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

At 47 when I started getting perimenopause symptoms. Made me realise I was hurtling towards old age.

Possibly at 58, 11 years ago when I bought my first comfortable pair of shoes for a holiday, and definitely last month in a crowded bar in Malaga when a young man (40?) offered me his stool at the bar.
I didn’t take it, I’m fit as a fiddle.
This was the first time I’ve been offered a seat anywhere.

55 here and it’s not happened yet! DD and I go to loads of gigs together. We queue all day to get to the front. I love a mosh pit lol

When I realised last night watching Gladiators that Mark Glattenburg was the only one that I found attractive. All handsome young men but absolutely zero sex appeal for me.

I raise you sans glasses and in the bathroom mirror when it is steamed up. Instantly 21 again 😊

Age 50. Thinking something on cotton traders looked nice.
Mind you, I’ve been riddled with arthritis since early 40’s so I go for comfort over style.

When I was about late 50s, waiting for a train, and as it came in a young man offered to carry my suitcase on. I was horrified, and refused politely.

2 years ago, when I hit 60. I remember thinking 'How the actual fuck did this happen? I was only 18 a couple of years ago!'.

Same here. What makes me feel old is that when I was born, the end of WW2 was less than 30 years ago.

Now, 30 years ago is last week the middle of the 1990s 😫

I went to see a band (not a big gig - couple of hundred people) on Friday.

A woman of a certain age dropped something in front of me - it was her Rennies. She said they were her essentials for going out. I'd had to take my glasses. We bonded momentarily over being cool enough to be gigging, but needing stuff to get through the night.

58 now .
A couple of years back I was on the train going to work ( carrying a decent sized backpack ) a young man in his mid 20s offered me his seat ( I politely declined as I was getting off at the next stop)

Journey last year with a wheely case , a young woman barged me out of the way to get on the train and nab the last seat . So either I look ok to stand or I am Old and Invisible ( and she was an ill mannered little madam)

Looking at shoes and thinking "Oh you look comfy"

No mosh pits for me though .

I was at the back of a mosh pit with DD who was 15. At an all day festival for a very hip band.

Some teenage boys lost the run of themselves and started being idiots, chucking water everywhere and knocking people over.

I work in a secondary school, I gave them ' the look' and the same tone of 'no' I use with our labradors.

They said sorry. DD told me I'm never allowed near a mosh pit again.

I was in some incredibly cool mosh pits in the 90s. This was my moment 😂

listening to radio and thinking that wow finally a lovely station with proper music.
Yes, it was some kind of Retro Golden Oldies one.

I've always been told I don't look my age until I got to about 60, now I just look knackered. Someone asked my dh his age and he said 70, lots of ooh you don't look it. They asked me and I said 66, complete silence. Slightly gutted they could have pretended.

Being a 60 year old grandma who has taken on the care of granddaughter and my new soft play friends are all my eldest daughters friends!

I'm 54 and it was staring back at myself in the hairdressers mirror a few years ago. I grew my grey out in lockdown and the honest truth is that it's aged me 10 years easily as people never thought I was my actual age before. But I can't face going back to the menopause mahogany hair dye. Sigh.

When someone mistook my only child (aged 10) for my grandson. And when I explained he was my son, was shocked that my DH (aged 45) is not my son!!!

Realised I was officially old when I was genuinely excited by how good my new loo brush looked.

When I switched channels on TV and thought how times have changed having womens football on prime time tv. Then after watching for several minutes I realised it was mens football they were wearing what I think of as women's fit shirts they also mostly had long hair and were literally covered in tattoos.
I realised they weren't women when one rolled around on the grass pulling faces, women don't do that.

First band I saw live was Napalm death. The day I heard Steve Wright interviewing them on radio 2 was the day I realised I was getting on a bit.

It was when started making the "oooff" noise when I stand up from the sofa.
I was reminded of my advanced age today when I googled Olly Bearman when watching him being interviewed after the F1 coverage and realising I'm old enough to be his nan.

I took my son to the Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green when he was 7 and was stunned to see my 1970s toys in there. Things I Have Owned. In a MUSEUM 😩

Nobody bats an eyelid when I say I am a Great Grandmother.I don’t tell anyone now,I only told people so they could complement me on my youthful looks! Not one person did,I look what I am old.

Mid-sixties here, all standing concerts an absolute no-no. Feel no different inside but still do a double take when I catch sight of myself on a particularly bad day! Thank goodness for the smart bulb dimmer setting on the bathroom light...

54 here and strangely although I often feel a bit old, I feel my youngest and most ‘alive’ right in the centre of a mosh pit.
My dc are adults now and nothing makes me happier than going to a gig as a family, dh feels the same luckily!