The realisation you're getting old

[fossyant]

When you can't remember how long you worked for your employer, and may soon be getting a long service award

 

[Gwylan]

When the girl in McDonald's looks like your daughter!

Grand daughter more likely

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

When you look up someone you used to know at school, who was younger, but now they look old!

 

[rvw]

When someone says 'twenty years ago' and your immediate thought is 'back in the 1980s'...

 

[Alex321]

When the girl in McDonald's is your Daughter.

Grand daughter more likely

Indeed. I have a Granddaughter who is regularly working bar shifts at beer tents in various festivals. She is "only" 17, but you can sell alcohol at that age, provided you are under adult supervision.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

When someone says 'twenty years ago' and your immediate thought is 'back in the 1980s'...

The '90s' for me.

 

[presta]

Seeing a guy with a Zimmer frame on the way home from Tesco this afternoon, it suddenly dawned on me that I'd now be an OAP if they hadn't upped the retirement age...

 

[Ming the Merciless]

When friends from school are on multiple medications and need a walking stick.

 

[Chris S]

When friends from school are on multiple medications and need a walking stick.

Or dead. There were about 60 people in my year at school. Five of them are already dead and those are just the ones that I know about.

 

[Chris S]

At one time women used to ask, "Does my bum look big in this?" Now 'big booties' are celebrated as things of beauty.

 

[MontyVeda]

when certain vehicles at a vintage car rally were the latest model when i was a young adult. It won't be long before the Ford Ka is making an appearance.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

When you can't remember how long you worked for your employer, and may soon be getting a long service award

Then the next morning you remember you retired 10 years ago?

 

[Slick]

For most people nowadays, 10 years of retirement would be considered encouraging.

 

[All uphill]

When you have met more -ologists than real people in the last few months.

 

[Grant Fondo]

A comforting warm glow knowing you have a selection of marmalades in the larder.
Couldn't have given a stuff a few years back