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To wonder how you recognise you're getting older

264 replies

clearlyaplasticgnome · 29/04/2015 13:40

I hate having to go out in the evenings
I love listening to Radio 4
I dream of retirement and moving to a nice village beside the sea (never going to happen!)

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JustDanceAddict · 01/05/2015 10:40

And spitting on a tissue and rubbing it on your child's face - mind you, they don't let me do that anymore.

JustDanceAddict · 01/05/2015 10:49

[]Looking like a picture of the Evolution of Man as you get up from your chair and 'evolve' across the living room, getting straighter as you go.[]

This is me and I'm only 43 - I do dread to think what I'm going to be like in 20 years time - will I actually be able to straighten up at all?

theDuchessInTheDodgeCharger · 01/05/2015 10:53

being told that yes, you need glasses for work. No, it's not hayfever making the writing blurry because your eyes water. First time at the opticians, a bit of a shock ;)

Being told by my 15 yr old son that a girl in his class has got the same jumper as me. Mostly the uncertain look on his face when he said it : his sudden understanding that clothes look different on different bodyshapes?

Looking fwd to staying in at night and inventing excuses when someone suggests going out. Actually I've always been like this, even when I was 20....

Gasp

balletnotlacrosse · 01/05/2015 10:53

I was at the cinema last night with a friend. We agreed to go for one drink afterwards, found a nice quiet pub, had one glass of wine eadh and left.

JustDanceAddict · 01/05/2015 11:09

Also understanding what my grandma used to say (she died when I was 14)' 'You want to get old, but it's no good'. I had no idea what that meant as a child - who'd want to get old? Now I get it.

WoodliceCollection · 01/05/2015 11:13

Meeting one of my older child's teachers at parents' evening and thinking she was so young, even though we were chatting about her own daughter who was at nursery with my younger one. I'm 36, but feel 50 on the inside...

SunnyBaudelaire · 01/05/2015 11:16

REalising that my son's deputy head was young enough to be my son.

DoJo · 01/05/2015 11:25

When I was a child, I simply couldn't believe that my grandma (in her 80s!) didn't know how old she was without a quick think - it was utterly inconceivable that someone wouldn't be constantly aware of their age. Now, only in my mid-thirties, I have to have a quick mental check to remember whether I have had my birthday this year or not and answer accordingly when asked.

manaboutthemaison · 01/05/2015 11:26

when i dislocated my shoulder yesterday and the doctor at hospital looked younger than my 20 year old daughter

DadOnIce · 01/05/2015 15:26

I remember thinking - but thankfully not saying - "what's the point?" as a teenager when my mother, then in her 40s, used to get her hair elaborately done and spend time "doing" her face...

If anyone said that to DW now I'd be incandescent with rage!

ForkHandlesFourCandles · 01/05/2015 17:37

the skin between my sparse eybrows and my eyelids are drooping over eyelids and my eyes have receded into my skull.

Ive started knitting!

rachyrah · 01/05/2015 20:29

I'm a radiographer. Calling someone from the waiting room with a birth date of 2000 or later and they're taller than me.

If ever on the floor, wondering what else I can do whilst I'm down there..

whatdidthefoxsay · 01/05/2015 22:09

When I got invited to join the local WRI days after my 40th birthday

rednsparkley · 01/05/2015 22:11

I knew I was getting older when I realised that I did not know what was at No1 in the charts and that also that I didn't give a shit either Grin

Sidalee7 · 01/05/2015 22:12

When you find a grey hair "down there". Horror of horrors.

pressone · 01/05/2015 22:55

Loads of the above and
Wondering why your Mum is looking out of your mirror
When all of your children have a newer car than you
When you tell your Doctor what he is going to do for you rather than asking
Definitely when the skin on your hands is all pushed into a little heap by the hand-dryer
When your CV contains words like experienced and knowledgeable but doesn't contain you date of birth.
When colleagues ask you for advice - because they see you as a work "Mum" who knows everything.When every visit to a health professional begins with "Well at your age...."

pressone · 01/05/2015 22:59

Ha - I've just looked up what is number 1 in the charts - I had to go as far as number 9 to see a band I'd even heard of (and I wouldn't recognise them if they passed me in the street.

YouAreHavingAGiraffe · 01/05/2015 23:01

When your optician says hmm, you're on the cusp of needing varifocals.

CadieAgain · 01/05/2015 23:07

DadOnIce I did say that to my mother

Karma has taken care of it now. Gorgeous 15 yo DD constantly borrows all my beauty products and never thinks to return them because obviously there is no point to me owning them anyway.

AlpacaPicnic · 01/05/2015 23:16

It's a bank holiday weekend. My plans are - possibly weed the garden, batch cook a load of meals for the freezer and snooze on the sofa during the daytime if I feel like it.

I'm most excited about the batch cooking for the freezer.
Dear god, shoot me now!

Dowser · 01/05/2015 23:19

When your grand daughter says you have old cheeks nana.

When it's harder to lose weight

When you say....40 years ago....and you realise you were 23 then!

Finding it fascinating that young women have ' young cheeks'

That a pensioners special is more than you can eat

Theres too much grey coming in the temples

You can't remember the names of the artists who sang the songs you loved at the disco

When you realise you were born when winston Churchill was prime minister

When you realise some things were still rationed when you were born

When you realise your grandmother was one of the last Victorians

Aaarggghhh!

wol1968 · 01/05/2015 23:43

When I have to moisturise my nose. About a week ago, or so it seems, I used to have to wipe the shine off with tissues or those funny little powdery papers about five times a day. Now I need to put lotion on to stop it peeling and going red.

blueshoes · 02/05/2015 00:08

My aupair's parents are younger than me

Dogseggs · 02/05/2015 00:40

When you go to more funerals than weddings
When you and your oldest friend compare ailments over a nice cream tea
When you and same friend get together at a nice tea shop rather than a wine bar/nightclub
When your daughters go 'oh mum' and shake their heads patronisingly whenever you can't get the remote control to do what you want
When you remember when you had to start computers with C:

When you have to think twice to remember how old you actually are, seeing as how the years go by so quickly
When you realise you don't really care what other people think of you any more

I actually love getting older :)

Bonsoir · 02/05/2015 07:40

Love it, blueshoes.

Some of our friends have grandchildren Shock