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What makes you feel old?

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  • jenchin66
    jenchin66 Posts: 648 Forumite
    When I go to my kids parents evening and have to sit in front of some of my old teachers :eek: makes me feel like a teenager again
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  • lil_me
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    When children I babysat are in pubs, I did embarrassingly shout at one saying 'Does your Mam know you are in here?' once and haven't done it again!

    When my sons stand in teacher was my old teacher from primary school (well it was a junior school then but anyway) and he asked if he remembered me, and the teacher comments yes, but that was 18 years ago :(

    People who are younger than me look younger, some drivers especially I think to myself they look too youn to drive.
    One day I might be more organised...........:confused:
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  • lynsayjane
    lynsayjane Posts: 3,547 Forumite
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    at 25 not much makes me feel old, but i have a couple of little cousins, one who turns 16 next year but i remember the day she was born, the other is now 19 and driving and i remember bathing her in the basin in the sink!
  • GirlRacer_2
    GirlRacer_2 Posts: 3,026 Forumite
    The good old family planning clinic makes me feel ancient. The receptionist always booms 'DATE OF BIRTH' and I always whisper it. Then I turn around to sit down and am faced with all these 16 year olds.....

    I'm only 35 but I've already got a great-nephew whose 2, Oh God where have all the years gone?
  • ariba10
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    Quackers wrote:
    :ROFL: :ROFL:



    Oh, and my knee hurting when I get down onto the floor at work:o


    Would you like to expand on that?
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  • hypno06
    hypno06 Posts: 32,296 Forumite
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    I felt really old last year when I realised I am a year older than my mother was when I brought my now-hubby home for the first time!
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  • gelato_cat
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    My friends' and cousins' kids calling me Auntie Suzey!!! I like it but I still haven't quite got used to it.

    One of my poor "nieces" was sat there calling me for about five minutes... "auntie, auntie" and I didn't realise she was talking to me :eek: To be fair, though, I was sitting next to her dad's sister (my other cousin) who is a lot older than me - I thought she was talking to her!

    Suze

    I hit a birthday last week. It fills me with a great deal of awe to realise that since I was born I've been around the sun 33 times, travelling a total of JUST OVER 19 AND A QUARTER BILLION MILES(!!!) at a speed of around 66,000 miles per hour

    However none of this takes away the depression of just spotting my first grey nose-hair.
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  • LookingAhead
    LookingAhead Posts: 4,633 Forumite
    Putting on the radio this morning and hearing that FILTH.......that "cover" of Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'.

    I knew I was getting old when my reaction was to turn the thing off again in disgust.

    They've got NO business messing with a tune like that. :naughty:
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  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    Quackers wrote:
    That's the problem I often have.

    I do something (like go out and play on my rollerboots) and then wonder why people are looking at me :D

    Yes, but you've got to realise there are teenage girls who would kill to be the centre of attention like that.
    Quackers wrote:
    Or I try and flirt with a 19/20 something customer at work and wonder why he doesn't fancy me :rotfl:

    No one ever fancied me when I was a teenager (:cry:) so no change for me there. I did however fancy women in their thirties - and still do... :whistle:
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  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    When the youngsters at work don't remember Dallas, or Duran Duran, or Saturday Superstore!

    Or you say "Do you remember the Falklands Crisis?" and they say "I was only born in 1984."
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
    "We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
    "Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky."
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