You Know You're Getting Old When.......

[Domestic Goddess]

I went to speak to my younger daughter's substitute teacher today, but could only find a 17ish year old youth in a track suit loitering in the classroom. I asked if he knew where Mr X was and he replied that he WAS Mr X!!!! This boy (who is in fact 25) has been teaching my daughter!!!
I mumbled my question and slunk out feeling very old.

Another signs of impending middle age are my garden centre addiction, I find it hard to stay awake after 10 pm, my fondness for Hobknobs, poor memory and the more people I meet, the more I like my dog.

I now live in morbid terror of shopkeepers calling me "dear" instead of "love" :bigeyes:

[Annabel]

:badmood: the other day my hubby was chatting to a colleague of his, when i came along...i said hello, his colleague said 'is that your mum' to him :rant: :rant: :cry: :cry: :cry:

i went immediately to Boots to buy some hair dye!!! :lol: :lol:

[JJ]

Great thread hun!!!!

My Eldest daughter.... loves her music.... SS and I are often in the car when she demands her cd on.... we give in and have to endure her music...

We groan and complain and often say.... ''This isn't real music..... it's just rubbish and has no tune ...blah blah blah.....'' The VERY same things our parents used to say to us... when I used to have Duran Duran blarring out and SS had His tunes pumping out too....

Also..... Uni.... well that's opened a can of worms about age.... My personal Tutor is eight years younger.....


I still feel sixteen... but my mirror tells a different story!!!


JJ

[er 59]

hi dg
age is just a number you should only worry if shopkeepers rush to give you a chair to sit on and you are grateful then you know your getting old
garden centres and hob nobs are fine just dont dip the hobnobs in cocoa
as for prefering your dog they are loyal loving and true and they take you as you are and give unconditional love (sounds like common sense to me)

[Lady Penelope]

:lol: Aw DG,

You do make me laugh... :hihi: :hihi: ...That's me too :bigeyes:

No, darling you were having what I call an 'off day' I sometimes get them. :o
I padder into a room and think, good grief what did I walk in here for :unsure: Upteen times a day. :rolleyes: I need to carry a list :(

I popped into the chemist today and caught sight of myself in a shop window.... :o
Didn't like what I saw either. :( I am only 5' 3" and had flatties on which didn't help. So lept in the car (not going to say it was a 4 x 4 :lol: ) and shot home as quick as I could donned with sunglasses ;) just in case anyone saw me. :rolleyes:

Haven't had a chance to find out what the postman would call me as Chicken Legs always beats me to it and the postman leaves in haste, I often retrieve the tattered mail, with blood on the other day too :o

I changed my avator today as well....but it didn't come out as the lithe shape I saw on google :lol: Never mind it came out wider and more like me then to be honest. ;)

I still feel 18 inside though and sure this is only a state of mind as bikerroc said!! :D

Well sweetie I am 48 though I don't think I look it at all...more like 38 :D I certainly don't behave at my age :P in fact DG the older you get the more confident you get to be exactly how you want yourself to be :thumbs:

God forbid when we meet girl........it will be a scream!!! :wow:

LPxxx

[sesentayuno]

I have a boyish look and people always guessed my age wrong by at least 6-7 years a few years back :blush: ,I've always felt slightly uneasy about it because that means I don't look mature enough. People still get my age wrong, but the gap is narrowing and there were a few instances that they were spot on, I miss those days when they were way off the target. :sad: .

Very soon, the age people guess will swing the other way... :o

[Beth]

I used to be told that you knew when you were getting older when the police men start to look younger! and its true :lol: :lol:

I managed to get half fare on the bus a week before my 25th birthday :blush: (this was serveral years ago now! :lol: )

you are right, its all about state of mind and sometimes I feel older than others, but mainly I am young at heart.....I do plan on turning in to a very grumpy old lady though!! :lol:

[angrymom]

I dug out some old records from the loft, my teenage lp and single collection, a friend and I were giggling quietly and doing the "OH wow, remember this one....."

when my son and his friend enter the room, they join in briefly, pick some up, look through them and then both ask almost in unison....

"What are they?"

AAAAAGGGGHHHHH...now I know I am getting old!

Angrymom

[Eeyore]

Mr Eeyore and I both look younger than we are. The amount of times we have had cold callers coming to the door, and they ask "are you the homeowner?" (while they look past you :rolleyes: or worse "is your mam or dad in?" :hihi:

[sp54]

Good thread,DG :thumbs:

I think I could pick something out of all the replies so far!

I too am addicted to garden centres, DG

LP, I am alsways walking into a room and wondering what I'd gone in there for :blush:

I bend down to pick something up and wonder what else I can do while I'm down there :o :lol:

I still feel 18 inside, but have turned into my own mother.

I say to my kids re. their choice of music 'turn that racket down'. My parents used to say it to me and I swore I would never say it to my own kids.

