Getting Old

[hopalong]

What in your opinion are the first signs you are getting old?  Mines is that you start watching the news and  read the obituary page.

[KittyGlitter]

When you find yourself looking forward to watching the Antiques Roadshow ;-)

[jenstar]

When there's a report on the local news that some teenagers have been killed in a road accident and for a split second you think you'd better watch it in case it's someone you know - then it dawns on you that you don't actually know anyone under 30...

[lillylampost]

When your standing minding your own business and a stranger comes up to you and pulls out a tape and starts to measure you or a chap with a hood carrying scythe thingy with a pointy finger and says in a deep voice yooour timmme issss upp that�s a good indicator or the kids ask what it was like in the olden days. When you get out of the chair and make a groaning noise. 

[mongos bird]

when you watch top of the pops and find yourself echoing the comments your dad used to make 'call that music/good grief, what does he look like' etc, etc . . .

[pjm007]

When I find myself shouting at kids to 'GET OFF MY GARDEN' !

[acw]

Hopalong - if you're definition is true, I should retire before I graduate!!  I'm 22 and watch the news AND read the obituaries!  I think this may mean I don't have a life, which is hopefully different from being near the end of it!!

 

In my opinion, it's the first time you say "the youth of today.." (or words to that effect) coupled with any of the following: 

• a "tsk" noise
• a shaking of the head
• eyes raised to the Heavens
• your friends nodding in agreement

[Robinia]

When you can recall something in glowing detail from decades ago but haven't got a clue what you did yesterday!

When elasticated waists start looking like an option!

[wellhungjock]

When you have a droplet hanging from the end of your nose.

[netibiza]

Hearing wolfwhistles when walking down the road and then realising they are for one's teenage daughter - a real zinger that one!!!

[Gilli]

Dare I say it ? .....

.... white/grey hairs (and not necessarily on your head)

[FP]

When you say, oooh and ahhh and when you get out of your chair

[FP]

I've always watched the news from being about 10 or 11.  It was sort of tradition that the family sat and watched the news before tea.  I always was interested in it. 

[Philtaz]

When I hear one of the current top 40 'covers' and tell the younger colleagues in work that I remember the original.

Then they look at me in a confused manner with "but this is the original........." written all over their faces.

Like the girl in work who hasn't heard I'm Not In Love by 10cc, even though her teacher once told her and her classmates that they were named after a famous band(the classes in her school were known as 8cc, 9cc, 10cc, of which she was a pupil).

[tetherend]

It's when your face doesn't wake up until about 2 hours after you do.

[thikasabrik]

When you're driving along behind a caravan and find yourself admiring the caravan rather than thinking "get out of the way you moron."

[Clanad]

May I offer that my first clue was when the kids ask if everything was in black and white when I was a kid... and the current joke making the rounds, which everyone finds hilarious, I heard 20 years ago...

[magicdice]

ohh no this is reakly depressing

one day i'm gonna be old : (

btw netibiza, my dad was complaining about that the other day - a couple of years ago, if someone beeped as he was walking along the road with us it was because they knew him. these days, it's because he has one of his 3 (gorgeous!) teenage daughters with him!

[duckygirl]

for me, the first sign that I was getting old was when I said mmmmm those shoes look comfy!

[Kay]

Oh this is funny. I go for elasticated waists now,oh so comfy shoes+sandals.Facial hair especially dark ones that need to be plucked out.. OMG is this really me! I was taking my grandson to visit a cousin of mine he said " Nanny I did'nt know old women had cousins" Im 57 in June but that made me feel like Methusala.