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You know you are getting old when

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You realize your mum was right about high heeled shoes
Policemen and Doctors look to young to do the job
You keep harking back to the good old days and saying things like in my day
You recall tv programs that were on 20 years ago with comments like they dont make them like they used to
You dont listen to the top 40 show any more
Anyone think of anymore
Yours grumpy old women of Norfolk
 
You realize your mum was right about high heeled shoes.

Since I'm a guy this never came up.

Policemen and Doctors look to young to do the job.

Occasionally maybe.

You keep harking back to the good old days and saying things like in my day.

Nope, I've never done this, I don't waste time living in the past, life is good right now.

You recall tv programs that were on 20 years ago with comments like they dont make them like they used to.

I don't watch TV much so no.

You dont listen to the top 40 show any more.

I'll admit to this one but not liking new music isn't just an old person thing anymore. Many younger people ignore the latest download charts too because it's mostly cack. Also, streaming services mean that now everyone has access to old and new music so young people are listening to lots of old music that is new to them.

My old person things?
Needing lots of sleep.
Taking a cocktail of pills and supplements every day.
That thing where an event that seems to have happened quite recently was actually ten or twenty years ago.
Always making sure that I've had a widdle before I leave the house and needing to get out of bed for a pee during the night.
Being able to remember obsolete tech, cassette tapes, VHS video, the TV test card, vinyl records the first time around.
 
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Friends

60 years ago I was going on holiday with friends
50 years ago I was going to friends weddings
40 years ago I was going to friends children's christenings
25 years ago I was going to friends children's weddings
15 years ago I was visiting friends in hospital

Now I just seem to go to funerals

Aint life fun

Alan 😉
 
I am no spring chick, but I don't buy the good old days mantra, or old TV programmers, or the top 40.
 
I'm a bit surprised that there aren't more people weighing in with a, hopefully humerous, take on this subject. After all, we are all born knowing that growing old is inevitable and that we will all have to deal with it as best we can.

Hair!
For some guys, losing their hair is a big source of distress. I've never cared that much. Maybe having bald men on every side of my family mentally prepared me for the inevitable. In my late teens I wore my hair very long, it looked a mess and didn't suit me at all, as many cringeworthy old photographs show. In my early twenties I swapped to a crew cut which looked far better and I eventually started shaving my head, prompted by an outbreak of nits at my daughter's school.

There is another angle on the subject of getting old and hair though. That is the way that it stops growing on the top of your head but starts sprouting out just about everywhere else. Moles, ears, nostrils, random bits of your back, pubes that have stayed roughly the same length since I was about fourteen, suddenly start growing out of control until I can't find my appendage when I need a pee. So much that now my tweezers are now my best friend.

"I am no spring chick, but I don't buy the good old days mantra..."

I'm absolutely with Grovesy here. Maybe I'm incredibly lucky in that my life has gradually improved over the years. I'm a big fan of lifelong learning and enjoy the fact that I am always becoming more knowledgeable. We aren't rich but managing our money well has meant that my wife and I are now more comfortably off than we have ever been. Part of that is down to having already bought everything we need so, unless an appliance expires unexpectedly, we just don't buy much new stuff. Being retired is just brilliant, I walk on the beach, go swimming, potter in my wood shop because I no longer need to go to work. Technology constantly getting better and cheaper. My car, my watch, my piano, my television, my phone, my dental implant, all of them are brilliant in ways that I couldn't have imagined when I was younger.
 
When I look in a mirror I see my grandmother!
 
You are being judged by your age and have to fight for full recovery.

Sorry, at the moment, my broken arm feels as if it dominates my moods.
Being a woman in my 50s, multiple HCPs assumed a "good enough" recovery plan (probably the ability to do the housework) until I pointed out I am a woman in her 50s who does rock climbing regularly and "good enough" to me means getting back on the climbing walls and climbing the grades I have been doing for years.
And I abhor housework!

I know it is not the topic of this thread but it is important that we are treated for who we are rather than as a "typical" person with our general characteristics which ... to bring us back to the thread's topic ... is being treated for the age we feel rather than our age on paper.

