You know you're getting old when.....

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  • DippyDiDippyDi Posts: iii,522

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    That stage in your life where you outset Googling "how to stay immature looking"

  • th60th60 Posts: 1,958

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    ... your spam mail is not about cheap Viagra anymore but near stairlifts and retirement homes. :(

  • When you're well-nigh excited about the soft prezzies on Christmas.

    When diffusive from your 10pm bedtime even an hr will hateful yous'll be battling sleep deprivation and tiredness the next twenty-four hours. Forget about late party nights! And if you practise become out to dinner and share a canteen of wine, you'll need a expert sit down with a pint of water and dioralytes before heading to bed to avoid annihilation worse.

  • When younger people seem surprised that you're wearing something fashionable! i bought some lovely blood-red shoes a few years ago Considering they were on trend. a younger woman I know looked me up and downwards and said "did you realise those shoes are really in manner"?

  • You visit a museum and your childhood home, toys and games are one of the exhibits.

    Some thirty years agone my daughter went on a schoolhouse trip to a countryside museum. The detail that registered with hither was a "metallic stick that you used in the olden days to play with your fire". Realised she was talking almost a poker which she had never seen as we had always had central heating and no open fires. Felt onetime that a poker had become a museum item in my lifetime

  • You visit a museum and your childhood abode, toys and games are one of the exhibits.

    Some thirty years ago my girl went on a school trip to a countryside museum. The item that registered with here was a "metal stick that y'all used in the olden days to play with your fire". Realised she was talking virtually a poker which she had never seen as we had always had cardinal heating and no open fires. Felt onetime that a poker had become a museum item in my lifetime

    I still use a poker on our open up burn down! We do accept fundamental heating, simply you lot can't beat a real fire on a cold winter'south nighttime

  • You're buying face creams in the mature bracket now, when y'all only started off in the xx - 30 bracket. (Note: "mature" face creams accept loads of sickly sweetness perfume, therefore the manufacturers think we similar information technology for some reason, or nosotros smell 😝)

  • When you don't recognise any of the shops on the loftier street whatsoever more and all the ones you had when you lot were lilliputian are gone... Woolsworths, Littlewoods, Addams, Business firm of Fraser, Virgin Music, Zavvi, HMW, BHS...

  • You lot know your getting old when your dog has always been really happy sleeping on your knees. And then he stands upwardly to get down and stands on your knees and the hurting lol.

  • When you realise that it was over 50 years agone that Santa last visited y'all! :(

    Ohhh that's sad but if you stop believing in him he won't visit you lol. And so you have got 12 months to commencement believing in him over again lol

  • You say to your nephews 'blah blah blah Gloria Estefan blah blah' and they say in reply ...

    'Who?!?'

  • You lot'd rather stay home on a friday night than get out on the lash.

    Yous watch Christmas TOTP's and accept no idea who any of them are. :)

  • When you lot reach the age of that actor that you lot always thought was too old to still be playing the romantic lead.

    Now, unsurprisingly, they look a lot younger than you remember.

  • When it'due south besides risky to go full blast on the bottom trumpet and no one appreciates your best efforts anyhow.

  • When you lot couldn't care less about what other people think.

  • DippyDiDippyDi Posts: 3,522

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    When you feel like uttering "The kids of today......"

    (fortunately I haven't reached that stage just yet, but it'southward hovering :o )

  • You get irrationally bellyaching at immature people for no other reason other than being young, wrinkle complimentary etc.

  • d0lphind0lphin Posts: 23,843

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    Ole Gunner Solskjaer not merely manages Manchester United but he has Grayness Hair!!!

  • You go from knowing for a fact that expensive anti-aging creams are a con to thinking perhaps rejuvenating extract of pubescent starfish plasma might work afterward all so here'southward my pile of money and permit's give it a become.

  • When policemen showtime looking like they've merely just finished their A levels.

    When builders end whistling when you go by.

    When you're getting upwardly at 6am for piece of work, instead of getting home from clubbing at 6am on a workday.

    When you end going clubbing and offset collecting cats.

  • When all the old celebs are passing away and they were function of your babyhood 😪

  • When all the old celebs are passing away and they were part of your childhood 😪

    or even worse ……. you lot were part of theirs !

  • TsuraTsura Posts: 2,771

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    When y'all accept a loving cup of tea after a night out before bed!

  • Ole Gunner Solskjaer not only manages Manchester United but he has Gray HAIR!!!

    Simply he still manages to look well-nigh twelve!