You know you're getting old when...

[TornFromTheInside]

It comes to all. That realisation that our immortality is for limited time only.

Life gives us little timely reminders of our age.
What are the little signs that youth is firmly in your rear view mirror?

When you think you’re looking good today, simply because you had your tache and stray chin hairs waxed yesterday

When you notice that even your toes are wrinkly

When someone send a photo of me in it!

Things that have happened to me since turning 44 in May:

Buying big pants.
Buying a wheeled shopping trolley.
Wearing a slip.
Having a fall.
Wearing bluetooth sleep headphones so I can listen to podcasts of In Our Time when the insomnia kicks in.
Posters for bands that I liked in my youth appearing on The Antiques Roadshow.
Ordering a shed for my allotment.
Managing to achieve a double-figure score when watching University Challenge.

Teaching the child of someone you taught (not got to grandchild but only cos I moved schools not long after that!)

Radio 3 becomes your go-to station

You and your mother end up independently buying the same clothes at M&S

The car sales man who is in his 60s tuning BBC gold for my new car! I am only 43!!!

Policemen really do look young. I have a great nephew in the police force.

When you realise the skin on your knees has drooped.
When you get excited about the Hotter sale.
When you'd rather stay in with your knitting than go to the pub.

I agree with so many of these and have for several years... im 30.

When you tell somebody you quite fancy somebody in a TV programme and you're like, "no, not the young one...his dad!"

Going somewhere new, finding out where the loos are is now of the utmost importance.

You have a favourite chair/cup/fork...

You find yourself in the next age bracket on questionnaires.

And you realise that 'old lady' magazines are actually aimed at your age group!

When you sing the theme tune from "Skippy, the bush kangaroo" and nobody joins in. (Happened only an hour ago)

When you wake up at 3am every bloody morning sweating!!! Thank goodness it's getting cooler. (And dh gets up twice in the night to use the loo). Oh and the mark of a good Saturday evening is going to bed early - good night ...

My new boss is young enough to be my daughter
The 80s are now vintage
You keep several pairs of reading glasses around the house for when you lose/sit on the other pair

For me it was when an old woman was repeatedly sending me friend requests on facebook. I didn’t recognise the name and I certainly didn’t recognise the face. Then she finally messaged me and told me who she was. We had been best friends at secondary school. I was pleased that we had made contact again but also horrified. Do I look that old?? Cue me looking in the mirror at different angles and in different lights

When you click on the drop down date for your date of birth on online forms and have to scroll down for an age to get to your year of birth.

When you wonder why Radio 2 is playing so much awful wailing and repetitive tub-thump music and being presented by some annoying twerp who should still be on Radio 1. Not that I ever listened to Radio1 because the twerps were annoying 20 years ago.

I made a big noise getting up out of the sofa tonight. I was alone but felt embarrassed for myself.

When you realise 1990 was 28 years ago and not the ten years your brain automatically tells you it was!

When your friend, who used to send you pics of her nights out on a sat evening now sends pics of her new dyson!
When instead of replying 'Just finishing make up, get me a drink ready'. I am replying 'wow, I am jealous, I think I might treat myself to a new vacuum'

You no longer need to decide whether to shave your foof as it’s gone bald anyway. 😂

when hospital nurse asked me if I still got my period
when lil mate of DDs asked if I was a mum or a granny

When I was getting ready to go out the other night, DH said 'let me just put on my glasses so I can properly check you out.'

When you become not just a Great Aunt but a Great Great Aunt
When your mothers words start coming out of your mouth. You know the things that you told your younger self that would never say

Ooh, I have a wheeled shopping trolley. It has pictures of London buses and yellow New York taxis on it. I remember being excited when I bought it. I was finally old enough for one.