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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!

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johnworf · 21/07/2025 10:22

Wadadli · 20/07/2025 17:44

“Just the one, Mrs Wembley?” 😳🤣😱

Sad Doctor Who GIF

Or worse, when your pubes have worn away and don't grow back

GreenGully · 21/07/2025 10:31

Going to be at 9pm is appealing.

GreenGully · 21/07/2025 10:32

johnworf · 21/07/2025 10:22

Or worse, when your pubes have worn away and don't grow back

Sounds like a win to me!

MrsAvocet · 21/07/2025 10:48

When you realise that there are events that you remember on the A level history syllabus.
Also recently I was running a sports event and there were people with birthdates in the 1980s signing up for the Veterans competition...in my head they should be teenagers at most!

SaywhatIthink · 21/07/2025 11:09

When younger ones dont know what a mangle is.
Know as a button crusher.

johnworf · 21/07/2025 11:09

PeggyMitchellsCameo · 21/07/2025 10:01

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 😂

Yes to the crinkly inner thighs. What's that all about?
And to add insult to injury, one of my dangly vag bits sometimes sticks to it if the weather is warm. I think I need some of old lady pants to keep everything in place.

PeggyMitchellsCameo · 21/07/2025 11:34

johnworf · 21/07/2025 11:09

Yes to the crinkly inner thighs. What's that all about?
And to add insult to injury, one of my dangly vag bits sometimes sticks to it if the weather is warm. I think I need some of old lady pants to keep everything in place.

I’ve gone from Rosie at M&S to huge Sloggis in the space of 5 years….

EssentialDecluttering · 21/07/2025 11:40

When you are queueing to pay for parking after a gig (80s band), the person in front of you says they can't read the info on the machine and the first half dozen people in the queue immediately produce reading glasses from their bags and pockets.

Kurokurosuke · 21/07/2025 11:52

When you switch from “falling over” to “having a fall”

AllTheTreesOfTheField · 21/07/2025 12:08
Old Lady Masterchefau GIF by Junior MasterChef Australia

Suddenly realising all your DC are now middle aged and possibly see you as.......

minmooch · 21/07/2025 12:17

When you put your back out washing the dog - yes that’s me yesterday! Can barely move this morning. At least I have a reason to say argh every time I try to sit or stand up!

RuthW · 21/07/2025 12:20

AndWhoShallISayIsCalling · 20/07/2025 16:06

When my daughter described a film set in the 1960s as a period costume drama!

my dd(28) calls tv prog sent in the 80s period dramas set in the old days.

Crushed23 · 21/07/2025 12:41

When your first shot of the year is in September. 🥃

BreakfastOfWaffles · 21/07/2025 12:44

When almost every conversation you have with your DC about singers you liked at their age ends with "S/He's dead now, of course"

BreakfastOfWaffles · 21/07/2025 12:48

My brother is into a sport that one of my (much younger) colleagues is too.
I mentioned that my brother had recently won a competition, she went to look him up and came back saying she couldn't find his name. I had to point out that she needed to look in the veterans section 😂

TigerRag · 21/07/2025 12:53

BreakfastOfWaffles · 21/07/2025 12:44

When almost every conversation you have with your DC about singers you liked at their age ends with "S/He's dead now, of course"

It's quite depressing hearing that the artists you grew up listening to are dead

MrsAvocet · 21/07/2025 12:54

EssentialDecluttering · 21/07/2025 11:40

When you are queueing to pay for parking after a gig (80s band), the person in front of you says they can't read the info on the machine and the first half dozen people in the queue immediately produce reading glasses from their bags and pockets.

Ha! We went to see Carlos Santana this year and my DS commented that he reckoned that most of the audience were on drugs. You know, statins, beta blockers and the like! 😂

Sunshineandoranges · 21/07/2025 12:57

When someone offers you a seat on the bus especially someone who , to you, looks fairly old themselves!

ThomasinaHoskins · 21/07/2025 12:59

When you need a pair of reading glasses to put on over your contact lenses.

EssentialDecluttering · 21/07/2025 13:30

ThomasinaHoskins · 21/07/2025 12:59

When you need a pair of reading glasses to put on over your contact lenses.

Yes, I am managing that one by having my contacts prescribed slightly lower strength so I can still read in them and having driving glasses instead as that's easier (still legal to drive with just the contacts but the glasses help at night).

Wadadli · 21/07/2025 14:04

cstaff · 20/07/2025 17:52

When you realise that you are one of the oldest people in the office. I'm 58 and there are only 4 or 5 older than me. Average age is 20 / 30. Used to love a good work night out, not so much these days jeez.

I’d still go 🤣

Wadadli · 21/07/2025 14:05

johnworf · 21/07/2025 10:22

Or worse, when your pubes have worn away and don't grow back

🤣😳😱

spiderlight · 21/07/2025 16:54

When you think of a song you haven't heard for a while and ask Alexa to play it, and she stabs you through the heart by informing you that it's the 30th anniversary edition.

Dontcallmescarface · 21/07/2025 17:03

Today is my niece's 40th birthday....the generation below me is now reaching middle age😭

Errolwasahero · 21/07/2025 17:20

When you spot an old lady in the window and look round because you thought you were alone 😩