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.

When my kids laughed when I was telling them about walkmans and brought a discman back from my mums!
They love the discman think its novel even use it but still laugh their heads off people used to carry something that size around everywhere for the sake of music! 😂😂

When plucking stubborn hairs out of my chin :(

When you say to the doctor "is this just ageing?", and he says "not at all", and you know that that's exactly what he's thinking!

😂this! 😂

Having a nice day out with my sister to the local botanical gardens.With a flask of tea and a cheese and tomato sandwich.

Looked at a clothes website this morning and thought ‘everything is for young people now’😅 Also not knowing anyone on the cover of magazines. And the noise I make when I stand up😅😅😅

I'm a teacher and we did a lesson on the history of information technology, I was telling the children about how it used to be that you couldn't be on the phone and the internet at the same time. I also played them a video of the dial-up connection noise, the TA in my class had no idea what the noise was.

I also look forward to my cup of decaf tea every evening after DD has gone to bed 😆

A colleague asked me what a fax machine was.

1. When you sit down and make an "oooff" noise.
2. When your bladder now wakes you up at the time when in the past you would just be putting the key in the door after a night out.
3. When you're a regular contributor to your local "Memories of" or "Bygone " Facebook local history groups.
4. When you have to explain how a wind up alarm clock works.
5. When you have to explain to your boss how a fax machine works.
6. When you start looking at "comfortable slippers" on a shopping trip.

My niece looked at me like I’d stepped out of the age of the dinosaurs when I told her I used to use a typewriter.

We have a flood and power cut which knocked out mobile services for about a week I had to buy a landline phone as I'm disabled and need to be able to contact someone if needed.
My son who is 20 picked up the receiver and asked "how does this work!!!"

That made me feel old

Ahh the joys of slamming down the receiver when someone had peed you off! 😂😂

I once explained about the opening times with shops to the kids

Also explained that if you wanted meat,you went to the butchers,fishmongers for
fish,wool shop for wool,bakery for bread etc

They all looked at me like I was mad,then told me they didn't believe me and said they'd phone grandad (who is the font of all knowledge in our house-the kids called him 'walking google) and is too straight to wind them up (unless I got to him first)

He backed me up-and they all thought I'd got there first and he was backing me up!
They didn't believe that supermarkets are a new type of shop

Their little minds where blown at landlines,no internet/google and the fact that if grandad wanted to find something out he went to the library!

They lost it when I said that if you wanted to watch something on the tv,you'd better be in front of it when the programme started

Cd's didn't exist and if you wanted to hear a song,you either bought it on a tape or listened to the radio and hoped it came om

I have a new Cleaner and after chatting discovered I knew her great grandmother.

When DP and I decide we want to get jiggy (and even that phrase tbh) and have to take into account whose knees/elbows/back hurt more and adjust accordingly.

Pre-sex conversation very often goes along the lines of "Ok my left knee is better, but I did something to my right wrist in my sleep, so can we swap sides, and also I need a wee first." "Yes sure but my right knee is fucked, so you're going to have to do most of the work" etc etc

Waking up every morning and doing a systems check before attempting to get out of bed.

My parents used to get irritated at me and my friends for constantly peppering our speech with the word “like”.

I have now started to sympathise because all this “it ate”, “that slaps”, “lowkey” (and omg highkey is not a word just stop it), extreeeme Americanised accents and upward inflection is SO IRRITATING 😂

I recently heard some young girls (12 or 13 years old) singing, "You spin me right round, baby, right round like a wrecking ball." It must have made more sense to them than the actual lyrics ("like a record, baby") since they probably have no idea what a record is in this context. That definitely made me feel old. I can remember when CDs were first introduced, these young girls have probably never seen a CD either!

Pay them and do it! We're old enough to know that the value of things isn't in what we initially paid for them. They're your favourite, and you can't replace them.

Asking for slippers for Christmas because your current pair aren't warm enough

I’ve just downloaded a shoulder X-ray report that says “degeneration consistent with age”. How very fucking dare you.

I also went to see Judge Jules (and others) on Saturday night and had a bit of a dance, reminiscing about my clubbing days. Had to wfh today as I still can’t walk properly.

No-one wants to employ you.

When the NHS sends you those poo sticks just after your 60th birthday

I wobble for a few steps after I get up from the sofa.

Seeing photos of a celebrity you know, then realising it's their child (Scary spice, I'm looking at you)!