To ask how you know you're old? (Lighthearted)

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A friend's niece with the surname Taylor is having a daughter and considering the name Elizabeth. I mumbled about how it's a lovely name and were they a fan? Silence. Explained more about Elizabeth Taylor and met with blanks. They didn't know what I was on about.

I'm now clearly old.

I do not know the definition of old but to me it is when you get your pension. Before that you are middle age.

You do need to point out the name to them is famous, and it will get comments for years to come.

I guess we were young once. I remember when someone old explained about no heating in bedrooms and coats on the bed. I thought that was terrible, but that was the norm.

The look of amazement off my dd last week when I told her I did a typewriting course at school and it was only for girls, the boys did woodwork lol

Explaining 9/11 to my daughter and what it led to.

Explaining that shops used to close on Sundays, and many also closed on Wednesdays afternoons for half-day opening, though some towns and villages would do half day on a Tuesday or Thursday.

Panic buying of bread ahead of Easter weekend - I’m sure the racial memory of this is why the supermarkets are so crazy in the run up to Christmas, even though we know at a rational level the shops are only closed for 1 day.

Someone recently called me "madam" in a shop. I'm 31.

Went online to book my annual flu jab and discovered that this year, it’s free.

Having to explain to DD the other day why we 'hang up' the phone. Blank look.

When I make the slightest pause when using technology and young people try to help me.

When I go on tictok. I'll happily watch them but there is a 0% chance of me ever making one.

Seem to find birds more interesting now than I used to. And the lawn.

Sorry I've realised mine isn't quite lighthearted... it wax more the knowledge that a major current affairs event from my school days is now a historical event.

My knees told me.
My double hip replacement raised their voice louder and then my hearing aids shouted it at me.

I can either view myself as a bionic enhanced human or worn out!!!

I tried to find common ground with a younger colleague by mentioning what I thought was a “cool” song. They responded with “yeah, my mum loves that song”.
ffs

My eyes take a couple of seconds to focus now when I switch to looking at something further away. I thought I'd be at least forty before that happened!

You seen the age of blue Peter presenters...they used to be older than me...now they younger...

My aunt once said she new she was old when she got hyped up for the new argos catalouge.
My uncal said it was when he brought his lawn mower he felt so old because he was asking so many questions about it in the shop but secretly excited.
Then there was me that when i first heard of tiktok i thought it was a new shop.

I bought Definitely Maybe by Oasis when it came out in 1994 and it still sounds modern to me.

30 years before its release, the likes of 'Do Wah Diddy' by Manfred Mann and 'I Get Around' by the Beach Boys were in the charts, which was certifiable old-people music in 1994.

It's now 30 years since Definitely Maybe came out 👵

When you’ve taken your DD to a mother and baby group and a couple of the 3 year olds there call you Granny…..

When you hear teenagers talking with all their slang and you understand zero of it🤣

When I was helped off a boat in the Maldives (my dh was as well), no one else was offered a hand off, suddenly realised that all the other couples were young enough not to need a helping hand.

Going to the theatre in about 2018 and one of the actors was the grandson of one I had seen as a child.

When your GP is younger than you. Ditto police officers.

That people I am interviewing for jobs were born in the 2000s....

At work a few weeks ago. I was chatting to a younger Nurse colleague about a walkman I had been given for Xmas when I was in my teens. Colleague had no clue what a walkman was, she had never heard of Pulp Fiction either - I knew there and then I was old.

I went 'out out' on Saturday night, I lasted till 9.30 and couldn't believe my eyes at what some of the girls were wearing....or not wearing. And the trout pouts....you'll have someone's eye out with that my lovely.