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

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moggo · 23/03/2025 12:31

That’s it. I’ve now officially hit old age. Went to a concert with my daughter this week and it was standing. I was on the fringes of a mosh pit and it was very annoying. My feet are still bruised, my hips and legs are killing me and I can’t hear anything. I’m still absolutely exhausted too. I’m 58.

When did you have your epiphany?

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Hesdefinitelygettingthesnip · 23/03/2025 20:54

2 children at 28... One mid way through primary school. I feel SO OLD. Neither have been great sleepers, someone tell me I'll feel youthful again before I just decline indefinitely?!

MaMisled · 23/03/2025 20:53

I was 55 and a cashier asked " do you need help with packing.....lovey?" Lovey!? FFS.

LaPalmaLlama · 23/03/2025 20:37

Looked out of the window and it was doing that quite heavy but misty rain and I thought “ooh that’ll be good for the lawn” and felt all pleased. Kill me now 🤣.

DontStopMe · 23/03/2025 20:30

TiggyTomCat · 23/03/2025 20:25

This week - turned 60 and got a free prescription and have paid for a few tickets for things as a senior....did initially think I'd rather pay full price but I am rapidly getting over that!

I am looking forward to turning 60 and getting free travel around London.

DefyingGravidy · 23/03/2025 20:27

I was walking home in the dark recently - not late but about 9pm. I chose to walk down a road with terrace houses and short front gardens, rather than one with bungalows with big front gardens - on the basis that my plan has always been that if a man starts to follow me I’ll run to a random front door shouting “dad!”.

But then I realised… given my age it would be obvious that any dad I would have would be elderly, so that really wasn’t going to put an attacker off!

TiggyTomCat · 23/03/2025 20:25

This week - turned 60 and got a free prescription and have paid for a few tickets for things as a senior....did initially think I'd rather pay full price but I am rapidly getting over that!

DontStopMe · 23/03/2025 20:23

Quite a few years ago now, but I first felt old when looking at a prescription which had my age on it, and thinking they've got it wrong, I'm not 43. And then realising I was.

Thepollonator · 23/03/2025 20:22

Mine was doing two big city breaks two weeks apart, all that walking nearly finished me off, im 60.

moggiek · 23/03/2025 20:22

km21 · 23/03/2025 15:16

70 here and still waiting for it!

I’m 66. Still waiting, fortunately 😂

TheSassyTraybake · 23/03/2025 20:21

Too old to stand in pubs and bars now. If I can’t get a seat I’m just going home - there’s booze there anyway!

TheFluffyTwo · 23/03/2025 20:21

moggo · 23/03/2025 12:31

That’s it. I’ve now officially hit old age. Went to a concert with my daughter this week and it was standing. I was on the fringes of a mosh pit and it was very annoying. My feet are still bruised, my hips and legs are killing me and I can’t hear anything. I’m still absolutely exhausted too. I’m 58.

When did you have your epiphany?

By that measure I hit it in my 20s!

Which probably holds true because I also found myself on a work trip in my mid-late 20s seeing girls happily stumbling out of clubs late at night with no tights and no coat and feeling genuinely concerned that, "they must be freezing, poor things".😅

Thighdentitycrisis · 23/03/2025 20:18

There wasn’t a moment, but it’s been downhill since 55

Inyournewdress · 23/03/2025 20:16

I don’t think I have ever been of an age where I could enjoy a mosh pit tbf.

snowmichael · 23/03/2025 20:11

Completing the paperwork to start drawing one of my pensions :(

rickyrickygrimes · 23/03/2025 20:09

It feels like it happened the day I turned 50. I’m 52 now.

Nothing gets better any more. if I injure something - that’s it. I twisted my shoulder 3 years ago and it has basically hurt ever since, despite multiple physio, steroid injection etc.

And old injuries coming back as arthritis 😭 I broke two fingers about 20 years ago, and now they hurt like buggery whenever it’s cold.

oh and the overnight disappearance of collagen from my whole body. I walked past the mirror and saw myself: two nights later I saw Skeletor 😭😱. And everything sagged, even my knees ffs.

Iwannakeepondancing · 23/03/2025 20:02

Now… I’m 37! I am finding more grey hairs and I had to hold something away from me to read it… I used to take the piss out of my mum for this! Now I am her….

duckywoof · 23/03/2025 20:01

At age 55, when I came out of the supermarket and heard a family commenting on my unusual car. One of them, a teenage lad, said, "I've seen it around town before - an old woman drives it." I somehow managed to restrain myself from hobbling over and giving him a slap.

Lovelysausagedogscrumpy · 23/03/2025 20:00

echt · 23/03/2025 19:17

It's at a gig where people are all standing in front of the stage. No seats.

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Thank you !! 🙏

AInightingale · 23/03/2025 19:59

When I was 15, the media was making a huge fuss about the twenty-year 'Sgt Pepper' anniversary. The sixties seemed a light year away. Ditto Kennedy etc.

Now I realise that this year is the 40th anniversary of 'The Hounds of Love' and 'Meat is Murder.' Jaysus. 😱

ttcat37 · 23/03/2025 19:59

Mine was when I bought an organiser bag for my wrapping paper.

BunnyLake · 23/03/2025 19:58

MrsMitford3 · 23/03/2025 16:55

I read somewhere recently (of course i can't remember where) that two dramatic periods of accelerated aging are early 40's and early 60's.

Ugh

I think that must be true. I have definitely aged faster since hitting my sixties. I saw a photo of me taken in 2017 when I was 55 and I look very good, now I look more like I could be that person’s mother.

Fgfgfg · 23/03/2025 19:55

MrsMitford3 · 23/03/2025 16:55

I read somewhere recently (of course i can't remember where) that two dramatic periods of accelerated aging are early 40's and early 60's.

Ugh

Unfortunately this is true. I hadn't been to the GP for years, walked everywhere, fit, no ailments. Turned 60 and I seem to be there every few months with something new. Currently busy softening ear was so the audiologist can determine how much damage years in the mosh pit have done. Always looked after my teeth and now they're fucked as well.

researchers3 · 23/03/2025 19:53

worrisomeasset · 23/03/2025 15:38

I’m a primary teacher and kids would sometimes call me ‘Mum’ by accident. A few years ago I got my first ‘Nan’.

No!! Mind you, small kids have NO idea about guessing ages!

Needlenardlenoo · 23/03/2025 19:53

I didn't like mosh pits when I was the appropriate age for them!

When I turned 50 my daughter went around for weeks saying that is a BIG number. Thanks babe!

I teach teenagers and once a student asked me how I stayed in contact with friends pre mobile phones (at university).

Me: I wrote letters.
Class: But when did you have time?!
Me: In the laundrette.
Class: ???

Mind you that was nothing compared to the time I had to admit to hitchhiking.

DurbevillesGirl2 · 23/03/2025 19:53

When a young man passed me on the stairs and said “sorry lady”. I was 29!

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