You Know You’re Getting Old When…….

[Merab]

Your doctor, not the police tells you to slow down !

I decided I must getting old today when a warning light came on in the car and a message telling me there was pressure loss in the tyres.
Tyres duly checked.
Car now wants me to tell it that the tyres are ok.
Out comes the manual, reading glasses because the print is very small and I tried to work out what to do.
Despite not having an IT degree car now knows the tyres are fine.

Once upon a time you knew the tyres were soft when you checked them and used a foot pump to reinflate them.

What makes you realise that the years are passing by ?

 

[Bertie & Jelly]

Wondering why I put my car keys in the fridge ….

 

[Betsy]

You know you're old when...
The waitress takes your order using an ipad instead of writing it down.

 

[piggieminder]

Your knees creak when you get up off the floor.
It takes a week to do what you used to do in a day. Although some of the slow down maybe distraction from piggies.

 

[Eriathwen]

It was a massive punch to the ego when in my early 30s I was placed into the "senior" category in anything athletic I may opt to attempt

 

[Merab]

It was a massive punch to the ego when in my early 30s I was placed into the "senior" category in anything athletic I may opt to attempt

30 is still young!

 

[Bertie & Jelly]

It was a massive punch to the ego when in my early 30s I was placed into the "senior" category in anything athletic I may opt to attempt

That’s not very motivational! Do you stay a “senior” into your 90s or is there another category?

 

[Betsy]

You need something upstairs, go upstairs, promptly forget what you went up for, go back downstairs and then remember what it was you needed.

 

[Eriathwen]

That’s not very motivational! Do you stay a “senior” into your 90s or is there another category?

Once over 40 you change to veteran, so vet40, vet50 etc somehow veteran sounds way nicer than senior though!

It helps that there's athletes at my club in their 80s! So it doesn't feel too bad, although half of them can still outrun me

 

[anyar.dris]

When you call the young ones (meaning 20s and younger) "Kids"..like "these kids these days..." and such..

 

[BossHogg]

We have a new officer at work, I have shoes older than him!

 

[BossHogg]

It really hurt when he said I was older than his dad!

 

[teddymouse]

It really hurt when he said I was older than his dad!

The cheeky !
Remembering mums words, "go to the toilet before you leave the house " xx

 

[AidaB]

When the Doctor & Dentist/newsreaders etc start to look younger!

 

[Viennese Furbabies]

When someone offers you a seat on public transport.

Or when your youngest team member was born the year you started working in the same company.

 

[Betsy]

Being accused of being your friend's Mum!

 

[BossHogg]

The paramedic who came to look at MrsHogg thought she was my mother! Even though MrsHogg was really poorly, she still gave the paramedic a mouthful!

 

[BossHogg]

I stopped at a RTC involving a soldier, I was getting all his details on the incident report form. I asked him where he was based, he replied Fallingbostel in Germany, I replied that Fallingbostel was my last posting before leaving the army. It was then I looked at his date of birth, I realised it was before he was born!

 

[Pound Shilling & Pig]

Or when your youngest team member was born the year you started working in the same company.

Yes, and when the parents of your colleagues are younger than you

 

[poggle]

Those scrolly wheels to enter your birth year online - there's a lot more scrolling needed to find the 80s these days...

Also, watching my "baby" cousins drinking and smoking with their romantic partners at a family event recently. I remember them at my son's age but rarely see them these days, and it was a bit of a shock!

 

[piggieminder]

Those scrolly wheels to enter your birth year online - there's a lot more scrolling needed to find the 80s these days...

You think you've got problems! I have to go the the 50s.

I often refer to people as the elderly person and then realise that person is younger than me.

 

[Merab]

When you start counting the days until retirement ( 8.7.25 )
Not that I’m counting of course !

A few years ago we went to St Fagans museum near Cardiff and walked into a 1960s house - it was like walking back into my childhood.
My childhood is now in a museum

 

[Pound Shilling & Pig]

When, after spending an hour or two doing some weeding you stiffly hobble back into the house for a nice cup if tea

 

[Pound Shilling & Pig]

Those scrolly wheels to enter your birth year online - there's a lot more scrolling needed to find the 80s these days...

When the young folk born in the 80s are feeling old

 

[BossHogg]

Those scrolly wheels to enter your birth year online - there's a lot more scrolling needed to find the 80s these days...

80s? Try 60s!

 

[BossHogg]

When you start counting the days until retirement ( 8.7.25 )
Not that I’m counting of course !

A few years ago we went to St Fagans museum near Cardiff and walked into a 1960s house - it was like walking back into my childhood.
My childhood is now in a museum

I was supposed to retire last year, until the government changed the pension scheme!

 

[poggle]

You think you've got problems! I have to go the the 50s.

80s? Try 60s!

I just remember that when I first started using them, my birth year was just... there! No scrolling at all

 

[Pound Shilling & Pig]

Also, when you realise you've become that person holding up the queue while you search in your purse for the correct change

 

[piggieminder]

I just remember that when I first started using them, my birth year was just... there! No scrolling at all

The worse bit is when you scroll to what is almost the bottom and as you go to click on the date it all bounces back to the top again. Talk about rubbing it in!

 

[poggle]

The worse bit is when you scroll to what is almost the bottom and as you go to click on the date it all bounces back to the top again. Talk about rubbing it in!

Oof, that's a low blow...