The realisation you're getting old

[classic33]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-kALGhbTxdg

 

[Deleted member 1258]

every day something aches at some point and you get 20 somethings whining about how hard it is doing the same job and you think gawd help them when they reach your age .

If I wake up in the morning and nothing hurts I start worrying that something's wrong.

 

[uphillstruggler]

needing reading glasses really annoys me.

realising the old bloke holding the door of the car at my youngest daughters prom (I know, I know) was me.

Still, Im active, have a good family life, great mates and mostly enjoy what I do so getting old is just a number - I cant help when I was born but hopefully can have a hand in staving off the other end.

keep on keeping on

 

[Edwardoka]

Discovering that my friend who is only a few months older than me is about to be a stepgrandad
What? I know the west of Scotland is "special" but I'm still far too young for that to be a thing!

Finding an eyebrow hair that has decided to make a break for it and is already about 2cm long.

 

[Lullabelle]

TVC's youngest niece was still inside her mum's tummy when I first joined the family, she is now married with 2 children

 

[DCBassman]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-kALGhbTxdg

THAT makes me feel old! Played a gig with Fred at RAF Locking around the time that song was released, when my oldest son was not yet one year old. He'll be 40 in December...

 

[Julia9054]

Going to my son's final school parents evening. Looking round at a hall full of tired looking middle aged people.
Realising that i must look exactly the same!

 

[nickyboy]

Going to my son's final school parents evening. Looking round at a hall full of tired looking middle aged people.
Realising that i must look exactly the same!

You don't Julia
I work in an area that requires me to constantly be looking at new things (virtual reality medical devices anyone?). So I'm working with energetic forward looking people and hopefully that rubs off on me. I know too many people my age who are rowing for shore and basically accepting a drift into old age.
Not me. I did my fastest ever ride last night. And I'm looking forward to a pubcrawl on Friday (albeit with my son which is somewhat alarming)

 

[Sharky]

Just applying a little factor 50 to my face and top of my head, slicking back my hair like they used to do with Brylcream.
Looked in the mirror and saw - my grandad!

 

[colly]

It came for me a few years ago while visiting Oz. On a crowded Sydney bus there was only one seat. Mrs Colly sat down and I received a gentle tap on the shoulder and a kind young Asian lad offered me his seat.

 

[Old jon]

I received a gentle tap on the shoulder and a kind young someone offered me his seat.

Happens to me all the time!!

And my mother insists I look like my grandad . . .

 

[Rusty Nails]

Chatting to an old friend from school who had just been to a school reunion, it was a shock to find out how many people I went to school with in the 50s and 60s had died.

On another sombre note my suit , shirt and tie only get an airing at funerals.

But I still cycle and my first grandchild was born a few months ago so life is good.

My late father said it only hit him how old he was when he realised he had a son who was a pensioner.

 

[marshmella]

Probably been said already, but when you start listening to a radio station and most of the adverts are for funeral plans

 

[Gravity Aided]

I had someone at work tell me that when I started at my current job, they were in kindergarten. And that was after the photo industry, where I spent most of my "career".

 

[Sharky]

It came for me a few years ago while visiting Oz. On a crowded Sydney bus there was only one seat. Mrs Colly sat down and I received a gentle tap on the shoulder and a kind young Asian lad offered me his seat.

Good job it was a young lad tapping you on the shoulder and not Father Time.