am i old?

emamum

emamum

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conversation between me and my lad....

him; "mummy, where you born in the olden days?"
me; "no, im only 24"
him; "oh, did you have a computer?"
me; "no, there wasnt many then"
him; "did you have a mobile?"
me; "no, nobody had them"
him;" oh, did you have a wii?"
me;" no, they didnt make them"
him; " a psp?"
me;"no, they didnt make them either"
him;" a dvd player?"
me;"no, they didnt make them"
him;"yeah......... mummy?"
me;"yes?"
him;" thats the olden days"

what???? i'm only 24, i feel about 100 now!
 
Glad he didn't ask me them questions then...........................Prehistoric feeling here .................................lol
 
Oh god what would he make of me? When I was your age I didn't have colour TV, or an automatic washing machine, or a freezer. I had a £5 licence for my TV and radio and a 7/6d one for my dog. I had only flown as far as the Isle of Man and I'd been to France - by ferry and train. We had a car that broke down regularly at traffic lights and you had to know hand-signals to pass the driving test. Nobody wore seat-belts and you had to be very drunk not to be fit to drive.
 
Weird and scary to think how different the world is for our children compared to us 23/24 years ago....this post really made me think...oh dear,i feel old now :(
 
i dont think 60 is old these days... my boyfriends grandma is 60 odd and she works in an old folks home with people over 100 year old.
 
Makes it worse when you take an LP out and the kid says "didn't they have big CD's when you were young"
 
No, emamum, you sooo young yerself. Just gotta' explain to your little one than technology moving quicker than the ageing process. ..:D
 
My 6 year old likes saying to me 'You were born last century, weren't you Mummy.' :D

It's true, I was, but hearing it doesn't half make me feel old and I'm not yet 30.

Our parents were born in the same century as us so we could never have said that to them.
 
kathleen_firth said:
i dont think 60 is old these days... my boyfriends grandma is 60 odd and she works in an old folks home with people over 100 year old.
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ya got a friend for life.:D though by cashy logic 50 is an official owd fart, n 60 is a coffin dodger,which i will shortly be.:D
 
Speaking as a septuagenarian I KNOW I am old. But I don’t care because I have one major advantage over younger folk. If I croak today I will have lived 70 years. If the younger people croaked today they will not have.

I was born in the last millennium.
I played 78’s on a wind-up gramophone as a kid.
Our wireless had an accumulator (battery) that had to be taken to a local shop to be charged once in a while.
We had gas lighting.
We had a coal fire to heat the whole house. But it was great for making toast with real bread that tasted like bread. It didn’t stay fresh for very long though. But that didn’t matter because the confectionary shop was a short walk away.
If we wanted hot water it had to be heated on the gas stove in kettles or saucepans.
In winter there was ice on the INSIDE of the bedroom windows.
The invention of the rubber hot water bottle was a boon to cold feet.

We didn’t have all the gadgets that there are today so we were forced to use our brains and imagination in play.

I’m glad that I lived then and I’m equally glad that I’m alive today to sample the technology around.
 
I loved toast toasted on an open fire on the end of a long toasting fork. It tasted so different from toaster or grill toast.
 
WillowTheWhisp said:
I loved toast toasted on an open fire on the end of a long toasting fork. It tasted so different from toaster or grill toast.
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That was down to the bread and not so much the method of toasting although it probably did add something to the toast.

You just wouldn’t get the modern bread to stick on a toasting fork. It’s too full of air.
 
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