My bedside table looks like it belongs to a senior citizen.

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My once minimalist bedside table now looks like it belongs to a much older person.

It is now taken up with - a box of tissues, allergy eye drops, ibuprofen gel, specs, extra strength hand and foot cream, bottle of water and paracetamol.

It has now become obvious to me , I am no longer "young and hip!"

when and what was the moment you realised you were not so young anymore?

I was always going to buy myself a two seater sports car when I retired - something in the genre of an Alpha Romeo Spider. Now I'm nearly there I have my eye on a small crossover because it will be easier due to arthritis .

And getting a proper kneeler for the garden with handles.

When I realised that the people in a young adults group I went too, could be my children.

Emptying DH trousers to wash - used to be theater tickets, cinema, clothing receipts, meals out, train tickets …. Now it’s sweet wrappers and hair bobbles he’s accumulated whilst tidying up.

Falling asleep at 7pm in front of telly…
Supposed to be going to a party tomorrow night at 6.30pm so that’s me done for!😂 I’m only 49 ffs

When dd told me that her mortgage was over 35 years and thinking I'll be dead before she's paid that off.

When I bought my daughter a trampoline, and had a go on it in memory of trampolining at her age.

my bladder said no, and I immediately wet myself.

When I've been sitting too long in a chair and get up but am bent almost double for a few minutes. It's takes a little while to fully straighten again

EBearhug · Today 13:32

When I was at the swimming pool, and instead of thinking, "he's hot," about a new lifeguard, thinking, "ah, I'd have been so keen on him when I were in my 20s. I hope his Mum's proud."

Absolutely this!

When parties started winding down at 10.30 with an offer of a cup of tea instead of drinking into the small hours.

I realised DH and I are turning into his parents when we started going for a little walk round our garden every night looking at our plants and talking about them.

When I idly wondered if the curate would be too old for my soon-to-graduate son...

This....

oh my yes this 😫

Well, I have had rheumatoid Arthritis on and off since I was a baby and have had high blood pressure for ages. Also for decades I would look in shop windows at shoes and think "I bet they are comfy". I am shocked when I remember actually wearing 3-4inch heels! No way could I balance on them now and to some people those are not 'high' heels!

I don't have a bedside table but if I did I would have my high blood pressure/heart failure and diabetic pills, nasal spray, eye spray etc etc. Plus I have to wear incontinence pants and pads all the time (foxy, eh?).

I was shocked and a bit pissed off to find that my (now ex) Boss was younger than me. I thought all professors were old! It is true what they say about Policemen too. Oh and Doctors. Whenever one comes in to get a security pass I expect them to be accompanied by their Mother!!!

Getting on and off a bus is not fun either. When I am in Hampshire, I notice they lower the bus when the oldies get on but in London this rarely happens. I am going to need crampons to 'scale' the bus soon! I am another one that 'oofs' when I sit down. I cannot help myself!

The oof when you bend over

I refuse, I absolutely refuse to accept I do this because I’m old(er).
it’s purely because the air needs to escape my lungs, so as they deflate my spare skin (fat rolls) have somewhere to go, to
enable me to bend in the middle. It is not because I’m decrepit. No no no!!!

This! When I see lovely young lads I don’t think they’re sexy.

Instead, I am mentally high-fiving their mums and thinking what a good job they did.

When I got called Senora instead of Senorita while on holiday in Spain.

This. I've been horrified by the type of footwear that appeals to me lately

I went into Bon Marche to buy nighties for elderly DM, and found myself admiring some of the clothes in there.
(In my defence, I walked away).

Yep. My nightstand consists of a CPAP machine, melatonin tablets, glasses, tissues, mini back scratcher, phone holder so I can watch stuff comfortably when lying down and a bottle of water. A dimmer lamp, with a reading light option. Also an orthopaedic pillow or I wake in the morning with a bad neck and back. I'm 35

Also live in crocs apart from winter obviously, and buy my shoes from Hotter as I have terrible feet. Found life is too short to wear uncomfortable shoes!

When I started teaching children of previous pupils I used to teach! Makes for interesting Parents’Evenings.

Yes the scrolling for year of birth

Looking at policemen and thinking they look ever so young

Realising the university students I teach weren't born the year I started university myself.

I get stuck on low sofas....
And don't start me on forgetting thst I can no longer sit on the floor...

But I am actually old.