You know you're getting old when............

[My_Teenage_Self]

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When your work colleagues can't understand why you don't listen to Radio 1/local commercial radio..

When people slowly realise that you're right when you say they can get their phone to last all day without needing recharging, by turning off the 3G/4G, but they can't fathom why or how anyone would ever want to.

That just because spellcheck says it should be "realize" "license" "acclimated" "meter" or "gray", doesn't make it so.

3 for 3.

:facepalm:

 

[The History Man]

Re: Re:

When your work colleagues can't understand why you don't listen to Radio 1/local commercial radio..

When people slowly realise that you're right when you say they can get their phone to last all day without needing recharging, by turning off the 3G/4G, but they can't fathom why or how anyone would ever want to.

That just because spellcheck says it should be "realize" "license" "acclimated" "meter" or "gray", doesn't make it so.

3 for 3.

:facepalm:

Annie nightingale.

 

[mattr]

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When your work colleagues can't understand why you don't listen to Radio 1/local commercial radio..

I think this says more about your colleagues and workplace than your age.......

 

[foz]

When the new girl at work comments that you're old enough to be her dad! :facepalm:

 

[KermitGKona88]

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When I was listening to some girl rabbit on and on, on her mobile phone and I thought what did you do before we had mobile phones...................




Then it slowly dawned on me she wasn't born before we had mobile phones :facepalm:

 

[SIMONFREESE]

I recruit people at work. When I look at CV's now the date of birth is often 1995 or 1996. I think about what I was doing when they were born and feel really old!

 

[daugs]

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when someone asks if your daughter is your grand-daughter

this was a few years ago when I was 43 - the lady asking was only 3 years older than me and had 4 grandchildren, the eldest was 11 so she'd become a grandmother at 35 so I guess an easy mistake to make.

 

[M-Power]

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Your bikes are all older than the kids working in the LBS :facepalm:

 

[legrandefromage]

You wow some youth by lifting the back of a mk1 escort van (with no back axle) so they can fit a trolley underneath - then say 'I had 3 shredded wheat for breakfast' - which really does give your age away to those that do know and leaves 'youth' looking on blankly not knowing what the bleedin flip you are barking on about.

Similar turns of woefully out of date phrases include:

'I'm considerably richer than yow'

'...which was nice'

'we are the nights that saaaaay...'

'lets off-road Lindsay'

'I'm Spartacus and so's my wife'

'its brilliant!!!'

'I didnt get where I am today...!'

etc etc and so-on... I am often quite alone in a crowd.

 

[Mike Muz]

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When you start wearing fleeces on a regular basis, and don't give a fig what people think!
And walking shoes too, cos they take ages to wear out and there's plenty of tread!
Oh and Radio 2!
When a celebrity you used to fancy, actress /musician pops up on tv, and you see their wrinkles
Doctors and hospital appointments are more frequent
Someone tells you about new technology, and you don't understand a single word! AND don't give a sh-t!
You seem to be doing more bike tinkering than riding, or maybe it's just the recent weather

Mike