You know you're old when🤣........

[ilovemyhamster]

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!

@ilovemyhamster omg 🤣🤣🤣 went to my sons open day at college. Some of the outfits there

Or rather lack of 🤣🤣🤣 got told by him its the fashion and they wear shorts underneath cos of men looking 🤔

Going for an emergency wee before setting off on any journeys.
Discounting some journeys you used to do as they involve uneven ground eg countryside walks you used to do.
Having to have a falls assessment........
Sitting in the car caressing your chin in the mirror assessing for errant hairs
Getting your friends to ring you after "neighbours" as it was cheaper to ring after six
Putting the "immersion on" for a bath.
Shower attachment thing or a jug for washing your hair in the bath.
Cheque books
Stamps from the CO-OP books.
The speaing clock
Having to go to the library to research your school Geography topic ( mine was Cuba)
Those machines outside shops. You put 2p in, turned the knob in exchange for a bubbly ( chewing gum ball, )
20p surprise bags from the newsagent
Just 17
Smash Hits
Caramac bars Texan bars
Kids with plasters over one of the lenses of their glasses at school

*SPEAKING

They ARE!! They always will be.

Of course they are.

Take NO notice of that poster! 😲🤣

Two things have recently happened that made me realise I'd never have done and enjoyed
First is I tealis show much I enjoy a garden centre
The second is a slight interest in birds

I have an app on my phone that tells me which birds I can hear in my garden....

Green Shield stamps! and the catalogue - the shop was set out kind of like Argos but you exchanged filled books for goods.

When my DD was complaining about something on her car and I had to explain that on my first mini metro I had to actually use the choke to start it

When the electric hand dryer makes your skin ripple. 😂

My first car had a choke. The car sales guy tried to persuade me into an automatic and I said “I drove a car with a manual choke, do I look like I want an automatic?”
and I’m only 41!

Bloody love these. So many are true. I consider myself young for late 40’s. But my kids regularly remind me inadvertently that I’m not. That and the chin hairs.

can’t see anyone has mentioned weeing when you cough/ sneeze if you’re a full bladder. Urgh. And not being able to control in the same way when you pass wind (used to be able to hold on for a safe space, now I just let rip even if I don’t want to). Pelvic floor exercises are done. But having DC just wrecked me.

When you catch up with someone you used to work with and ask how their kids are. “well, x is in the last year of secondary school, y is at university and z has been working at abc for a couple of years”. Whereas, in my head, they are still the babies that were brought into the office and in photo frames on a desk.

Every Christmas when Wham gets played on the radio. I refuse to believe the song is that old.

When you hear a new release that is a cover of, or samples, a banger from the early years of dance music and think “the original was much better”.

When you remember a first class stamp being 19p.

When scrawling through Ceefax to find a holiday abroad was the height of technology!

And explaining to a younger person that I used to be able to smoke in pubs, restaurants, trains and planes.

When you hear current music and find yourself saying “I wish they would turn that noise down” (just as your parents did in the 70s) 🤨

When the cashiers overseeing the robot check outs don’t even pause their conversation to ‘think 25’, even though you have a case of rose and margarita ingredients. Rude.

Maybe Klippy the Word help paper clip thing? “it looks like you’re writing a letter, do you need help with that?” (Usual response to reply “no I **ing don’t”

Watching a colleague try to scan a 50 page old document by taking photos of each page - and showing her the document “feed” function on the dusty old photocopier 🤣 the amazement on her face!

Cross posted...

Ah yes, but do you remember copying without a sorter and having to put hundreds of sheets of paper on the floor to sort them manually?

Yes, this is all over the place now.
Young people won't accept that the 1900s were 1900 to 1910.

DD1 finds the whole concept of landlines horrifying. You couldn’t message your friends, you had to call them on the landline and you didn’t even know who would answer. You might have to speak to their parents, say who are, ask for your friend and sometimes the parent might start chatting to you!

I suppose they're not technically wrong; it's different ways of looking at it, but if a year starts with 19, you can't categorically say that it's not the 1900s - even though you'd normally say 20th Century (and probably add early/mid/late as well).

I find it the other way, when I think/talk about the 20s. I automatically mean the 1920s, without even stopping to think that we are currently in the middle of the 20s!

Antiques experts and valuers still refer to items from around 1900-ish as 'turn of the century' - even though another century has already turned a long time ago!

Ha ha too true

I'm trying to think what I understand the 1800s to mean. I think I would still consider it to be 1800 to 1810 because 1856 or whatever would just be 19th Century.

I think when they are 60 per cent white is the time to worry.
This is the zone I’m now in.
And your inner thighs nearby look crinkly.
And you realise you’ve got an OLV - old lady vadge 😂