You know you are getting older when....

[thefriarandme]

When going out for dinner IS the night out rather than the start of it!

[Cornelian]

Re:

You buy T-shirts without anything written on them.

You can remember the time when tee shirts didn't normally have anything written on them anyway. In fact, when you can remember the first tee with something written on it! (I can! I was eleven! It came in a parcel from America!)

[yugogypsy]

You say your grey hairs show your wisdom

You refer to your extra pounds as more of me to love

You start counting your pennies to put something away for your retirement.

Lois

[hamster]

I'm not 25 yet, and according to most of this thread, i'm getting old!!

Me too!! Someone asked me what I was doing on Friday night, and I said I was going to go to bed, listen to Radio 4 and knit.

[Bonniegirl]

You know your really getting old when someone takes your arm to help you across the road

You look at Tena Lady at the Supermarket

[ina]

I said I was going to go to bed, listen to Radio 4 and knit.

Sounds like a perfect night to me! I've been doing that kind of thing for the past - ergh - 35 years or so... Must have been old as a teenager.

[MrsD'ville]

3. The first thing you need in the morning is a wee.

What about twice a night as well?!

[MrsD'ville]

i got in from work fed pets cooked dinner put child to bed sent teen to bed baked bread /cakes sorted laundry then made my self a nice pot of tea and and went to bed with BBC radio 4 so i think i am offically on the down hill slope near 37 and im finding a political discussion on the radio and a pot of tea a nice way of spending the evenong

Gosh we'd get on like a house on fire, sounds like an average night to me Well, throw in a bit of knitting too, and Mr D'ville to discuss the political discussion with

You also know you're getting old when the boy-racer with the deafening stereo screams past and you say 'gosh, think how loud it must be INSIDE the car!'.