I know I’m getting old because ….

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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?

I'm a university lecturer and when I tell the students about my degree days .. they look at me like I'm some sort of guru from the past. They don't actually understand Science Citation Index so I can't tell them about using it as a book.

Also when I say the old lady things my mum says (I've already said all the mum things at least 100 times each).

For me it’s the shock of people offering you their seat or letting you go ahead. There’s a sort of ‘poor old granny’ look in their eyes. I hate it.

I’m guilty of both of these!

I’m a teacher. Over the past couple of years I’ve been floored by meeting students who have never heard of:

1. The Beatles
2. Kylie Minogue
3. Magazines

Mine asked me the other day when I'm going to get rid of all the crockery, books etc so clearing the house when I die won't be a pain!

Also, I’ve started loving a rummage in a charity shop, making tea in a pot, Radio 3 and slippers.

When I started living in comfortable clothes. I have zero fucks to give.

Some noises are not just joints creaking…

DS refers to my childhood as "in the olden days.."

Getting up out of a chair..oh my bloody knees.👍😁

When I was 18 I had a friend who was 21, and who had a young baby. I found out that baby is now a grandma! Oh boy, that made me feel ancient! I'm not a gran (yet).
They all must've been very young mums.

Mine was today when I heard that it is Rick Astleys birthday and he’s 60!

Saga was my cheapest car insurance quote🫢

I’ve stopped getting stressed about stuff which realistically will only be a problem in about 20 years and I’ll probably be dead by then. 🤣🤣🤣
I'm all about stress minimisation these days.

Because my date of birth is closer to 1899 than 2026.

Yikes.

I was in hospital this week and a nurse came over and began to ask me questions about whether I’d had a fall in the last twelve months, was I at risk of falls in the home etc. I must have looked a bit puzzled and she said “Wait, how old are you?” I told her that I had just turned 50, and she said “Oh sorry, that’s okay then. I only need to ask these questions to the geriatric patients”.

Arrgh is Red an oldies mag ? I think I started reading in my 30s. I confess I do like a Good Housekeeping magazine and even more tragically I turn straight to the recipes.

Loving my own company, a good book and bar of chocolate excites me also

Putting my coat on to put the bins out.

I bought my old school friend a card that said, “you know you’re old, when you listen to the music that you used to dance to while doing the cleaning now “. I laughed as I bought it because literally the previous weekend , I’d been singing really loudly some bangers from my disco days, night fever, silly games and grease mega mix whilst wearing ear pods and hoovering.

I explained to my teenage son I went interailling in yugoslavia in 1989
He had no concept if what that was.

On sitcoms they’re all talking about being old and they’re younger than me (last one was modern family!!)