You know you're getting old when...

Sian-of-the-dead
Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
edited October 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
you go out with friends to a pub and see an extension lead plugged in and turned on with nothing in it, think "Bloody hell that's dangerous, what if someone spills a drink on it!" and turn it off...

Like I did on Saturday night :oops: :lol:

What about everyone else? :D
Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
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  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    When you realise people born in the 90s are now old enough to work :shock: ... and think of the 80s as retro :? :o ... I swear walking around certain parts of London it's like being in a time warp
    So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
  • Nastasja
    Nastasja Posts: 9,668
    when you suddenly realize how embarrassing young people can behave......
    You can spend your time alone, re-digesting past regrets,
    Or you can come to terms and realize
    You're the only one who can't forgive yourself
  • Black Diamond
    Black Diamond Posts: 25,109
    Your 4th grader needs to explain to you the New Math. What was wrong with the old math?
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  • Black Diamond
    Black Diamond Posts: 25,109
    chime wrote:
    When you realise people born in the 90s are now old enough to work :shock: ... and think of the 80s as retro :? :o ... I swear walking around certain parts of London it's like being in a time warp

    Try the people in the 90's are old enough to be your children :shock:
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  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    electric blankets start to look appealing :shock:
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • Black Diamond
    Black Diamond Posts: 25,109
    You can't stay awake past 10 PM and you wake up at 4 AM
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    your ears grow hair
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    you get annoyed when kids dont hold the door open for an old lady.
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Black Diamond
    Black Diamond Posts: 25,109
    dunkman wrote:
    you get annoyed when kids dont hold the door open for an old lady.

    And you're the old lady.
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  • ZiggyStar
    ZiggyStar Posts: 14,328
    ....I broke a wooden spoon and thought to myself "hey, I should keep the long handle because it would be perfect to use to stir a tin of house paint".....when I've never stirred house paint in my adult years at all and have no plans to. :?
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  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,373
    When it seems more people are younger than me than older than me;
    When I start every other sentence with, "When I was your age . . ."
    When I realize I don't remember much that happened in my 30s because nothing much happened in my 30s, and I don't have the brain space to remember meaningless stuff.
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  • PJaddicted
    PJaddicted Posts: 1,432
    Black Diamond wrote:
    chime wrote:
    When you realise people born in the 90s are now old enough to work :shock: ... and think of the 80s as retro :? :o ... I swear walking around certain parts of London it's like being in a time warp

    Try the people in the 90's are old enough to be your children :shock:


    Worse yet....you have some born in the late 80's.... :roll:
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  • dave grolsch
    dave grolsch Posts: 730
    when your kids want dropped off for school,around the corner :|
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    when you actually say the phrase

    "you'll take someones eye out with that"

    particularly bad if your kid is playing with a balloon.
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    you dye your hair, not simply for a fun color change, but to cover greys... :?

    you look at a new outfit/shoes/skirt/whatever and think, is this too young for me? will i look like i am trying to look young?

    you look at a hot 20-22 year old and think...man, he's hot. then you feel dirty for looking at a guy who basiclly, while legal, appears to be way too young! (of course you still look and think it, but sure..the guilt is there and cuts into the pleasure, a wee bit anyway) ;)

    also, every time you are in a bar or restaurant and see younger people ordering drinks, you just think...no way, they can't be 21! and you realize, yes, more than likely they are....and you too once looked *that* young. :|:D:mrgreen:


    thanks for the reminders sian....... :lol:
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • Black Diamond
    Black Diamond Posts: 25,109
    You post in the "You know you're getting old when..." Thread
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  • Dissidentman
    Dissidentman Posts: 15,378
    you use your ear and nose hair trimmer just as often as your razor.
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    Dissidentman wrote:
    you use your ear and nose hair trimmer just as often as your razor.


    :lol:


    i don't know how true it is, but i've read/heard that outside of determining male gender the ONLY other factor that the Y chromosome adds is the ability to grow additional ear and nose hair. you men deserve to get sumthin' extra. ;)



    btw - BD....someone under the age of 30, maybe even 25?....started this thread! :twisted:
    so you know you're really getting old when you think, wtf, WHY is someone under 30 starting a 'you know you're getting old' thread?! :twisted: :mrgreen: :twisted:


    :lol:
    jk sian.
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    Nastasja wrote:
    when you suddenly realize how embarrassing young people can behave......

    ha..ha...yep, I have been doing that. I think "did I act like that?" :P
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  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    decides2dream wrote:
    Dissidentman wrote:
    you use your ear and nose hair trimmer just as often as your razor.


    :lol:


    i don't know how true it is, but i've read/heard that outside of determining male gender the ONLY other factor that the Y chromosome adds is the ability to grow additional ear and nose hair. you men deserve to get sumthin' extra. ;)



    btw - BD....someone under the age of 30, maybe even 25?....started this thread! :twisted:
    so you know you're really getting old when you think, wtf, WHY is someone under 30 starting a 'you know you're getting old' thread?! :twisted: :mrgreen: :twisted:


    :lol:
    jk sian.

    No it's fine! :lol:

    I've just been feeling old lately... and Saturday night's extension lead incident topped it all off!

    It's also didn't help that on the same night, one of my friends was being tickled and I stopped it saying "if you carry on like that he'll bang his head" :oops:
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.

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