You know you must be old when............

[ambercat16]

I was checking out the latest "best novel" lists and there was a book set in the 1980s that was listed as historical fiction 😳

WHAT!!  The 1980s is only.......

.......oh wait, that is 40 years ago.  But historical??

Yep. I'm old 😫

[rogespeed]

1980's : the " me " decade - fast money and gratuitous spending without mass public concerns ? 

[sandypebbles]

Not that different to the anti-vaxxers of 20/21 really

Me, me, me, zero concern for the mass public

Yep, nailed it 

[veiled-lady]

My other half was made to feel quite ancient about 10 years ago.

We were visiting a museum when he saw a display of  items relating to his trade as an electrician.

Some of those were familiar to him, as he used them regularly during his apprenticeship, and for sometime after.

So ....  you know you're old when a museum displays the things you remember using not that long ago (or at least it feels that way!).

[janeababe]

[rogespeed]

or  Cleopatra ? 

[rogespeed]

Maybe make your book appealing to archaeologists 

[rogespeed]

Or as a guy realise you are old when you suddenly consider more appropriate to ask a hot check-out chick whether her Grand Mother is free... 

[the4masters2013]

I now I am getting old when I feel the police offers look way to young to legally have a gun......

and don't start me on the doctors (I feel they look as if they should still be in university, not treating people)...lol!

[rogespeed]

Actually the vax treatment is in response to delta variant for the general population is on behalf of the infirmed elderly - aged care , senior industrialists , HIV sufferers etc - and those with clinical respiratory related morbidities or the unexpected stressed like soccer stars and airline pilots ...

or in other words excluding the previously mentioned cohorts there would be no clinical justification for mass vaxing based upon rate of life threatening infections relative to historically acceptable seasonal pathogens such as influenza , sloshed drink driving , etc

[domino-710]

I think the best you have ever come up with is:

The saucy check out chic - ask her for her Grandmother's number. 🤣