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!

The kid I used to baby sit when I was 13-16 now has a job and a beard and a mortgage and a wife.
How dare he? Little shit 😂

I went to the optician in my early 40s and was diagnosed by a bright early 20s optician with dry eyes. One eye had been blurry, and while the drops definitely helped, I still felt a difference in one eye. She asked me what I had google self diagnosed and when I said I hadn’t been googling this she said ‘sorry, they told us at uni to ask that’. Then when I came back saying I was still a bit blurry in one eye and wanted to know why, she said ‘sometimes you just get an idea in your head’.

I was offered a seat on the tube!!

When my daughter was looking at the A level History syllabus that went up to 1997. Which is the year I took my History A level.

Realising that there are two whole generations between me (Millennial) and babies being born today (Gen. Beta).

When my work colleagues said they remembered their parents listening to Take That as they were growing up. My parents listened to The Beatles and the Rolling Stones 😅

At uni aged 21 being called a mature student and when I had my daughter at 30 being called a geriatric mother! 😂

The first time I can recall was 15 years ago when taking my DD to a baby / toddler group where 1 of her friends used to call me 'nanny'. But in recent years, I'm regularly offered seats on the tube, and I am happy to accept. Just being in the office reminds me how old I am everyday, I'm surrounded by colleagues in their 20s and early 30s.

We do a pub quiz every couple of weeks and it's the music questions that trip us up (me been to a couple of thousand gigs, first one Queen in 1977), I'm ok up until the 90s, but fairly clueless after that.

Explaining to someone that an Acoustic Coupler was an early digital communication device, not a noisy partner.

I’ve loved reading all of these. I cried laughing yesterday.

I remembered another one. We were at a Paulo Nutini gig and got talking to the girls next to us. I asked them what song they hoped he’d play and they said that all his songs reminded them of being babies because theirs mums used to play his music when they were small……..his first album was 2006. I was 25 😆

I refuse to feel old.

I guess I am old, 71, but don't feel it .On looking at my blood tests results on NHS app ( all clear), I saw my frailty score which stated ' slightly frail, maybe in need of some help ' . I didn't know wether to laugh or order Wiltshire meals 😅

A close friend died suddenly on Friday night. She was 62. This is a reminder to do all the things. The time is always now.
Getting old is better than the alternative...

Yesterday my friends 8 year old asked me "what's a Wii?" 🫠

When we’re at my mum’s DH and I often visit a local attraction where you drive in and pay admission at a little kiosk, but if someone in your party is over 62 admission is waived for all of you.

The (mostly middle aged) staff usually ask some variation on “Is there anyone in the car who qualifies for free admission? I only ask because I can’t see into your car” as they try to avoid looking too closely at my face 😀

I’m 58 and DH is 56 so fair enough I guess. They do try to be gentle about it.

I was 34 and a new girl started in my job who was 20. We both attended the same school and she said you probably know my Mam she went there too. I asked how old her Mam was... 48! She had form for being bitchy though as we later found out.

At playgroup with my nephew. One of the "grannys" asked me how many grandchildren I have. I was 44.

When you have to enter your DOB on a website and have to spend forever scrolling back on the year of birth to find the pre-dinosaur era.

At the garage one of the young mechanics said "uncle so do you want your tyres done too? "

I found out baby spice turned 50 in January.
Made me feel ancient.

When people give up their seat for me on the bus....

I'm 44. Two examples, both from sessions I was teaching to postgraduate students at a uni.

1. We were talking about Banbury and I mentioned the rhyme 'Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross' and they all looked at me blankly. I realised it's not really a thing people might come across anymore!
2. We were talking about birth years and I realised I was probably the only person there who was born in the 1900s. Or certainly the only one who can remember it. 😬

When it dawned on me that it was a mere 15 years after the 2nd WW that I was born. WW2 is ancient history to me. Yet 15 years is a blink. 😭

Going on a new job induction day and being not only the oldest there but literally could have birthed them. We had to give a brief synopsis of our work history and after I spoke I realised I'd started in my career before they'd been born.