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!

When I realised that I was searching out gigs from favourite artists as “they may never tour again” 😬

Trying to explain toilet seat covers to someone. The fluffy ones? I said like your nan had with the matching pedestal mat
had to google them in the end to show

Last week when I found out a new colleague's dad is the same age as my DS and her mum is younger than him - which means I'm old enough to be my colleague's grandmother 😭

When I talk about anything from my childhood, teenage years and your 20s lol 😆

We went to Barcelona to celebrate my 60th birthday. On the airport bus, three young men offered me their seats. It had never happened before. How did they know?

Down.

Down stairs.
Down uneven steps.
Down hills or mountains with rocky bits.

I no longer jump off walls.

Being asked by my teenage son why I was 'a bit slow' on our run today. He's been running less than 6 months. But he's 30 years younger than me. It was still 6 miles in under an hour, but youth clearly beats everything.

When I remember my DS is going to be 47 this year, that only 3 years off 50. I dobt feel any older than 40! Then i look in the mirrir and remember im 65. 😫

At a gig down the front at Ally Pally and got chatting to a young women next to us. During the conversation she commented how it was amazing and cool(not her word... Can't remember the phrase she used) that people our age still enjoyed music so much and went to live gigs. I was 39! That was the first time I truly felt old

57. Still go to gigs and concerts, clubbing and festivals. Wonder if she does...?

Watching the Winter Olympics and everyone in their 30s is treated like the “granddad/mother” of the sport.

Sorry I could have written it more clearly!

My wife (Same sex relationship) was who the lady referred to as my son and she was also 41!! And not masculine looking for those wondering!! 😅🙈

Yes! I absolutely feel like the 90’s were about ten years ago. I graduated in 1995 - which does not feel anywhere near 31 years ago.

Returning to work after some years as a SAHM and getting to know some of my new colleagues... some of whom were born in my last year at uni when I got together with DH.
It came about through discussing 9/11 and my colleagues were babies 😱

When I started teaching, my y7s were totally obsessed with Osama Bin Laden. It was still the era of blackboards, OHPs and booking the TV trolley/ rewinding the VHS and my colleagues would still have been in nappies.

My colleague was also confused when I talked about the computer with internet
access in the school library and thought my school was behind the times, it was actually quite ahead. I doubt they'd know what I mean if I drop in the coveted computer with CD Rom.

I was the final year group to have typewriting lessons

When I was in my fifties and a young lad in primary school I taught at, asked me if everything was in black and white, like in his grandads’s day… then his friend piped up with, did you ever see a dinosaur close up miss?😂

When the primary one kids who sometimes got mixed up started calling me granny instead of mummy

🤣😂

I had a meeting with a design agency at work and told a young man he’d left the size sticker on the peak of his baseball cap. I had no idea people do that on purpose 🤷 I also mentioned Bonnie Tyler and Su Pollard at work and no one had any idea what I was on about. I’ll be in the corner sucking on a Werther’s Original

I know pretty much nothing about current music. Probably started to lose touch about 10/12 years ago but now I’m hopeless! I know some names but really could t tell you their songs etc.
I’m mid-50s.
No way could I stand at a gig now - it’s seats all the way … even if I stood up first if the concert at least I can sit down during the slow numbers!

Tell me about it! I graduated in 1993 - 33 years ago this year. My youngest will graduate this summer. It’s crazy and doesn’t feel
likr so much time has passed. I’d love to go back to those days just for 24-hours!

The little gorgeous bridesmaids we had at our wedding are 31 this year. I was younger than they are now when we got married.

I grew up rurally, on a large farm in Australia. I was at work in a capital city and a name came up on my emails - a fairly unique name. I bumped into the person and said, I've got an unusual question for you. Do you come from this tiny little town? (closest town to where I grew up only 100 kids in the local primary school)

Her reply Um, yes.
Me: Did you grow up on a farm out there- gave parent and brothers names?
Her looking at me like I'm a stalker - yeah...
Me - OMG, I used to baby sit you!

I think she was about 3 years old when I (then 14) started looking after her and her brothers. I looked after them for a few years.

Secondary school teacher and I’ve recently had to explain: phone boxes, house phones (answer phones with a tape blew their minds), Beyonce being in Destiny’s Child, 4 tv channels, manually rewinding videos as opposed to scrubbing through.

All of which made me feel older than Cleopatra’s nan.

Oh tell me about this. My youngest bridesmaid was 7 at our wedding. She's now 40, a primary school teacher and has children of her own.

How did that all happen?

I can think of twice when I went to the pub and on the ordering app it stated that only people born on or before a certain date could be served (So day month and year 18 years prior) and the year it stated was 2006 went "Nooooo thats no adult that's still a baby!" and the other time was at Christmas when my (significantly) younger brother wished me a "Merry Rizzmas" instead of a "Merry Christmas" and I had to Google it because I'd never heard it before.

When my dad, my actual dad, so obviously older than me, asked me when I was putting my name down for an old persons bungalow. Just to be clear he doesn't live in an old people's bungalow and somehow seems to have forgotten he's 25 years older than me. I was 59, and he was deadly serious.

When I was about 25 a colleague miserably told me "I'm old enough to be your mother" and without thinking I blurted out "my mum's younger than you"
I felt bad at the time but 14 years on and pushing 40, I often think of it and feel bad