Things that make you feel old...

[Emily's dad]

RizzoTheRat said:

Went to the opticians the other day, he reckoned in another couple of years I'll need varifocals, that made me feel old.

Already there, two years ago for me.

The thing that I noticed the other day was that on my team of 7 at work, 3 weren't even born when I started my job.

[Voldemort]

Voldemort said:

Thinking of something to add to this thread whilst pushing a trolley round the supermarket and then completely forgetting what it was when you get back to the computer...

I remembered what it was!

I now know only two telephone numbers: my own mobile and home. I used to know dozens for friends, taxis, rellies... In fact I can remember most of them but their users have all moved/died/gone bust and now if you get a new number you just bang it in the phone and forget it.

[anonymous-user]

That this is 21 years old:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSTBFZ-To2E

[Captain Smerc]

1990 https://youtu.be/AygbQPtyBnA

Although I think this was 91 if my addled memory is correct...

Edited by Captain Smerc on Wednesday 6th April 20:35

[ChemicalChaos]

Next year's apprentice intake at work will have been born in this millennium.

Also, girls 27-30 who once seemed waaaaaaay to old to consider dating are now closer in age to me than wild young uni freshers

[Davel]

Mirrors

I even shave in the dark or with my eyes closed...

[fttm]

oldbanger said:

Having to have reading glasses and constantly misplacing them
Going shopping and being totally unable to read the small print on food labels as a result
Groaning every time I get out of a comfy chair
My knees
Reconstructive underwear
Letching at fit 50 year olds, realising they're now age appropriate rather than being old enough to be my father
Going back to places and realising it's been perhaps 25 years since the last time
Missing DOS shell
My eldest niece turning 21
Remembering being staggered when petrol passed the 50p mark
Going to gigs and being grateful to see at least one other old git in the sea of children's faces
Getting joint pain every time I drink
My natural hair colour is now piebald

Edited by oldbanger on Saturday 2nd April 09:30

OK I'll ask , WTF is reconstructive underwear ?

[oldbanger]

fttm said:

OK I'll ask , WTF is reconstructive underwear ?

It's like reconstructive surgery but substantial cheaper

(E.g. spanx would be on the milder end of things)

[Laurel Green]

oldbanger said:

It's like reconstructive surgery but substantial cheaper

(E.g. spanx would be on the milder end of things)

Can be quite painful if knock kneed without such.

[fttm]

Tnx chaps , still none the wiser . Maybe ignorance is bliss

[oldbanger]

Holdy in pants, girdles etc.

Edited by oldbanger on Thursday 7th April 00:37

[Jimmy Recard]

Drinking and getting joint pain?

I thought that was just a normal drinking thing, not an age thing

[karona]

My three year old granddaughter has just billed my Amazon account for "Spanish for Kids", from her Kindle Fire, in Tenerife. I watched her do it, on Skype.

[Johnniem]

Monkeylegend said:

No I don't want another Griff or Westfield, I want an S class/7 Series/XJ.

I am doomed to a life of wafting. Well a few years hopefully.

Or I could use my bus pass and save some money.

Couldnt help but chuckle at this one, mostly because I did the wafty car thing all ar5e about face. Three XJ's then a TVR Chimaera, topped off with two Porsche Caymans. My mate calls it my Menoporsche. I agree. Someday in the next 10 years I will revert to type and hope that I can still get a decent XJR. In fact, they'll probably cost around thrumpence by then!

[Monkeylegend]

Johnniem said:

Monkeylegend said:

No I don't want another Griff or Westfield, I want an S class/7 Series/XJ.

I am doomed to a life of wafting. Well a few years hopefully.

Or I could use my bus pass and save some money.

Couldnt help but chuckle at this one, mostly because I did the wafty car thing all ar5e about face. Three XJ's then a TVR Chimaera, topped off with two Porsche Caymans. My mate calls it my Menoporsche. I agree. Someday in the next 10 years I will revert to type and hope that I can still get a decent XJR. In fact, they'll probably cost around thrumpence by then!

Now I know I am old, I forgot I had posted that

[patmahe]

My wife bought a packet of those love heart sweets when we were out and about a couple of weeks back. She handed me one that said 'Totes Hilar' I looked at it, laughed and said 'hey this one seems to be in Spanish or something, I wonder if it was a mix up at the factory'. My wife nearly wet herself laughing at me, its teenage speak for totally hilarious apparently. I'd heard of it, but wasn't aware it had become something that gets written on anything.

I'm only 35 but I felt old that day.

[LordGrover]

I was chatting to a couple of lads at Abbey Motorsport the other day, talking cars and mods. One of them mentioned what his father had just had for his fifty second birthday. I am older than his Dad.

[chrisb92]

The current crop of Year 11's about to leave school were born in the year 2000!

[Antony Moxey]

When you take on new staff at work and their parents are younger than you.

[cologne2792]

Trying to explain to my Barber who Robert Palmer was.