You Know You Are Getting Old When...

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You Know You Are Getting Old When...

By Samantha King
Aug. 28, 2005

If you have ever sat back in your chair thinking what has this world come to? Or simply reminisced about the good old days, then it probably means you are getting old. But if you can’t imagine that you could possibly be getting old, then here are just a few more tell tale signs. You know you are getting old when………….

You begin to look at carnival rides and think to yourself be buggered if I’m getting on that they have only a few nuts and bolts holding them together.

You remember a time before Sunday trading.

You have to ask your kids or grand kids how to work this stupid contrapition of a computer and then go into a long winded story beginning with in my day....

You still remember when you could buy a mars bar for 45 cents and a 25-cent bag of mixed lollies did you and three mates.

You can remember when shops sold the half cans of coke that you can only get on aeroplanes now.

Your kids refer to the 70’s as the olden days.

Your kids ask you if you rode to school on a dinosaur.

Your kids ask if television was invented when you were their age. (If it wasn’t, face it your old!!!)

You can remember a time when you went to see a fight and a game of footy broke out.

You start considering buying Metamucil to keep you regular.

When you go to an all you can eat restaurant, you now only eat one plate full and you make sure it has vegetables on it, and you don’t make yourself sick on five bowls of icecream.

You become aware of wrinkles and grey hair.

Ladies you consider push up bras for that drooping feeling.

You have to write lists of things you need to do that day.

A fistfight was just that when you were a kid, there were no weapons involved, and everyone was mates afterwards.

You think back to the time of being sixteen saying that you would never find someone of the opposite sex attractive that is the same age as you are now, and now you want the older man/woman.

You find the top 40 music irritating, and wish acca Dacca and meatloaf would make a come back.

Your next door neighbour asks if you have any clothes left over from your teenage years because they have made a come back.

You still do just for that reason.

When you see a p plater at the lights with their music turned up you feel like screaming "are you deaf or something?"

You find yourself repeating things your parents said.

You hear yourself telling your friends if only I had the energy like my kids have.

You get invited to your workmates twenty first and can’t make it past 10pm, while they don’t get home till 4am.

You need reading glasses to read the paper.

You don’t understand body piercing.

You grew up in a time when boys only had one ear pierced and didn’t wear makeup.

You remember when pink was a girls colour.

You start to look at teenage girls and think if that were my daughter I would never let her out of the house in a skirt that short.

You don’t understand political correctness.

You remember when petrol was under 70 cents a litre.

You remember a time before you could find a Macca’s and KFC on every corner.

And finally you get to almost thirty and think oh my god with heart disease, cancer and stroke being number one killers today that’s half my life.

Well if your sitting there nodding your head right now, and giggling away, your old!! Just like me, so kick back and enjoy the rest of your life you old bugger you.

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