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I am too young for that!!!!

216 replies

Deathraystare · 16/01/2023 21:21

I am sure this has probably be done before but I was listening to Caroline Hirons saying she did not wear cardigans as she felt it was something her Grandma wore. Though I do not agree I was just looking up future cruises and decided Saga not for me . It would be for older people (I am 63!!). I just imagine loads of white cauliflower hairstyles. I know it is ageist and unreasonable (I know they have jeople going from 55 years).what are you too young for????

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Newnamefornewyear2023 · 16/01/2023 22:16

Changechangychange · 16/01/2023 22:09

I spent today in what could only be described as “action slacks”. They are lined and very warm though, so I don’t care.

I’m too old for slippers (we are a shoes off house), but DM’s house is so cold that I will make an exception round there (nothing to do with cost of gas, it was freezing all through my childhood too, she just doesn’t turn the heating on).

What is too old for slippers? Slippers are the best! (I’m late 30s)

lljkk · 16/01/2023 22:18

Teenager clothes are the ones that fit me best, so I wear them. Age mid50s.

Am looking forward to seniors railcard. I ruddy missed out on the young person's railcard (kept being 1 year too old for it). I'm owed.

IcakethereforeIam · 16/01/2023 22:21

Calling my partner's parents by their first names, they're grown ups!

We've been together around thirty years. I can do it, but I feel I'm being cheeky.

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grapehyacinthisactuallyblue · 16/01/2023 22:22

Sounds quite amusing, since it sounds like my dc. He is too young for one thing, old enough for another.
But tbh, I came to realise that we never feel like our actual age, we always feel like we are younger than real age. I felt like that since I was in 30s.

Sux2buthen · 16/01/2023 22:22

JackieDaws · 16/01/2023 21:34

Such ageism and internalised misogyny.

Misogyny Confused

WashAsDelicates · 16/01/2023 22:22

Orthotics. I've never been keen on high heels, but I love slouchy boots, kitten heels and sandals.

Haven't been able to wear any of them since I was about 40, because my shoes have to accommodate prescription orthotics, be sturdy enough to support my foot, and not compress the big toe affected by the metatarsal for which I need the orthotic.

I'm too young for orthopaedic granny shoes 😩

Notoldenoughforthisshit · 16/01/2023 22:25

I name changed for this because I posted on social media about it. I’m a teacher and recently took my children on a trip where we saw old mobile phones; they asked if I had owned any of them and there I saw my first two phones! I am not old enough to have the technology from my teen years in a museum!

Changechangychange · 16/01/2023 22:26

Newnamefornewyear2023 · 16/01/2023 22:16

What is too old for slippers? Slippers are the best! (I’m late 30s)

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I meant too young! Old people wear slippers, young people just put up with cold feet. Like Meghan Markle with her ripped jeans and bare feet, boho and informal. Meeting the Royal Family in ripped jeans and some nice fluffy tartan slippers with a zip up the front wouldn’t really sound the same, would it? Grin

4thonthe4th · 16/01/2023 22:31

Not me, but my beloved grandad who I lost last year. I went to visit him in hospital the day before he died and he said he couldn’t wait to get home as he felt like he was in gods waiting room. Complained the ward they had him on was full of frail old men and couldn’t understand why they wouldn’t move him onto a ward with “fitter men” in his words… he was 94 and he oldest there by about 10 years.

god, i miss him.

TaRaDeBumDeAy · 16/01/2023 22:31

Premature ovarian failure.

MumUndone · 16/01/2023 22:33

To have two kids, a dog, and a mortgage. Definitely not old (or grown up) enough, or so I feel every day.

DetectiveDouche · 16/01/2023 22:34

JackieDaws · 16/01/2023 21:34

Such ageism and internalised misogyny.

Such a lack of recognition of humour and light-heartedness 🙄

Youthinkyoureuniqueyourejustastatistic · 16/01/2023 22:34

StopFeckingFaffing · 16/01/2023 21:23

WI - a friend suggested we join but I feel like I'm way too young to even consider it (I'm 48)

You’d be one of the “older” ones at my local WIs 😉

SoHereWeGo · 16/01/2023 22:36

Far too young for U3A ( I'm in my 60s) and a friend and I joked that we would never be old enough to shop in Country Casuals ( not an option now anyway) or Edinburgh Woollen Mill ( still the case).

Moken · 16/01/2023 22:39

I'm my age. There are very few things that are too young or too old for me, because I don't care one single bit what people think about how I choose to have my clothes/hair/make up/plan my career/organise my home/anything.

I wasn't like this in my 20's or 30's, and it's very liberating.

Fingeronthebutton · 16/01/2023 22:39

I’m too young for:
The WI
Hotter Shoes
Radio 2
Being sensible at parties
And sooo much more
Im 76

Pirrin · 16/01/2023 22:39

Ecco shoes - I felt I wasn't old enough but then it was the only thing comfy enough for my problematic feet and comfort won out.

Hotter shoes though - that will never happen!! But then that's probably style rather than age as I'm sure many an older lady wouldn't be seen dead in them even if they are rhe target market.

Love

Pirrin · 16/01/2023 22:40

No idea where the random 'love' came from!

UsingChangeofName · 16/01/2023 22:41

IcakethereforeIam · 16/01/2023 22:21

Calling my partner's parents by their first names, they're grown ups!

We've been together around thirty years. I can do it, but I feel I'm being cheeky.

Oh yes. I'm too young for that.
We've been married 30 years but I just don't call mine anything. 'Granny and Grandad' if talking about them....... waiting until they look at me to offer them something.

Hellybelly84 · 16/01/2023 22:43

RJnomore1 · 16/01/2023 22:05

My nana passed away last month and the minister talked about how until covid struck she was well known for visiting the “old ones” who were housebound in the parish.

She would have been 104 in April 😃

Love this! ❤️

Tunnocks2022 · 16/01/2023 22:44

Oh I’m definitely old enough to wear slippers, I love slippers!

I was far too young to be widowed though (37) 😭

UsingChangeofName · 16/01/2023 22:45

Well said @DetectiveDouche

I’m too young to know what bin day it is, that’s the sign of being a proper adult according to my dd.

Yes, I'm too young for that.

I also feel I am too young to listen to Radio 4, or any sort of 'talk' on the radio rather than music. I suspect it is because my Dad used to listen to Radio 4 all the time, so it is always an "old person" thing, even though I am far older no than he would have been when I think of him listening to it.

Greensleevevssnotnose · 16/01/2023 22:45

I've listened to the archers since I was a teenager!

LuckyLuckyWoman · 16/01/2023 22:48

My Mum and Aunt used to help out at the pensioners lunch club, as it was for old people. Both well into their 70s at the time.

As I said to my kids you only have to grow up on the outside, not the inside :)

Shunkleisshiny · 16/01/2023 22:50

CurlyhairedAssassin · 16/01/2023 21:30

my great Aunty used to say she didn’t like old people that much. She must have been around 80 at the time. 😆

My eldest sister (85) rang me tonight asking me about the Revitalist leg things for her and to look at reviews on Amazon. My sister said "I'm walking like a old woman".
I said "Lynne" ........ and she said 'Well I know I'm an old woman, but I don't want to walk like one"😄

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