You know you’re getting older when……

[simonw]

Thought Casey Jones was a TV series about some late 19th century midwest American railroad engineer. Don't really remember it being a one-time railway station fast food outlet from BR days.

It was both

 

[Old Yard Dog]

I realized I was past it thirty years ago when contestants on Family Fortunes were asked to name somebody famous from Yorkshire and Sir Geoffrey Boycott was beaten into second place by Scary Spice.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

I realized I was past it thirty years ago when contestants on Family Fortunes were asked to name somebody famous from Yorkshire and Sir Geoffrey Boycott was beaten into second place by Scary Spice.

30 years ago? The Spice Girls phenomenon wasn't a thing before 1994/95, or maybe even slightly later, was it?

 

[D6968]

30 years ago? The Spice Girls phenomenon wasn't a thing before 1994/95, or maybe even slightly later, was it?

1996 I believe, yes that long ago!

 

[Killingworth]

I realized I was past it thirty years ago when contestants on Family Fortunes were asked to name somebody famous from Yorkshire and Sir Geoffrey Boycott was beaten into second place by Scary Spice.

My cricket bat was autographed by Sir Len Hutton

 

[Old Yard Dog]

1996 I believe, yes that long ago!

And Sir Geoffrey played his last game of cricket in 1986. I am getting old!

 

[duncanp]

....when you look at people wearing torn jeans and think:-

WHY?

WHAT ON EARTH IS THE POINT?

(Yes, I know I'm turning into Victor Meldrew)

 

[Typhoon]

Thought Casey Jones was a TV series about some late 19th century midwest American railroad engineer. Don't really remember it being a one-time railway station fast food outlet from BR days.

You know you're getting older when you remember a TV series that was only shown in black and white.
You know you're getting old when someone reminds you of a TV series that was only shown in black and white, and your reaction is 'I'd forgotten all about that'.

(Also - https://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory/casey-jones-burger-bar - the logo is familiar, never ate there)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

At the age of 77, you find that you can have exciting new ailments that you never had in your much younger days and also that your toenails seem now to be made out of carbon steel and you need a podiatrist to cut them for you.

 

[Gloster]

If you can still cut your own toenails, you need to take a breather between each one.

 

[Acey]

First you need to reach your toes !

 

[Rutland23]

When you discover that your School Bus is in a Museum.

Not only are the Mechanicals and bodywork in better condition than yours, but it is actually YOUNGER than you.

Regards

Ian

 

[317 forever]

You remember Kate Bush, either when Running Up That Hill was originally in the charts or even when she was #1 with Wuthering Heights.

 

[Lost property]

Classic car rally's have vehicles younger than you.

 

[Worm]

When you plan a trip out and where to go to the toilet is a key item of concern

Worse when you need a certain master key to access said toilet, I’m 25 years old

 

[GusB]

(Yes, I know I'm turning into Victor Meldrew)

When you stumble upon an old episode of One Foot in the Grave* and check Google to see how many of the actors are still alive.

* And other programmes from that era

When you discover that your School Bus is in a Museum.

There's a fair chance that I went to school on the one on the right!

 

[Gloster]

When you are surprised to find that a TV programme was made in colour, because you saw it on a black and white set.

 

[PeterY]

You remember Kate Bush, either when Running Up That Hill was originally in the charts or even when she was #1 with Wuthering Heights.

I remember Kate Bush very well and in my youth I had a crush on her. I loved watching her dance. She's about the same age as me .

 

[Gloster]

You look at a picture of commuters walking along a platform at Waterloo that accompanies news of the rail strike and think, ‘I can remember when every one of them would have been dressed in a dark suit and wearing a tie, mostly carrying a briefcase, and often wearing a (bowler) hat and carrying an umbrella. And it would have been almost all men.’

 

[duncanp]

You look at a picture of commuters walking along a platform at Waterloo that accompanies news of the rail strike and think, ‘I can remember when every one of them would have been dressed in a dark suit and wearing a tie, mostly carrying a briefcase, and often wearing a (bowler) hat and carrying an umbrella. And it would have been almost all men.’

...with all the trains operated by slam door rolling stock

...and long queues at the bus stop outside the station for bus routes operated by routemaster buses

 

[nw1]

Here's a rail related one.

You look at a CWN from before you were born, and, thanks to the presence of things called "peak extras" (and lots of them), together with the fact that some of the stock of your youth was already in active service, it seems less "foreign" to you than the post-2020 railway.

 

[Howardh]

When old footage of Lancashire or England from the 70's appears on telly and you scan the crowd to see if I'm there...

PS, that's 1970's before you start...

 

[Killingworth]

Then I recall that my grandmother was born the same year as the last public hanging in England (for the curious; http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Timeline/Execution.htm )- and that all my grandparents were adults before cars, telephones and the like arrived.

 

[Busaholic]

You remember Kate Bush, either when Running Up That Hill was originally in the charts or even when she was #1 with Wuthering Heights.

Re Kate Bush and when Wuthering Heights was released, your best friend at the time, ten years younger than you, revealed that as a Catholic schoolboy in Greenwich he'd dated her, a Catholic schoolgirl in nearby Blackheath, for a short while. He told me this before she even hit the charts and I have no doubt that he was telling the truth.

 

[Bald Rick]

When a junction you helped to dig up and renew in the past is life expired and renewed again.
(so a friend told me, it’s definitely not me as I’m not old)

 

[Busaholic]

When you use the term 'guttersnipe' to describe a particularly revolting politician and the four people you are with all give you quizzical looks (admittedly, not unusual.)

 

[davetheguard]

When you could get on a train without a public address system. How did we ever manage to actually get on or off the train successfully, at the right station, and with all our own belongings without it? (yes, I know it does have its uses).

 

[Ashley Hill]

When your conversation with friends includes what tablets you are all taking and comparing side effects.

 

[Dai Corner]

When you've regarded the same class of loco or unit as new and exciting, mundane and boring and nostalgic.

 

[duncanp]

When your conversation with friends includes what tablets you are all taking and comparing side effects.

...or when your conversation with friends includes plans for retirement, or the fact that they are expecting another grandchild soon, or how much you can save with a Senior Railcard.