Signs that you're getting old

66Mustang
66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,286 Championing
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Recently I got a tiny bit upset (although didn't say anything) because family members were glued to their smartphones and not interested in conversation.

I realised this is something that usually old people get upset about.

The funny thing is the "guilty" family members were much older than me!!

Have you recently done anything, or had something happen to you, that made you feel you're getting old?
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  • vikingqueen
    vikingqueen Scope Member Posts: 1,879 Championing
      Getting up off a chair and doing the ufff sound ..  :/
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,286 Championing
    Sound effects when getting up and sitting down is a good one!!
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,469 Championing
    I went to a bar for a friend's birthday, and my first thought was that the music was too loud.
  • Teigr
    Teigr Online Community Member Posts: 5,078 Championing
    Hearing myself talk about 'youngsters' the same way my mother used to talk about me.
  • janer1967
    janer1967 Online Community Member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    Having to have a birds and bees chat with my son 

    Some people have addressed me as his gran before I didn't have him till I was 39 
  • Ross_Alumni
    Ross_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,611 Championing
    I was talking with a friend about something that happened in the past, saying it was a decade ago, to which he pointed out it was actually 15 years ago.

    I think my response was "When did we get so old?"
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    You know you’re getting old when you bend down to tie a shoelace and wonder what else needs doing while you’re down there.
    (George Burns)
  • janer1967
    janer1967 Online Community Member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    The concern is the majority of times it has been a professional that has called me his gran 

    Eg doctors , school staff , shop assistants 
  • Karen7788
    Karen7788 Scope Member Posts: 596 Empowering
    Going into a nightclub with family and friends for my future daughter-in-law’s hen do when the bouncer looks at me and said there are seating areas on the second floor. 
  • Karen7788
    Karen7788 Scope Member Posts: 596 Empowering
    Hi @Biblioklept, I had to after a few cocktails 
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,129 Championing
    Getting up off the floor is a James bond mission in its self. 
  • Starlingbird
    Starlingbird Online Community Member Posts: 168 Empowering
    Using all my energy to go upstairs to get something I need, only to forget what it is I want by the time I reach the landing.

    Even worse, getting half-way up the stairs, forgetting what I was going up for, going back downstairs....then remembering what it was, so set off up the stairs, get to the top....and forget AGAIN!!! 
  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 17,172 Championing
    It was my grandson's birthday yesterday. My daughter had texted me the day before saying, 'Can you believe you'll have a 20 year old grandson tomorrow?' I replied, 'Makes me feel too old.' She texted back, 'Thought you're 27.' (I've told my children for too many years that I'm only 27, as that's how old I'm in my head). I replied, 'That's why having a 20 year old grandson is puzzling.'
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing

    I always wondered when exactly the small wee hours of the night were...I found out when I turned sixty.

  • SueHeath
    SueHeath Online Community Member Posts: 12,388 Championing
    Biblioklept said:
    I wish there was a funny button to respond to some of these :D 
    some think i would love x
  • SueHeath
    SueHeath Online Community Member Posts: 12,388 Championing
    I just look in the mirror ha ha 
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,286 Championing
    @leeCal I knew that all too well from my early 20s, several years of only being able to leave my bedroom for a few mins a day to shower and use the loo and being unable to leave for the other 23 hours and 50 mins leaves a legacy on your bladder!!!

    For the same reason I can relate to @woodbine nipping to the loo every time I pass one just in case! :wink:
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,286 Championing
    @chiarieds kind of similar I think: my grandmother said she felt old when she retired, but even older when her son (my father) retired!!!
  • Footloose
    Footloose Online Community Member Posts: 34 Contributor
    This is a sobering experience - Meeting an aunt of mine who I haven't seen for almost 20 years, who is now 99, to discover I look more ancient than she does! - I'm 73, whilst she still acts and looks like she did in her mid-60s!
  • Steve_in_The_City
    Steve_in_The_City Scope Member Posts: 813 Trailblazing
    What gets my gander up each and every time is when someone asks me if I know how to email! I admit I haven't aged well due to illness, but Methuselah I ain't! I always give a facetious response like "is that where you press a button and it goes dot dot dot dash dash dash dot dot dot", or "is that where you get two empty tin cans and join them together with twine". But this is my favourite "is this where you light a fire and wave a blanket over it? Only last time I did this I accidentally burnt down a shed, a line full of washing and my neighbours gazebo where they were holding a wedding reception. Both the ambulance crew and the fire brigade told me H&S no longer approve of this method but not to worry, I didn't burn down my pigeon loft so once I have found my reed brush and papyrus I'll be able to send an epistle." I last said that to a very officious Council Official who was berating me over a trvial matter. I managed to stay civil until she asked if I knew how to email...

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