Signs you are getting old?

[wee quinnie]

I keep rounding my age up to the next one - so I feel even older than I am. (39)

I have started using my specs as magnifying glasses for reading. (Before you suggest I go to the optician - I got new glasses in November).

I don't know what the hell people are talking about.

I have never heard of various people who seem to be in the paper/on the radio a lot.

When I get out of bed in the morning my hair looks a bit like Russell Brands - and I keep forgetting to comb it!!

Have I got any more signs to look out for?

Please don't say I am going to start rushing home to catch "The Archers" omnibus.

[capt_birdseye]

Who is Russell Brand?

[KalamityKel]

::o if these are signs your getting old then I'm DOOMED!

[Jah Lush]

Are you having a midlife crisis Weequinnie? This may be down to the fact that you have a 40th birthday coming up. You may need some therapy to help you adjust.

Get a haircut. No one wants to look like Russell Brand unless they are completely deranged.

[annaj]

When policemen start looking younger. It's an old cliche, but it's true, most of them look like they're on work experience to me.

Mind you, I said that to my mum the other day and she sighed and said "never mind policemen, when you start to think bishops look young then you're in trouble!"

[Keef]

Wouldn't want to look like him Jah, but wouldn't mind the interest he gets from the ladies! For my part I have noticed hangovers in the last year. Was never am issue before.

[KalamityKel]

Keef, Youngens these days dun'arf suffer hangovers too ya know :p

[Cassius]

The laughter lines are more than just laughter lines.

There are more than just one or two grey hairs.

I can still 'do' all nighters but it takes a very long time to recover.

I've started reminiscing about the past.

The thought of the Redstar reopening doesn't fill me with excitement!

I'd rather drink quality rather than quantity (although preferably both)

I hate text speak even when texting.

[Keef]

Cassius that post could basically have been written by me, spot on.

[Jah Lush]

Cassius Wrote:

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> The laughter lines are more than just laughter

> lines.

Nothing's that funny.

[Cassius]

Someone at work tells you their age and you work out you could - at a push - be their parent.

AND you remember work life without e-mail and social life without mobiles........

[Bellenden Belle]

Buying a book entitled Drive and Stroll in Berkshire ...and feeling ridiculously exicted about actually doing just that!

[Jah Lush]

When you stop reading the NME and get Mojo instead.

[Brendan]

You feel that it is fundamentally wrong for anyone to have been born more recently than the 1970s.

[Ladygooner]

When you stop buying Cosmopolitan and start buying Good Housekeeping!

[Marmora Man]

When you meet serious people in responsible and proper jobs and discover they were born after you started work.

When, if you fall over, your first thought isn't "bugger, what a twat" it's "is my hip OK"

When offered directions to a great new pub, club, bar - you decide to go home as it's almost midnight.

When pensions seem a sensible topic of discussion

When, on all reasonable actuarial assumptions, you have less years before you than behind you.

[chuff]

when you no longer care who sees you naked, but nobody wants to look :(

[SteveT]

The feeling that your future is behind you.

[wee quinnie]

Ladygooner Wrote:

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> When you stop buying Cosmopolitan and start buying

> Good Housekeeping!

Actually, (sadly), one of my favourite bits in the Saturday Guardian magazine, is that bit where they tell you how to get coffee stains out of your tablecloths and stuff like that.

Other stuff I forgot to mention, is realising you are behaving like your mum or dad. (Scowling when people don't shut the door, that sort of thing).

[Cassius]

You can remember getting a cab to ED from the West End for around a tenner.

[LostThePlot]

Take your time and see if you can read each line aloud without a mistake.

The average person over 40 years of age cannot do it!

1. This is this cat.

2. This is is cat.

3. This is how cat.

4. This is to cat.

5. This is keep cat.

6. This is an cat.

7. This is old cat.

8. This is fart cat.

9. This is busy cat.

10. This is for cat.

11. This is forty cat.

12. This is seconds cat.

Now go back and read the third word in each line from the top down

[Brendan]

It's 8:28pm on a friday night and you aren't in the pub.

[lozzyloz]

But you are drinking a rather smooth Chablis

[Brendan]

Whilst pulling your cardigan around you for warmth and tut-tutting about the weather.

[chuff]

and trying to remember what the cardigan looked like on you when it actually did up