You know you are getting old when....

[Bobupndown]

You go to put a pair of glasses on, only to realise you are already wearing your other pair

 

[Onoff]

You know you're pi$$ed when you get up in the middle of the night to let the dog out having first reached for and put your glasses on in the dark.

You let the dog out and suddenly have a raging thirst. As the kitchen light goes on everything is blurry and you think Christ, never again etc.

Taking your specs off to wipe your brow and "It's a miracle I can see!"

The slow realisation you went to bed wearing contacts...

 

[Onoff]

You go to put a pair of glasses on, only to realise you are already wearing your other pair

That would be funny if I didn't already do it...

 

[skotl]

You go to put a pair of glasses on, only to realise you are already wearing your other pair

My dad used to wander around with his good glasses on his head and his scratched pair on his face. I'd ask why and he'd say "I can't find my good pair"

 

[Alan Reynolds]

There’s a guy on The Repair Shop who puts on THREE pairs. Steve the clock man. I stop at two and an eye loupe.

 

[AVI_8]

You know when you’re getting old when your son your son wonders why you’re playing a CD in the car instead of Spotify.
As a previous audiophile in my earlier years I tried to educate him about compressed digital audio ….. but that fell on deaf ears.

 

[pedrobedro]

You go to put a pair of glasses on, only to realise you are already wearing your other pair

Did that the other day in the shed and wondered why they didn't feel as comfortable as usual

 

[AVI_8]

Did that the other day in the shed and wondered why they didn't feel as comfortable as usual

I do similar on a daily basis, need my contact lenses to see distance as I’m short sighted, so without my contacts in I can read no problem.
With my contacts in I can see distance no problem but I can’t read so I have reading glasses to read ….. which I don’t need without contact lenses, gets a bit confusing sometimes.

 

[pedrobedro]

You know you're getting old when you think beige is a colour.

 

[Arc Tourist]

When the new toys your kids grew up with, are now considered antiques.

 

[pawsnizzy]

You know you're getting old when you think beige is a colour.

Beige isn't a colour - It's an entire lifestyle

 

[brightspark]

you know your getting old when stood at the road edge and a youngster helps you across when u were just standing there looking

 

[Brummie]

You know your getting old when it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night.

 

[Bobupndown]

You know when you’re getting old when your son your son wonders why you’re playing a CD in the car instead of Spotify.
As a previous audiophile in my earlier years I tried to educate him about compressed digital audio ….. but that fell on deaf ears.

Fitted a new stereo head unit to my sons Polo, all fancy apple car play, android auto stuff. I happened to comment that it had an sd card slot that he could put music onto. I got a shake of the head and "Yeah dad, if you're about 50". Told him I was disappointed that it didn't have a built in cassette player! (Which is the future of music, this digital malarkey is just a fad, tapes will make a comeback )

 

[Onoff]

You know your getting old when it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night.

Fitted a new stereo head unit to my sons Polo, all fancy apple car play, android auto stuff. I happened to comment that it had an sd card slot that he could put music onto. I got a shake of the head and "Yeah dad, if you're about 50". Told him I was disappointed that it didn't have a built in cassette player! (Which is the future of music, this digital malarkey is just a fad, tapes will make a comeback )

Put a cassette on a while back. I'd played it so much as a kid I knew the tracks off by heart. The next track I was expecting didn't play. Took me a while to realise I had to turn the tape over.

Did the same when I got the case of "big black CDs" out of the loft.

 

[Nick67GT]

I knew I was getting old when a shop assistant ssked me if I needed any help with getting an item off a shelf.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Told him I was disappointed that it didn't have a built in cassette player!

Pah!! I'll see your cassette player, and trump it with my 8-track player (jeez, I'm really old ) .

 

[Onoff]

Pah!! I'll see your cassette player, and trump it with my 8-track player (jeez, I'm really old ) .

A mere child! Reel to reel is where it's at!

 

[slim_boy_fat]

A mere child! Reel to reel is where it's at!

Same era(ish), but not in your car surely? (I'll not call you Shirley again, I promise )

 

[Other Daniel]

Happened to me on a train a while ago.
A young lady actually got up and offered me her seat...!!
I'm only 54.