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You know you're getting old when.......
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As life moves on there are signs which tell us, without any chance of doubt, that we are getting older, going downhill, coming off the final bend or generally ready to turn off the lights, lock the door and depart gracefully. What is/are your particular tell-tale symptoms?
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...you realise that your "get-up-and-go" has got up and gone.
You check the obituary pages to make sure you aren't in them.
....it takes you all night to do things that you used to do all night.
Radio 2 plays all the music you used to listen to on Radio 1.
...having sex with someone half your age is a major coup instead of a crime.
... The urge to sleep becomes a daytime feeling while at night time there is no urge at all.
... You notice a tweed jacket in a shop window and seriously consider a purchase [Chalky] Apologies. But I dont notice the men on principal]
... and spot a fetching cap to wear with it.
You think thermal underwear is a good idea and wonder why more people don't wear it
You go shopping for 'a nice bit of fish for tea'
[Snodgrass] I was being rather too cynical rather than personal so no criticism was intended and no apology needed :-)
, having gone through a period of telling young people to behave to their faces, because you didn't care any more about being unpopular, you now avoid it because you think you'll get beaten up.
[Raak] The turning point is about 38 for men, 40 for women. I looked it up.
You don't care that you've never heard of the band your colleague went to see last night.
You rest on the chairs provided by ladies department of large stores....and not staring the lingerie.
You stop making plans for what you'll be doing in ten years' time
you go supermarket shopping before 9am. scaaary old people bothering me in the first half hour of my shift, beware.
Getting up in the night no longer means what it used to.
For you there is no such thing as Designer Stubble. I could go on, of course :-)
Dujon] I don't think that one counts. That's a very studenty thing.
[Tuj] It was deliberately ambiguous. You are obviously too young.    ;-)
A pregnant lady offers you her seat on the 'bus.
You've got friends like Dujon. Forgive me.
. . . but older [Rosie] No! Gotcha.
Ye cannot read the cussid newspaper without holding it at arms length.
You need one pair of glasses to look for the other pair. I've watched my parents both do this this morning. nice to be home.
When policemen's faces all look young to you, apparently (OK, Dujon, maybe I am. But he's not, surely?).
When you are continually delighted about how reliable modern cars are.
When you find yourself nodding in agreement with the hangers and floggers in the Any Questions? audience.
...when you run out of advice for your children and just accept you really don't know any more.
...you finally accept that not only are you not part of the younger generation, you're not even part of their parents' generation.
Your creeping long-sightedness starts to cancel out the shortsightedness you used to suffer from
You resign yourself to the fact that none of the things that have gone wrong with your body are ever going to be fixed.
You pay off a 25-year mortgage.
...you think school uniform and faith-based schools are probably a good idea
Those old clothes that you do the gardening in are trendy again.
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