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 you suddenly realise that the "old lady next door" when you were a child was over ten years younger than you are now (remember her having her 50th birthday party).

I took a bag of Opal Fruits in to work today to share. I had said something like ‘oh look what they’ve brought back as a limited edition!’ All I got back was crickets 😂😂🙈🙈

I used to want to buy everything in Urban Outfitters. I can't stand any of it now, it's all ironic early noughties throwbacks that would make anyone over 18 look a weird mess.

When you realise you wore the fashions currently in shops first time around.

That’s why having them on a string round your neck is so handy…..oh wait…

such a turn on!

Being ushered on to a bus ahead of the queue

Want to feel old? This is £29 in 2009 prices.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator

I realised I was in the 'older mother' category (really didn't see myself as that) when I was speaking to some of the other parents outside school about our DC first school disco the following week. One said something about them not playing songs like we used to have. I replied with 'Ooh yes, I remember leaping around to Madness, especially Baggy Trousers'. tumbleweed. Then the others continued reminiscing about the Spice Girls etc

Thinking the knickers with the tiny flowers from the Damart Catalogue would be nice.

Oh lots of things made me feel old, but one that made me laugh was telling my children that advent calendars used to be just pictures, no chocolate. They were genuinely shocked and couldn’t understand the point of just opening the door to find another picture underneath. I don’t think they believed me when I said we all used to be excited to get to school to tell our friends what picture we had got that day 😂

Going to the GP and having to steel yourself to tell an actual child about your ailments

Throwing your back out with a sneeze

Looking through magazines at the hairdresser and not having the slightest idea who anyone is

Sooooo nice to know that it's not just dp and I that have these pre-sex conversations!

When you wake in the morning and the first thing you think is "what part of me is aching today?"

I used to leave the house to go out at 10pm, now that's when I'm coming home to bed!

Reading the comfortable shoe threads with lazer like interest.

The first time I looked at a pair of shoes and said, "Oh, they look comfy".

🤣 Cross post @NeonGiraffe!

I recommend the Italian Flyflots by the way, hunt really hard to find the few pairs that don't make you like a 90 year old nonna.

Do you mean the old seadog with the bright blue eyes? (without giving any spoilers about his demise/or not 😬)

😂 The guy in the boat hahaha. The old shark hunting fisherman 🙈 Lovely blue eyes!

My former dentist retired last year - I had been going to the same one as long as I remember. The surgery brought in a replacement dentist who uses the same room ... I realised I have been going to that room to the dentist since before she was born.

Other adults stand up to let me sit down when I enter a room.

For me it was kneeling (how the hell did predictive come up with sneaking!) down on the floor the other day and not being able to get back up. Getting down the stairs in a morning is a sight to behold. I'm only in my 40s God dammit.

I'm older than some of the grandparents of the children I teach.

Pulling something doing housework