Things that make you realise you’re not the spring chicken you thought you were

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I had a shock recently re-watching Mamma Mia, I always identified with Sophie’s character age-wise, but realise I am now Donna’s age, assuming Donna is in her early 40s..
Anyone else go straight from being in their twenties to their forties without noticing? I swear I’ve lost a whole decade somewhere!

When I realised one of my colleagues is the same age as my son. I’ve totally lost a decade somewhere.

I was in the pub recently when all their computers went down and they brought out one of those old machines. I had to show them how to use it! 😆

Whenever they talking about the singer ‘aitch’ on the radio I assume they mean ‘H’ from Steps every single time.

When you stop meeting your friends in bars and restaurants, and meet in a garden centre instead, because it's easy to drive to, you need some bits for the garden and you can have a cuppa and cake without noisy background music....

That's happened to me too! 😂

Yes, I started watching a Toni Collette series recently, and was so confused by the plot (described as a daughter learning secrets about her mother) took me a while to realise Toni was the MUM not the daughter lol

When the prime minister is younger than I am.

When I realised I was the oldest in work 😆

When I thought I could nimbly leap over my back garden fence from the top of a step ladder (I was locked out) and land on my feet like a gazelle and casually stroll to my back door. Instead I plummeted to earth like an asteroid entering the atmosphere and left a face-shaped crater in the lawn.

I keep thinking the 90s was only a few years ago.

To the person whose mum was born in 1967 she's younger than me ! You shouldn't even be on this thread 😂

My daughter trying and failing to comprehend how I spent a year working abroad when I was her age without a mobile phone, internet or laptop. I explained that if I needed to contact home, I got a big bag of franc pieces and went to a phone box - then realised she had no idea what francs were!

The day I needed to stand on a chair to reach something and couldn’t get up on the bloody thing was a very nasty reminder of how old I’m getting.

OMG... I was insisting that I'd like to learn to abseil for my 66th birthday (because I am terrified of heights and it's a good thing to overcome your fears, right?) And I read of the pratfalls here and I am starting to question my judgment. Should I just ask that the idea be forgotten? Discretion rather than valour and all that. Or have the ambulance booked in advance?

Seeing the F1 drs queuing this morning for pass photos, they look so young! I’m old enough to be their mum.

Do a skydive instead. I did one for my 60th and it was awesome.

Heck, *Blossomtoes, are you trying to kill me?!!!

Charlene did look a bit different from the others

Realising I was more than 20 years older than my colleagues at work. The 33 year old has left and now I'm 30 years older than my colleagues.

When I said to a girl in my team how thinking about that awful morning of the London bombings can still bring a tear to my eye (I worked in central London as did most of my friends).

She went ‘I was still at nursery then so I probably don’t have quite the same emotional reaction to it that you do. I just kind of remember hearing about it.’

Ah right…ok then. You know when there’s literally nowhere else for a conversation to go..🤦‍♀️

No longer being able to come down steps/stairs while also looking at a view or concentrating on something else, like looking in a bag or reading something. I easily misjudge uneven surfaces now. I used to look at older people and wondered how that happened, that you had to concentrate on coming down stairs and now it has started as eyesight isn't so sharp.

I used to be the student and took great pleasure reminding a woman that I wasn't born when she started working now in that woman 😂😞

When I take the dog out wearing whatever old crap falls out of my wardrobe, no make-up, greasy unbrushed hair and giving no shits about who sees me or judges me.

When I was a teenager, I'd put on a full face of make-up just to nip up to the shops because, you know, boyz 😍

The mirror

I thought DD's science teacher was a very tall y7 boy.

My cousins son recently joined the navy. When I saw him I started singing the song ‘In the Navy’ by the Village People.
He looked at me as if I was insane and had genuinely never heard of the song or the group.
For those of you who don’t know the song it a cracking singalong song. For those of you who know all of the words and didn’t at the time realise most of the group were gay, sorry but you are officially very old.