Does anyone else remember when dog poo was white. LP might ;) My kids think I am making it up , but only people over a certain age can remember when dog poo was white.

Aaaahh, those were the good old days..........

[er 59]

hi all
sp54 i had to lol,i forgot dog poo was always white when i was a kid
why was that i wonder?
maybe it was because dogs ate more bones in those days!
also the going in a room and wondering what you went in there for is something i do frequently the other week i put my cup of tea in the fridge and left the milk on the work top i spent a good four or five minutes talking to myself saying im sure i did make a cup of tea it was only when i made another and put the milk away that i realised what i had done
that is not a sign of age its the pressure of modern day living and having too much on your mind
(well thats my excuse and no one will shift me) :D

[Matthew]

Originally posted by Annabel@10th June 2005 - 9:46 PM
:badmood: the other day my hubby was chatting to a colleague of his, when i came along...i said hello, his colleague said 'is that your mum' to him

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Yikes! :o Did you :aggressive: him too?!

[goosegirl]

The only time my dogs poo was white was when I gave her the dog food called Webox. :lol: We were on a camping site with my fella's parents, it made it easier to see at 6am on a morning bagging it up.

It was embarassing the looks we got when people wondering what we were doing realised.

GG.

[zlate]

Hey I remember white dog poo!!

I feel old because I have a few aches and pains BUT I love the music, I still go to night clubs. I enjoy the company of younger people (on the whole) my daughter was told by one of her friends that "your dad, hes way cool"

My body looks a little more lived in, but is still much the same as it was when I was 21 42 chest, 32 waist has gone to a 48 chest and a 36 waist. I have a few grey hairs that pop through but not many. So all in all im a well preserved old duck.

S

[sp54]

Originally posted by er indoors@11th June 2005 - 9:58 AM
hi all
sp54 i had to lol,i forgot dog poo was always white when i was a kid
why was that i wonder?
maybe it was because dogs ate more bones in those days!

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Spot on, er indoors!!!

Someone sent me an email a while back called 'do you remember when...?' and white dog poo was on it. I had completely forgotten, but then had a very intellectual :blush: :lol: conversation with someone else and we couldn't think why. We went through all we could think of, and finally discovered it was because dogs used to gnaw on bones all the time back then!!!

I must get out more....... :hihi: :lol:

[tortoise]

White dog poo!!?? Though I am ashamed to admit I have often thought about it!! Where did it all go?

I am 32 in August and get treated like a 16 yr old by my nan and older members of staff at work.They think that as I am young enough to be their daughter then I can be treated as such! I find I get on well with the children's parents who I teach as I am roughly their age or older!!

One new teacher who I am mentor to (God that does make me feel old-I don't know enough to be a mentor!) is only 22!! She doesn't even remember Rainbow!
If I mentioned white dog poo to her she would probably think I was off my rocker! :bigeyes:

On the other hand I get treated as an old girl by the younger teachers and members of staff. Some of them are only 2 years younger than me.

I am at that in between age! B)

[JJ]

There used to be a sit com called 'Life begins at Forty' with Derek Nimmo in to...yearss aggooo...

I must have been around 9 or 10 and used to watch my parent laugh their heads off at it..... I remember thinking that if when you hit forty there isn't much point carrying on as you are going to die soon anyway!!!! :hihi:

At 36... or as I prefer to call myself 20,16...... I am running head on into my forties and I cant slow down....


Don't you find the years going so much quicker too as we age??
When I was a little 'un time used to drag.......


JJ

[Beth]

I had a theory about white dog poo ;) now its an offence to leave dog poo in the street, where as before less people cleaned up after their mutts (many still dont) I always thought then in the summer the flies sucked all the brown out leaving white crumbly bits! :lol: :lol: hehehe :blush:
maybe the bone theory is better :D :D

[rb2002]

:lol: love this thread

Our son had us knotting ourselves the other day. We decided to get a new stereo, with a turntable for all our old vinyl records.

8 year old son looked at turntable and asked what that bit was for. His face was a study when we produced a large round piece of black plastic which produced strange noises (I was listening to Duran Duran :lol: )

Life before CD's eh?

the ancient (35yr old) rb

[sp54]

:hihi: :lol: OMG!

At least I feel 'younger' knowing I am not the only one to remember white dog poo.
Thank gawd for that :hihi: :lol:

The good old days, eh? B)

[Lady Penelope]

:bigeyes: White dog poo!! :lol:

OMG I love this thread, I hope you lot realise we are all Barking Mad? :wow:

Yes SP darling I do remember.... :lol: Mind you thinking about it, there were less dogs around unlike nowadays and one didn't really 'pooper scoop' like we do now.

