You know you're getting old when..

[Azalea]

when your Christmas card list gets smaller every years cos your relatives are dying off

[Dougella]

When you have to try and find out how to 'bleed' a radiator.

[Azalea]

^ Same here, I did all the DIY around the house from an early age

[Between The Bars]

Originally Posted by Azalea

when your Christmas card list gets smaller every years cos your relatives are dying off

Originally Posted by Dougella

When you have to try and find out how to 'bleed' a radiator.

Originally Posted by aloneuntilidie

^Not sure why that means you're getting old? I haven't bled a radiator for a many years(because I discovered that if you leave them turned on fully, even in the summer when you're not using the heating, then airlocks shouldn't develop), but I used to do it at my parents' house when I was a child.

Well that's the way it should work, in this world, who knows!

[Dougella]

^^/^^^ Thank you for the advice. We never had radiators when I was growing up (we lived in a cardboard box...) so this is something new I'm encountering

[Dougella]

^ That's where I got it from

[Omar Little]

^A cardboard box? Oooh, look at lil miss fancy. When I was a kid our family slept in a sewer pipe that was only wide enough for one person, we'd have to slide in one at a time and hold onto a rope so that we didn't wash away every time some git flushed his bog, we were like a human string of sausages down there - shit-covered human sausages. We'd have killed for a cardboard box!

[Dougella]

^ A sewer pipe? You were lucky......

[misska]

At pay as you go scanner paying for my things got distracted. Went to find my bank card and panicked about to put everything back and realise I already put it in the card reader but I don'toremember doing that.

[Libbyjay]

Everytime I have to sneeze now, I worry that I'm going to pee myself a little

[newbs16]

When I can see lots of grey hairs appearing.

[Ronnie_Pickering]

you find out you might have athritis..

[Silver]

1. You hear the charts and think most of the music is shit (and believe me I used to LOVE chart music)
2. You look at pictures of yourself as a baby/child and everything is so dated and old fashioned, the clothes, the hair, the cars (gotta love being born in the 80s)
3. You catch a glimpse of gladiators, a programme you watched every week and thought was really cool and high tech, now it looks dated and old
4. You see students in your department were born in the 90s when you had started secondary school, gulp
5. Your dad is a pensioner and has a free bus pass

[Damp_Squib]

When you watch one of the old Top of the Pops from 1982 and you think gosh that was 25 years ago! Then it slowly dawns on you that you're a whole decade out!
I do this all the time.

[Pastis]

^

[Azalea]

Originally Posted by aloneuntilidie

^^when people born TWO DECADES after me are posting in a thread entitled "You know you're getting old when.."

I know the feeling

[Damp_Squib]

When you feel the need to click on a thread entitled 'You know you're getting old when..."

[Azalea]

Originally Posted by JC36

You can remember as far back as 1977, a time when many SAUK members hadn't even been born!

Some of us remember further than that

Originally Posted by flumpsy

You long for the days where devices also had actual real life buttons on the front so they werent just shiny scrap if you lost the remote.

Curtains stuck again?

[Azalea]

^ Yes I do, we still have them here

[Azalea]

^ Don't be silly, we aren't so advanced up north

[Angelina]

The tattoo you had on your hip in your twenties is now on your thigh ***55357;***56834;

[Angelina]

***128514;

[Azalea]

Originally Posted by Angelina

The tattoo you had on your hip in your twenties is now on your thigh ***65533;***65533;

[indiegirl1980]

When young people just annoy you, especially university students. They seem to spend most of their lives getting upset because someone's used the wrong word or someone's criticised them.
The best examples of this was a girl at the Oxford Union was accused of 'violating the safe space' for putting her hand up to ask a question (kind of the point of university), and a girl doing English Literature at an American university (I think it was Berkeley) claimed she has got PTSD from reading a book (think that a US Marine might have something to say about that).
Stupid snowflakes.

[SHYGIRLAJB]

When people are chatting to you on a certain networking site and you find out that you are old enough to be their parents .. Meh ...

[Calvados]

When the dentist tells you "your teeth and gums are in good condition for somebody of your age"!

[newbs16]

^

[newbs16]

When you have the day off and do lots of cleaning and watch a drama on bbc 2

[Calvados]

When you realise that you're really looking forward to watching the new series of Garderners World on TV tonight.

[les]

I am in the same age bracket as my local MP's ....... parent's