Ooops. That got a bit too serious.
Please return to your grandfather in the mirror.
 
When you see a nice looking bloke (or woman, whichever) and are thinking to yourself “phwoar, they’re a bit of alright…” <3:D and then it dawns on you that you’re old enough to be their parent😱
 
Thinking "Thank God I don't have to do that anymore." You can decide what your own 'that' is. You can choose more than one thing.

Is there still a top 40 show?
 
"Is there still a top 40 show?"
I don't listen to the radio or watch much television so I can't answer that one. It's possible that one of the music video channels have one. You can get the download charts on the internet.

Official Singles Downloads Chart | Official Charts

The UK's best-selling downloads of the week, based on sales across a seven day period, compiled by the Official Charts Company.
www.officialcharts.com www.officialcharts.com

Number 14 is Christine and the Queens, a song that uses Pachelbel's Canon as a backing as has been discussed on a seperate thread here. Notice also that there is usually a scattering of old songs in there, it is quite common for an old song to suddenly become popular again and get into the charts.
 
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A lot of us will remember 'A Lovers Concerto' by The Toys based on Minuet in G Major by Christian Petzold - lovely words and music!

Plus I liked Ravel's Bolero when I first heard it aged 11 ish, about the same time I first heard Fingal's Cave and bits of The Messiah I wasn't at first familiar with cos I'd only previously heard bits of the Alleluia Chorus on the Proms - long before Torvill & Dean popularised Bolero! (I instantly remember the film Lawrence of Arabia which made me giggle when I first saw T&J skating to it - couldn't get much further apart than the Sahara Desert and an ice rink, could you? :care: )
 
"The top 20 was good enough for me."

I think that there has been a top 100 or at least a top 50 for a long time. Back when we had to rely on Radio 1 and Top Of The Pops for our pop music, the BBC mostly concentrated on the top 20. In the 1980s when FM radio came along and there was a revival of offshore pirate radio on long wave, you started to realise how shallow and unimaginative the Radio 1 playlist was.

@trophywench.
I think that you might mean the Arabian Desert, the Sahara is in North Africa.
 
Radio 1 (etc) didn't exist until 30th September 1969, only the Light prog before that, and Jimmy Young at 11pm on Sunday nights, presenting the 'Honey' hit parade (courtesy of Fleetway and their hit magazine 'Honey') ie the top 20, and on telly, The 6 5 Special - so having a decent enough Radio signal to be able to tune into Caroline (North where we lived) certainlr broadened the range of most folks 'our age' scope of musical knowledge - but there again Ready Steady Go on the ITV on Fridays helped too.

A certain friend with a broader taste in music was of some assistance to me musically in my teens so loved the Geno Washington LP (Hand clapping etc etc) though I was gobsmacked some years later to listen to a Simon & Garfunkel Album hearing their rendition of 'A Most Peculiar Man' rather than Leonard Cohen's original - cos I previously regarded LC as someone who 'only recorded music to commit suicide to' cos if you weren't depressed before you listened you would most likely be once you'd listened to it. :care:

The friend went to work for EMI after college and Abba were insistent that they wanted EMI to sign em up when they worn the Eurovision Song Contest - but M's boss refused point blank 'because they'll be a one hit wonder and we're not going to encourage them'. So he started looking for another label to employ him and after twists and turns enjoyed an excellent and lucrative self employed career in the business.
 
You know you are getting old when.....
You bend down to tie your shoe laces and think to yourself, what else can I do while I'm down here?
🙂
 
You go upstairs or enter a room, and then forget why you're there! or what you were going to do!
 
Have you had this feeling when you look at people you have known for a long time and notice that they are looking old - how did they get older when I haven’t gotten any older?

People call at 9 p.m. and ask, "Did I wake you?"
Your children begin to look middle-aged.
Your friends marry and divorce instead of “make out” and “break up.”
Your address book has mostly names that start with Dr.
The pharmacist has become your new best friend.
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