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!

A lovely young man offered me his seat on the tube years ago. And I was grateful.

Ds was telling me what he was doing in primary school (he wasn't one to pay a lot of attention to be fair) and asked if I'd been around in Victorian times.

OK, I am old, but telling DDs that when I was very little, the milkman came with a horse. I was probably only 40s at the time, but to them it was like something from the Dark Ages and screamingly funny. They’d say, ‘Back in the real Olden Days, Mum, when you were young…’.

I don't think there was a son there - it was the wife who was thought to be the son of the poster?

Maybe he thought middle-aged = born in the Middle Ages??

I've just asked the woman in the SPAR for mints.
She looked at me blankly
Extra Strong Mints?
Huh?
MINTS! Murry mints polo mints, Everton mints, spearmints, extra strong mints.

Not MINCE.
She had no idea
Apparently if id said Trebor she might have had a clue.

Me too, I'm 62. There are a few perks though, seniors menu in the fish shop we go to is great value. They did however question if I was old enough in another restaurant which cheered me up no end!

Explaining dial up broadband to the youngins at work. The didn't believe me that you couldn't phone someone and surf the net at the same time.

Same colleague, went on holiday abroad and was telling us they bought grapes at a market that had seeds inside them (shock horror). Were totally astounded when I said seedless grapes are a pretty recent thing and all grapes had seeds when I was a kid.

I'm only in my 40's and the youngins make me feel so old 😂.

When I realised I could be the fitness instructors mum at the gym I go to. I'm mid 40's and he was in his 20's.

Yup.

I teach & delight in their teen faces when I tell them that mobile phones weren't a thing for most people until I was about 22, & then you paid per text! Hilarious. They then think I'm ANCIENT. I'm recently 54.

They wonder how you arranged a night out, & are confused when I say that you arranged a time & a place & then went; if you were delayed, well folk waited for you. Their faces!

This & the first time I had 'You taught my mum/dad' , which wasn't that long into my teaching career, perhaps 13 years, when I was 35. I'm waiting on my first 'You taught my granny' as I've been in the same school 31 years 🙈.

It's realising that you have nothing culturally in common with "young people" any more. For a long time you sort of jog along knowing more or less what's in the charts and knowing a lot of the "in" words and expressions. Then suddenly you don't. They (or you) are talking a different language.

My lovely GP!!

I'd gone to see her about some "womens' problem" and she said to me,

"the most common cause of this in women of our age . . ."

Women of our age!! I thought - GPs are much older than me. I am absolutely not old enough to have a GP around my own age 😂😂. I was probably late 30s/early 40s, but felt double that after she said that.

She was an amazing GP, so I forgave her. I was so upset when she left the practice.

I was telling some of my younger colleagues that when I started my first job, I was given a branded ashtray, as we could smoke at our desks.

they were more shocked at the fact I had no email or teams and had to pick up the phone to talk to peoples

One of the kids at school didn't have their mobile and asked to use the office phone to call their parent about home time arrangements (secondary school).

We had to explain to them how to use a landline and which way up to hold the receiver.

I work at my old high school and thoroughly enjoy the expressions of kids when I tell them I either went there myself with their mum/dad, or that me and one of the other staff members (there's a few of us) were there together back in the day.
One of the younger teachers is actually the daughter of two of my old teachers as well!

Few days ago at a gig with friends, all of us in our 50s. Lead singer about 30 and bouncing around like a puppy, We chuckled indulgently as the youngsters created a mosh pit and started stage diving. We were leaning against the walls for support as it went on quite late and we had work the next day. Good gig though.

I changed my pillow and have had a crick in my neck for 5 days. I’m mid 40’s.

When my kids were chatting shit so I said "Whatcha talkin bout Willis?" 😂

Tried to buy stamps in the supermarket. The very nice young woman serving me couldn't seem to find them in the cupboard - which I thought was strange because I could clearly see them in plain sight.

Turns out she didn't know what books of stamps looked like, because, she said, she had never actually had to post a physical letter before!

I downloaded the app for my new broadband provider, got kicked out of it several times and had to uninstall and reinstall it, each time, swearing mightily all the while.
Finally got it to work but I don't know if it was glitchy or whether I just couldn't navigate it properly. So when asked if I enjoyed the app /give feedback I said the app was glitchy.
I miss the simplicity of the '90s!

I had DC at a young age so now I'm mid 50s and they're both mid 30s. Up until now it was OK but it does now make me feel so old to think that they'll soon be 40. How can I have kids that are nearly 40? I remember being 40, feels like it was 5 minutes ago!

Also virtually everything I see a doctor about now is put down to my age. That's quite depressing.

You should get a senior rail card if you're over sixty! It's quite a big discount if you travel by train more than two or three times a year.

Oh mine was most certainly when I took my kids out to Manchester Arndale for new shoes when things reopened after lockdown , and we stumbled upon the shop, kickgame.
I was just stood like a lost soul in my mask looking at these trainers individually vacuum wrapped in clear plastic for £100s and 100s of pounds and feeling like the world had gone nuts . I remember telling another mum looking similarly perplexed that I felt like I’d walked out of lockdown and landed on another planet and she agreed wholeheartedly . Everything just felt very strange and I felt a million years old.

My nephew asked me "what is this weird disk?" It was a CD.
I felt about a million years old

When I mistook a computer science teacher at my son's school for an A level student, thankfully I didn't do the usual "what are you studying, etc". Only when the school receptionist addressed him as "Mr whatever" and asked could he pass in the water bottle on his way to taking his class, it dropped that Teachers, Drs etc looked like youngsters not peers and I was getting old. I'm trying not to think old though :)