You know you're getting old when… : 01

• ...people start offering you seats, or help you with your luggage, on the bus

• ...people (in/from S.E.Asia) start addressing you as “Aunty” (a term of respect for anyone female who’s of the older generation but not a relative)

• ...the manager of a Chinese restaurant in Chinatown uses her initiative and approaches you about their 15% discount for OAPs (old-aged pensioners)

• ...people start assuming you have a Freedom Pass (free travel on public transport for OAPs)

• ...you strike up conversations with strangers much more readily than before, especially at bus-stops or on the bus—when once you used to feel sorry for people who did that, feeling that they were so lonely that they’d talk to anyone just to ease the loneliness