You know you're middle aged when...

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You go out in the morning at the same time you used to come home at 😲

The sun rises very early where I live (not UK) so after the clocks changed I decided to embrace this and go for a brisk 4 mile walk every morning before work 🌞 It is truly lovely, it's warm and I enjoy seeing the sun come up. However it was only 12 years ago I used to be stumbling out of a nightclub at 5.45am and looking for a taxi to get me home 🧐 What has happened to me?

This…

When the PM is younger than you. That's pretty weird.

You see pop stars on tv and think “They look like sweet lads I bet they’re nice sons to have.”

Your OH seems vaguely interested in sex, but it fizzles out before you actually touch each other, because you both realise you’d rather play on your phones.

You look around your house and realise that it all came from Amazon. All of it. Everything you can see.

Your long-lived pet dies from old age.

Your idea of a great time is a lovely walk in the park with a friend followed by coffee.

You don’t know what to do with your career but you don’t care.

Getting a peppermill that actually grinds pepper properly is the highlight of the year.

Nothing on tv is as good as it used to be.

Oh and…

Teenagers are all wearing big plastic glasses like your granny used to have.

when kids in the street refer to you as old woman

Early 20's for me!!

When you spend 10 minute's searching for your glasses only to find they were in your head the whole time.

When just the thought of high heels makes your back ache.

When you are secretly pleased when DH has a cold and you don't have to go out for a pub meal with him on cold night so can stay at home with heating on and have mug of soup.

When children ask what you want for Xmas and you really don't want anything. And if you had wanted something you would have just bought it yourself.

When all the clothes in Monsoon and Marks and Spencer start looking really trendy to you.

Your chatting away to the manicurist about the power cuts in the 70s and she looks at you blankly, then another customer in her 50/60s responds to you. Alos hadnt heard of the osmonds or jackson five

Comfy night in beats night on the tiles

Omg I had a policeman knock on my door to talk to me about a neighbour and he looked about 19!

Your face takes a good hour to "wake up" and fill out..

The ohf noise when you get in that car seat.

When 90's music is as cool to your teenager as 60's music was to you

Too much of this resonates😁

For me, the worst is NOT feeling middle aged. Swaggering down the street like you're 17 cos you're still slim and toned, jscked up on whatever hormones your body currently decides you need and feeling like you could take on the world.... but then catching sight of your actual face in a shop window.

I don't feel middle aged. I feel sexy and powerful and fun. But my knees hurt when it rains and I look rough as fuck first thing in the morning.

Literally laughing aloud ay this!

So true!

Bye bye painful heels and hello Sketchers.

Nineteen?
They looks so fresh faced they look barely into their teens! {Men and women}

I'm sitting here listening to BBC Proms Ibiza

And vicars.

I was very pleased that our new vicar was older than me. Just a couple of months mind but definitely older.

I admit I am older than middle aged. I recently went for a dental checkup and met my new dentist. I swear I saw a Spiderman lunchbox on the counter. He looked like he was waiting for his mum to pick him up for Scouts. I must say though he did a great and thankfully painless repair job on my vintage tooth.

Getting down to floor level and getting up again without gripping a door handle or similar to pull you up.
I had a job where I had to bend right down to plug equipment in then get up again, with an audience. It seemed like in the space of a week I went from fit young thing to creaky oldie.

If I have to sit on the floor to do something I have to organise a chair and cushion to get back up - the cushion to kneel on, the chair to steady myself as I struggle to get on my feet again.

Agree - A Lakeland catalogue is porn for
Middle Aged women

Also the magazines/catalogue you get in the sunday paper selling random shit

Oh God... I am 43, slim and well groomed so while knowing I am getting older would categorically not think myself middle-aged.

But I could really use all of the above gift suggestions except The Good Housekeeping magazine subscription.

This 💯😂