I know I’m getting old because ….

[chunkyBoo]

I’m watching Star Trek the next generation because I’m off sick from work (long term) and I have started watching old things unused to watch back in the day …. I told myself earlier that I must be getting old because I’m looking at Jean Luc Picard, thinking he’s looking quite foxy … it always used to be the younger men back in the early 1990’s 🤣

anyone found them telling themselves that they’re getting old , and why?

Buying full knickers because they are comfortable.

I knew I was getting old the day a youngster in my church asked me if I could help her with her homework about the 2nd World War & Winston Churchill ~ she wondered what my memories were!!!
I was born in the 1950's so was able to tell her my DP's experiences bit I felt dreadfully old that day!

The day I heard a record that I'd bought when it was released played on Capital Gold. I don't even know if Capital Gold still exists.

Oh yes, been down that road … well big knicker aisle 🤣 🩲

I remember reading a list of things that identified this and the two I remember were saying 'oof!' when you sit down and reading the Lakeland catalogue in bed.
I'll see if I can find it.

lol one of my fist ever records was the house of the rising sun … this was in the 80’s so we took a while to find it
i think Gold is still on, I’ve seen it on my car radio

Playing dollies with a toddler and I had to be the grandma apparently!

I got in a taxi and the driver turned off the dance music and put Smooth radio on.

I just heard on the radio that the Spice Girls’ debut single was released 30 years ago

Today I told people at work that when I was in primary school they used to show us films
on a cine projector - and they looked at me completely blankly

If I catch sight of my upper arms in a sleeveless dress, they are getting crepey.

Silver pubes

Having less than six months until I get my state pension.

Tena lady increasingly

An early night and a cup of tea is more appealing than a night out.

Music is too loud and conversations are too low.

Newly hired professional colleagues are younger than my daughter.

lol … I used to work with someone who said he knows when he’ll be getting old because he’ll just randomly say ‘good’ like his dad then did 🤣

I appreciate my health.

Plenty of people I knew didn't get here, or are in recovery from various issues. I am 59.

I do still love a banging choon, though 😆Check out SOMBER!

I've just bought a shoe horn.

😵‍💫

Mine is pretty pants and I’m 53, thankfully nothing that will shorten my life … it is a bit shocking when you find out people from school have died … there are quite a few one of my old schools 🥺

lol I think I’d need a long handled one! … currently my DH or DC help me on bad days

I can now join in conversations about chiropodists, physiotherapists, cataract operations, shingles vaccinations and stair lifts . . . . .

I have children in their 20s, the eldest of whom says things like ‘you’ll be dead soon’. I’m 53. 🥴

It makes me feel positively young that. Patrick Stewart was born in 1940. Star Trek TNG started in 1987.

In the first series, he was only 47. He looked at damn site older than most men I know in their late forties, have an aged that badly.

I feel positively useful seeing that. Though why I am younger than that.

"oh I am ready for a good sit down"
Said fairly regularly.
My dressing gown being my favourite thing to wear on a Saturday night no more heels and dresses 😆

lol thought of another one, I was at the haematologist the other week and there was a student psychologist there observing. When the consultant went out of the room I said to her ‘I’ve got to that age where I’m no longer calling for appointments, they call me ‘ … it’s so true!

It's Sombr (sorry)

🎤 how do we go back to being friends
When I said you couldn't spell🎤 😂

(yeah, I love his work)

editing because I just realised that it's going to end up on AutoCorrect like Ludacris!!!

I recently had an ECG before an operation, afterwards I was asked if I needed help fastening my bra. Also after my operation, I went to the toilet all by myself, amazing at 64 I could do this.