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!

Thankfully had my youngest very late, so hasnt happened yet! But I feel your pain!

I had to have two weeks off work after getting bag of oven chips out of the freezer thanks to my back! Bent over to get them, couldnt stand up again! Try calling in sick with that one, felt like a right plonker!

I was the last year to sit O levels. As more young adults come into my world as peers I find I increasingly just say GCSEs to save the (usually unnecessary) explaining.

about 10 years ago, picking my then 6 and 7 yr old grandmonsters up from school as our daughter was ill. Their principal (head teacher) had sadly passed at just 39 from cancer, new temp HT was my teacher, then my kids HT and had retired, but came out of retirement for the temp position. He sang at my first wedding, He rescued my second to my now husband when things went tits up and we needed to rearrange within a day, he opened the school on sat morning and helped load 30 chairs and several long tables into a pickup truck for us to use. I addressed him by first name, shocked he was there.. he gave me a hug, and said, Kids, I was your grandma's teacher and your mum's principle!. My lovely granddaughter looked at me , astounded. And said. Holy Gramma!!! how old ARE you???? yup. me told.

Snap!

When you saw Oasis at Knebworth in '96.

Iirc, it was to hold the choke out long enough for the engine to warm up, because you pulled it out and it retracted slowly - but still too fast on a cold morning.

I had to explain to my daughter what the handle on the door was in a hire van - it was the window winder

I’m astounded when I calculate how old one must be to remember the glorious summer of ‘76. That was the year of my GCE’s.

When we went to the Indian takeaway and they still have a phone with a cord. When it rang DD asked me what that was. She also looked very dubious when I told her I had no Internet when I was her age. Her response was you must have been so bored.😆

Mine too. We all did The Hustle, Kung Foo Fighting and craved a Starsky knitted jacket.

A couple of years later I went to a Northern Soul allnigher at Wigan Casino. Happy days. Told my kids about it recently and they were baffled because they didn’t know how we could dance round roulette tables. Doh.

I feel weird for not having had to pay tuition fees.

Ooooh my mum knitted Starsky cardigans for my brother and his friends!

Just notice your username too - I read Middlemarch for English A-level in 1978 😀

I taught it at A level up until retirement last year, it’s a classic, my favourite novel ever x

Clippy has had a spectacular fall from grace - but his similarly evil grandson, Copilot, lives on to fight the family war against humanity.

I saw something online where a university lecturer, with similar feelings to those of us on this thread, had a student who wanted to cite a document "From the 1900s".

It was from 1994!

When your DD (10) comes home and gleefully informs you that you are "well old" as you are older than Google....
Also when (same) DD asks did you get your first mobile in primary school or for starting secondary school and you have to tell her they weren't around when I was her age

Edited to add the 80s WERE 20 years ago and no we are NOT closer to 2050 than the millennium 🫣😂

We have a red telephone box in our village, now filled with books. I explained to my DC only today that it used to have a phone in it. They couldn't fathom the carrying of cash or knowing someone's number but I can still vividly remember wrestling the door open and the frantic beeps signalling the end of the call and scrabbling for change. Just like it was yesterday.

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I asked my daughter if her school skirt had been given permission for a day off. Cue eye rolling 😂

Most happy to be of service. Us oldies need to look out for each other! 😂

My baby is having a baby !
Very excited but feel a bit older now !

My late husband and I would always check when the main act was coming on at a gig in town. And then consider a nana nap to fortify us.