You know you're getting old when .......

When we go out for a meal with the whole family, all of us over 50 pass the reading glasses around so we can see the menu, much to the younger folks' amusement

I'm afraid that I find a number of supposedly funny programmes anything but entertaining.
Like FlicketyB I suspect I'm probably already a grumpy old woman

Dare'taskDHorchildrenbecauseiwon'tliketheanswer

Watched it once. Unfunny in the extreme.

It's not age annodomini it's called good taste. It's just not funny,

I know I'm old because my dgd keeps telling me so!

91 year old auntie had to spend a few days in hospital and when we went to visit her on her first afternoon she asked us to pop to her flat to get a few things she had forgotten. When we asked for the front door key she said she thought it might get lost in the hospital so after locking the door she had posted the key through the letter box. It took a magnet and a piece of string to retrieve it.

I am (becoming?) a grumpy old woman, I cannot be bothered to watch television, I find most of it boring and incomprehensible, a trait that was shared by most of the residents in my aunt's care home. Ten years ago when another relation was in a care home there seemed to be television on in all the rooms all the time.

I must be getting old because I simply cannot fathom what anyone sees in 'Mrs Brown's Boys'!

Hate them!

Isn't he/she just.

daffydil whoever invented elasticated waists is an absolute
hero

When one of the things I look for in a new skirt or trousers is an elasticated waist!

Loved reading all your various tales ! and what daft things some of us have done !!

Grandma2213 I bet a lot of us do that.....I certainly do, and not only look like her, but sound like her, dress like she did (and there's me..always vowing I'd never ever wear the sort of clothes she did ! ) and now say to myself "good grief....when did I turn into my mother ? "

When I look in the mirror and see my mother!!

What usually reminds me that I'm getting old is when I look at a scantily clad young wench and think "She must be frozen dressed like that!".

When on I was about 28 I set out with my two kids on a trip to the Post Office. When I arrived there I found I was carrying the contents of the pedal bin in a plastic sack.

If that had happened now, at 68, I would have been really worried.

I've a few copies now of Phantom of the Opera, buying the same one again, forgetting I've already got it.

The same with sauces and mustard, buy and then discover ones already in the cupboard.

Under electric light, early in the morning the colours were difficult to tell apart (that's my excuse anyway!)

Fortunately, I didn't get to work with my odd shoes. When I realised I hurriedly walked to the nearest shoe shop and bought a new (matching) pair.

I was late for work though. As I said I was about 40 at the time.

FlicketyB I once wore one purple and one black shoe to work, luckily (?) of the same style - I couldn't claim old age as I was probably only about 52 at the time

Trisher, I've even tried to put a second pair over the ones I'm wearing. They are just cheap reading glasses so I have a few pairs.

You reach for your glasses case to put on your glasses open it, wonder where you could possible have left them, and then realise- You are already wearing them!!!!

Our 2 year old GS pulls his socks off and leaves them lying around. He's been doing this since he was a few months old. Not unusual I know, but a problem because if my DS or DiL don't pick them up in time their madcap young dog eats them.
GS consequently has a drawer full of odd socks and they've just given up trying to match them so he wears odd socks nearly all the time

These have made me laugh so much. I must be almost normal I think.

Odd socks are DD's trademark She can never find a matching pair for herself or DGC.