Anyone remember their first day as an old person?

Call Me Jimmy · 26-08-2011 03:27PM #1

I was just thinking in my mind about the day sometime in the future when I will purchase my first dishwasher. I know I'll feel old as hell when I go into the shop to get it. You know you're an adult when you buy a dishwasher.

So anyone here remember buying their first 'adult' item (not a dildo). Dishwasher, toilet brush, iron etc.

Or was there a defining day in your life where you just knew there was no going back, you were officially old?

SV · 26-08-2011 03:29PM

I bought a bed. Definitely the oldest I've ever felt.

It wasn't even a car bed. I want a car bed.

Ruu_Old · 26-08-2011 03:31PM

When I started making a noise when sitting/rising up from the chair. Ahhhhhhhh!

ottostreet · 26-08-2011 03:31PM

Already done it. After years of fast women, fast cars, and fast...eh...computer gadget things, I bought a... few pallets of wooden flooring, knew what a 'floating floor' was when I ordered it, and was excited about getting it laid (fnar fnar).

ger vallely · 26-08-2011 03:32PM

I bought a dress in Debenhams. Made me feel very old. I had never imagined handing over cash for a clothes item in a shop the sells nylon trousers with elasticated waists.Though in saying that, the dress was quite lovely or so I was told. By a very old lady..

Buddly · 26-08-2011 03:34PM

Been done many times

(stick for mixing paint is the answer)

phasers · 26-08-2011 03:35PM

When I got my car when I turned 18

Though I've been buying curtains, mugs and all sorts of housey stuff since I was 7...

Buddly wrote: »

Been done many times

(stick for mixing paint is the answer)

Who buys those? You find a stick in your shed/an old wooden spoon.

Buddly · 26-08-2011 03:42PM

phasers wrote: »

Who buys those? You find a stick in your shed/an old wooden spoon.

I was referring to the defining day you realise you're old

Chuck Stone · 26-08-2011 03:43PM

phasers wrote: »

Who buys those? You find a stick in your shed/an old wooden spoon.

I have a large collection of useful sticks which I just know will come in handy for something sometime in the next 30 years.

Fozzie Bear · 26-08-2011 03:57PM

The first time it really hit me was at a funeral of a 20 year old neighbour. I was approx 29/30 at the time. In the pub afterwards I was at the bar chatting with a gang of people of all ages when this dude comes over and says "howya Fozzie". I mumble a hello back and turn away awkwardly. My younger brother seeing my confusion starts laughing and says "that's Mark Kenny" and it hit me then. The last time I had seen him was about 10/12 years before that and he was still that age and appearance in my head. I couldn't believe how much older he looked and he was studying to be a barrister in Germany too. I felt old that day....

Or the morning I first really noticed extra hair growing from my nose and ears. That was a few years ago, the hair is now sprouting forth with wild abandon. Its no sooner hacked back then its re-grown. At the same time it is going all the more thinner by the day on the crown of my head.

Getting old sucks donkey balls:mad:

Frank Black · 26-08-2011 04:13PM

You know that rule - half your age plus 7 for the youngest person you should be with?
I remember having this conversation in work and while one of the graduates fell within my acceptable range. I fell within her mothers acceptable range.

Another time was when a student joined on work experience and I worked out she was closer in age to my daughter than to me.

nicowa · 26-08-2011 04:14PM

First time I really felt like an adult - walking into the house I stopped in the hallway to pick up a shopping bag someone had left there... Not a yer before I would have walked over it. Maybe it's cos I'm lazy rather than childish... but it's also the fact that I've moved in with himself (a first) and his stepson (a major first).

It's everything from making sure the dishwasher is on at night to making sure the bins are taken out in the morning - in the last place I lived I somehow managed to not take the bins out except maybe one... (I was only there 6 months or so but still).

I'm completly domesticated.... :eek:

MrStuffins · 26-08-2011 04:16PM

The day you say "F*cking kids, they haven't a clue nowadays".

Until that day, you think you still are one!

randombar · 26-08-2011 04:17PM

Life insurance, definitely the oldest thing I've ever done!

