Things that make you feel old!

[BR60103]

Finding that the subway cars that replaced the ones I rode to work are being replaced.

 

[Enterprisingwestern]

 

Modelling "Modern Image" railways from my memories that are actually 50 plus years old.

 

Mike.

[great central]

In a week or two's time it will be 40 years since the Woodhead route closed and 30 years since we first took Deepcar to a show

[Enterprisingwestern]

20 minutes ago, great central said:

In a week or two's time it will be 40 years since the Woodhead route closed and 30 years since we first took Deepcar to a show

 

, and 51 years since passenger services ceased.

Seems like only yesterday!

 

Mike.

[Markwj]

When you are talking to the new student on placement and realise you worked on nights with her grandmother!

[Vistisen]

12 hours ago, Platform 1 said:

When the hair under the barber's chair is all grey...

And there is less of it.

 

[Michael Hodgson]

12 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

eSports is now a thing.

 

Is it in the Olympics?

Might be the answer to Japan's dilemma over holding them this year.

[Michael Hodgson]

12 hours ago, Platform 1 said:

When the hair under the barber's chair is all grey...

I had a haircut last week ....  I managed to have one last year too.

I remember when the barber had a sign Gents haircutting 1/6d, Boys 1/3d.

[PatB]

6 hours ago, BR60103 said:

Finding that the subway cars that replaced the ones I rode to work are being replaced.

 

On a similar note, seeing Newcastle Metro stock, which I rode on when it was brand new, and which seemed astoundingly spiffy and modern, described as old and outdated. Ditto Sprinter DMUs.

 

Seeing buildings you watched go up demolished as obsolete.

[Michael Hodgson]

Retirement didn't make me feel old.

What made me feel old  was when my little brother retired.

 

My mum's mind must have worked the same way "You can't be 30, I'm only 22".... "You can't be 40, I'm still only 22"....

 

 

[Gopher]

Sitting in the barber's chair looking into the mirror, and seeing my father staring back at me.  Plus of course the first cars and tractors I drove always feature at classic vehicle rallies.   

[Michael Hodgson]

3 minutes ago, PatB said:

On a similar note, seeing Newcastle Metro stock, which I rode on when it was brand new, and which seemed astoundingly spiffy and modern, described as old and outdated. Ditto Sprinter DMUs.

 

Seeing buildings you watched go up demolished as obsolete.

My dad worked on the construction of the first nuclear power station in Scotland - Chapelcross, near Annan, and when I first learned to ride a bike I decided to visit him there, giving the security guard a problem.   I was surprised a few years ago when a friend who worked in the industry send me a link to a clip of the cooling towers coming down.   

 

As for the Metro, I said I'll use it when it opens to visit my Aunty Ella - unfortunately she died before then and I've still not travelled on it.  My parents used to commute from West Monkseaton to Longbenton when that line was still using the NER electrics!

[alastairq]

That all the buses I first drove, have examples in 'preservation?'

Or that today folk think a Morris Oxford is brilliant???

[F-UnitMad]

This made me feel old this weekend.

Bridgnorth on Sunday evening. The first engine I ever 'spotted', the first time I was taken trainspotting by a mate, was a Hoover at New Street, in 1978. I still can't get used to diesels on the Heritage railways.

[PatB]

11 minutes ago, alastairq said:

That all the buses I first drove, have examples in 'preservation?'

Or that today folk think a Morris Oxford is brilliant???

It does seem to be a feature of ageing, that one finds oneself mystified by the reverence shown towards what one remembers as pretty awful vehicles. I now know what my father felt like at old vehicle shows .

[johnarcher]

There's more now, but I think the first thing was about 10 years ago - teaching the Moon landings as history on supply in a Primary school when I remember staying up to watch them.

[Talltim]

I was playing The Stone Roses album in the car. Neither of my kids were impressed. I realised that it wasn't the equivalent of my parent playing the Beatles to me at the same age, but playing Dean Martin from 10 years earlier.

[Reorte]

Seeing a computer we had when I was a child (a BBC B) - in a museum. Mind you maybe the idea of seeing any computer in a museum ticks that box.

[pH]

1 hour ago, PatB said:

Seeing buildings you watched go up demolished as obsolete.

As a student, for a couple of summers I worked on building sites. One site included several blocks of low flats - up to 7 storeys on a sloping site. Not only have they all been demolished, but some of the trees that established themselves on the cleared ground are now a respectable height.

[john new]

Realising that you have now lived in the current house longer (35 years) than the age (34) you were when you bought it!

[petethemole]

1 hour ago, Reorte said:

Seeing a computer we had when I was a child (a BBC B) - in a museum. Mind you maybe the idea of seeing any computer in a museum ticks that box.

I was at the Amberley Chalk Pits Museum a few years ago; the have a collection of old "home entertainment".  It included the mains radio I grew up with from about 1950 to the mid '60s, the first transistor radio I owned, and the first colour TV I owned (old and secondhand in about 1985).

[Stubby47]

Realising the first Star Wars film came out 44 years ago.

 

Realising all the 70's & 80's music we listened to is also the same age.

 

Becoming a grandfather 

[didcot]

Having to explain what a Zues Chart is to the umpteenth clueless  engineering graduate and finding yours is dated 1976!

[alastairq]

Remember thinking that Thunderbirds was the height of tele-visual special effects?

 

[Especially so when one remembers one grew up with Andy Pandy?}

[PatB]

A recent rekindling of an interest in 70s and 80s Scalextric products has made me realise I may be of the last generation to consider it perfectly normal and healthy to emblazon children's toys with ads for tobacco products .