To laugh ......

[stevie69]

..... at my 19 year old Finance Assistant, who has just made a comment that started: 'When I was young'? The rest of us just looked wistful. And felt VERY old

He's just SO lovely, though. In a Finance Assistant sort of way. Nothing else; his mother would KILL me

My mum was a TA and a little boy in her class asked her old she was.
My mum. I'm 16.
Little boy. (With a look of horror on his face). Mrs .....
Are you nearly at the end of the numbers.

What is the age difference, out of interest?

Best,
M.JD

31 years. He was 19 in April. I was 50 in March

Don't worry, if I do wish to 'flirt a little, maybe' (name that tune) then I stick to the post-doc research associates .... who are usually early to mid 30s: old enough to deal with their mothers but still young enough to be interesting. And pretty

I was talking to a student colleague about celeb crushes. 'I've always liked x' i say, 'DP knows that's the only man I'd leave him for' (joking, obvs) 'oh yeah' she says dismissively 'my Mum says that too' I'm only 33 ffs!

Our computers were running slowly at work the other day and I said 'Christ, it's like using Windows 95' at which point my colleague said 'I was born in 1995'.

THANKS, WHIPPERSNAPPER

I feel your pain. I'm 43. Colleague is 19. Frankly even the other colleague who is 28 seems like a lifetime ago 😂

Girl at work: My boyfriend's quite a bit older than me.

Me: Oh really? [Thinking 38, 40]

Her: Yeah, he's like 29?

My finance assistant is young enough to be my child (will be my boss eventually though!!)

I'd have been a very young mum though

I remember talking with the girls at work and I said I loved my Sony Walkman. One of the girls said that she remembered them and it was never favourite mobile phone but she wasn't allowed one.

When I told her I mean the cassette player, she looked at me blankly. She has never seen a cassette! I had to bring my Jive Bunny cassette in to show her!

I felt old, I was only 34 at the time, 36 now.

'Does you mother know' @stevie69?

I trained to be a teacher when I was 25 and a lot of the girls I made friends with were 21/22. They were constantly saying "when I'm your age"

Does you mother know' @stevie69?

Oh yeah, my mum knows that I have an eye for young, pretty boys. Hey, I'm single and I make sure they are too

S x

A few years ago my lovely workmate said despondantly 'oh no, I'll be 23 this year!'

I asked her how crap was it that I was going to be twice that......

Think Jolie was referring to your Name that Tune Stevie - Abba?

I've just started teaching the child of a child that I taught 15 years ago! This makes me feel exceptionally old!

Think Jolie was referring to your Name that Tune Stevie - Abba?

I think she was. I was just trying to be amusing

S xx

In a uni lecture and the lecturer was talking about when the Berlin Wall came down. I piped up 'oh, I remember that!' The other students looked at me as if I was a granny and asked me all about it in awe - they hadn't been born when it happened... 😊

What's with the initials at the end of a post? You don't need to sign off, we can see who you are. I'm looking at you @MartinJD

Please stop now.

Oh, I thought for a lovely moment we were all going to ignore..

I'm 34 and still feel quite young and quite shocked that I'm grown up enough to have a one year old. I'm a secondary teacher and quite a lot of the students I teach have parents younger than me. And most of the kids were born in this millennium. Shocks me every time someone mentions their date of birth!

My ds said " mum , back in the olden days when you were young ....." I said nooo that's when granny was young

I had been teaching the year 6s some tricks on Word and brought out a floppy disc to help them understand why the save button is the design it is. Before I could explain what it was one of the children exclaimed "You've 3D printed the save button!" Bless them!

I worked out my car was older than a colleague.

I was, and you were

I recently worked out that the first year 11 class I ever taught will turn 30 this year. That made me feel ancient.