You know you’re getting older when……

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whilst having a restful noon-time break from thread posting, enjoying a hot drink, i found myself wondering whatever Mrs Dale would do if she couldn't find her diary.

 

[Gloster]

Whilst having a restful noon-time break from thread posting, enjoying a hot drink, i found myself wondering whatever Mrs Dale would do if she couldn't find her diary.

Sit there and quietly worry about Jim.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Remembering the very rural vocal intonations of Walter Gabriel when listening to "The Archers".

 

[PeterC]

Remembering the very rural vocal intonations of Walter Gabriel when listening to "The Archers".

"Me old pal, me old beauty"

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I can clearly remember the year 1950 when I was five years old, but our neighbourhood must have been different to the one that Max Bygraves sang about with "rough and ready guys" harmonising on street corners.

 

[3141]

Remembering the very rural vocal intonations of Walter Gabriel when listening to "The Archers".

When you can remember feeling angry and upset that "an everyday story of country folk" had taken over the slot on the BBC Home Service previously used by Dick Barton - Special Agent.

 

[Dai Corner]

When you can remember feeling angry and upset that "an everyday story of country folk" had taken over the slot on the BBC Home Service previously used by Dick Barton - Special Agent.

Or remember tuning into 1500m Long Wave to listen to the ten o'clock comedy show such as the Clitheroe Kid on the Light Programme at bedtime.

 

[philthetube]

I’ve walked home from work and wondered where my car was. Then realised it had been raining that morning and I had driven in.

I did that as an 18 year old

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

When on a railway platform with flights of steps to climb and looking where the lift might be.

 

[32475]

When delivering my elderly mother’s weekly shopping to her sheltered flat development and being asked by one of the residents if I live there too.

 

[Dai Corner]

When delivering my elderly mother’s weekly shopping to her sheltered flat development and being asked by one of the residents if I live there too.

My then girlfriend ran one of those developments and there were several cases of parents and children both having flats there.

 

[32475]

My then girlfriend ran one of those developments and there were several cases of parents and children both having flats there.

I suppose with parents in their 90’s and children in their 70’s that’s perfectly possible

 

[class350desiro]

Modern day music becomes incomprehensible. I’ve not even completed my GCSEs yet.

 

[Peter Sarf]

Not resolving the same old problem for family members because I am being put out by something entirely predictable.

Modern day music becomes incomprehensible. I’ve not even completed my GCSEs yet.

Oh I am glad it is not just me (64 yo).

 

[Whistler40145]

When Teenagers dress in clothes you wouldn't have worn at their age

 

[Ken X]

When Teenagers dress in clothes you wouldn't have worn at their age

Or, if you are really old, you notice the teenagers wearing similar clothes to those you wore at the time.

We see soles are getting higher again, spotted a pair of loon pants recently and are awaiting the first sighting of bondage trousers.

 

[Whistler40145]

I heard my late grandmother saying "You're not wearing that Lady, go home and dress appropriately"

 

[32475]

When you’re old enough to have seen the fire being lit in an oast house in Kent to dry the hops. The same building was converted into a dwelling some years ago.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

You really know when you are getting older is when your height begins to grow less and you find yourself going to the dry cleaners to have an inch (or more) taken off the length of all your trousers. I now have done this five times, one pair at a time.

 

[Peter Sarf]

Or, if you are really old, you notice the teenagers wearing similar clothes to those you wore at the time.

We see soles are getting higher again, spotted a pair of loon pants recently and are awaiting the first sighting of bondage trousers.

You know you are getting older when you have seen flared trousers come back into fashion again - 2 times iirc .

 

[DM352]

When you started with computer programming with a team of coders each having a computer that took half of the desk. It took months to get a working application just for the end users to see!

Since then it went to simpler languages and mostly customisable package software to test with a computer a fraction of the size with strong focus instead on agile delivery with strong written/verbal communication skills.

 

[4COR]

You know you are getting older when you have seen flared trousers come back into fashion again - 2 times iirc .

Never ceases to amaze me that the mullet has come back into fashion as a haircut. It was terrible in the 80s as well...

 

[Killingworth]

When the little brother, who's arrival you well remember, lets slip that he now has a second great-grandchild.

 

[dangie]

You really know when you are getting older is when your height begins to grow less and you find yourself going to the dry cleaners to have an inch (or more) taken off the length of all your trousers. I now have done this five times, one pair at a time.

Well at least that’s better than one pair five times

 

[swt_passenger]

…Since then it went to simpler languages and mostly customisable package software to test with a computer a fraction of the size with strong focus instead on agile delivery with strong written/verble communication skills.

You said it…

 

[Gloster]

Finding that it is not just jars of jam that are almost impossible to open for the first time. In the last two days I have been infuriated by a jar of silverskin onions and a plastic container of bicarbonate of soda: the latter can’t go under the boiling water.

 

[Whistler40145]

Finding that it is not just jars of jam that are almost impossible to open for the first time. In the last two days I have been infuriated by a jar of silverskin onions and a plastic container of bicarbonate of soda: the latter can’t go under the boiling water.

Quite surprised you've not mentioned a jar of Beetroot

 

[Gloster]

Quite surprised you've not mentioned a jar of Beetroot

I loathe beetroot. At school every Monday from the age of seven to thirteen lunch was Spam, potatoes boiled until their skins fell off and sliced beetroot, followed by semolina and jam. For good measure it was popular with the caterers when I spent a year in Sweden: it wasn’t popular with me.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

When hearing how cold the weather in my local area is, then searching for my Harris Tweed hat, thickest scarf and gloves, just to bring the refuse bins back when the men have been.

 

[75A]

When hearing how cold the weather in my local area is, then searching for my Harris Tweed hat, thickest scarf and gloves, just to bring the refuse bins back when the men have been.

I'm glad I'm not the only one then.