When you start thinking it's time to ditch the singlespeed and get gears and suspension. (Maybe this year... 🙂 )
Or when you look at your genealogy chart, and all your ancestors were long dead by this age.
Don't confuse guitar strings with banjo strings.
Ticked off another of the being old checklist at the weekend, by falling asleep with a drink my hand, woke up with it in my lap 😞
I used to daydream about fancy cars and houses, today I spent an hour on a spreadsheet to work out just how late I'd left making retirement plans and what I'll leave behind for my Kids.
When I see young Women out for night out, I think "she must be FREEZING!" and "I hope she gets home safely".
Planning Dinner based on sleep quality and not taste.
You’re starting to take a keen interest in Fender Stratocasters, boutique amplifiers and naturism???
I think I'd prefer a tele over a strat..
But I don't think that's a sign of getting old, the fender strat is kind of ubiquitous, but it's for a good reason!
It's probaly the most copied guitar in history, with the Martin dreadnought acoustic coming a close second.
Conversation in the office:
Colleague: How come most of you are wearing something red today? Did I miss an email?
Manager: Says the man wearing 50 shades of beige....
Me: Man from Marks & Spencer?
Manager: I was thinking Man from C& A
3 other team members: What's C&A?
Walking into rooms then forgetting the reason why you went in there in the first place
Been there done that and worse, raked all sorts of stuff out of drawers and cupboards in the spare room then realised I had forgotten what the **** I was looking for.
Conversation in the office:
Colleague: How come most of you are wearing something red today? Did I miss an email?
Manager: Says the man wearing 50 shades of beige....
Me: Man from Marks & Spencer?
Manager: I was thinking Man from C& A
3 other team members: What's C&A?
I'd have spat my coffee out at that point.. thats really funny, but I guess that means that I am old too.
I now now to hold off taking my sleeping tablet with the small pile of other tablets I take at bed time. Why? I know I can't sleep until I've got up to go for a pee twice before I can 'relax' and go to sleep. It's not all bad though as sometimes I treat myself to a poo these days so get to go on the forum for a bit before bedtime.
Guess where I am now?
When you read the other post about making your house more efficient. Payback in 7 years? 😞
I tried to dig a hole yesterday, nearly killed me. I know I never learnt how to shovel properly but i don’t remember near cardiac arrest in the distant past. I’m going to buy a mini excavator rather than try again.
When strangers strike up a conversation about their prostate problems. Actual experience this morning!!
When you're interviewing people who were born in the 21stC which still slightly makes my brain hurt, and they reveal during the interview that they already have children themsleves, and those children are 3 years old...
When your mother starts agreeing with your politics, shocked.
Chatting to a colleague at work who has just come back from maternity leave when she asked me if I had grandkids!
Then realised that I am comfortably old enough to be her dad, and she is early 30s....
when a wee bit of manual labour has you hobbling for days. jeepers