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 have to explain to the majority of the team what carbon paper is and how to use it …. Bonus if you have to turn it over for them when they want to write on the back of the paper. Oh and hearing that it is just like magic when they try it for the first time.

Not even doing something as energetic as housework.

Apparently, one can Pull Something just by standing up, as I found out recently.

It took a whole week to be able to walk without a limp.

When my DS8 asked me what a DVD is
Or when he asked me if we had paper and pencils when I went to school, or was it still slate?
Bending at the knee sounds like someone standing on rice crispies

When your DC are learning about what life was like for you in A-Level History and Politics.

That reminds me of an assignment my DS had for geography. He asked his teacher if he could reference an example "as far back as the late 20th century" 😂

I just visited a toy museum that featured several things identical to those I played with.

my second realisation, when polite young men started to give me a seat on the tube / train / bus.

When you can’t get in the hotel pool because the steps are too steep.

When my children were learning in their school history lessons about stuff that to me was current affairs.

To me Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and the Falklands Conflict were those current affairs that had morphed into school history lessons. My 89 year old mother says the same about the Second World War. Current affairs to her as a child, and a way of life between the ages of 4 (when it started) and 10 (when it finished). Always history to me and my sister at school.

How did I not know about this! A veritable treasure trove. Thank you!

When the things that you played with as a child are spotted in a museum

When my Facebook targeted ads started offering funeral plans, will writing services, and over 50s dating apps (obviously it knows I'm widowed)....

Then the icing on the cake - advice on what to wear when over 50. My response to which is whatever I damn well please, thank you so much.

Going to nightclubs and wondering when they opened a creche.

Having to plan any night out with military precision, right down to making sure there's Ibuprofen in the house for the week's recovery, and having to decide if I have enough money for a chiropractor because after three drinks in the right environment I'll probably headbang (usually holding onto something for support).

And my shoes aren't comfy, they're eccentric, dammit. (The lie I tell my smirking children when I turn up in Hotter Mary Janes).

I've just realised I've got more nightwear than actual clothes.

I’ve retired now but during a conversation in work a couple of years ago a colleague said ‘eh? Who are Duran Duran?’ And I said ‘you’re just being silly now, aren’t you, Melissa’. But M was clueless and it dawned on me that I was old :)

I had this pretty young as a child of hoarders !

A few years ago now, think I was 50, a new bloke (same age) asked me out for a drink.
But, he suggested 10pm on a week night.
Was too embarrassed to tell him that was my bedtime.

That we are now as far away from the 1st world war as they were from the Napoleonic war

When talking with a friend and a younger colleague, who then asked if this band INXS we were taking about were K pop

My teenage DC know about Opal Fruits. DC1 was quite excited to spot them in the supermarket and tell me about it. So I'm doing some parenting right.

Although the DC still struggle with the idea that I grew up with no internet and no iPlayer.

And we were talking about countries yesterday and I grabbed an atlas (also showing my age) and discovered Yugoslavia was still shown.

When I read this sort of thread, my brain immediately thinks - I'm old enough for 01-811-8055 to mean something. Which makes me officially ancient.

A youngster at work asked if I’d like a hot drink, I said ‘I’ll have a tea please Bob” and chuckled, only to be met with a blank stare!! I’ve never felt so old!!

I have worked in my job since before some of our most recent candidates were born 😢

After watching some black & white films, my 6 year old GD asked me if everything was in black & white when I was a little girl.

Watching Mama Mia and realising you're not Sophie anymore, you're Donna.
Also when DD1 came home and told me they were learning about Apartheid in History, i studied that at school too - in Modern Studies.

🤣😳😅

Yep, I think my music tastes are definitely seen as crap by my 13 yo DD, who takes the mickey out of Gary Barlow/Take That, pulling a face, sneering a bit, then showing me a video of Gary on TikTok when he's been made into a "hilarious" meme... 😆

She then looks totally indifferent and even appalled at the fact that I loved them when I was (shock, horror!) HER age..! Lol 😆

I went to the theatre at the weekend and while clapping at the end of the show my arms started to ache. While clapping.

Was at the till in a shop and the young girl serving me said 'Oh you smell lovely'. I said 'Thank you'. And she asked 'Are you wearing Angel?' 'I am' I replied. 'I love it' She said 'My Nan wears it'