You know you're middle aged when

[ian]

I have, upon my desk, an actual printed volume of the Science Citation Index that I use to scare children.

Slightly predates me, in my day, we searched MEDLINE on CD-ROM, one disk for each year...

[T42]

And a further sign of decrepitude:

Was just on phone to accountant. Told him I had two questions I needed answers to. By the time we'd discussed the first I had forgotten the second. And I still can't remember it.

[ElyDave]

I have, upon my desk, an actual printed volume of the Science Citation Index that I use to scare children.

Slightly predates me, in my day, we searched MEDLINE on CD-ROM, one disk for each year...

In my office refurb, I threw out a few trees worth of printed health and safety guidance that came from Barber's Index, a similarly CD-Rom based catalogue with monthly updates.  All of that stuff is now available as pdf free downloads, with umpteen documents on a thing the size of a postage stamp.

Despite all the available online information, this weeks client still didn't have a clue about chemical safety. Keeps me in a job 

[ian]

Chemical safety. Don't drink it, breathe it, shake it, or leave it in daylight.

[Jaded]

And a further sign of decrepitude:

Was just on phone to accountant. Told him I had two questions I needed answers to. By the time we'd discussed the first I had forgotten the second. And I still can't remember it.

Excellent! I do this all the time. And something else, which I cannot remember just now.

[Legs]

In my office refurb, I threw out a few trees worth of printed health and safety guidance that came from Barber's Index, a similarly CD-Rom based catalogue with monthly updates.  All of that stuff is now available as pdf free downloads, with umpteen documents on a thing the size of a postage stamp.

Despite all the available online information, this weeks client still didn't have a clue about chemical safety. Keeps me in a job 

See also: SPON

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

At the GP, discussing changing my contraception to see if it helps my depression, the GP said "well, I suppose it's possible you could still be fertile."

[T42]

I bet that helped the depression.

[mrcharly-YHT]

At the GP, discussing changing my contraception to see if it helps my depression, the GP said "well, I suppose it's possible you could still be fertile."

Did you punch them?

[hellymedic]

At the GP, discussing changing my contraception to see if it helps my depression, the GP said "well, I suppose it's possible you could still be fertile."

Did you punch them?

A local dentist's wife discovered she was fertile when a little boy popped out.
She's 53....

[LEE]

....when you hear someone mention "The nineteen-eighties" and you think it's recent.

[Aunt Maud]

Gets up to let the dog in....Two minutes later, after stepping over the dog in the other room, gets up to see if the dog wants to come in.

[T42]

....when you hear someone mention "The nineteen-eighties" and you think it's recent.

I can remember one meeting when the boss said "now we must start planning for the 90's" and everyone said "what, already?"

[Riggers]

When you clicked on this Post and wondered why you did, remembered, and now forgotten what you were going to say.

[andrewc]

A cold that you'd previously have worked, trained & played through has you in bed for a couple of days 

[robgul]

....when you hear someone mention "The nineteen-eighties" and you think it's recent.

I can remember one meeting when the boss said "now we must start planning for the 90's" and everyone said "what, already?"

Going way back (I'm old, not middle-aged) BP ran adverts for oil supplies for central heating featuring a woman called "Mrs 1970" . . . as if that was going to be the next big thing waaaay in the future.

Rob

[Kim]

....when you hear someone mention "The nineteen-eighties" and you think it's recent.

I can remember one meeting when the boss said "now we must start planning for the 90's" and everyone said "what, already?"

Going way back (I'm old, not middle-aged) BP ran adverts for oil supplies for central heating featuring a woman called "Mrs 1970" . . . as if that was going to be the next big thing waaaay in the future.

I still quote this one on a regular basis...

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/gGxw8EzhlAM&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/gGxw8EzhlAM&rel=1</a>
https://youtu.be/gGxw8EzhlAM?t=3s

[fuzzy (retd.) AAGE]

.... you find yourself muttering under your breath about bloody kids and their parents having no respect or control. You then realise that the parents were kids that you used to entertain at your own kids birthday parties

[Redlight]

Your first response to a piece of household equipment not functioning properly, even though you have no real idea how it works, is to go to your tool box rather than throwing it away and buying a replacement.

[hatler]

....when you hear someone mention "The nineteen-eighties" and you think it's recent.

I can remember one meeting when the boss said "now we must start planning for the 90's" and everyone said "what, already?"

Going way back (I'm old, not middle-aged) BP ran adverts for oil supplies for central heating featuring a woman called "Mrs 1970" . . . as if that was going to be the next big thing waaaay in the future.

I still quote this one on a regular basis...

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/gGxw8EzhlAM&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/gGxw8EzhlAM&rel=1</a>
https://youtu.be/gGxw8EzhlAM?t=3s

As soon as times got a little tough for them they junked anything to do with Solar.

[Kim]

Your first response to a piece of household equipment not functioning properly, even though you have no real idea how it works, is to go to your tool box rather than throwing it away and buying a replacement.

Bonus middle-aged points for actually fixing it.

[Mrs Pingu]

At the GP, discussing changing my contraception to see if it helps my depression, the GP said "well, I suppose it's possible you could still be fertile."

Did you punch them?

[ElyDave]

after only one beer you fall asleep during the second half of Scotland - Wales and miss the try

[hellymedic]

My 'kid' brother turns 40 this year.
One of his classmates was the son of one of my classmates.

I suppose I am past middle age...

[Jaded]

after only one beer you fall asleep during the second half of Scotland - Wales and miss the try

That's funny - I didn't have a beer, dozed off at half time and woke up to see Scotland were ahead