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.

DS is 8 and is always shocked I know a song used in memes or sampled. I get "how do you know that!?"

Last Christmas I saw a lot of old people around the table - and realised it was 'us', my siblings, sister in laws and cousins.
When did that happen?

I trip over the pets much more than I used to, and have a fear of falling over them and breaking something. Never had the thought till the last year.

Realising “Swifties” is not a football team…

Picking DS1 up from a Christmas night out. Lots of young girls without coats on (I uses to do this too) and thinking “I bet they’re bloody freezing”
Also going to bed absolutely fine and waking up with a dislocated shoulder or sprained ankle. A workmate and I call them pensioner pains!

😂😂
DH has sounds effects for everything!
Putting on his socks, getting up, picking something up off the floor….

When builders, shop assistants etc started calling me "dear" instead of "darling".

In a discussion about social media, a MN poster said "I've never heard of livejournal"

when the new vicar was younger than me (and this next one is practically a child)

When the bus driver is younger than you

I watched an old episode of Call My Bluff on BBC4 last week and fancied Frank Muir 😳

You know when you’re old, you don’t fall down, you have a fall.

Talking with a young colleague one day and somehow we began talking about war.
I mentioned that I knew a man who had fought in the battle of the somme. Colleague replied "wow I've never met anyone who actually knew people from the olden days!"

My DCs thought I was joking when I told them about being brought up in a house with no bathroom and an outside toilet.

When my now 25 yr old DS studied History at A level and the first topic was Russia and Glasnost. I mean, how can that be History? I remember it happening! I get the argument that history is yesterday but for it to be on the syllabus already! Also aged 24 (a very long time ago) I was walking down the street & a young mum said to her child “ mind that lady” I’d only ever been called a girl before. It was very sobering 🤣

When I found out my baby cousins daughter was getting married.
How is her daughter that old!? In my head my cousin is still an annoying 7 yr old!😂

When sitting down is accompanied with ow

When someone says “oh is your dad paying” to your husband when I hand over a bank card, while I may be 50% grey I’m only five years older than him and I don’t have any wrinkles or hyperpigmentation.

Our son had been learning about different funerals at school, he asked if I had a coffin because I would probably die in 2-3 years.

I’ve been watching youtube demos of various hoovers.

DS was utterly appalled when he heard that in the old days we had to call our friends on a landline, only after 6pm, and have a conversation with their mum or dad first. I felt like a relic.

My year of birth starts with a 1!!

Haha yes isnt he lovely though! I swear one day he was just some old man, next day, VERY HANDSOME, pretty young actually 😄

Thinking you share a reference to a film or song with younger colleagues and later realise they were talking about the remake

Haha snap 😂

Having DCs that are in their 40s and have teenage children of their own. How can that be possible, when I'm only 35 (ish)? 😂

I was thrilled the sun was out because I could get all our bedding washed and hung out on the line to dry.
Even worse, when someone asked if I had a good weekend, this is what I led with. “Oh yes, I got so much washing done and it smells
sooo nice because I could hang it out…I used to be fun… I’ll get my coat..”

Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling to find your birth year date.

DB sent me this today…