You know your getting old when...

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You walk past bonmarche and see some shorts think how nice they are think I bet they are really comfortable and happily go buy them.

Im early 30s.

Anybody else had a getting old moment recently?

When you take your child to a transport museum and see a model of car you used to own on display. I'm only 33.

When one glass of wine over lunch with friends knocks you for six and you end up going back to bed for the afternoon.
and awake with a hangover

I had to explain cassettes to DS18 and DS11 the other day.
Also phone boxes.
And the fact I never had a mobile phone until I was 18, and even then it was a Nokia brick! They think DH and I are from the dark ages....

Your fingernails grow with rapidity and with an amazing strength. I was forever suffering from split nails when I was young, now they are really hard. Toenails are another matter. Even with prolonged soaking they have the strength and consistency of deer antler (and look about as attractive). Even heavy duty nail trimmers have a problem with them. (Bending over to cut them is another problem!)

I actually think my fingernails are worse and break easily now but I agree about the tough toenails. I see no reason why I need such hard toenails as I age

When it’s a really good drying day for your sheets

When you're ever-so-funny nephew sees an old picture of you at school at asks if it was 'during the war' - and he's never heard of the Falklands.

When you still insist on having the Farrah Fawcett Major hairstyle (because nothing else will suit me)

When you start wearing your knickers like Simon Cowell wears his trousers! ( The ones that come up to your belly button and actually cover both bum cheeks).

When your children have no clue what a disco was.

When you still prefer to use a record player and listen to your vinyls

when You have to hold on to something or someone to help you get up off the floor

You realise you have outlived some bits you expected to keep all your life, such as teeth and joints.

When you walk into New Look with your adult daughter and declare you're far too old to be in there now touching the polyester fabrics with disdain then walk in to M&S and feel instantly at home. I e had a serious telling off and dressing down from dd

When you automatically make a grunting/umph noise every time you go from sitting to standing, pick something up, push something open etc for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

I went to hollister for the first time yesterday with my teenager and yes said the usual thing about the lighting and needing a head torch but added in a critique about the poor quality fabrics, loud sucking in of breath and something about a jumble sale.

The skin on the back of your hands flaps about under the hot air hand drier.
And
The hair growing out of your mole goes white

Also, has anyone else’s armpit hair disappeared since the menopause??

When you watch mainly documentaries or amazon box sets.
The 20 somethings at work talk about Love Island or other twaddle telly and you have no idea what they're talking about.
I do try though, as They're a good bunch.
I call them young people. ☺

Also, has anyone else’s armpit hair disappeared since the menopause??

If this happens I’ll be pleased, but I’m still “only” peri rather than post menopause, so I’ll have to wait and see.

YY to the flappy hand thing, though!

When nobody understand someone when in response to “are you free?”, you quip “I’m free Mr Humphries!”

I recently mentioned to an 18 year old acquaintance that i had seen something mentioned on my FB news feed. She was incredulous that I knew how to use the internet. (I’m 65).

I read this somewhere else recently:

You used only to like some of your wedding photos, but now you love all of them as you look so YOUNG.