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?

I HATE this so much! I said as much earlier in the thread . Pisses me right off, it's just so patronising. When someone is at least 55-60, why call them 'young lady' or 'young man?' I am sure people think they're funny, or clever, or the first person to say it. Whatever the reason, it pisses me off!

When you get as old as me (57) the checkout assistants don't even say anything as it's almost too ridiculous to even joke about. .... None of them even look up when I go through!
One other flag is when you start to work with people who weren't born when you left school, got married etc. and have no idea about any jokes that you and your similarly aged colleagues talk about.

I could go on....

For my 60th birthday my friend (I am godson to her adult son) invited me to go to a local festival to see his band. We had proper tickets but he had got a load of stuff to carry from his car so we grabbed stuff to and went in through the performers entrance. A bloke tried to stop us and we went "we're with the band" Coolest thing EVER

🤣🤣🤣

You become invisible, I know I did when I hit a certain age 😩

The bus driver saw me hurrying to the stop & waited for me, with a pensioner's ticket ready in his hand. I was NOT a pensioner then.
Didn't know whether to sulk or cry.

I dared to say "burn!" about a great put down on some drama on tv recently. My 15 year old daughter looked sternly at me and said "please don't ever say that again, you really can't pull that off." That was me told and feeling older than my 49 years. 😂 Also, I can't remember which supermarket it is, but on the self service tills there's an option for the staff to pick something along the lines of obviously over 25 - that hurts and feels like the word obviously should be in capital letters. 🤣

Yes. It only makes sense if the 'fall' has no outward cause, and they have just fallen down for no reason other than being frail or unsteady on their feet.

That doesn't start to happen at a particular age. If I tripped over the cat in the garden and went arse over tip trying to avoid stepping on the stupid animal, I wouldn't have 'had a fall' just because I'm over 60.

Most of us have seen this doing the rounds on social media ages ago. So obviously didn't happen to you🤥

Or possibly all three, and they were hedging their bets?!

Yep, this is quite an old and well-known internet meme. I am surprised the people LOL-ing at this story by @Moier haven't heard of it.

Customer buys a sandwich and some crisps.
Checkout person says says 'Oh would you like to go for a drink?'
Customer says 'Oh sorry I am flattered, but already taken/married.'
Checkout person says 'no I meant do you want a drink with your sandwiches and crisps to make it a meal?'
Customer is mortified.

There's even been an advert showing on TV for the past few years, where a Barista is serving a woman, and says 'what's your name?' and the woman says 'oh I'm sorry I am taken, I have a girlfriend.' Barista says 'no it's for the cup. I want to write your name on the cup.'
Woman is mortified.

Tale as old as time. Well, as old as the internet! (Almost!)

My optician once said to me that people wake up on the morning of their 40th birthday to discover that they probably need to start wearing glasses...

If it makes you feel better, I get the Alzheimer’s ones too. And I’m in my mid 30s.

53 and was offered a seat by a chap who was using crutches on the tube!

how old& tired do I look if he thought I needed the seat more than him.

Not rtft sorry, but when dentists or A&E doctors no longer routinely ask if you could be pregnant before doing an X-ray 😩
(Edited to say I’m 45!)

😂😂😂