You know you're getting old when.

happyvalley

You get a nose & ear hair trimmer for Christmas & you are actually pleased to receive it.

Uboat

Me, yesterday.

RaplhMilne

Having nose and ear hair, doesn't make you old. Having it and doing nothing about it, that makes you old !

McBobbin

I was lying on the floor playing a board game with my daughter today. I was in one position for too long and it took me about three minutes to stand up. It probably looked like a video of a rusty railway bridge collapsing. But played in slow mo reverse, with a soundtrack of creaking metal

Fiiish

You need to sit down to put your socks on.

thai malaysia addick

When you say "ooh" every time you bend down to pick something up

smiffyboy

When you buy yourself a new pair of Nike Air Flights at 35 and your 14 year old daughter tells you your too old to wear them

Charltonparklane

**When theres 8 teenagers on mountain bikes in the road in front of you holding you up at 5 mph for 200yds doing wheelies, keep looking behind.

And you don't run the little cnu............s over

**Sutherland Avenue, Falconwood, approx. 5pm

McBobbin

Walking past a gang of teenagers looking for trouble and being totally ignored

T_C_E

When FB has your correct DOB, but says you are a year younger than you are and you start doubting yourself.

killerandflash

... when you can remember a worse Charlton team

Redrobo

....your children ask if you want to go to the toilet before you go out in the car.

Indianaaddick

You have after dribblage after you pee.

Addickted

thai malaysia addick said:

When you fart every time you bend down to pick something up

EFA

The_President

When you have to scrolldown twice on the year of Birth dropdown.

twiggyaddick

When the once next big young thing in golf tiger woods turns 40

ForeverAddickted

When you see Charlton players making their debuts who were born in 1996 (the year after you started Secondary School!!)

Simon E

ForeverAddickted said:

When you see Charlton players making their debuts who were born in 1996 (the year after you started Secondary School!!)

That was the year I started my job!

johnny73

When movies you watched at the cinema start getting Anniversary Editions / re-releases.

1eyedtutt

When you start saying things to your kids your parents used to say to you.

charltonkeston

ForeverAddickted said:

When you see Charlton players making their debuts who were born in 1996 (the year after you started Secondary School!!)

When you look at posts like this and think where you were working and where you were living back then.

ForeverAddicked you don't qualify as getting old, more of young pup

boggzy

When the bloke next to you pays for a round of drinks using his WATCH!!

RaplhMilne

smiffyboy said:

When you buy yourself a new pair of Nike Air Flights at 35 and your 14 year old daughter tells you your too old to wear them </blockquote




No man aged over 32 should wear trainers, unless engaged in a sporting activity. We have the casual shoe !

ForeverAddickted

boggzy said:

When the bloke next to you pays for a round of drinks using his WATCH!!

Have to admit that does sound pretty cool.

Almost as good as when I heard on the radio that someone had taken the chip out of their Oyster Card and had put it in a Harry Potter wand, they then got on a bus dressed as Harry Potter and were able to pay for their journey by taping the wand on the Oyster reader.

Would have loved to have seen the face of the Bus Driver

Fiiish

ForeverAddickted said:

boggzy said:

When the bloke next to you pays for a round of drinks using his WATCH!!

Have to admit that does sound pretty cool.

Almost as good as when I heard on the radio that someone had taken the chip out of their Oyster Card and had put it in a Harry Potter wand, they then got on a bus dressed as Harry Potter and were able to pay for their journey by taping the wand on the Oyster reader.

Would have loved to have seen the face of the Bus Driver

I imagine it was something along the lines of:

smiffyboy

When you read something Henry Irving has wrote on another thread and for the first time in your life agree with it

thai malaysia addick

When you can remember the place you went to on School Journey (age 11) but you can't remember the name of the place you stayed at in a cottage a few weeks ago.

man_at_milletts

When you include toilet stops when planning a journey.

man_at_milletts

boggzy said:

When the bloke next to you pays for a round of drinks using his WATCH!!

And when the bloke next to you pays for a round of drinks using your watch!

letthegoodtimesroll

When you wouldn't mind if they knocked the Valley down for redevelopment if it is replaced by a nice, purpose built indoor modern stadium that's warm in winter

i_b_b_o_r_g

When some bird you fancied at infants school announces the birth of her grand daughter on Facebook