Tell me about a time when you felt old

When I was 39 I went shopping with my sister for a wedding dress. I am 7 years older than my sister. The woman in the shop asked my sister if I was her mother. I was very unimpressed. I have quite a lot of grey hair, which I don't dye, but I did not look like I could have a 32 year old daughter!

My first ever experience of feeling old was when I was 26 and teaching primary. In the book I was reading with Y6 there was a picture of a casette tape. No one had the first clue what it was and it was a real struggle to explain it to them.

1 a colleague didn't know who Dr Hook were, even when I played them Sylvia's mother 2 Never heard of bridge, cribbage, canastta or whist (they had heard of gin rummy)

In my very late 40s, a child (primary-school aged) saw my brother (who was the child’s teacher) out socially with me. The child thought I was my brother’s mother. My brother is 12 years younger than me, but even so. 🫣

Still performing though

Whaaaaaaatttt!!!!😮

On a beautiful sunny day last summer, my first thought was "ohhh I could get two loads of laundry done!". Ugh what a grown up old person thought!

And last week I had to explain to teenagers what life looked like before Internet and phones. That made me feel old!

A couple of years ago when I, in my mid-40s bought several mascaras of increasing price, wondering why mascaras are just so shit now then realised it's because I have ageing eyelashes which aren't as long or thick as they once were so all mascaras were going to struggle to give me the long, thick lashes I was used to as the foundation to build on wasn't what it was.

I think it was went to the media museum in Bradford and saw a glass case full of items I was not only familiar with, but had also used in my working life as an adult until my fourth or fifth job.

Right now - I’m in Nando’s with six 11-13 yo boys (sitting separately) for my son’s 12 th birthday.

Even the people working here clearly think I’m ancient!

Prince Charming was released in 1981, if you can believe it.......

He's 71 now!!

In the town I live in now,there is a 'vintage' charity shop

Wandered in on Monday with a friend and we where both 'thats not vintage,I remember that!' at almost everything they had on display

The 90's is indeed vintage now....

I grew up in the 80s and retrained as a teacher about 15 years ago after a different career. I was sitting in on an A-level lesson about Thatcher when I realised it was a History lesson! I remember the teachers being so excited about her downfall during my own A-levels they were running up and down the corridor sharing the news!

My son’s maths teacher, speaking about when he took his GCSEs… in 2017!

It's possible to look great at 57 and have grandchildren!

@twilightcafe DGD is doing tge 1970s in history as well. HOW! She was asking ne lots of questions when she discovered I was a teenager then ( her Dad was born in 78). I felt very old.

I was inspired to see if I could find a window-cleaner that came out this far into the sticks after I nearly got soaked by one when visiting a friend... and then thought, "Gosh, that's a very Respectable Adult thing to do!" Then I got all worried thinking that I would go overboard with attempting to look like I was adulting successfully, by starting ironing or something. I do not iron!

Made to measure curtains will be going on my Respectable Adult list, as my house is in need of many sets of curtains!

I applied for a job in H&M and went to the interview only to see the manager was in her mid 20s and all the candidates were just Sixth formers. I was 48 and felt so ancient and embarrassed to be even be there.
of course I did not get the job even I used to worked for for them for them for almost 16 years a decade ago.

When your primary school-aged child takes part in a class assembly about history: the 1970s.

One of the TAs and I locked eyes across the school hall ...

Ooh I've never had a window cleaner, maybe I should! My 'I'm an adult moment' was ordering my first set of made to measure curtains, I felt both old and proud simultaneously.

What! Surely that was only 10yrs ago!

I was working with a student whose older sibling asked if I was still working here! I also felt old when one from a non-farming background went to work on a dairy farm in New Zealand, and I couldn't help but think, "I taught you to milk cows!"

More recently, I felt like I hit peak adulthood by arranging for a window cleaner to come to my house.

Someone in my team at work has a mum that’s younger than me 🤭

Newly qualified nurses born the year I qualified.

Another one.

When I'm too slow at working out one of the many remotes. The disdain ds reserves for those moments is joyful.

In my defence, I don't watch a lot of telly and there are too many of them. I just don't care enough. But it does bring back those feelings I used to have when my parents couldn't do a perfectly simple thing.

You’re still relatively young — at that age, I was still doing all the things people typically do in their twenties.

I didn’t have children until my early forties.