You know you are old when...Y

[zip accident]

"this is the point I can no longer read the computer screen".

Yeah I find it goes in and out of focus at random, it's definitely irritating.

[NorthWay]

I found that getting used to progressive glasses took quite some time. More like an algorithmic scale than a straight line if that makes sense? The last 10% took 90% of the time. Interestingly, switching back and forth between my regular strength sunglasses does not throw either out of whack.

[rowan]

Optician told me that people tend to adapt to really good progressive lenses [these are Zeiss] much quicker than cheaper ones.

[venusian]

I enjoy taking my reading glasses on and off as a performance thing. "You've said something so stupid, I need to remove my reading glasses and look you scathingly in the eye." This does mean I need about 20 pairs scattered around home and work so that I also have a pair to grab when I need them.

[Whiteball]

I think a lot of first time varifocal wearers get the issues mainly because they are not used to moving their head so much. With single vision lenses you can look up/down are left and right much easier by just moving your eyes whereas with varificals you move and turn your head more otherwise you cross the boundaries into the 'wrong' field of view part for the distance you are actually looking.

[SuperMappy]

You miss the original releases of Star Wars episodes 4,5, and 6 and the first few Star Trek before the days of the internet and how fun and magical it was go see them. Even downloading the trailer to SW ep 1 on a 33K modem took forever but I didn't care back then. I think it was a Real Media video file.

[Istar]

...you realise that an increasing number of people appearing in the RIP thread are younger than you.

[SuperMappy]

You miss running to answer a phone, that is hanging on a wall or sitting on a table, before it stops ringing.

[Mat]

You miss running to answer a phone, that is hanging on a wall or sitting on a table, before it stops ringing.

I still have that experience, as my flat has a door entry phone, which is right next to the front door, as far away from the living room as possible. And if I could get rid of it and replace it with something more modern, I really would, so I don't think you'd miss running for the phone if you did have to go back to that for whatever reason.

Main annoyances:
Sitting down for a meal, then the phone ringing, necessitating a dash to the front door before the visitor or delivery person decides I'm not in and fucks off.
Other neighbours or visitors thereof buzzing me to let them in.
Asshole kids in the balmy summer nights who decide it's fun to randomly buzz flats, then run off cackling.
And random god botherers

And all of these have analogues with ye olde phones (missed calls, wrong number callers, prank callers and spam calls).

It also doesn't help that while I've paid the mortgage, as with the vast majority of flats in the UK, mine's a leasehold, and the door entry system is "maintained" by the property management company, meaning the damn things haven't been maintained or replaced probably since they were originally installed. That means I can barely understand the person on the other end due to crackling and distortion.
But that's a different matter.

[Mat]

A headline revealed to me today that Alanis Morrissette, at 52, is a year younger than me.
I remember listening to Jagged Little Pill many times with my friend Claire as we drove to college in the Nineties.
I was still doing a BTEC and Alanis was already an international superstar

[VNVObit]

...people who look older than you offer you a seat on bus/tube

happened to me several times

[Misfit]

...people who look older than you offer you a seat on bus/tube

happened to me several times

I think the problem there is you *think* they look older then you!

I believe the mirror lies

[VNVObit]

...people who look older than you offer you a seat on bus/tube

happened to me several times

I think the problem there is you *think* they look older then you!

I believe the mirror lies

Oh I am under no illusions as to how old I look as have always looked a lot older than I am (my age is finally catching up)
During covid I let beard and hair go and had more than 1 comment about looking like a wizard from lord of the rings.

Both are much shorter now (missus did not like the old wizard look)