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.

This!

When you realise that you and your friends continually talk about, and compare, illnesses!

My name is in a similar sub group to Tina, Tracey, Donna and I played with clackers as a kid.

If it makes you feel any better, I’m young enough to hypothetically have another baby (38), and I’ve seen two Elizabeth Taylor movies.

I know I’m “old” because I heard that 80% of Gen Z thinks only “old people” have wallets, and I was like, “How do they not have wallets? Where do they keep their money?” Apparently they pay for stuff using their phones. There’s another way I know I’m “old” - I remember back when, in kids’ movies, a character having a cell phone was supposed to signal to the audience that s/he was a spoiled rich kid.

Also, Richard Nixon’s been dead since 1994, and I saw him in person as a young child in 1993. My family was at Disney World, and he was there with his granddaughters and several Secret Service agents. No idea who he was at the time, because I was seven and the only presidents I knew were Washington, Lincoln, Bush (the elder) and Clinton.

Kissing a guy at a rave who was born after 9/11.

I’m officially in my cougar era.

Sleep injuries. Falling asleep wrong and taking 3-5 days to move my neck properly again.

When I got invited to a 00s themed dress up party

When my class started calling me 'grandma' instead of 'mummy' when they accidentally forgot who they were talking to 🤦‍♀️

That, and when my daughter told me that she 'loves my wrinkly hands because they are so soft'! 🤷‍♀️

Radio 2 is slipping away from you......

Listening to Britney Spears in the car with our ten year old, and my OH pointing out the gap between that song being released and DS being 10 is the same as the gap between the height of the Beatles' fame and OH being ten 😱

I thought my high school English teacher in school was really old. Saw him recently in a supermarket and he looks to be in his mid / late 60s so was probably only in his late 30s 😂

Kind of similar to yours.

A couple of years back, a lad at my gym was telling the class that he was going to be in a music video for "Aitch".
I said "Oh wow, H from Steps?"
He said "What's Steps?" 💀

So that made me feel really great about my life.

Ooft

That wins the thread

I remember walking round the streets with my cousin, carrying a discman playing Mouldy Old Dough!

When I heard the sausage roll based Christmas novelty songs by Ladbaby, I could only hear the original tracks in my head from when they first charted.

Watching The Hit List, I only know the 70s ones that the contestants don't know.

I remember walking the streets with friends carrying a Rasta Blaster (boom box or ghetto blaster for an US readers). A really bloody massive one. Playing Bon Jovi, Def Leppard and similar. For a little while, until the batteries died. Nowadays, I wouldn't even be able to pick one up.

my 9yr old is obsessed with that song!! 🤣🤣

Oh I hate it when they do that! Makes me feel like someone's maiden aunt.

You have no idea where that bruise came from.

I currently have no idea why my elbow is sore. Feels bruised but there's nothing there.

If I sleep with the wrong pillow I'm non functional for the next 2 days.

When you're sitting on the floor, go to get up and realise that you have actually forgotten how to.

I managed to Sleep Wrong last week… it’s only now that my knee has almost - almost - stopped hurting 🙄

Wondering if my butter or eggs should be at room temperature or cold.

When a twenty-something woman stood up to offer me a seat on the train. I was thinking, 'well, that's nice of you, but I'm not visibly disabled or pregnant'. It genuinely took me a few days to twig that she might have thought I was old. I'm 50.