Your ‘God I’m old’ moment

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Gen X menopausal me saying my hair made me ‘look like Worzel Gummidge’ and being met with blank looks ! Yours ?

At the third stroke, the time will be...

I used to love looking through family photos as a child - ones of me, my mum and dad and my sister but also my mum's (few) photos from her own childhood and her wedding photos.

Years after leaving home, I was round my mum and dad's house and got the photos out for the first time in a long time. It took me aback to see how young she looked in her wedding photos - younger than I was at the time.

That was definitely a "God, I'm old" moment.

I know how you feel - instead of sitting in his high chair banging his spoon, I’m setting him up limited companies - where did those years go -

We got seated somewhere like this in an achingly fashionable and very packed pizza and pasta joint in Amsterdam even though we had booked- last time I will just smile sweetly and grit it - next time we will just go elsewhere, booking or not - I just ended up with chronic back ache for several days

I’d do exactly the same. I’d tell them that seating is not acceptable and go elsewhere. It’s the forced proximity to other diners too. I’m not out for dinner with 10 other people.

Yes the high stools or even just plain backless benches are fine if you are 20, but not comfortable if you are older.

I miss old fashioned restaurants with proper comfy chairs, tablecloths and soft furnishings that absorb noise.

I had a moment yesterday chatting to my DD about the HRT her GP is putting her on next week, and how she can’t eat grapefruit because of her BP medication. I thought, this can’t be, surely I only finished going through my own menopause last year……

I think I’ve just had another moment. Watching the launch show of Strictly (yes I’m behind don’t shoot me) and the new Canadian pro Mark looked about 17 in the opening sequence. He doesn’t look old enough to have an adult passport to get here 😂

My cataract op is a scheduled!

Ohh dear lord! I thought he was so sexy!

Looking for my phone when Im holding it. Forgetting my bosses name for a whole week. Getting up on Saturday to go to work.
No I havent got dementia.

Oh god there's no need for that!!! 🙈

I'm not able for these ones 🙈😂

Recently at the school gates another mum (a lot younger than me) made some complaint about it always raining on her, I said "That's because you lied when you were seventeen" and she just looked at me, puzzled...

Love this @SukiPook 😂

Oh FFS 🙈😂

NO!!! That's a step too far 🙉🙈

I've said this in class too a few times! In my defence I teach in primary school but it's a total reflex 😂

Oh wow is it??? I love that museum, also I'd love to see his costume 😍

Hell nooooooo. Did they do I am an antichrist 😂

He was sexy. He's not bad now.

When we were going on holiday by car my dad would send off to the AA who would send (by post) a set of instructions for the route. I remember doing this online before the days of sat navs or google maps.

Just last week a friend and I were driving home late at night and the A road we needed was closed but none of the sat nav apps knew about it. We had to keep finding villages/towns on her phone screen and heading to them as otherwise the satnav just kept trying to direct us back onto the A road. It took us nearly 4 hours to get home (should be 1.5).
I have now ordered a UK road map to keep in the car….just in case! 🗺️

When I read about euthanise people over 70 on here. I’m 77…Still functioning-just!

I buy a cheap map book and replace it every 2 or three years to keep up with changes. You can also often trick GPS by removing eg "motorways and A roads" from your preferences.

I was putting a few bags of cement onto a trolley in B&Q. After the first ten bags I had to stop and catch my breath. I commented to someone that the bags feel lot heavier than they were 60 years ago. The problem is that 60 years ago I was lifting 50kg, or 1cwt, bags of cement without any difficulty, now the 25kg bags feel heavy after the first half dozen.

My son on about travelling round London
‘I used the underground and over ground’
Me - ‘wombling free !!!!’

He has no idea