You know you're old when ...

[AJS-]

I see a guy about my age with a nice looking girl... and she calls him Dad.

[Mobsta]

I'm so old it's taken me 2 days to post the following...

MBH, your great great grandsons thread has arrived!!

[iain a]

Reading glasses... the shame...

[sebhaque]

WestYorkie said:

Go on then. Why were you taking to kids about Concorde?
Kudos to you for even getting them to ask what Concorde is BTW.

I knew I was old the other day when cycling home from work and thinking bicycle clips could be a good idea. I had to bleach the thought from my mind.

I was doing a community event dealio at work, essentially a group of year 6s come onto site and we have to deliver a day's learning about forces and motion. As part of it, we show pictures of our engines and the airframes (I work at Rolls-Royce) and one of the pictures is of Concorde. You can just about see the last Concorde to fly parked on the runway opposite the office from where we were delivering the presentation, so I pointed it out to them. In fairness, a few kids knew what it was, but it was disappointing to see a number of them completely clueless as to what it was.

[bucksmanuk]

Tant said:

You watch a porn film, and you think "fk me, that bed looks comfy"

[10 Pence Short]

When you think SAGA holidays are for kids.

[Mark_Karting]

Mikeyboy said:

When you realise that it was twenty plus years ago since you were at school

It's barely 20 weeks since I finished school

I don't feel old at all

[Uncle Fester]

When you think of the pension queue as an opportunity to meet fit women.

[Yoof Full Chav]

When you think a Stannah stairlift is a bloody good idea actually

[melhookv12]

when filling out online forms, and you have to scroll down a few pages to get to your year of birth

[mattdaniels]

I think this says it all.

[Yoof Full Chav]

...you get all huffy with people, because they don't understand how to do a simple DIY task, like hang a door

[Wacky Racer]

When "Watch with mother" used to consist of Patricia Driscol's Picture Book, Andy Pandy, Bill and Ben, Rag Tag and Bobtail and The Woodentops......

Woodbines were sold in fives..

The most popular sweets were Spangles....

You could not see the sand for day trippers at Blackpool.

You can remember the launch of The "E" type in 1961

Your dad's car had "trafficators" instead of indicator lights.

You used to go to school every day on a trolly bus and steam train

Your football boots had hard toecaps and knock in studs

Happy days........

[BuzzLightyear]

When you walk past the last independent menswear shop in the High Street and think "Hmmm, Farahs..."

[Yoof Full Chav]

BuzzLightyear said:

When you walk past the last independent menswear shop in the High Street and think "Hmmm, Farahs..."

Or when you go shopping, and bypass all the trendy places, and head straight for Austin Reed

[Polrules]

Well for me it was during a safety course at my last job where the instructor asked by a show of hands for everyone who could remember the piper alpha disaster - about half did.

Another good one was when we had a (young) temp in - for whatever reason we were talking about the 2nd world war and someone mentioned Aushwitz (sp?), anyway - she thought it was a shop. Genuinely no idea.

[Fort Jefferson]

You have lots of storage containers to keep left over food in.

[Mrs OwenK]

Fort Jefferson said:

You have lots of storage containers to keep left over food in.

That's just too many take-aways!

[cazzer]

Yoof Full Chav said:

Or when you go shopping, and bypass all the trendy places, and head straight for Austin Reed

Go Shopping?

You mean when you're wife buys you stuff from matelan dont ya?

(Austin reed is trendy)

[Yoof Full Chav]

cazzer said:

Yoof Full Chav said:

Or when you go shopping, and bypass all the trendy places, and head straight for Austin Reed

Go Shopping?

You mean when you're wife buys you stuff from matelan dont ya?

(Austin reed is trendy)