You know you’re getting older when……

[scarby]

When you read about class 60s being withdrawn and think, “...but they’re new”.

 

[pdq]

When all your teachers at school have retired.

 

[GusB]

When all your teachers at school have retired.

When many of your former teachers are dead!

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Talented Sports stars are younger than you, and I imagine a bit further down the line the same can be said for prominent politicians.

The real kicker is when your team appoints a manager younger than you!

 

[swt_passenger]

When you start to take an interest in antiques programmes on TV. The pinnacle of a certain age is when a vintage household item from the 1950s or 60s is featured and you say ‘Oh we had one of those’.

Unfortunately you often have to say ‘but we chucked it out…’

 

[birchesgreen]

The real kicker is when your team appoints a manager younger than you!

Or when players whom you remember watching their debut retire and become coaches.

Another sign of getting older is when vanilla becomes your favourite ice cream / milk shake flavour.

 

[DelayRepay]

I have started to feel old since bands started holding 30th anniversary tours for albums I bought as a teenager.

And when buying shoes, comfort is more important than style!

 

[D6130]

....when most world leaders - with the honourable exception of President Biden - are younger than you....in some cases young enough to be your son or daughter!

 

[Busaholic]

When many of your former teachers are dead!

When your former school was demolished thirty years ago!

 

[Baxenden Bank]

I disagree with all of the above [mutter, grumble] on principle because nothing is any good anymore. It all used to be so much better in my day. Things used to last ages before you had to replace them.

Regarding the kneeling down business, it's more a case of 'can I manage without, it's on the bottom shelf at the supermarket and I might not be able to get back up again', which happened to me last week at B & Q! When I'm in charge, items for the older person will have to be placed exactly at the right height. Young agile types can do the bending and stretching, and enjoy it while they are able.

Walking in the countryside, I used to find those upright poles at the side of stiles at best a curiosity, at worst pointless. Now I find them extremely useful for balance! Better still a gate instead of a stile.

 

[Pinza-C55]

When I was 11 in 1959 I saw the liner Windsor Castle launched at Birkenhead; In the 1970s, I read a newspaper article which said that "the old liner Windsor Castle" was being scrapped. I felt "it can't be that old if I saw it launched".

I was 28 and working as a guard at Kings Cross when the Class 91's were working the first test trains and they were cutting edge technology. I was gobsmacked to find out recently they were being scrapped.

 

[Typhoon]

When you get the photos that your parents of took you as a kid out and no-one believes they are you because they are in black and white.

When 'young people' (even those with pushchairs) insist on you getting on the bus first.

 

[181]

I'm not sure that the going upstairs (or downstairs) and forgetting why thing is necessarily a sign of age -- I've been doing it for years*, and a colleague once said that his 7-year-old son did it. I think it may be just that it becomes more noticeable when you're older, as the effort required to go downstairs in order to remember why you went upstais, and then upstairs again, becomes greater.

*(Or maybe this just proves that I've been middle-aged all my life).

 

[61653 HTAFC]

I have started to feel old since bands started holding 30th anniversary tours for albums I bought as a teenager.

Yeah, that's a rough one. Likewise when the fashions of your youth start being sold in "retro" boutiques.

 

[Loppylugs]

I can't understand people walking about in "designer" jeans full of holes. My mum had a dicky-fit and threw mine out if the slightest sign of wear was evident. Why pay through the nose for less material ? Can't understand why my daughter compares me with good old Vic M.

 

[AndyPJG]

Saga are to introduce a new Sat-Nav system....
Not only does it tell you how to get there, it will also tell you why you're going there in the first place!

 

[TheBigD]

When your former school was demolished thirty years ago!

Both my primary and secondary schools are now housing estates. I was in the last class for primary before it closed, and the secondary one followed 4 years after I left.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Parts of you that you didn't know existed start to ache for no reason.

You spot a typo in a post on a topic of you know you're getting older then when pressing the edit button realise that there was no typo present!

 

[PeterY]

... when people start asking you "have you got the App?" and you have no idea what they're referring to .....

I don't even have or want a smart phone. So for apps I'm stuffed.

When your former school was demolished thirty years ago!

Strangely all the schools I went to are still standing (I'm 64) and my daughter went to all the same schools as me.

 

[Gloster]

When the bus driver kneels the bus for you as soon as it stops. (Although better than one woman who would indicate that she wanted the bus knelt...and then went upstairs.)

 

[317 forever]

Getting up from the armchair and going "ooooh"

Or only managing to get up from the armchair at your second attempt.

 

[32475]

When anything on the television or wireless featuring Dr Lucy Worsley or Fiona Bruce stir the soul.

 

[nw1]

I have the feeling we had a similar thread before, but:

- Being grumpy about many aspects of the current era and thinking things were much better 20, 30 or 40 years ago
- Having cabinet members (government) a good few years younger than you
- Struggling to find UK number one hits in which the artist or band members was/were your current age or older when the song was released. I think there are still some in my case.. but not many!
- seeing pop stars which you remember being young, now reaching retirement age
- when a class of train that you remember being introduced (455s in my case) are near the end of active service. (That also applies to 442s and 365s but these can be discounted because they had a lifetime well under what it ought to have been)

When we get a PM and/or a US president younger than myself (hasn't happened yet), then I will seriously, seriously feel old. No chance of that with Trump or Biden, of course.

 

[317 forever]

I have the feeling we had a similar thread before, but:

- Being grumpy about many aspects of the current era and thinking things were much better 20, 30 or 40 years ago
- Having cabinet members (government) a good few years younger than you
- Struggling to find UK number one hits in which the artist or band members was/were your current age or older when the song was released. I think there are still some in my case.. but not many!
- seeing pop stars which you remember being young, now reaching retirement age
- when a class of train that you remember being introduced (455s in my case) are near the end of active service. (That also applies to 442s and 365s but these can be discounted because they had a lifetime well under what it ought to have been)

When we get a PM and/or a US president younger than myself (hasn't happened yet), then I will seriously, seriously feel old. No chance of that with Trump or Biden, of course.

I have already experienced 2 Prime Ministers in office younger than me: Cameron and Johnson. I think Starmer fits this category too.

 

[contrex]

- when a class of train that you remember being introduced ... are near the end of active service.

You know you're really old when the ones that replaced them are withdrawn. Might be coming up for me when 465s that replaced CEPs and BEPs go.

 

[317 forever]

You know you're really old when the ones that replaced them are withdrawn. Might be coming up for me when 465s that replaced CEPs and BEPs go.

Talking of which, I feel old knowing that replacements for London Routemasters have themselves been replaced now.

 

[Acey]

When it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night

 

[32475]

When it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night

I was waiting for someone to quote that! It’s the classic lyric from Fred Wedlock’s ‘The oldest swinger in town’ which must be found somewhere on YouTube.
On a similar theme there was Barry Cryer’s joke where an elderly lady says to an elderly man, ‘shall we go upstairs and make love?’ to which the answer is ‘well I can’t manage both’!

 

[MDB1images]

I can't understand people walking about in "designer" jeans full of holes. My mum had a dicky-fit and threw mine out if the slightest sign of wear was evident. Why pay through the nose for less material ? Can't understand why my daughter compares me with good old Vic M.

However, some 5 years ago a pair of jeans I use ripped just above the knee, I kept them as a scruffy pair for using around the house telling my disbelieving wife/son that ripped jeans will come back in fashion as they was in vogue in my teens.
Nowadays I can wear those same jeans outside as it's now back in fashion to have ripped jeans

 

[RichJF]

When you now fall into the "middle age" group in the Nectar card surveys.