How you know you're getting long in the tooth...........

[valmarg]

Oh yes!!!
I do a nice line in despising television and radio people (professional communicators) who use bad grammar. I could have taught Lynn Truss all she knows!

I'll just hutch up a bit Flum, and you can join me in pedants corner.

I'm very like minded in the bad use of the English language.

I'm good - what at?

valmarg

[Jelliebabe]

explaining to DD that TV used to go off at midnight(ish) & there were only 3 then 4 channels, pubs shut at 10.30 & clubs at 2am......god i sound old but it wernt that long ago!!!!!

When I was a Kid we lived abroad - TV didnt come on at all until 6pm then only an hour of kids TV then news and adults progs until 12pm then off! We certainly didn't veg then!

When you realise your saying the exact same things to your children you remember your parents said to you..

Sometimes I open my mouth and I SWEAR I can hear my mother talking! How did that happen....!!!

[JanieB]

Oh dear. Vine birthdays....... mine never appears. Hutton Roof.......where we buried me mam's ashes 2 years ago, I come from Kirkby Lonsdale.

Scary bit is mirrors in shops and I wonder why my nana has just reappeared in front of me and then I realise it's me.

[Finedon.Dandy]

When I realised that although I dont feel old - I must be cos the kids were watching the film "Grease" and asking how old was it and it came out around the year I was born so that makes it 40 years old - when I used to watch a film that was 40 years old it would have been an early black n white film!

[maytreefrannie]

I feel a bit sad when I see a new 'famous' person, don't know who on earth they are or why they're famous ... and then realise their parents are younger than me

I second that - especially as I feel so many seem to be famous just for being famous.

[maytreefrannie]

Oh yes!!!
I do a nice line in despising television and radio people (professional communicators) who use bad grammar. I could have taught Lynn Truss all she knows!

Agree x 100 - I realised I'm getting over the hill when I've been told I'm an 'Apostrophe Grouch.'

Sorry about the double post - I can't seem to do multi-quote on this new system. Another sign of getting old?

[Munch]

When you fancy "going out" on a Sunday as a family and enjoy an afternoon dragging the kids, just like your parents did, around the local garden centres and DIY stores, not buying anything!

And ... when you walk through town in the evening and wonder when the young girls are going to put some clothes on before they catch a chill!

[valmarg]

I bought a book a bit ago 'Wrinklies' Wit and Wisdom' (Humerous Quotes About Getting On a Bit).

I could quote on here from now to Christmas, but I'll just choose and old Dennis Norden quote

'You know you're getting on when you start getting symptoms in the places where you used to get urges.

valmarg

[valmarg]

P.S Another hate is getting my hair cut. Having had my hair washed, I hate being sat in front of a mirror for an interminable age looking at my mother.

valmarg

[HeyWayne]

When you have a bag of murray mints in the car and find it perfectly acceptable.
When you receive a CV and the D.O.B reads a date in the 1990's...
When you realise you've been listening to your favourite band for 20 years.
When you listen to Radio1 and realise you are not their target demographic

[FionaH]

When I really like what my sons girlfriends are wearing then realise I would look like mutton if I wore the same thing!

[Comfreyfan]

When I realised a work colleague was at school with my son (and she admits that she had a huge crush on him!)

[Florence Fennel]

When your teenage granddaughter is going on a camping trip and can fit into a nearly new kagool of yours and a brand new pair of wellies!

[cptncrackoff]

Ummm...When you used to go clubbing at 17 and see the 'nearly 30' yr old in the corner or embarrassing themselves on the dance floor, you now realise...its you!!!

[dexterdoglancashire]

When you look in a recent edition of the Daily Mail and there is a check list for people who think they are getting older and you tick more than half! Also when you decide to give up your lottie because your back hurts too much :-(