Didn't want to post a "I'm getting older" story into the "turning into your parents" QOTW
The other week I was back in Cumbria (my home-town is on the west coast) From my room you get a fantastic shot of the western fells. The only downside is, there are a dozen wind turbines which have been erected.

I was telling my girlfriend that they weren't always there and muttered the phrase one can only hope to say "I can actually remember when all of this was just fields"

It was at that moment that I felt truly old (i'm 22 ffs)

Have any of you lot said that phrase?
( Jinxy13 is hating the S key, right about now., Wed 6 May 2009, 18:21, 4 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Given how long wind turbines have been around for
I'm amazed you felt the need to explain to your girlfriend that they hadn't always been there like some form of geological anomaly. Is she particularly thick or are you particularly patronising?
(Bazongaloid, Wed 6 May 2009, 18:29, Reply)

It just came out
I'm not particularly patroniing, and she is far from thick.
( Jinxy13 is hating the S key, right about now., Wed 6 May 2009, 18:34, Reply)

I say that phrase
every time I stand in a field
(Halfy By light alone, Wed 6 May 2009, 18:40, Reply)

I say that
every time a new house goes up around my house.

I also say "I remember when Pluto was a planet!"
(Poppet some assembly required., Wed 6 May 2009, 22:20, Reply)