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

Oh, also thinking that anyone under the age of 20 is beautiful because they have youth 🤣 I truly am my mother

I had the same when I mentioned the Spice Girls. Someone said "oh yeah I think my mum remembers them" 😱.

Oh 100% this!! I only ride my horse with my hat securely on, tack triple checked and if I think he looks a bit wild (reader, he is a chubby native, he is NEVER wild) then I’ll lunge him first!! I 🫨🫨🫨 now when I think of the things I did as a teenager!! My poor mother

The inability to sleep past 6.30 am (a TRAGEDY)

I groan - a lot

I say ‘oooooh lovely’ to a moderately tasty biscuit and hot cup of tea

Things like Britain’s got talent or anything ‘singing’ just makes me cringe and sounds like a blast of intolerable noise

I can’t drink more than 1 glass of wine unless I want the entire next day to be a total write off

I want cosy socks for Christmas

And I’m only in my thirties!!

Totally outside of everyone else, but my mate got a new pony and the bloke delivering said "jump on him bareback". If Id been a teenager or 20s maybe but Ill be damned if I'm getting on a 14hh pony by leaping at my age 🤣

Genuinely I saw a policeman the other day and thought he didn't look old enough to have left school 🤦.

Yes, this happened to us! Out for a birthday with my female friends and we thought we would go for a drink at a coastal pub which used to be one of our haunts back in the day for a bit of nostalgia.

We bumped into a group of boys we were in school with who were doing exactly the same thing.. following a funeral. They were thoroughly bald, overweight, divorced, depressed (probably due to the funeral) and I remember us girls having a conversation between us thinking do we look this old? The consensus was that we probably did!

I do loads of these.

I placed my order at a coffee shop and the woman said "my mum always orders that too" and I realised that she'd immediately put me in her mum's bracket. It felt weird for a working adult to group me with her mum rather than herself. I probably am about the age of her mum but I forget that sometimes so it was just a moment of 'oh yeah, I'm old'

Turned on radio 2 last night and they were playing club classics from my youth. Made me realise I'm very middle aged indeed

Eyesight esp near sightedness

I went to a social history museum recently. The staff there told me they were having a clear out. They explained that they needed to update the museum for modern visitors and wanted to display more stuff from the 70s. The 70s! Things from a decade I was alive in are now deemed museum worthy.

Aside from my horrendous lax ligaments & tendons making every day a roulette of “which joint is going to hurt today”, I realised yesterday that I can’t poop sweep the garden without my glasses on anymore 😂🤦‍♀️

My eye sight

It really ruins your day 😂

Working at an event for the local university and telling one of the students that I attended this myself… twenty years ago. I’m not even very old, I can’t be!

Omg I've started doing this..I've convinced myself that all writing on labels have recently been deliberately shrunk just to save money or something. It cannot be age. I won't have it!

I know exactly what you mean. Sometimes they are 2 years younger and you can't believe how ancient they are 😀

I now regularly wear my glasses on the end of my nose so I can peer over them. I need to use one of those triangular metal things to open bottle tops that are too tight, I have started getting really irritated with small things that previously wouldn't have bothered me in the slightest - my bullshit tolerance meter is much more sensitive....

I was chatting to an older man on the bus then realised he was 2 years me above at school, bloody depressed me the rest of the day !

Taking a picture of a label so that o can zoom in to read it
Ive been doing this for a few years.
Mainly with menus, especially if the lighting is dim.

It doesn't always work well with a coloured back ground and tiny writing. Ive struggled with some hair product instructions and some Indian pastes, it might be Pateks that have a purple background.

Magnifying mirror, a pair of magnifying glasses with little lights on, insoles for every pair of shoes, a heated blanket, a little stool so I can use the hair straightener without having to sit on floor, a back scratcher, a sponge on handle to wash my feet in the shower…I could go on!

This is so true. And I never realised you could close up on your phone!

Had to give my year of birth to a lovely young store assistant in H & M and I thought “ god, I’m old”. Then there’s the fact that I’m even referring to her as a lovely young person. 😣
In my job, I sometimes have to ask people’s date of birth, and when they say some date post 2000 I always think they’ve made a mistake.

Enjoying wear full knickers, I got some by mistake, but they are so comfy. I recently had an ecg before an operation, asked to undo my bra and afterwards did I need help doing it up again, I’m 64 not 94. After operation and back in bed, nurse came to escort me to the toilet and sounded really astonished that I had managed to go all by myself.

I keep saying "I don't know what the world's coming to". Also "Is that a thing now...?" in that faux bewildered way that implies disapproval.
And I'm not impersonating my mum when i do this anymore.