You know you're getting old when ......... ?

[KittyCatsby]

Today I've plucked whiskers from my chin and pulled hair out of my nose !

You get the rage.. abusive exes, deadbeat dads, lazy teens, talked down to, not taken seriously, people thinking they can lie or take advantage because you are nice?…rageeeee. One day you just cannot put up with it anymore. Not said anything but I feel it.

You perspire without smelling (deodorant is no longer a must)
Is this a thing? I never knew. I was surprised I wasn't stinkier yesterday evening though...

When you find yourself wanting to buy plants, having previously scorned the garden centre.

When 'old lady' clothes (as defined by my dc) start to look appealing in the shops. I have lost my clothes mojo and cannot trust my own judgement as to what is nice anymore.

Buying alcohol at the self checkout and the assistant who authorises the purchase doesn't even blink before pressing the 'over 25' button.

Needing different glasses for reading and not being able to read in dim light.

When you hear a song you haven't heard for a while but remember being in the charts. Then you realise it's 32 years old instead of the vague 10 you thought it was!

When your motto on days out becomes 'never walk past a loo'.

When (almost) the best part of a holiday is getting home again to your own bed.

Floral hair rinse? Neeeeeeed this! tell me more please TeaAddict235

TikTok

All the younger people are wearing what you consider to be terrible clothes - why don’t they want to look nice?

You tell your children to turn their music down because "it's just noise"

You go round telling younger people you 'liked Kate Bush first time round'.

You are strangely drawn to the "full coverage" knickers in M&S

Watching some 14-year-olds in a cafe with a record player struggling in vain to work out how to use it, you have a flashback to the children's parties of your youth where 6 year olds adeptly hijacked the family 'music centre' to put Adam and the Ants' latest single on for 'pass the parcel'.

Making a concerted effort to put knickers on without leaning on the bed, my DM always told me that was a sign of old age.

@iklboo

Haha I used to joke about Deep Heat being an old ladies 'perfume' but now regularly douse myself in the Deep Ice (smells minty).

I really feel my age and then some. I pride myself in not looking my age (facially) but when I womble/hobble on the bus, I am usually offered a seat which I gratefully accept as my rheumatism has come back. I am fooling no one :(

When you stand up and your knees make a noise like someone crushing a coke can and twisting some fresh celery.

When someone refers to "the turn of the century" and it takes you a few moments to realise they mean 1999-2000, not 1899-1900.

When doctors and teachers look like they've all just left school.

When you make sex noises getting in and out of a chair.

When you don't make plans after 9pm because you know you'll be in bed.

When your kids are wearing the kind of clothes you wore as a teenager because the fashions have come round again.

When you have to hold something with small writing on at arms length because you don't have your glasses on.

When you don't recognise any of the songs they play on Radio 1.

When you have to call one of your kids because you can't work out the tv remote/something on your computer/something on your phone.

When some of the oldest clothes in your wardrobe have been in and out of fashion four times!

You buy something at a shop and get one of those challenge 25 things come up. The assistant literally looks you up and down before pressing do not challenge 😂

I said these words to my partner yesterday, we were in a nace cafe in a lovely area and in the middle of town, the waitress was wearing Lycra grey gym shorts that had maybe a cementer more length than my underwear.
I said it looks like she's wearing her big girl pantries.

When you're telling your early 20s hairdresser about a nightclub that closed down and she says oh yeah I think my mum used to go there.Im 42 and felt old as fuck at that moment.

When others complain about this or that illness and I think oh, I have that! Makes me feel not only old but that I'm closer to the end too.

@velvetvixen I have an old German recipe from a good / best older friend of mine. It involves sitting camomile petals, lavender buds, leaves and stem along with rose petals in water and oil (sunflower/ olive etc) for a maximum of 9 months in a dark glass bottle/jar, during which time you can use it after washing your hair as a scalp and hair tonic & conditioner. It is lovely! Your hair smells incredible for ages and your scalp is soothed.

Attached is a newer / more modern version of what my beloved friend taught me.

Ahhh thank you @TeaAddict235

Sounds delightful!

You prefer a walk on the prom to a night club.