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

[KittyCatsby]

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

When your youngest child is older than your GP.
When a thriller in bed means a good book.
When your children's best friends are getting married and having their own babies, and in your mind they're still kids themselves in need of a sticking plaster on scraped knees.
When reading the birth, death and marriage section in the local paper, rather than looking first to see if anyone who you know has married or had a baby, you look to see if anyone you know has died this week.

I think the slippery slope starts when you start telling your kids that they'll have someone's eye out with that, and other mum sayings. 😂

When you thought of something to post this thread and then forgot what it was as soon as you pressed the ", reply to thread" button.

Oh I remember now!

When you still write cheques.

The clothes you wore as a teen are now described as vintage

When your children's best friends are getting married

Or your grandchildren's . . .

When you watch your children marvelling at the typewriter you used in your first job, going "it doesn't even plug in or have a delete button".

You can feel the hairs on your chin, but now your eyesight is so bad you can’t see the bloody things to pluck them.

You have no intention of starting to watch a film after 9 at night, you’ll be late to bed.

Food portions in restaurants are too big for one meal, so now you have tomorrows lunch too.

You take photos of medication boxes on your phone/iPad because that way you call blow it up to a readable size.

Old lady bedside table. Aspirin, Chapstick, medicine for indigestion, cough pastilles/boiled sweets.

Politicians are younger than you

You choose shoes for comfort over style.

You own thermal underwear.

When you see the shelves in Primark full of 'bodies' and young girls buying them in bulk and you think 'Oh no. No-one who wore them first time around will ever do it again.'

Wait till they barely even glance at you before pressing the 'obviously over 25' button 😅

When you take your child to a specialist dietician then comment to your DH ; 'She was great and really very young. Probably mid 30s'.

Yes to this. My three children were all born in the nineties and the oldest had his thirty-first birthday last month!
For me, as a music teacher, it is realising that the children and teenagers l taught in the mid to late eighties, when l was first qualified, are now middle aged themselves and old enough to be the parents of the older children and teenagers l now teach. The oldest of my original pupils are now around fifty! I feel like Mrs Chips these days! 🤷🏼‍♀️

Also, my eighty year old mother talks about young people and she means anyone below the age of sixty!

When there's 4 days of sunny weather, people are whingeing about a heatwave and your response is "This is nothing. You should have been around in 1976".

You use the camera on your phone to take pictures of labels so you can 'scroll in' on the text.

Wimbledon players are younger than your kids.
Every single child at secondary school was born in the 21st century.

You know you're getting old when... Why did I click on this...?

You love hoiking up your huge knickers so they go over your belly button, and sometimes by 7pm you’re yearning to get into bed with a cup of tea and the cat for company.

Colleagues are too young to remember Diana dying.

You try on your mums velcro walking sandals, realise they are foot heaven....and consider getting a pair....

I look on a sunny day as a great washing day, not a great day to sunbath and drink with pals!

Earlier this week I asked DH to clear the moss out of the guttering round the garage roof.

I'm done for, aren't I?

When your 90+ MIL asks you where you bought your sandals, because she'd like some the same.

When you start eyeing up the clothing section in the garden centre and think 'ooh that's quite nice'

When putting your eye makeup on is a case of flinging makeup in the vague vicinity of where you know your eyes to be, and then putting your glasses on to see how you did.

😆@ShirleyJackson and that's when also using a 10x magnification mirror!