OMG, am mortified/horrified and shocked...........

Lean into it? Maybe you can ask them to buy you things at the shops when they go?

Hmmm… I have a wireless. The same one we had when I was growing up in the 60s.

I got called " the older lady" when I was waiting for a exchange from a customer service person.... I'm 40. 😅I was less amused as I'd just had my hair done!

I'm more than 20 years younger than you and sound much the same tbh. So, either I'm also old or you are young ....

I'm horrified too!
How utterly rude.
I'm only 43 and have to wear pads everyday as I 'leak'. In fact for the last 10 years probably.
I bought flowers for my garden last week.
I have conversations with anything including spiders,my hoover and stove. I don't even have a cat to talk to.

I play 80's music in my car.

I do not like crochet and do not knit.

I'm a few years younger than OP, and often refer to myself as old, but that's very very different from somebody else doing it. DH definitely is, because if he has a day off during the week he always wonders why those kids aren't in school, and I have to tell him they're probably on their lunch break from the accounts department or something.

I've got one for Roundup.🤣🤣🤣

I relate to most of this and I’m 30 🤣🤣

I refer to myself as an old lady these days. I have started having trouble opening things and don’t know anything about the top 10 - or even if such a thing still exists - but otherwise I have all my own teeth and can easily get up from a squatting position.

Possible indications:

I occasionally glance in a shop mirror and wonder why my mum is there dressed in my clothes. 🤣🤣🤣 This is me and I'm 45.

From a pure chronology POV... you are old, 60+ is a fuck of a long time to have been around for, experienced things, seen things, lived through stuff.. But its not necessarily ELDERLY, no and the combination of 'old' and 'lady' does seem somehow more of a thing to kick back against than merely 'has lived a long time'..

But I am only 44, I need the Tena pants, the pubic migration began a long while ago and now those migrated pubes I pluck from my chin and face are GREY... I have been home alone today and had several productive conversations with one of the dogs (not the other, one cannot have a productive conversation with something that has the intellectual spark of a soggy candle, no matter how pretty she may be)...

I've bought more yarn than I will live to use, (even if I actually make it to 'elderly') and I am plotting to buy more, googled sheds because we need a new one, googled hanging baskets even though I just kill them..

Now I am thinking very seriously about cake. And fingerless gloves because typing this, my hands are really cold!

I'm getting adverts for geraniums now 😅

Omg that’s funny 🤣
sorry but to young people 65 is old!!
that’s how they see it! Tbf I still say old lady/man if someone is over 65/70 well depending on how they look and they are older than me! However I’m quickly approaching the old age too!!

A friend of mine was recently sent a medical report in which the doctor described her as middle aged - she's 37.

I'm about to turn 34 and I refuse to accept that assessment. Middle age is whatever age my parents are (currently 60 and 64) and I won't hear another word about it 😂

I hope you have good moth protection for all your wool in box room!

I'm 62 next month, and doctors and police officers do indeed look 12 - well, some of them. I recently "had a fall" so have seen more medics than usual.

I think DS2 wins the "being told you're old when you're not" category, though. He was playing with his 6 yo and laughingly asked, "Will you still love me when I'm old?" Child looked him straight in the face and said, " But daddy, you're already old! "

DS was 24 at the time. That's what happens when you're a teenaged parent! 😁

Sorry. Far too many uses of the word "sensible"!

And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for butter.

@TorroFerney

I think it was simply that satin sandals, summer gloves & brandy are all indulgent purchases; Unnecessary fripperies.

Summer globes would be lightweight, maybe lacy. Not sensible, durable things.

Sturdy walking shoes, loose tea leaves and sensible winter leather gloves would probably be considered the sensible way to spend your money.

My DP and I shared a cake in a coffee shop today. That’s us slipping gently into late middle age.

I've just bought a geranium! £1.99 in Lidl, bargain. Love them, and have been talking to the cat for years.

I'd focus on the positive, that they said you were 'nice'. Imagine how you'd feel if they'd said. 'next door seems like a right cow.'

I picked up on your quote @CleverLemonCat 🤣🤣I’m 55 but do many of the things that you do so no you definitely aren’t old ☺️

I'm in the same ballpark as the OP age-wise, but I definitely don't feel old in the sense that most people mean it.

I think biological age can vary significantly from chronological age if you have been fortunate to have good health and looked after yourself. If I notice a difference, it's that I worry far less about how old other people think I am than I used to. In my 30's and 40's I was desperate to be taken for a younger age, and getting age-checked when buying wine at the supermarket would cheer me up for days! Now I really don't care as long as I'm healthy.

I would think it very strange if you didn't talk to your cat. I talk to inanimate objects. Sometimes I forget and do it when I'm in public.

I often struggle to remember how old I am.

I don't know what a bed jacket is though! I need to Google it!