Tell me about a time when you felt old

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This is absolutely ‘just for fun’ on a wet Sunday, so please take this in the spirit that it’s intended!

I was at an 18th birthday party a few weeks ago. I went to the buffet and there was hot and cold food (think curry and sandwiches) so I had a plate of both. A lovely young man behind me, asked where I was sitting and whether I needed help, carrying one of the plates back.

Im able bodied and 44 😆 but appreciated the sentiment

Your turn!

Telling the young people at work about a time before halloumi and avocados were mainstream groceries

In the uk I mean. Obviously

On Friday at a gig, got asked if we needed seating, I accepted

I don’t feel old, actually, but I increasingly feel that people younger than me have a very limited scope compared to me… they just have less experience, and that looks like a disadvantage.

Over the summer I went on a weekend break with my goddaughters - let's call them Mary and Katie and their parents. I really can't remember how the conversation came up - I think we were talking about birthdays. Mary then realised that I was born 'in the last century' - and thought it was the funniest thing ever and suddenly I felt ancient! Luckily Katie then chimed in with: "But Arlanymor is MUCH younger than mum and dad aren't you?!" I'm seven years younger than their parents. So then THEY felt ancient and I felt surprisingly young!

At a wildlife park, looking at the armadillos. I said Oh look, soft on the inside, crunchy on the outside!

Everyone there looked at me as if I was an actual serial killer. I was probably a good fifteen years older than the oldest person.

Haha indeed. I remember when ‘avacado’ was simply a colour option for bathroom suites 😉

Oh the perks 😆

When I was a teacher one of my students asked if I was born in the olden days, the 1900’s. I had to laugh and agree that I was.

Explaining a fax machine to one of our apprentices. Their mind was utterly boggled that we didn’t just email stuff.

Wait until you tell them that we used to block the landline whilst we used the internet!

The other night, 4 of us out for a pizza, 3 late 50s and one in her 70s, all fit, able, all own marbles, dressed well. The 17 year old waitress was eyeing us up like we might all die on her shift, looked like she wanted to explain what a pizza was to us, and was amazed we were out late and having a cocktail….and I suddenly had a shift in thinking, of ‘oh shit, this is how people might start treating me’….

I’m 61, two weeks ago I was training some new starts at work, none of them were born before 2005.

Every time I look in a mirror 😩

@DreamingOfGeneHunt OMG! That made me laugh! I can even hear it being said

When it turned out a colleague had been born the year I graduated.

This was exactly how I felt! It was the sudden realisation of someone else’s perception. It did tickle me because I think my brain stopped aging in my late 20s 😆

I’ve got undies in my knicker drawer that I purchased before 2005!

Explaining to our newer colleagues, the concept of the internal post envelopes we’d send memos etc in, and the mail room team that would do 3 x a day deliveries

Same with call conferencing; the sweating responsibility of being the person with the webex conference host codes and urls for calls, and having to use shitty phones to call in, and knowing if you disconnected the entire team would drop. I remember printing off 20 sets of presentations every Friday for project update meetings as no one wanted them electronically- that’s prob only about 11 years ago!

I was told not to come into work when it snowed, in case I had a fall. I was 49.

When I first started seeing posters for music artists playing Wembley and had no idea who they were because I'd never heard of them. That waning of my pop culture awareness started happening in my mid 30s.

When a younger workmate told me they'd love to use a fax machine.

When I realised I was born in the 'late 1900s'! 😆

Bloody hell 😆 I hope you told them that you used to wear your heels on nights out, even when it snowed

Last time I bought a ticket at the station. The chap asked if I had a senior citizens rail card. I am 65, but the indignity!

Oh and in A&E five years ago, "you're over 6p, so I'll assume you are retired". Er no (and still not).

A waiter asked if my son knew what he wanted to order, it was my husband who is only six years younger than me! Plus I was only 31 at the time, thats before I had all my gray hair, god knows what they’d say now.

Last year I started doing hyrox at my first ‘big’ competition when the announcer was announcing everyone I was the “oldest competitor of the day” 38!

We were watching a film where someone died, I can’t remember what it was, anyway, our son said he’d never been to a funeral but he would probably get to go to mine quite soon.

When a couple of my younger colleagues were discussing music and had no idea who Oasis were. I felt so old!