GalwayKiefer · 26-08-2011 04:20PM

When I was in a niteclub one night and said to my friend "Fcuking hell it's all kids in here." It wasn't, we were just too damn old to be there.

phill106 · 26-08-2011 04:22PM

When you read more of the newspaper then just the comics.

looky loo · 26-08-2011 04:22PM

When you don't know/don't care who is number one in the music charts.
When rap music is like repeating the worst hangover you ever had.
When you need glasses to read instructions on the back of things.
When a good nite is a great book, and a huge fire.
When people say 'I hope I look as good as you when I'm your age'.

ejmaztec · 26-08-2011 04:25PM

GaryCocs wrote: »

Life insurance, definitely the oldest thing I've ever done!

So you've not yet got your hands on a wrinkly old granny?

3ndahalfof6 · 26-08-2011 04:28PM

out one night, first time in bout 15 yrs and consumed 8 big pints of the black stuff,

next day when i need to pay a visit to the throne and after much grunting and groaning and after the initial explosion, when it came to cleaning me self up, I could only reach the bottom of my back to clean off the overspray,

at this point I knew things were on the downward slope,

I sat on the toilet mat and riggled about a bit to finish the job off.

26-08-2011 04:29PM

I'm not even remotely old

yupyup7up · 26-08-2011 04:31PM

looky loo wrote: »

When you don't know/don't care who is number one in the music charts.

I'm 24 and I couldn't give a flying fuck about this.

Frank Black · 26-08-2011 04:32PM

When in the process of trying to be hip, you instead end up hurting yours.

JustAddWater · 26-08-2011 04:32PM

I'm 28 and I spent a Sunday in a garden centre. I really enjoyed it but man I felt so old when all I bought was a packet of grass to repair a patch in my back garden!

Sunnyisland · 26-08-2011 04:32PM

yupyup7up wrote: »

I'm 24 and I couldn't give a flying fuck about this.

Your just old before your time

it happens

Davyhal · 26-08-2011 04:33PM

First struck me when the moment I took out health insurance... Was reinforced later that day when I was out chatting to this one in the pub and I tell them that I'm 24 and they replied "I like an older man"!!! I was very confused until I realised that they were born in 1993!

The Scientician · 26-08-2011 04:36PM

The day I realised I don't dislike any biscuits anymore. Fig rolls, Jaffa Cakes, etc. I can eat them all once I'm hungry enough or have a nice cup of tea. It's not that there aren't biscuits that I favour, just that none of them taste so reprehensible anymore that I wouldn't eat them in the above circumstances.

offaly1 · 26-08-2011 04:37PM

GalKiefer wrote: »

When I was in a niteclub one night and said to my friend "Fcuking hell it's all kids in here." It wasn't, we were just too damn old to be there.

Thats said everytime i go to the niteclub! thankfully its not as often as it used to be!

Temptamperu · 26-08-2011 04:41PM

I stood up a few months ago and made a really long noise i cant replecate through words and thought fúck im old now... im only thirty ffs

Latchy · 26-08-2011 04:46PM

I remember it well yes ,it was tuesday and I ...wait ...

No it wasn't tuesday at all ,it was wednesday and it was lashing down with rain so ...no ..no ...it wasn't raining at all because we had the heatwave that year .

So anyhow myself and John ....eh no ..no couldn;t have being John ,sure he's dead this years

Anyhow ...where was I ? Ah yes ...it was a thursday and it was snowing ...

rainbowdrop · 26-08-2011 04:48PM

Felt old the day I threw my old worn out Vans runners into the wheelie bin, and went back for them 5minutes later whilst muttering to myself 'they'll do me for gardening shoes" . Maybe this means I'm classed as a cool old person cos I wear Vans for mowing the lawn?:D

Also got quite excited when I went to buy new net curtains last year, couldn't wait to get home and hang them.

And worst of all I've started listening to 4fm recently as well, to avoid all that pop shite that is played on other stations. Guess I might as well just sign myself into an old folk's home right now!:o

una_profesora · 26-08-2011 04:51PM

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

I was just thinking in my mind about the day sometime in the future when I will purchase my first dishwasher. I know I'll feel old as hell when I go into the shop to get it. You know you're an adult when you buy a dishwasher.

So anyone here remember buying their first 'adult' item (not a dildo). Dishwasher, toilet brush, iron etc.

Or was there a defining day in your life where you just knew there was no going back, you were officially old?

Still don't have dishwasher

Anyone remember their first day as an old person?

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