The realisation you're getting old

[ColinJ]

Bloody bell, are you THAT old?

Yes - we moved away 56 years ago!

 

[cyberknight]

When you realize a film that came out when you were a kid is over 40 years old now

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Yes - we moved away 56 years ago!

I moved to Coventry 46 years ago, the first night I slept on the street, the next night in a hostel, then found a job and moved into a bedsit. I married a local girl, brought my own house and now have children, stepchildren and a grandchild.

 

[postman]

At a Costa coffee shop a few months ago a younger chap held the door open for me.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Many years ago, looking in the mirror one morning and wondering who's the old fella looking back, then realizing its me.

I felt the same when I saw a pic of Mrs Accy and our daughter and what I thought was an old man. Then it hit me that it was me!!

 

[NorthernDave]

In a cafe, a work colleague was charged, unprompted, the "Seniors Special" rate for his lunch.

And on a recent visit to the zoo, he was also charged the OAP rate, again unprompted.

He's in his mid 50s

 

[Drago]

I don't age - I simply become more awesome!

 

[Pat "5mph"]

when it suddenly dawned on me im getting old.

When I realized that 90% of the time I'm right.
All that life experience ...

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I don't age - I simply become more awesome!

Careful, you might merge with @Markymark in another Big Bang.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Does anyone else hobble upstairs and then get annoyed because by the time you get there...….hmm now what did I come up here for

You've just described a beagle's entire life.

 

[tyred]

I went to a classic car rally today - and saw things like final generation Ford Escorts, Peugeot 306s and Citreon Xantias - they're not classic - I remember them going into production - over twenty years ago....

Realising that a few of my work colleagues are younger than own Peugeot 205!

A recent eye test the optician asked me if I had any trouble reading, to which I replied to no. "Oh, you will in the next few years!" the cheeky cow replied

Attending my youngest cousin's wedding and thinking that I used to sit with her on my lap when she was a baby!

My 40th birthday looms a few months away and everyone is asking me what I'm doing for it!

 

[classic33]

Tell them you'll be getting on your bike and going for a ride, somewhere. Where, depends on where the road takes you.

 

[johnnyb47]

Its strange but you forget how time slips by when your in the mundane throws of life. Week in week out were often stuck in the same old routine of work, paying the bills and juggling all the normal day today chores of life, but every so often when you get some time out, the old realization of age creeps up behind you and bites you on the back side. Your mind still thinks like a youngster but the body often says no. Mind you only three years ago the thought of cycling 20 miles was a big mile stone for me, and only last Sunday i clocked up 104 miles across Wales in a single ride. Thinking like this, age is just a mental thing. Obviously were all getting older but it doesn't stop us from improving our health. Alot of people i know of my age seem to resign them selves to thinking there over the hill purely because of there age. Getting older doesn't mean we should just stop and put our feet up and wither away. Many a people i know think I'm absolutely bonkers putting in the many miles i do on my push bike. I get all kinds of comments from "your having a mid life crisis" to "what's the point at your age".The thing is though, i enjoy it and trying to improve my fitness,and beating that personal best on strava,or to discovering that new place always leaves me an appetite to want to cycle again. I think ive said before but i often cycle with a gent whos well in his 80s. He uses an Ebike and i personally think it really keeps his mind sharp and focused going out on a club ride. If he was to stop i,m sure his physical and mental health would slip really quickly. My dads the same. He's getting on for 80 and rides his bike but alarmingly solo. I'm sure one day he will end up going missing on one of his rides only to be found going mouldy by some hill walker on some windswept welsh road. As much as worry about him, i will never be able to convince him to slow down and take it easy. He would just be so unhappy about it, and think it would finish him off, so i just have to accept him and the way he is.

 

[slowmotion]

….when you hark back to the days of white dog poo.....

 

[Garry A]

There's guys starting at my work who weren't born when I started .