What is middle-aged behaviour / mannersisms?

[Jeannne92]

DH (42) has started getting angry at things said on TV (e.g. news reports) and shouts at the TV. To me (43) this creates the impression of the stereotypical angry old man shouting at birds.

Then I think that I must surely do things or have started doing or saying things that are stereotypically middle-aged too. What sort of behaviour do you think of as middle-aged?

Being a bit excited when the Cotton Traders booklet comes through the door.

Saying you’ll ‘tape’ something off the telly.

Asking young people ‘who’s top of the pops’ rather than ‘who’s in the charts’.

Wondering why on Earth anyone would want an air fryer, when they have a perfectly good oven already

ong this, I am 50 and remember them before the rebrand, counter top ovens for those who couldn’t afford a proper oven and simply can’t get my head round people now wanting them like they are some fab new invention.

Doesn't everyone have reusable bags? Even DD12 and DS11 have one in their school/ sports' bags.

On the other hand, DH is currently asleep in front of the TV, occasionally rousing to shout at it (political round table type show.)

I am far less bothered about being 'nice' when nice is actually just another word for doormat. There's nice and there's nice iyswim.
Also boxes.
I seem to have acquired a deep love for a good box. Oh that's a good box, I'll save that.

For a man...grunting regularly as you get up.and down from.your chair.

For a woman....going to bed at 8.30 and rising at 5

DH says regularly, 'Take your coat off or you won't feel the benefit' as well as insisting that we all unzip our coats when entering the bus, tube, a shop, bank, post office, pharmacy, etc.

Oh, and we seem to go the pharmacy very very regularly. When I was younger I had no idea where to find a pharmacy!

Finding it laughable that the 90s are "retro" but then realizing that was 30+ years ago.
https://www.gap.com/shop/90s-retro-jeans-0aez00a

Oh the pharmacy does become a magnet after a certain age , you never know what useful thing you might find in there , when you're past a certain age . Before you might have only gone in there if you specifically needed something , now it's you never know what you might find .

When bran becomes the new sex :) x

These are hilarious!

Dp is very obsessed with the weather and will check it many times a day! Ditto popping to the pharmacy.

I now have reading glasses dotted about the house! I resisted for a long time, but have finally accepted I need to see.

I embraced the grey a long time ago!

I would however prefer a gig to the garden centre.

Making an 'oof' noise when you sit down!

Guilty. Sixty nine, though, so officially old according to MN.

Ooh.. I do like a good potter around the garden centre! Especially if there’s cake and coffee in the cafe involved. (I’m 41)

I pounce on the councils bin calendar that arrives around Christmas, and enter all the bin days in my (new) diary and circle them in highlighter… 3 weekly collections here, so miss them at your peril😱

• keeping a diary
• adding boring stuff like bin dates!
• copying out numbers from my phone into the diary, in case I lose it or it conks out - have had this happen and the written numbers have saved the day!
• yes to the numerous reading glasses scattered around!
• yes to the ‘oof’ noises of getting out of chair/ bed/bath

There is a thread atm about an "elderly 64 year old father" 😂needing to "deep clean" his house!

In replt to a PP, after last weekend I will walk out of any restaurant which tells me to scan a QR code for the menu. I will simply refuse.

Saw that. There was another one about 'future proofing' your house when you're in your 60s. I can't work out if I'm ignoring stuff I really should be doing or refusing to be hustled into old age quite so soon. I think it's the latter.

Re the noises when you sit down and stand up - doing squats will sort that out. Very helpful if you don't want to be stuck on the loo - what with being old - and unable to get up.

I will do! Love Joanna Lumley!

I refuse to do companies work for them. I go into a restaurant, I expect to be handed a menu, not do the wait staff's work for them. Ditto these places that expect you to use a screen to place an order. What next, a little light cleaning and washing up? 😡

That feels better.

Has he been accused of having dementia yet?

OP: "My 60 year old mother doesn't want to babysit 6 days a week!"

300 posts saying "OP, this sort of selfishness is often a sign of dementia. Has she been assessed yet?"

(To be fair, there'll be a few posts calling the mother "toxic" and "narcissistic" and recommending immediate NC)

Not yet. He is still working full time and his wife just died and now he is an "elderly hoarder parent" 😂

Well, I am a decade younger (so almost elderly) and getting divorced and I certainly need a deep clean. I am not doing it though!

@BlackStrayCat Mumsnet is a funny place. Threads supporting having babies in your late 40's live right next door to threads bemoaning elderly 60 year olds who shouldn't be driving and probably have dementia!

You see as a parents of young children this infuriates me. My children behave well in supermarket queues etc as I tell them off if needed. I hate it when busybodies tell them to be careful though. Yesterday my 4 year old jumping off a small (2 foot) wall onto a grass verge as I was putting shopping in the car. He was perfectly safe and right to me. Busybody woman walking past starts with 'be careful, it might be mossy and sloppy, you might hurt yourself!' I just stared at her and said loudly 'it's fine son, you're perfectly safe, carry on'

idiot

This made me lol @BigMandsTattooPortfolio

This thread is brilliant

It's like a bingo card of my life

The first answer did sum things up pretty well, with the addition of the noise I make when I get up from a chair.

Having more than a passing awareness of bin day
and this