Signs you are getting old

[southbrishammer]

Number One - losing your memory

I came across this post that I made in the "Today I Bumped Into..." thread in November 2009:

"Les Dennis, walking around Bicester Village shopping centre with his minder/agent. Twice. I said "stop stalking me or I'll call the police"."

I very much live in the present and don't dwell on the past, but I don't have the faintest memory of this momentous event happening (obviously I made the last bit up); in fact I had to double-check it was actually me who posted it.

I'm getting old. What about you?

[SoulCircus]

Presbyopia is the main one. Means I spend half my life searching for glasses.

[Johnny Byrne's Boots]

When you can't trust a fart.

[rigoberts song]

I prefer a long sleep to a late night out.

[OFT]

Making an almost involuntary noise when I sit down, stand up, bend over etc.
Having one of those very long shoe horns by both doors in and out of our house so i dont have to bend to get my pre laced up shoes on
Finding films, music that I would never have entertained really good.
Not being able to cope with hot spicy foods
Thinking that I/we have an incredible amount of stuff and wondering if its time to get rid so my lads don't have it all to deal with.
Not really caring that I'm receding badly having had very long hair most of my life.
Being aware of my mortality and thinking the slippery slope is here.

[jevs]

Planning my journey to include trips to the loo for a pee.

Preferring an evening on the allotment to a night out

Strategic placing of reading glasses...kitchen, office, car, toilet, etc

Having to use a "sock puller"....best invention ever

Using the "C-bomb" on an almost hourly basis

Decreased tolerance of bad drivers, yobs, general idiots (see above)

The almost choral emittance of sounds when I get up from sitting or kneeling down

Writing out all my passwords, bank PIN's, pensions and work details for my daughter to make her life a bit easier when I croak it

Oh....and i'm only 58

Edit....Skechers slip-ins. Second best invention ever!!!

[V-M]

Been told I repeat myself all the time, making odd sounds when I get up, prefer staying in to going out, finding it harder to keep up with working in the IT world, repeating myself a lot and generally being a miserable old fart.

[EvilC]

When I daw those Skechers shoes with a built in shoe horn thing that Jamie Redknapp was advertising and thought “they seem like a good idea” I knew I was done.

[Plashet Grove Pete]

Trust me mate, slip ons are life changing!

[last.caress]

I repeat myself all the time

No different to almost every poster in the GD then, V.

When my little girl was a baby and a very light sleeper, I took to having sit-down wees late at night, to avoid any overly splashy noises that might disturb her. However, she's now 5 and, once she asleep, she's out for the count. But I'm persisting with those sit-down wees because, well, they're just more comfy.

Yup. Old.

[Roby]

When young kids working as cashiers in shops start calling you “Sir”.

[pablo jaye]

Being sent birthday cards … I’m having one of those days again today!!

[Estuary]

Mumbling to myself.

[vietnammer]

Not being asked to produce ID to get OAP discount in the cinema. The turkey neck speaks for itself.
Listening to Cher on Desert Island Discs, learning she's in her 70's and thinking 'oh, not that old then'
Listening to Desert Island Discs
Lifting my right leg into trousers whilst standing becoming a challenge

[Tenbury]

I've always thought there were 3 stages to getting old.

1) Hairy ears

2) Smelling of piss

3) Death.

[sussexhammer74]

Can identify with some of the lists already.

The weird involuntary noises when getting up or sitting down. How does that work? yet I have started doing it.
Mumbling.
Moaning at just about anything but saying it louder than I should. The look from the wife says it all.
The C-bomb. everyone is a c-bomb to me nowadays.
Calling women "love". and not in a derogatory way but it has crept in to my vocab. Like thanking the till keeper at the supermarket by calling her love.
Moaning at the cost of something. Comparing it to when I was a kid some 30-40 years ago. A mars bar 70p, bloody hell, when I was kid it was 20p and it was bigger.......
Commenting on the crap that now is put on TV/streaming services.
Eyesight deteriorating.

[Toulouse_Iron]

Being generation X, I never had many f*cks to give in the first place but I have now reached the liberating state of having none left whatsoever.

And yes, the irony of being gen X and actually making the effort to point it out is not lost on me but see above re: f*cks left to give.

I'm also in the sweet spot where waking up every day is a bonus, not yet a drag.

[snooperpooper]

I really wish I hadn't clicked on this thread, I knew I should have ignored it

[OFT]

Being sent birthday cards … I’m having one of those days again today!!

Does that mean congratulations are in order pablo?

I can't work it out.. old age init

[fjthegrey]

You start to needlessly and pointlessly worry about the 'next generation' and the conditions in which they will grow up, completely ignoring the fact that everyone will habituate to whatever society is or becomes, as well as most of the inherent good and progress that has been made. All the while misremembering the less than idyllic world that you grew up in.