Signs you're getting old...............

[Littlebatcalledlucille]

Or turning into a aul hag..............

So today I decided the Eyebrows needed a good pluck (I've got a great little Ikea lamp that shows all the strays)

Anyway, I found 3.
THREE big curly black hairs! at an inch long! just sat, growing there (smug bastards) from my chin and neck. (Neck wtf?)
And I'm going grey!

Do you have any signs, ???

Lighthearted.

I just find that since hitting 50 I'm turning into a right moody mare. Don't really like people and can understand why my stepdad prefers dogs.

I'm late 40s

Physically it is mostly hair-related - losing it/gaining it/turning white
or sag-related - I don't think any part of the body is escaping this

I recently tried crocheting, but was really rubbish at it. I'm hoping that's a sign that I'm not old enough for it yet!

I recently tried crocheting, but was really rubbish at it. I'm hoping that's a sign that I'm not old enough for it yet!

Me too but I've started embroidery and am better at that as long as it's really easy. I can tackle it because I've got new/stronger reading glasses. I must be properly old to just not stop at the failed crocheting attempt and just explore another ancient handicraft.

archimandrite sounds like you are seeking old elderly pursuits

I've got a mild prescription for reading glasses but have put off getting any yet. I think it's a slippery slope. Next stop, the accompanying chains...

I was very "Adulty" and took all my net curtains down and washed them the other weekend. It made me feel really old as that's something my mum does....

I should point out that I got a great sense of satisfaction at re-hanging my lovely clean white net curtains... shoot me now

I spent time with a 93 year old lady yesterday and got hypnotised by her knitting, to the point that I could have dozed off. I told her I felt quite envious that I couldn't knit. I really wanted to join in and make something (no chance - awful co-ordination). I'm 33.

In A and E with my son last week and my first thought was 'geez these doctors are getting younger'

Also...
Yes to turning off Radio 1 (DH & DD love it), it's just NOISE!
Love being in bed by 10pm.
Struggling to get off the floor.
Hangovers seem to last a week now.
Can't stay up past 2am on a night out. Must be in bed by that time asleep.
Baffled by PS4.
Also baffled by DS V-tech console (aimed at 3-7year olds).
Still being shown surprising things my iPhone can do.
My DH (who is 26), despite his love for Radio 1, watches the soaps every day he's home on catch up - I call it his "Old Lady TV marathon".

I have also have the tv noise on for company

I also recently used the word "portly" to describe my cat. I haven't heard this word since my Nan used it many many years ago.

These are funny.

My 17 year old dd wrote me a step by step guide to turn on netflicks and the DVD player also the x box.

I had found myself alone in the house with no kids grand kids or dh,which was bliss,but had no idea how to work the above.

I also comment far far too much on the weather.

Oh holiday we were usually asked, if we had children and what we did for a job

Now we are being asked if we are retired and if we have any grandchildren

On soaps I've actually stopped watching...because I've seen all the storylines before in some cases the same characters repeating storylines... Just too boring

Today at work we are offered a cheek swan test of suitability to join a blood platelet (?) bank. Keen as ever to help, I toddled along on the way to lunch. First check, are you between 15-55?

Sigh. I went to lunch unswabbed, not because I am under 18.

I watch most (all) television shows with the subtitles on (just as dear mum did). I don't think my hearing is bad, I just find it easier to follow what's happening.

I've had increasing amounts of grey hair since my twenties but the other week I found a white pubic hair

Going to see your favourite post-punk band and fighting your way through the life insurance and Jaguar sales stands to get to the champagne bar.

Relying on DS to make all the technology in the house work properly (he's 11).

Listening to Radio 4. A lot.

Baffies.

Aching joints and thinking "it's me age" rather than "I'm coming down with a virus".

Scrolling through the list to tick your age off online and it seems to go on and on forever! same with year box - back, back back on the scroll bar.
im not that old.. yes i am.

I referred to one of the doctors at my GP as a young whippersnapper to dh. I have turned into my mother. (Without the kindness though!)

I think things my old mum used to say, how i laughed at her ways ( when i was 15)
we morph into our parents eventually.

We do subtitles on tv, kept it quiet, then heard on the radio that everyone is, even youngsters as the sound quality on dramas is terrible and the actors all mumble. So its not my hearing.. yet
I call young people 'youngsters'.

This thread is so reassuring in a mad kind of way. I read it thinking, "Yup, me too", "And that", "And that"

I can think of few treats more delightful than a toasted and buttered tea cake.

I often find myself staring in to the fridge wondering what I want out of there.

I regularly go to bed the same day that I got up.

And is it just me with the loud sneezes? I used to sneeze like normal people but in the last few years they have become deafening.They startle small children and strangers turn and stare in the street. DD once hustled me out of a cathedral because I sneezed during a wedding ceremony.

My sneezes make dh jump - he glares at me ( from his own special chair) and seems to think that i have some weird ' sneezing disease' that nobody else does.' its you' he cries while i storm off with the hump
Being married for 28 years has aged me too.

When people my age mention a new tablet, I assume it's another medication not a gadget.

Conversations with friends revolve around discussing our ailments and downsizing instead of school admissions.

At a recent wedding when my friend's DH was dancing with the 'young people', she turned to me and commented that his knees would suffer the consequences the next day.