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241 replies

zaza687 · 16/08/2022 11:54

You get excited when your bins get emptied 🤣 your turn

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Redpanda99 · 17/08/2022 19:41

When your teenager looks bewildered and says "what on earth is this??" when they find a cassette tape when clearing out a cupboard.

hookiewookie29 · 17/08/2022 19:53

The parents of the child you look after were born the year that you left school....

Howlongwillthistake · 17/08/2022 20:17

When you book to get your hair done on a week day evening, as you've nowhere special to show it off

Redpanda99 · 17/08/2022 20:24

When you think Monica and Chandler's wedding was quite a recent event.

It was actually 21 years ago.

Redvelvet73 · 17/08/2022 20:33

When you realise that most of your colleagues weren't even born when 9/11 happened.

And some are too young to remember the disapperance of Madeleine McCann clearly.

When you pay for your shopping using a debit card and all the people around you are doing some sort of fancy payment thing with their phone.

girlmom21 · 17/08/2022 20:48

Redpanda99 · 17/08/2022 19:41

When your teenager looks bewildered and says "what on earth is this??" when they find a cassette tape when clearing out a cupboard.

Or when you read posts like this and go "oh come on, us youngsters had cassettes too" and then realise you're at least a decade older than the people being referred to and don't ever remember a cassette being purchased, just that you had them at home

giggly · 17/08/2022 20:50

I fart when I bend over

laloue · 17/08/2022 20:54

You’re looking forward to investigating / faffing about with your new luggage when you get home ie: not a backpack anymore :(

Rosewaterblossom · 17/08/2022 20:59

When long standing shows that you love/d such as Friends/The original Sex and the City/Ally Mcbeal/Will and Grace/Frasier all ended 15/20 years ago! 😱

creamwitheverything · 17/08/2022 21:01

When my knees can tell me if it is going to rain after lunch!
When taking a tiny pill for contraception turns into a pill box for blood pressure,water retention,vitamins etc
When you know it is going to be a lucky night so you keep your teeth in a bit longer whilst he pops a viagra after telling you its a vitamin D tablet! Bloody hell anymore of this and we will start visiting stately homes on a wednesday and going to the garden centre for a coffee...send help!!!

EmergencyHepNeeded · 17/08/2022 21:04

twoshedsjackson · 16/08/2022 12:37

My last supply stint back at my former school, Yr 6 History. I remembered so many of the events and could bring in photographs to prove it. I began to wonder if I was there as a teacher or a visual aid.......in my third year of teaching, part of my remit was introducing decimal currency.
I was however a bit miffed when I mentioned Prince Edward (as in House of Windsor) officially opening a new building at the school, and one of the younger pupils assumed that I had met Edward Tudor.

😂😂😂😂😂

marzipaninyourpieplatebingo · 17/08/2022 21:05

HRTQueen · 16/08/2022 13:25

At work a colleague and I were talking about the chimps in the old PG Tips adverts. A younger colleague said she loved monkey and has one when we told her no these were real chimps she tilted her head and said softly Monkey was just a puppet

😂😂😂😂

EmergencyHepNeeded · 17/08/2022 21:07

LadyRoughDiamond · 16/08/2022 13:27

You become irrationally upset about grammar mistakes like “your” instead of “you’re”! 😂

No you say I got upset because you didn't say "grammatical"!

shinynewapple22 · 17/08/2022 22:07

TheSoapyFrog · 17/08/2022 14:07

Sneaking out of parties to go home.

As opposed to sneaking out of your house to go to a party 🤣

sashh · 18/08/2022 02:08

Maireas · 17/08/2022 09:11

This thread isn't what you should or shouldn't ignore. It's about markers of increasing age. The irony being that people notice grammar and spelling errors more as they age!

That's totally me, maybe I should have put that I was being lighthearted.

Spidey66 · 18/08/2022 13:42

I work in adult mental health services. We take referrals of people 18+. Often when we get referrals of people born in eg 2003, I'm going, 'oh it's come to us in error, they should be going to CAMHS' before realising actually the said person is now 19!

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