You know you're middle aged when

[andytheflyer]

...and 5mm hex keys!

Phew, that's a relief.  Not just me then......

[Feanor]

...when offered super sex, you say "I'll have the soup, please."

[Canardly]

You speak for yourself............Coffee for me.

[Torslanda]

What's 'soup' . . . ?

[T42]

When you start a sentence with "I must be getting middle-aged..." and the missus interrupts with "Hah! You'd be lucky".

[ian]

The ladies at the pool still refer to me as 'young man' which is nice. Mind you, their average age is about 206.

[TheLurker]

When one of the young people at work looks at you with the look that _you_ used to use for doddery old gits talking about stuff from before the dawn of time* when you and a colleague of much the same vintage as yourself are discussing an event that happened only recently**.

*About a week last Wednesday to judge from the freshness of their faces, their utter lack of cynicism and their touching belief that there is such a thing as a "career".

**I.e. any time in the last 25 to 35*** years.

***Well, mebbe 40 or so.

[ElyDave]

when you are telling the waitress about the book you are reading.

Blank Looks

"it's the book that Blade Runner was based on"

More blank looks

[bobb]

When you start thinking about mowing the lawn at 6am tomorrow morning to punish those pesky young people nextdoor. It's gone midnight - take it indoors, or feel the wrath of the mower!

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Last time I looked at beerintheevening.com there was still a review of a pub not far from Larrington Towers which was bulldozed about quarter of a century ago to widen the A406.

That sounds very Douglas Adams*...


* an author, famous for writing 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' in the late 20th century.
 

[rogerzilla]

...you're about to go on a narrowboat holiday.

[Ian H]

...you're about to go on a narrowboat holiday.

I did that in my youth.

Is there no hope for me?

[spindrift]

When you realise kids conceived to Don't Look Back in Anger are now teenagers.

[Legs]

When you realise kids conceived to Don't Look Back in Anger are now teenagers.

Hmmm, What's the Story Morning Glory? was released in 1995.  Many of those kids are in their 20s.

[T42]

When your daughter turns 40.

[Morat]

When you realise kids conceived to Don't Look Back in Anger are now teenagers.

Hmmm, What's the Story Morning Glory? was released in 1995.  Many of those kids are in their 20s.

In a similar vein, the baby on the cover of Nevermind is 26!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Elden

[fuzzy]

You attend a course and one of the team of staff acting as a stooge gives a bit of life history as part of the stooging. She explains that her cycling ability has taken a bit of a beating due to childbirth 15 months ago. When providing her date of birth for the medical history section your realise she was born 6 weeks before you joined the army

[ElyDave]

I never joined the forces, so that won't happen to me. I'll stay young forever.

[Pedaldog.]

39 years ago this September when I went into the RAF. (2nd) Ex-Mrs Dog was 4 years old when I was at St Athan.

[rogerzilla]

...when the office is full of people who were born after you started working for the company.

...you realise that, when you started school, WWII, yes, the one with Hitler and all that, was a more recent event (30 years) than the Falklands conflict (35 years) is to today's 5-year olds.

...you remember a man coming round to change the appliances in your house from town gas to North Sea gas.

[hellymedic]

You realise that those born in the long hot summer of '76 are now middle-aged by others' definitions bbbbut you were already legally an adult then!

[Polar Bear]

When you find yourself discussing with your eldest relative how you can start accessing some of your pension funds in six months time.

[andrewc]

When you get an unexpected lump sum & are considering putting it into your pension instead of having fun spending it on holidays & toys.

[T42]

When you remember telling which houses had TV and which didn't by the presence of an H-aerial on the roof. Unless they had set-top V aerials, but in the 50s getting that H up on the chimney was a status symbol.

A chum & I discovered that the spark in a battery-operated electric bell could screw up the signal, so we removed the bell part and mounted the rest as a Dan Dare ray-gun.  It was great fun, peeking through someone's window from a discreet distance and watching them trying to fiddle the picture back to stability.

[Giraffe]

When the limits of the viewable universe are within your near point.