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.

Getting the bus back home from a great (and big for me) night out to see students getting the bus to start their night

I realised I had become old when those thick framed glasses became fashionable. I blame the Harry Potter films.

mine is when I fall in public (I have a dodgy knee that just randomly gives up on me) and now young people don’t laugh they run over and ask if I’m ok and do I need any help!!! I’m only mid 30s too!!! To me that was my transition that I’m no longer seen as “young”

@YellowphantGrey what app is this?
I have a notebook specifically for books (looks like an old library ticket with "books to check out" at the top), but would quite like to look at a good app.

It's Storygraph. Some people say it's difficult to use but I find it easier than others.

You can set yourself a yearly reading target and a daily pages challenge too

I went out with 2 friends from work and the last time I had to been to a specific bar they were 3....

I was at school with children who's parents moved here because they were victims of apartheid

Realising the other day that there are fully grown adults who don't remember 9/11 - some because they weren't even born. There are people in their mid-late twenties who don't remember it.

Also, some of these people are now filming themselves watching videos (like news reports) about 9/11 and posting them online, which I find deeply weird. Reacting to a music video or an old TV programme, I get. Actively encouraging people to watch you watch other people die, I find very odd. Sorry, not quite so lighthearted, but it was very much my 'I feel old' thought earlier in the week.

I realised the same thing on the anniversary this year when talking to my step daughter - 22. I remember that day like it was yesterday. Around 2pm turned on the TV waiting for coverage of the Labour Party conference, only to see the image of the first tower billowing smoke into a clear blue September sky. And then watching the horror of the second plane smashing into the other tower and realising that this was a planned and co-ordinated attack. The rest of the day was lost in a blur of awful images and more horror as the news came in about the other planes involved. I don’t think anyone who watched it first hand will ever forget it - and yes, the realisation that as you say, you were watching people die in front of you.

You're not that old. You still just fall. Wait till you start saying you 'had a fall'.

Bits of me click.

I'm seeing orthopaedics about my dodgy hip next week. Ten years ago I had arthroscopy surgery to reshape the joint and socket. It could be waiting list for a replacement this time.

It makes me feel ancient. But also, at 50, fairly young for the op.

DD informs me that Duran Duran brought out their latest album in 2023!

Where you eat out depends how loud the music is...

When you get a box of chocolates and actively look for the Turkish delight and strawberry creme !!🤮

I only see clients over 18. It's obviously a while now since I started getting people who were born after 2000, but I still feel surprised when I see the DOB on the page, and I still reflexively think "oh I can't take this one, it's a child"!

I’ve really enjoyed this thread - it has made me think of my grandparents.
My grandad had a postcard stuck on his fridge that said “I’m old. The bits that don’t hurt don’t work.”

My gran used to say, whenever anyone complained about getting old “Far better to get old than the alternative- dying young.”

They both lived to be 99 and I still miss them daily. I find I’m repeating Nana’s words to myself now!

Bloody damn thread. Sodding wish I'd never read it.

Over the last couple of days, I've started to notice how noisy I am when I sit and stand.

Thanks a bunch.

Also, becoming grumpy 😄

I've been working on that for years. Getting there....

My libraries' self-check out machines now flashes up a little prompt when you check out telling you if you've borrowed it before and asking if you want to proceed! I thought it was weird (OF COURSE I want to borrow 1001 facts about dinosaurs again, why wouldn't I?) but perhaps this is why!

Being asked at Virgin check in desk if I was medically fit to travel. I was so shocked I just muttered "yes" Didn't realise it was "thing" and still smart with indignation every time I think about it. Im 66 perfectly fit and mobile but ageism is alive and well.