What Makes You Feel Old? #2

[Meringue22]

I said ‘Good moaning’ to a colleague in her 20’s. She didn’t get it I hope you lot do!!

 

[Rosie glow]

How long it takes to scroll back the calendar to fill your birthday date in on online forms

 

[BonBon27]

Finding other people annoying everywhere I go. When I was younger I thought my parents moaning about parking, traffic, rude sales people, bad service, prices of things, “youths” etc was just them being old and boring. But now?!? OMG everything gets to me!! Just been to the cinema and the amount of people talking, looking at their phones, putting their feet up on the occupied seats in front of them, getting up and going and coming back…..ugh. Don’t pay to go places and then not make the most, and certainly don’t spoil it for others!!
Signed, Grandma BonBon (I’m 42, not 82, but I feel it )

 

[hehehe]

I'm almost twice my new GP's age.

 

[Pesky Tarian]

My parents are war babies who had me later in life. My 10 y/o is currently doing WW2 in class and she told the (very young) teacher that her grandparents were born during the war and they told her not to be so daft .

 

[Behelzabobs]

Had a young 20 something tell me today about the incredible service she had discovered “ it’s called a milkman and they bring you milk! It’s in cute glass bottles and they leave it on your doorstep and I get two pints every other day but you can get more if you want it’s great”

she was so excited and enthusiastic as I felt the crushing weight of my age descending

 

[FenellaTheWitch]

My parents are war babies who had me later in life. My 10 y/o is currently doing WW2 in class and she told the (very young) teacher that her grandparents were born during the war and they told her not to be so daft .

I would actually correct the teacher about that. I had an incident with my daughter when she was about 8 or so where the teacher dismissed something she said about our family. I went in the next morning and told her she was wrong, it had happened and my daughter was 100% correct.

My favourite story about stuff like this is Henry Caville's nephew told his class his Uncle was Superman. This was not believed so Henry took him to school.

 

[Pesky Tarian]

I picked up a pistachio Vienetta today for a bit of a different pudding and me and my husband were telling the children how Vienetta was really fancy when we were small and you only had it on special occasions... It cost me £2 .

 

[Pesky Tarian]

The dog just chewed up my favourite clothes peg and I died a little inside at the sudden realisation that I actually had a favourite clothes peg.

 

[Pesky Tarian]

I'm back. We watched Wonka today and the kids we're saying 'oh it's that old guy from Paddington' (about Hugh Grant). I'm thinking oh no no it's actually dashing cad about town Daniel Cleaver .

 

[EllenDeGenerate]

The fact that my husband used massage me with baby oil, but now he massages me with Deep Heat.

 

[BonBon27]

I was at an airport waiting for food last year and heard the waitress say the lady is waiting for her food. I looked round thinking what lady and realised they meant me, but I'm still a girl in my mind (I'm definitely not, I'm 44 )

Like when a parent says to their kid on a scooter “Mind the lady” and you turn to let the old pensioner with her shopping trolley go past, but realise there is no one else there and you in fact are the old lady the kid is being warned about

 

[petitspois]

New Order’s Blue Monday is 40 years old.

 

[FenellaTheWitch]

Just watching the music channel Now 70's and all the adverts are for tena pads and erectile disfunction gel

It could be worse, the channels my dad watches are all funeral plans and orthopaedic chairs.

 

[Piff paff puff]

Neil Tennant is 70

 

[Piff paff puff]

Realising the attractive shelf replenisher at the supermarket helped you get that top shelf item not because you're young and sexy but because you're OLD

 

[Tangent Tiger]

I haven't gone out yet and already can't wait to get back home

 

[Rosie glow]

That when I was a kid quality street tins at Christmas looked like this

 

[FenellaTheWitch]

I work in a secondary school and said to one of the pupils ‘the world is your lobster’ (Arthur Daley - Minder). A teacher in her 30’s looked at me and said ‘surely you mean oyster?’.

I say that all the time Along with 'mange tout Rodney'

 

[Lalla]

My parents are war babies who had me later in life. My 10 y/o is currently doing WW2 in class and she told the (very young) teacher that her grandparents were born during the war and they told her not to be so daft .

It's awful the teacher would be so dismissive.
It's surely not so unbelievable that a 10 year old could have grandparents who are in their late 70s/early 80s?!
My children are older now, but I'm 51 (so could still be the parent of a 10 year old) and not only was my mum born during WW2, my dad actually fought in the war! (and his father was a Marine in WW1).