Page 10 | To ask what’s made you think “I’m getting old” recently?

overstimulatedhermit · 2025-09-14T14:56:55+00:00

I’ve noticed I’ve got a favourite seat in the living room and it’s accumulated a few of my things on and around it like my handbag, sweets, book, medication (because it’s the only thing that helps me remember to take it) a couple of letters that I opened and haven’t put away yet and a pack of baby wipes. Dh is watching the game just now and I’ve sat down in my spot and accidentally knocked my medication off the armrest. I turned to dh and said “ do you know what would be handy, a little table next to me so I can put all my bits and bobs on” 🤦🏻♀️ my life flashed before my eyes before the words finished leaving my mouth. I’m 41 by the way how has nobody told me about this monumental moment.

KimberleyClark · 15/09/2025 16:10

Reading a cataract operation. I’m 64!

RavenIsOnHerWay · 15/09/2025 16:09

Y2ker · 15/09/2025 14:20

I have had great eyes my whole life. Now I wear glasses for work and have to either zoom in on my phone or get a child to read out cooking instructions. FML.

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The font size I’ve put on my phone is huge! The young ones at work are in fits of laughter whenever they see it! The volume is up to the max too…

Does any one hate it if there’s too much background noise, or intrusive music? I can’t concentrate (or hear) if there is.

justasking111 · 15/09/2025 16:08

Northernladdette · 15/09/2025 14:15

You mean you don’t yet have a table full of framed photos? 🤣

Table!!! I wish. We've got nine on the desk in the hall, bought a three shelf book case for another dozen . One massive frame with ten pictures in. It's nuts. 😂

Dontlletmedownbruce · 15/09/2025 16:05

I was talking to a young colleague about winter coats and the weather changing etc. I said I have a coat that is so warm I only wear it for about a week or two every year and it's so bulky it takes up half the wardrobe... I said it looks ridiculous like I'm wearing a sack but i don't care it's so snug. She replied well when you are older no one cares what you look like anyhow...

justasking111 · 15/09/2025 16:04

lastones · 15/09/2025 14:05

My ex dating a 19 year old (I am 40 and he's 60 next month). We accidentally ran into each other in a social event and I felt absolutely ancient and irrelevant next to her. I know it is very shallow, but just could not help feeling bad about how flipping old and haggard I am.

Jakers that's just icky forty year age gap. Be glad you're not wiping his bum, finishing his sentences, etc in another 20 years

justasking111 · 15/09/2025 16:00

DoraSpenlow · 15/09/2025 11:57

I know, isn't there enough in life to worry about without getting upset at full sodding stops! Who decides these things anyway. Perhaps we should start putting it about that a ? at the end of a sentence is too stressful because it pressures people into, you know, actually having to answer a question.

Sorry, rant over😄

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I shall continue to use colons, full stops, commas, question marks and paragraphs. So that I'm easily understood . If anyone is offended that is their problem.

Beachtastic · 15/09/2025 15:00

lastones · 15/09/2025 14:05

My ex dating a 19 year old (I am 40 and he's 60 next month). We accidentally ran into each other in a social event and I felt absolutely ancient and irrelevant next to her. I know it is very shallow, but just could not help feeling bad about how flipping old and haggard I am.

You should really just be feeling relieved not to be with a bit of a perve!

Y2ker · 15/09/2025 14:20

thatsthatsaidthemayor · 14/09/2025 16:09

Taking a picture of a label so that o can zoom in to read it. It

I have had great eyes my whole life. Now I wear glasses for work and have to either zoom in on my phone or get a child to read out cooking instructions. FML.

Northernladdette · 15/09/2025 14:15

You mean you don’t yet have a table full of framed photos? 🤣

InveterateWineDrinker · 15/09/2025 14:09

Two of my primary school DC's classmates have parents turning 40 this month. I can remember what I was doing on the days they were born. I am also older than some of the grandparents.

zingally · 15/09/2025 14:06

I did about an hour and a half's worth of weeding in the garden around Saturday lunchtime. It's over 48 hours later now, and I'm still feeling a bit achy.

