You know your old when ...

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You get excited when your bins get emptied 🤣 your turn

Fine thanks @UWhatNow, you?

You mention your perimenopause symptoms to your new colleague, and she responds with "My mum is having hot flushes too"

A nice young man offers you a seat in the tube

You think the millennium was only a few years ago, and every time you realise it's actually been 22 years you feel like Rip van Winkle

When your ear worm is the Gardener's World theme tune. Ahem, surely this must be a contender for the win.

This thread has just made me think, hm, yes, maybe it is time to take a break and make a cuppa!

• You spend your lunch break browsing household appliances instead of handbags
• You remember Kate Bush running up that hill the first time round
• You look at a CV at work and realised you'd had 2 jobs and moved out of home before the candidate was even born 😫
• You go "out out" and spend the whole evening thinking how cold these young girls must be without their coats and how much their feet must hurt in those shoes
• You still print out electronic tickets.. just in case
• You start sounding like your Mum 😳
• You still buy CD's 🖐
• You make a strange noise every time you get up from sitting on the floor
• You keep a count of how many drinks you've had as you cant be doing with 3 day hangovers
• You realise the first Harry Potter book was published 25 years ago
• Perfect Saturday night is staying in with PJ's, a film, a takeaway and a few G&Ts
• You strip the bed clothes, wash, dry on the line and put it all back on that evening and then go to bed early because the sheets are so lovely 😍

I could go on.........😖

Getting excited when the sun is beaming down because you can get your washing done. Yay!

Instead of a cuppa, I made a miso hot drink. I call it the new age bovril.

When it takes 3 minutes to scroll down to your birth year on online forms.

When strangers refer to you to their child as "the lady".

When you have to check the nutrition labels on every food product because your body just can't handle crap anymore.

When it takes 3 minutes to scroll down to your birth year on online forms.

Or when it gives you ages in categories - ie 18-25, 25-34 and the category you automatically select is no longer the right one

You think you’re in with all the cool cats when you wear your jeans from M&S

Yes, this 😂

One of the reasons I now live in a bungalow, much easier! 😂

Same as @angelpoise ! Soz, can’t help it!

My son wore a new suit and tie to work... one of the ladies in the office told him he looked like George Clooney.
'Oooh, that's nice'! I said.
Son replied he had no idea who George Clooney was and had had to google him.
Son is 28!

What??

This has shocked me!!

Hairdresser asked me where I got my top from. I was flattered as she was a young trendy one and she said, ‘ Thanks , I think my mum might like that for her birthday.’
😏

When talking to kids you start with "When l was your age..."

I remember pre-decimal coinage - farthings, ha'pennies, threepenny bits, tanners, shillings, florins and half crowns.

And you still got pennies that had Queen Victoria's face on! (I'm 64).

That you're happy when on holiday to go to the room after drinks and dinner to watch a film in bed.This is me atm.
10 years ago I would have been necking spirits or cocktail til the early hrs.

WHEN ALL OF THE TORY CANDIDATES ARE YOUNGER THAN YOU. That’s been the big one lately.

When you are the same age as some of your colleague’s mums.

When you catch sight of yourself in shop windows and see your mum, even though you don’t look like your mum, it’s just the practical cotton shirts, granny trainers, emerging jowls, slightly stiff gait, and - and this is really depressing - random carrier bags.

You don’t know what to wear. I mean not a clue how to put a look together.

You don’t really care that you can’t put a look together.

Stiffness makes stretching satisfying in a way it’s never been before.

When you get up after a long time at the desk you often have to do some gentle knee bounces so your gait isn’t embarrassing level stiff till you get properly moving.

When you have a job working with 15 year olds and you realise you have clothes older than them in your wardrobe.
You go to bed at the same time of night you used to go out clubbing at.
You react with great alarm when you read that it’s the same number of years from 1970 til 2022 as it was from end of WW1 in 1918 to 1970. I remember 1970 fgs.

Sat on a nice squashy sofa for a work meeting yesterday. At the end of the meeting my younger colleague had to haul me off it. Embarrassing.

Shoes and clothes are purchased for comfort first, fashion-value never.

You need varifocals.

You are taken aback at the youth of your hospital consultant and have to shut your mouth firmly before you say can I see your qualifications/does your mother know where you are.

When your daughter rolls her eyes at you for 'videoing' a TV show

When you realise that not only do you not know the names of any of the singers on the radio for the previous hour you genuinely don't care, you realise this at the moment your husband sniffs 'why is nobody making good music anymore'

When you are hiring graduates for your team and see almost all of them were born in this century