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