You know your old when ...

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You get excited when your bins get emptied 🤣 your turn

You start complaining about young people.

A lunch out is so much more appealing than a night out.

You say 'So-and-so sounds like a broken record' and actually know what that means.

You moan about the elderly, backward-looking politicians running the country- and suddenly realize that you are older than most of them.

Your childhood was marred by your difficulty in learning to write with a fountain pen.

When one of your colleagues at work was born this century!

you were seen as super fancy by your classmates as you had a typewriter that allowed you to show one digital line of text before it printed to the page

I had a "word processor" with a small screen that showed about 16 lines of text. I typed on it and could save to a disk (one of the small hard ones) and use it on a computer as well. This was mid 90s. And it cost £500! Before that I had a typewriter like the one you had, although my dad bought it for him really.

I'm actually not that old then because I complain about old(er) people. Well people around my age and a bit older (mainly men over 50).

I get really fed up with my local Facebook group where every transgression, every incidence of vandalism is down to teenagers. They think all inconsiderate and entitled behaviour comes from kids. Er no. It doesn't, not by a long way!

Definitely this, but I think that was always the case for me, I was prematurely old :)

When you're in the pub and you are showing pictures of your grandchildren to your friends and they are doing the same back

Even worse is the dread that the thing you just dropped will roll under the sofa and you know you won't be able to get down on your hands and knees to retrieve it, and it will just have to stay there until someone younger with fully functioning knees comes round.

When your husband thinks you're older than the potential prime minister....who is in fact older than me! Damn Rishi and his better skin care routine😂

When I realised I had been going to the same building to work for longer than the new receptionist has been alive 😳

When one of the people that you made has made a whole new person with their wife! I have come to terms with the notion that all three boys are now grown ups, with jobs and partners, but being made a granny by ds1 and my lovely DIL did make me feel rather ancient.

I covered rhe Civil Rights movement at school in Modern Studies. My son just recently also covered that at school except it was part of the History course!!

Me too!

When you try this and injure yourself.

You design a new kitchen and you include a drawer dedicated to storing the medication you and DH need.

Taking jeans off after a day out and changing into leggings/jammies

In which case I've been old since I was 16... 🤣

When you watch a re-run of The Golden Girls and realise you’d now qualify as one, if they weren’t all dead

You spend frantic minutes trying to find your readers only to realise they're on your head.

This. Over and over again.

It's very rational upset, I'd say!

@gatehouseoffleet was it a Fontwriter 500? I wrote all of my MA essays on one of those.... It was the height of home word processing technology at the time!

You need subtitles to watch South Park.

You remember what O Levels are.