I'm almost 41 and my period is almost 2 weeks late (no I'm definitely not pregnant!) This is the first time it's ever been anywhere close to this late. Is this menopause starting? No other obvious symptoms!

lastones · 15/09/2025 14:05

My ex dating a 19 year old (I am 40 and he's 60 next month). We accidentally ran into each other in a social event and I felt absolutely ancient and irrelevant next to her. I know it is very shallow, but just could not help feeling bad about how flipping old and haggard I am.

Bonbon249 · 15/09/2025 14:01

This hit me a few years back when I realised that people born the year I left school would be 40!

SeptemberIRemember · 15/09/2025 14:00

I stretch my arms forward, and see my mother’s hands.

GAJLY · 15/09/2025 13:51

lifeonmars100 · 14/09/2025 20:03

I was looking for something under my bed and I thought my knees were going to lock and then break when I struggled to my feet.

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It's the worst feeling isn't it?! Hate it! Wish we could feel young and healthy forever!

Emmz1510 · 15/09/2025 13:36

Oh where to start? I’m only 46 but lately I feel like it’s catching up on me.
Grey hairs needing dyed more and more often.
Starting to become long sighted as well as short sighted.
Perimenopause symptoms ramping up- unexplained sweating, vaginal dryness, decreased libido, teenage skin, irregular periods.

828Pax · 15/09/2025 13:25

I just turned the music down in the car so I could 'see' better 🤣

InterestedDad37 · 15/09/2025 12:04

Random ads for funeral plans on social media.

DoraSpenlow · 15/09/2025 11:57

StupidRules · 15/09/2025 08:09

We employ several young people and yes, it's a minefield. Who knew texting style was so loaded with covert meaning? And so many of these young people seem terrified to answer the phone or have face to face conversations with actual human beings. It's a customer facing role and I have to constantly remind them to, you know, actually speak to the customers and look at them. It's like pulling teeth.

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I know, isn't there enough in life to worry about without getting upset at full sodding stops! Who decides these things anyway. Perhaps we should start putting it about that a ? at the end of a sentence is too stressful because it pressures people into, you know, actually having to answer a question.

Sorry, rant over😄

WearyAuldWumman · 15/09/2025 11:35

Went to an evening service yesterday.

Was relieved that all the hymn singing was done sitting down.

WearyAuldWumman · 15/09/2025 11:34

I went to a [Scottish] high school reunion a couple of weeks ago. Most of the old men there were unrecognisable to me.

I'm fairly certain that none of them recognised me either.

WearyAuldWumman · 15/09/2025 11:33

JustineRobots · 15/09/2025 08:21

This reminds me of my grandmother, who’d say things like “I was talking to this poor old dear on the bus”, even though she was over 80 herself 😄

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We got the same with my grandad. :)

WearyAuldWumman · 15/09/2025 11:32

PyongyangKipperbang · 15/09/2025 01:30

Oh mate......thats harsh!

I was at work when a lad of about 10 ish wanted a glass of water and I heard his dad say "no, ask the old lady at the bar". Thanks for that.

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Ah...I remember the first time someone referred to me as "that wifie".

Kitchen1234567 · 15/09/2025 10:56

Beachtastic · 14/09/2025 21:54

I dread things falling under my desk just out of reach.

I have to wear reading glasses to pluck my eyebrows, and the glasses get in the way.

The eyebrows now sprout in odd directions (not quite Denis Healey but...)

No one nowadays goes "No!!!! Seriously?! You CAN'T be!!!!!" when I tell them my age. I'm still waiting optimistically for it, but it just never happens now 😕🤷🏻‍♀️

Omg the eyebrow thing - that’s me too

and I used to look young for my age previously - not now - my bloody face looked like a flump in a photo taken today

Lifeinthepit · 15/09/2025 09:09

SybTheGeek · 15/09/2025 09:06

I try to avoid saying "young man" out loud, worried I may appear less like a kindly mother figure and more like one of Harry Enfield's old ladies 😬

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Or saying "he was a nice kid" to anyone under the age of 40.