Complete this sentence - "You know your getting old when...."

[almareallymatters]

A few things spring to mind!

"you know your getting old when...

* you find yourself yelling up the stairs to the kid's "will you please turn that music down...I can't here myself think down here!"

* you start making shoe purchases based primarily on comfort!

* you pop into M&S for a prawn sarnie and find that the clothes on the rails are starting to look strangely appealing!

* your kid's have a better phone/camera/computer than you do!

* when your using your computer you have to call your child in for "technical support!"

* you go out shopping for a new bikini and come home with a sensible one piece made by somebody like "Speedo!"

* You get excited by a new iron/kettle/food mixer!

* you fall head-over-heels in love with some guy off the telly...then realise you ARE actually old enough to be his mother!

* you settle down to watch a film on a Sunday afternoon and within 10 minutes your asleep...when you wake up you insist you weren't REALLY asleep...merely "resting your eyes!"

* all you really want is "a nice cup of tea!"

I could go on!

Anyone else?!

Love Alma xxx

 

[No Place Like Rome]

A few things spring to mind!

"you know your getting old when...

* you find yourself yelling up the stairs to the kid's "will you please turn that music down...I can't here myself think down here!"

* you start making shoe purchases based primarily on comfort!

* you pop into M&S for a prawn sarnie and find that the clothes on the rails are starting to look strangely appealing!

* your kid's have a better phone/camera/computer than you do!

* when your using your computer you have to call your child in for "technical support!"

* you go out shopping for a new bikini and come home with a sensible one piece made by somebody like "Speedo!"

* You get excited by a new iron/kettle/food mixer!

* you fall head-over-heels in love with some guy off the telly...then realise you ARE actually old enough to be his mother!

* you settle down to watch a film on a Sunday afternoon and within 10 minutes your asleep...when you wake up you insist you weren't REALLY asleep...merely "resting your eyes!"

* all you really want is "a nice cup of tea!"

I could go on!

Anyone else?!

Love Alma xxx

When you look in the mirror and realise, you ARE old

 

[almareallymatters]

When you look in the mirror and realise, you ARE old

Oh yeah...that too!

Love Alma xxx

 

[No Place Like Rome]

Oh yeah...that too!

Love Alma xxx

Just kidding

 

[almareallymatters]

Just kidding

"You know your getting old when...you want to play on Solo...but you have to go off on the school run!"

Love Alma xxx

 

[jesuisbryony]

* you pop into M&S for a prawn sarnie and find that the clothes on the rails are starting to look strangely appealing!

Oh no

* all you really want is "a nice cup of tea!"

Well, obviously.

"You know your getting old when...you want to play on Solo...but you have to go off on the school run!"

Love Alma xxx

Goodbye!

 

[The Cat's Mother]

When you mentally address policemen as "sonny".

 

[Hellie]

There's some kind of role reversal going on in my house because my daughter is the sensible one that tells me to dress my age and turn the music down.I never get excited about domestic appliances or Saturday nights in!

I guess the only thing really would be that all the male teachers at my kids school suddenly look like teenagers!And yet when you look back at the group photos you have from school all the teacher's you once thought were boring old farts suddenly look younger than you.

 

[almareallymatters]

I'm back now...and on the way to school I thought of another....

"the slightest ache or pain convinces you that you have some kind of terminal illness!"

Love Alma xxx

 

[almareallymatters]

Oh no

Ooooo!...nice frock!

Love Alma xxx

 

[Hellie]

I'm back now...and on the way to school I thought of another....

"the slightest ache or pain convinces you that you have some kind of terminal illness!"

Love Alma xxx

Yeah and then you Google the symptoms and something hideous comes up and then you are even more convinced you're at deaths door!

 

[almareallymatters]

Yeah and then you Google the symptoms and something hideous comes up and then you are even more convinced you're at deaths door!

Yep!...been there...done that!

Also you know your getting old when you get your kid's names muddled up when you call 'em...even though they're not even the same sex!

Love Alma xxx

 

[The Cat's Mother]

Yep!...been there...done that!

Also you know your getting old when you get your kid's names muddled up when you call 'em...even though they're not even the same sex!

Love Alma xxx

...or call them by the cat's name instead.

 

[almareallymatters]

...or call them by the cat's name instead.

But you get a quicker response from the cat!

Love Alma xxx

 

[Jukebox Jury]

you know you are getting old.....

if you are older than me

Jukebox Jury

 

[Hellie]

you know you are getting old.....

if you are older than me

Jukebox Jury

you're only warming up.

 

[Superhans]

You know your getting old when you are unable to use the correct "you're" in a very simple sentence.

 

[almareallymatters]

You know your getting old when you are unable to use the correct "you're" in a very simple sentence.

Ooops!

"You know YOUR/YOU'RE/YOU ARE getting old when you become picky about poor grammar!"

Love Alma xxx

 

[Superhans]

I've been picky about grammar since I were just out of primary school.

 

[Bilko]

You realise that you knew Madame Butterfly when she was just a crysalis.