It's official - I'm ancient

[rockywilderness]

Buying a bottle of cider in Lidl (the nice vintage one, I promise) and the checkout guy said to me, with a wink, "Well, young lady, I'm going to need to see some ID" and then laughed as he scanned it. I'm 45.

I'm now in the age category where it's hilarious to even suggest I might be under age.

Any other examples that I need to brace myself for?

The first time you renew your car insurance and Saga comes up as an option. You've got five years to go.

My sister had this yesterday when the guy in the checkout just scanned her booze and didn't even ask for ID. Gutted, she was!

But surely better than being treated like your granny! I’m just waiting to be ‘jokingly’ asked if I’m my daughter’s sister and then I’ll quietly slide into the grave.

Being offered a seat on a train/bus. Very sobering.

Got called 'young lady" when I went to renew my driving licence. Ruined my day.

I've noticed young me have started calling g me a "lady". What a nice lady..., rather than a nice girl. I don't think men often call us women!

The day I explained 'Pogs' and the fact that we used to get toys in our cereal and 'tazos' in our crisps to a group of year 11s. "Isnt that a choking hazard Miss?" I felt about 100 and Pogs just sounds like tiddly winks they clearly didn't understand the excitement of winning a 'shiny'.

I broke my shoulder recently and was reading through my online medical journal. The A&E doctor put that I should have surgery due to my relatively young age. 'Relatively' is now my most hated word.

Oh I feel you OP.

Im still in my thirties, but recently discovered that the ‘younger’ people in the office go out socially without me and the other ‘old’ folk after work.

It really hits me when you have to choose your age range on a drop down menu. My head can’t compute 61 to 65

But great. I always graciously accept.

My DD has knee issues and we went to see a surgeon who told me I was sitting in the wrong chair - due to my advanced age he assumed I was the patient!

Actually my knees are fine, it's just everything else :(

Probably when the midwife described me as a "geriatric mother"

I'm 36!!

Yep, this happened to me in tesco, not so long ago. The checkout person looked at me, nodded, and scanned her badge to approve my age without saying a word. I felt very old! 12 years ago, I was being asked for ID, I'd just had my 1 st dc. I guess having kids has aged me 🤣

It's when they do the age check and it gives them options and one is "customer is clearly over the age of 25" and they swipe that without even looking at you- they can just tell by your hunched gait and not quite cool jeans.

A pharmacist called me "madam" once when I was about 45. The day after my 50th birthday, I got mail from an insurance company called British Seniors. It only gets worse, I'm afraid - at 53, I get funeral plan letters and emails. Ugh.

Sainsburys...
I got a sandwich and bag of crisps from the chiller..
The guy on the till age about 35 said " would you like to go for a drink".
I said I'm very flattered but I'm 66 and you're far too young for me.
He said " l mean from the fridge..it's part of the meal deal"

Renewing passport and having to put "Grey" for hair colour.

I was on a really packed Northern line tube train one Saturday afternoon. It was so packed that people were standing right along the coach and it was rather a hot day last autumn.

So there I was, standing in the middle of a packed tube carriage, and what happens? A very polite young girl (I would say probably an undergrad or graduate student type) with an American accent who was sat in a seat adjacent to where I was standing looked up at me and enquired whether I would like to have her seat.

I was absolutely mortified. That she took me for some old person that she should give up her seat for really shook my perception of myself. I thanked her and politely declined and she then got off at the next station.

For context, I'm late 50s but clearly I must look much older than that.

For readers in Scotland....When you hit 50 and get a bowel testing kit through the post.

I also got a complimentary pair of disposable Tena knickers.

Once I hit 50, I kept getting FB ads for incontinence aids. As I crept closer to 60, started getting funeral plan ads.

Now coming up for 64. Keep getting unsolicited mail for funeral plans, insurance "to give [my] loved ones a lump sum" and FB ads for care homes and care planning. Oh. Also invitations to participate in Alzheimer trials in Glasgow.

Shoot. Me. Now.

Yep I had that at 34.

Re: buying booze.

I make it a point of honour to ask whether they want to see my ID, just so that I can chuckle at the look of consternation.

If I'm old, I might as well have fun being an evil old b*tch.

When the doctor no longer asks if you might be pregnant but does ask if you have had any thoughts on hrt.

Ha. Remember Mum telling me that she was "an elderly prim". Fell pregnant with me at 34.

Hahaha @Moier so sorry but this properly made me LOL - I am slightly mortified for you tho