To think I’m officially old now? What was your defining moment?!

When the nurse at my GP practice was saying I was due for a smear test and added "oh and this will be your last one", she forgot to add the "before you die" bit.

I am 58.

I was diagnosed with Arthritis at 26. I felt 'old' at about 30.

When I lost my Top C (and B and A) and had to drop to Mezzo soprano at work😳.
But I think I have always been old. Never been to a night club in my life!

We must be an old type of family. My 16 year twins went really grudgingly to a sleepover on Friday...... I mean they seriously didn't want to go. Today, cranky as fuck saying they are never going again and how much they value their "down time" and how they hate not being in their own beds and why are people bouncing about at night rather than going to sleep with a book😁

Keeping my glasses on when having sex 🤓

When my elderly neighbour of 20+ years, called me Hen, instead of Chick (like he used to ) It actually stopped me in my tracks 😂

In which case that would be 41 for me 😭

61, still waiting to feel old.

Whenever I have to give my age for something. The numbers (late 40s) just don’t make sense to me. How can I not be 26?

I’ve done this a few times recently too but it’s the same feeling for me, infact the hangovers feel easier somehow.
The only difference is I don’t want to repeat it a second night in a row whereas back then it’s just what everyone did, peer pressure etc

I’ve just done two boozy nights on the run- age 56. I’m absolutely fucking ruined today and probably will be until about Wednesday. 30 years ago I would have been out again tonight!

On a bus a few years back (not a NightBus but late evening , I was the only passenger )

I was near the front ( had a suitcase ) and watching the screen showing various views of inside the bus .

My brain wasn't thinking "Oh I remember that episode of Luther with the bloke crawling along the bus floor" ( though when I watched that I thought Eurgh those floors are FILTHY get up )

No. I thought What's my Mother doing on this bus ...it was my reflection

There are some perks 😀

Age 44 when my dodgy hip was finally diagnosed as osteoarthritis

The same thing occurred to me in my late 40s 😁
The police appear younger too, then you know you've 'arrived' 🙄

Lots of fun replies.

This year for me, a lot.
I noticed last year my brain wanted my body to move faster, now the brain has slowed down with the body, it is scary..44.

I'm just a few years older than you and I loved The Beatles in my teens, but always considered them to have been from a completely different era.

It's weird now to think that the Brit Pop era of Oasis is Blur is more distant in time now than the Beatles were in my teenage years. When I heard some young thing refer to the clothes of that era as 'vintage' it gave me pause as I'm sure I still have items in my wardrobe from back then! Not that they would fit me anymore!

Went to a wedding reception recently and was sat on the table with the older people 😜🤣

I felt old at my annual optician's appointment. Have needed glasses for driving forever. Was told my eyes were now doing that aged 'thing' where they swop round and now I need reading glasses instead.

Plus, FWIW, the extra magic machine check for £35 to see how my potential glaucoma was developing (or not) was the most exciting thing I did that week.

I will be 50 in the summer and I'm embracing my "old age".

• Been diagnosed with high blood pressure.
• I wear sketchers to work every day and I love them.
• I'm going on my first cruise this year.
• I'm planning on buying white sketchers trainers for all the excursions on said cruise.
• I wear a coat on a night out.
• I wear varifocals.
• I'm exhausted. All the time!
• I'm on HRT.
• Sparse pubes.
• Middle age spread that's going nowhere.
• I have to pluck my chin hairs.
• I enjoy doing diamond art.
• A great weekend is not having to go anywhere, eating some nice meals or takeaways and chilling in front of the TV or reading a book or doing my diamond art.
• Day drinking. Means I can be home and in my pj's by 9pm with a cuppa and start to sober up before bed.
• I'm growing out my grey. Can't be arsed with colouring it. The older I get the more low maintenance I am!

I think that's all my "old lady" traits and I embrace them all.

Age is a privilege not afforded to everyone.

I think having a baby at 42 helped 🤣🤣

I'm 66.. my body feels old ( disabled)... but my mind doesn't.. especially when my eldest 20 year old Grandson comes round and says " Granny shall we ask Alexa to play some Cure or The Smiths..
Yes he loves the 80s music just like me and l feel so young.

This!😂😂😂

When my niece came to live with me 2 years ago. She talks about things I have no clue about

Similar ( not having a tattoo though) my younger work colleague asked me "Which one is Freddie Mercury" ?

(In his defence he wasn;t born when Freddie died , but my soul wilted a tiny bit )

At an art class when a chatty fellow student asked "So do you still work at all?"

I was 50, with no prospect of early retirement on the horizon.