Your ‘God I’m old’ moment

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Gen X menopausal me saying my hair made me ‘look like Worzel Gummidge’ and being met with blank looks ! Yours ?

My kids looking at universities. Which is ridiculous because it was only five minutes since I was there.

I purposefully bought some ridiculously priced fancy grapes so DDs could experience grape seeds!

@Emptyandsad , my late DM wanted to replace her mincer a few years before she died, so I found her one on Ebay.... and after she died, it was one of the first things my cheffy DS wanted. Now refitting the kitchen of their first home, one of the non negotiables is a wider than usual kitchen counter to which he can clamp certain appliances. And yes, he has alternative electricals to mince, but they're too fierce!

I was laughed /sniggered at last week at work when I said a new start who was gorgeous should be in a k pop band.

Im still not sure what I said wrong.

My son saying: 'You look young for your age, Mum.'
Me (50): 'Thank you, son!'
Son: 'Yes, you look like a 30 year old who's been through a war.'
Erm ...

It took me quite a while to realise that they were no longer produced. Same with telephone directories

I kept the last Yellow Pages. Still use it. I have both London volumes, and a surprising number of companies still have the same numbers.

And, as I recounted on another thread recently, my daughter, when she was at primary school (many years ago) got a new teacher. I asked how old she was. 'Very' she replied 'probably 25' 😳

🤣 id have said just the same!

Haha, I remember the time a Gen X made the Worzal Gummidge comparison and I had no idea what he was talking about 😆

I mentioned my primary aged kids, and my pupil (aged 15) looked shocked and asked how old I was. Turns out she thought I'd "left it a bit late" to have children and assumed I must have teenagers by now... I'm 37 😂

Went to a 90s/00s night aged 25 with my 27yo friend. Fresh Prince theme tune came on, we look at each other knowingly thinking everyone's going to go wild singing all the lyrics as usual.

Nope - few pockets of millennials around the venue singing along, but the DJ actually switched tracks so few people knew it. WHAT

Last month I saw a woman I used to go to school with, (she was a couple of years above me at school) and she had a little baby with her, and introduced him as her GREAT grandson! 😬

(She's 61/62, her daughter is 40, her granddaughter is 19 and the little great grandson is 1 year old in October.)

A woman who was 2 years above me at school is a GREAT GRANDMOTHER.

I'm only fecking 20! 😆 (And not even a grandmother yet!)

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I also have been known to say when making sunday dinner 'They peel it with their little knives...ha ha ha ' and my adult kids and grandchildren just look at me utterly perplexed. (Edit: Actually, I just looked it up and its metal knives! Maybe thats why!)

Similarly i was watching an old film with my son and there waa a scene with somone typing on a type writer he aaked how they deleted a mistake
I had to explain the concept of tippex with him he was mind blown.

It started raining and I said to my husband 'oh this will be great for the garden'

I moved to a different bar with a friend as the music was 'too loud' haha.

I bought some paracetamol at a pharmacy and paid the student pharmacist in cash, the exact amount (it was a good excuse to get rid of some of my small change). It was £1.49, pound coin and a mix of 10/20/5/2/1p coins to make up the rest. I even handed it over by counting into her hand. She checked it and checked it again and looked at it in puzzlement. I asked if it was all there, she just said she wasn't used to handling coins and couldn't work out how to add it up. Bloody hell.

I took my youngest DC to look round my old secondary school (where my eldest DC currently attends and he will likely follow) and my teachers who i thought were old when I attended 20 years ago, are now actually old 🤣 (although I say old, coming up to retirement age I suppose!). I mean the fact that my youngest is going to secondary is bad enough...

In other news, I was also recently discussing with mother which type of hand luggage would be most sensible. Strongly advised a rucksack as a handbag/tote bag "would put strain on one shoulder".
I'm only 35. She called me middle aged 🫠

When I went on a networking event and said some one looked like Georgie Michael blank look back .

It was my birthday recently. I realised I'm now the same age that Marty Mcfly's parents were in 1985. I always thought they were so old! Also, if Back to the Future was set today, Marty would be going back to 1996!

I paid someone in cash earlier this week. I found it a strange experience counting it out exactly!

Oh say ‘Kylie’ in the office and they all respond without exception ‘Jenner?’.

I am the age of their mums… give or take a year or two.

No one remembers faxing; little hand held dictaphones with tapes; actual post not emails; filling in by hand time sheets and expenses; a time with no mobile phones. Researching in a library using BOOKS god forbid. Lots of blank looks…

Went to the opticians and discovered I have both short and long sight now and need varifocals. Fucking depressing.

I mentioned on our teams meeting when xmas at my grandparents involved doing knees up mother brown they had no idea what I was talking about and had to Google it or as my poor old late mum would say why dont you ask Dougal!

my total came to something like £6.47 in B&M, so I gave the young cashier £10.47 , he looked at me and said you’ve given me too much , I said yes but I’ve given you the odd , total blankness ensued …