Today I felt old

[DanceswithUnix]

Speaking to people you work with who cannot remember the world without the internet or goggle......

Sometimes find it hard to remember last week, so I don't think that is a great divide

[TheAnimus]

Surely the benefit of getting older is that you can manoeuvre the youngsters into carpe-ing any diems and sit back to seize the credit with a nice cup of tea

My BAs are older than me. That must be the problem, they've gone a bit soft in the head

[Dingo]

These were the milestones of becoming "old" for me.........

1 When the till assistant in the Supermarket asks "if you need help packing your groceries"

2 When a small child asks it's Mother "Mummy, is that man Santa Claus?"

3 When even Smooth Radio starts to sound like a Rock Station

4 When Sunday afternoons are spent watching Songs of Praise instead of "Debbie does Dallas"

5 When the only reason Policemen are looking younger every year is because you are getting SO much older every year!!

6 When it takes you ALL night to do once, what you used to do ALL NIGHT long

7 When you remember when Bruce Forsyth FIRST appeared on television!!

8 When you remember that Hughie Green was the Simon Cowell of his day

9 When you remember that the Gadget Show used to be called "Tomorrow's World"

10 When you might start to believe in the preposterous notion that there actually is a God because you forgot to buy life insurance

[sammyc]

I've just received a mailing from Parky suggesting I contemplate the cost of my funeral

There are probably people on here too young to know who Parky is.


(It's going to cost me £321 in post-funeral catering, apparently. Ya reckon? )

[Galant]

Being eligible for SAGA products ?

Originally read this as SEGA products. Got excited. Then realised my mistake. Then started to ponder if that makes me old twice.

[tates11]

Same, I feel old too... my back aches easily now

[deejayburnout]

I felt old when I was filling in an online form and it asked for my age group. I am one year off jumping from the 25 to 34 age bracket to the 35 to 44 one. I am also noticing more and more grey hairs. Not sure if that's old age or married life

[excalibur2]

When I got old I realised I had no future so plan ahead differently...and can be amusing when someone says "keep it, it might be worth something one day "

[RobbieRoy]

On the other hand, turning 52 next week and 15 years to my state pension and roughly 30 years to average male life expectancy, means to me that the majority of my sufficiently matured and wise life is still to be lived (I was a wayward dork until I was saved by the love of a good woman in my late twenties).

An aside - my 79 yr old dad is a retired surgeon. He had always said that medically he couldn't really treat anyone as old until they were at least 70!

[sammyc]

Each to their own, I will take 2 x 1-25 of anyone's money over 1 1-50 any day, if someone wants to trade me their callowness for my 'wisdom'

Another harbinger of age - you have a medicine cabinet. With things in. Things that resemble what your parents had in theirs, and that was never ever going to happen.

[peterb]

Felt old when the only name I recognised om the Brit Awards was Madonna!

[Tumble]

Felt old when the only name I recognised om the Brit Awards was Madonna!

She'll be needing a new hip now too!

[dturtill]

its when i look and see toys i used to play with are now in a classic toy museum

[LiverpoolsNo9]

You know you are old when you go to pee, and it feels better than sex lol

[catterpillar]

yeah, never thought that I would feel old at 30, 10 pm -for others it's time to hang out, for me- to go to bed)

[russelllongy]

im like this nowadays and im 27 years old with 3 children even the simpliest task mess me up now