See this....top of the talk in most forums it seems!! :D White dog poo!! (http://mcmuffin.co.uk/mr_and_mrs_mcmuffin/2004/03/cheesy_bugs_and.html)

LP not looking a day over 21 :lol: xxx

God I forgot the 'not' :lol:

[Eskander]

Just a few more:

You know you are getting old when:
1. Everything hurts and what doesn't hurt doesn't work.
2. The gleam in your eyes is from the sun hitting your bifocals.
3. You feel like the morning after and you haven't been anywhere.
4. Your little black book contains only names that end in M.D.
5. Your children begin to look middle aged.
6. You finally reach the top of the ladder and find it leaning against the
wrong wall.
7. Your mind makes contracts your body can't meet.
8. You look forward to a dull evening.
9. Your favorite part of the newspaper is "20 Years Ago Today."
10. You turn out the lights for economic rather than romantic reasons.
11. You sit in a rocking chair and can't get it going.
12. Your knees buckle, and your belt won't.
14. You're 17 around the neck, 42 around the waist, and 95 around the golf
course.
15. Your back goes out more than you do.
16. The little old gray haired lady you helped across the street is your
wife.
17. You sink your teeth into a steak, and they stay there.
18. You have too much room in the house and not enough in the medicine
cabinet.
19. You get your exercise acting as a pallbearer for your friends who
exercise.
20. You know all the answers, but nobody asks you the questions.
21. You're asleep, but others worry that you're dead.
22. You quit trying to hold your stomach in, no matter who walks into the
room.
23. You buy a compass for the dash of your car.
24. You are proud of your lawn mower.
25. Your best friend is dating someone half their age...and isn't breaking
any laws.
27. Your arms are almost too short to read the newspaper.
28. You sing along with the elevator music.
29. You would rather go to work than stay home sick.
30. You constantly talk about the price of gasoline.
31. You enjoy hearing about other people's operations.
32. You consider coffee one of the most important things in life.
33. You make an appointment to see the dentist.
34. You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.
35. Neighbors borrow your tools.
36. People call at 9 p.m. and ask, "Did I wake you?"
37. You have a dream about prunes.
38. You answer a question with, "because I said so."
39. You send money to PBS.
40. The end of your tie doesn't come anywhere near the top of your pants.
41. You take a metal detector to the beach.
42. You wear black socks with sandals.
43. You know what the word "equity" means.
44. You can't remember the last time you lay on the floor to watch TV.
45. Your ears are hairier than your head.
46. You get into a heated argument about pension plans.
47. You got cable for the weather channel (sometimes referred to as "Old
Folks MTV").
48. You have a party and the neighbors don't even realize it.
49. It takes you all night to do what you used to do all night

[sp54]

Oh Eskander, that's hilarious :hihi: :lol:

I'll hold my hands up to no's. 1.3.7.8.10.12.15.32.36.44.

Mr.sp has a lot more he could own up to. :unsure:

[er 59]

eskander :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:
you just cheered me up no end

[Eskander]

Thanks for that - it's amazing what a quick search of the web will reveal - all I did was google for "You know you are getting old when"

[Domestic Goddess]

Can anyone else remember when it was cool
*to like Michael Jackson
*fancy George Micheal
*wear deely boppers a "Relax" T shirt and ra ra skirts,
*Lust after the bloke stripping off in the Levi's 501s ad - phwoar!!!
* use mobile phones the size of house brick
*Taping the Top 40 on Radio 1 on a Sunday evening
*drinking Babycham
*Being thwarted by a Rubix cube
*Thinking Space Invaders Atari tennis and Pac Man were the cutting edge of computer entertainment
*Thinking there was nothing sordid about Frank Bough/Gary Glitter
*thinking Prince Charles and Lady Diana were a match made in Heaven
*Boy bands played instruments
*Riding a Chopper bike
*Starsky & Hutch making cardigans a style statement
*What on earth was Captain Birdseye doing on a ship with all those children??
*Rolf Harris on his Saturday show
*Were you a Tizwas or Swopshop house?
*Crying at ET
*Rod Hull & Emu
* Four TV channels - how did we cope?
*All NFH problems could be dealt with by The A Team
*Wearing leg warmers throughout summer in the hope that you'd look like an extra from "Fame"
*Punk Rock
*Being polite to people older than you
*Discovering that the Falklands are not off of the coast of Scotland
*Reading Adrian Mole (who the heck is Harry Potter??)
*Thinking that you could get high by mixing coca cola and aspirin
*Wondering if there WERE alligators in the sewers
*Fancying/wanting to be a member of Pan's People/Legs and Co
*Yuppies were in - Chavs didn't exist
*The Royal Family were to be admired
*Wincey Willis reading the weather on TVAM
*Anneka Rice's bum on Treasure Hunt

Oh I could go on forever!!

[Lady Penelope]

:wow:

This thread is getting better and better!!! :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

LPxxx