you into the garden cafe, ignores all the different varieties of coffee available and announces: "There's nothing like a nice cup of tea, is there?".

So many of these resonate with me.

When you realise that all the pop stars that you brought albums for as a teen, are turning sixty, seventy or even older (note, album, not vinyl).

When the footballers you grew up watching are retiring. Only to realise they're the same age

I caught up with a friend recently who I hadn't seen for years. She asked me how I was and I replied "well I'm not on any NHS waiting lists". No idea where that came from (although it is true).

When you become one of those people who take a chair to the beach, flask of tea, sun hat and you spend the afternoon sitting and reading, and just watching the world go by.

Oh the paper clip! Yes, of course I remember him. It looks like you're writing a letter. Do you need help?

We've gone full on 'rent a beach hut' mode these days!

Jesus, I thought it was the bus conductor! My DGF worked 'on the buses' and talked of his mate the 'clippy'
Now I'm depressed that something as new as computer stuff is already old..

When you notice and are pleased if you get down the stairs in the morning without your knees aching.

You build sit downs into your daily activities.

You wonder when m&s start getting their winter stock in. (Anyone know?)

When the optician asks you to look down, and then has to manually lift your eyelid so they can see your eye.

When I first heard a teenager boasting they could dance like a 40 year old - and then doing MJ’s moonwalk! …and that must be at least 20 years ago. 😱

When someone offers you their seat on the train, and prefixes it with ‘love’ or ‘dear’…..

When police officers really do look so young, that you think they must have just left school.

When reminiscing about my school days to my 40 something DDs that I remembered we had a subject named Housewifery!
We learned how to cook, clean, launder and budget.
Housewifery as a subject became cookery which eventually morphed into domestic science.

Having to wait till after 6 o’clock before you were allowed to use the home phone
Ghetto blasters
Punks
Putting the washing on at night because it was cheaper
Clunk click
Green cross code
Teaching the GRANDCHILD of a former pupil (I’m in my 50s!)
Not even attempting a cartwheel
Shell petrol glasses
Salt and Shake
Halfpenny sweets
Why would you…
Grease
Knitting and crocheting
Shep

That’s just the start!

Mine is put some clothes on you’ll freeze to bloody death

When you get really excited to hang a load of washing outside when it's dry. Bonus if it's a white load in blazing sunshine! 🌞