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!

Ha ha ha haaaa!

wow!

Being chatted up , whilst waiting for a train when I was 27 by a guy who was about 22 who then asked me how old I was .
’ He said ‘you still look really fit though ‘ 🤣

Work with primary kids. It’s the best way stay up to date with culture as they tell you what they watch on TV, which films they like, what music they like.

Also they ask your age and you say “How old do you think I am?” and they come out with stuff like “38?” (I’m 60 soon!) as that’s older than their parents, and really really old in their eyes!

Firstly, when I realised that the teachers at my children's primary school were suddenly all younger than me.

Secondly, when I began to realise that my children were learning stuff in their school history lessons that had been current affairs to me when I was growing up. I mean, Margaret Thatcher, the Falklands conflict, Ronald Reagan had somehow morphed from being on the news each night into suddenly being history!! How?

I was born in 1966 and am 59 at the moment. However, I am pretty sure that my daughters (three of them, and the youngest is now 23) all think that I must have already been ancient on the day I was born.

Talking of the old rotary dial bakelite telephones as some previous posters have, I remember visiting the Science Museum in London with my three then teenage DDs.

We were in the section that plotted the history of telephone communication right from Alexander Graham Bell up to modern mobile phones. Their jaws dropped when I indicated a cabinet with these rotary dial phones and told them that we used to have one of those when I was growing up.

I remember commenting to work colleagues that I had heard on the news that Charles Manson had died and being met with a lot of blank looks and looks that said ‘Who?’ 😂

I’m a perfectly able bodied 54 and the first time I ever felt ‘old’ was last month, on a crowded train home a woman I’d say was mid thirties asked if I needed help getting my bag up onto the rack. I accepted as it was so kind of her to offer and she took me by surprise but I spent the rest of the journey feeling ancient!

Mid 50s - frequently get offered a seat on the tube! ( I always politely decline!)

I had a similar situation. Doing a presentation to a new starter group and each presenter had to open by saying what their role was and when they joined the company. When I said I'd started in 1987, one of the grads said out loud "I wasn't even born then". I felt ancient.

A funnier incident was when my DD was in junior school and begging for her first mobile phone. I was resisting. "How old was you when you got your first mobile?" I had to admit I was 35, when mobiles became more accessible to the public. She was horrified I'd not had my own phone for my teenage years. Her mind was blown when I told her all about dial up internet, and having to use the library or a set of encyclopaedias to do homework 🤣

not an ‘old’ moment but this reminded me of going into our local Co-OP just before Christmas and asking the young sales assistant for bay leaves. She beamed, turned to the shelf behind her and handed me a bottle of Baileys.

They didn’t have any bay leaves as it turned out and my bolognese went without.

I know exactly what you mean. I often feel the same.

At a gig recently. I know the band quite well and was standing in the area reserved for guestlist when I got asked " are you the singer's mum?"...the singer is 12 years younger than me.

When I realised the man who was firing me from my job had not been born when I graduated from Uni.

Watching stranger things! And realising you're not Nancy or Eleven anymore - you're the mom😱

Explaining to my uni-aged nephew that we had a go to a laundrette when I was in student accommodation.

I was a Brown Owl in 2003 and I was aged 35. For an end of term party I told the Brownies they could bring their cassette tapes so they could listen to music they liked. One Brownie said "Brown Owl, what's a cassette tape?" .

I think that’s on them being unaware of music and culture beyond their small bubble. My son and his friends (early/mid 20s) are all well aware and paid a fortune to see them last year.

Talking to my nephew and his mates about how pubs used to close in the afternoon and at 10 30pm, they didn't believe me.

As far as they are concerned pubs have always been open when you want them.

NHS?

I have never felt so old as the day after my mum died and I didn't have parents anymore I was only 37 but felt a good 20 years older.

Oh yes, I've had that happen too. I'd actually put my hand out to take the flyer and the young lad just pulled his arm in and turned his back on me.

Someone on Reddit "I was born in 2010'

My cousin becoming a dad. I remember him being a toddler

Buying a new fridge and buying it on 0 percent finance at Curries

Young lady serving me asked me my date of birth......i said 19/6/67

Her response....oh is that 1967 ?

I was dumbstruck.....i know I'm no spring chicken but do I look like I'm over 157 years old lol

Like a lot of these- that’s not on you being old but on the sales assistant being totally thick.

Two small boys outside the sweet shop:

'Ey, she's give me two foreign coins in me change!'

'No she 'asn't! Them are two-and-a-half pences.'

This would have been half a century ago. I was 16 at the time, but old enough to know what a sixpence looked like!