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Original poster

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

307 replies

Littlebatcalledlucille · 21/02/2017 15:45

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.

OP posts:
Notonyournellly · 21/02/2017 18:16

YES graphista to MY seat on the sofa Grin Everyone else makes a beeline for it it because I have gone to a lot of trouble to make it all cosy, but it is all mine

MrsLindor · 21/02/2017 18:16

I was very relieved today that the men in the office were both as hot as I was, it avoided any discussions starting about menopause.

Itmustbemyage · 21/02/2017 18:20

Young teen offered me a seat in the bus yesterday, I'm in my fifties and not suffering from any disabilities.
Quite like taking my mum to garden centre coffee shops, they always have lovely cakes.
Having to get varifocals.
I'm rubbish with technology, I have to ask my grown up son's to set up stuff on my phone for me. I used to mock my mum when she couldn't manage to record stuff on her video recorderBlush
I'm seriously considering getting one of those "auld wifie" shopping bags on wheels. I have tennis elbow (not having played tennis for years) and find carrying shopping difficult.
Hate going clothes shopping I have more money to buy myself stuff but can never find anything that isn't "too mutton" or something that my mum would reject as being old-fashioned.

CigarsofthePharoahs · 21/02/2017 18:21

My knees have been crackly monsters since I was a teen. My toes crack too now.
I am now SO OLD that the embroidery I used to love doing is now a thing of the past as my wrists are too painful to do it.
I comment on the moistness of cakes.
I love going to National Trust properties, just to sit in the cafe.
I have to use one of the big soft chairs at our church and not the standard chairs as they leave me in hideous pain.
I have developed astigmatism and now wear glasses. A friend commented "Well you've been very lucky to get to your age and not need them before."
My age??!?? I'm 37 for goodness sake and most days I feel 80. Sodding fibromyalgia.

Original poster
Littlebatcalledlucille · 21/02/2017 18:21

I have my own chair, my arse dent is in it, listen to radio 4 and also crochet ( badly I've been '29' for the last 6 years.
Let me just put my glasses on.

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The80sweregreat · 21/02/2017 18:22

My dh hovers over his place on the settee till son moves. Which is instantly. We normally leave it alone to be fair. We know.

Topseyt · 21/02/2017 18:27

Teachers at my DD's school often seem younger than me.

My children have learned in their history lessons about stuff that to me was current affairs - Falklands Conflict, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan etc. How did that happen?

I need special reading glasses now as well as my distance ones, or I can't even see my computer screen.

I have MY special chair in front of the TV, and at the kitchen table. Even the cat knows to bugger off if he is in them when I come into the room.

I love my slippers, and I am very much becoming a creature of habit.

The80sweregreat · 21/02/2017 18:33

Blimey. I lived through Maggies regime,
A big cheer went up at work when she resigned.
Someone heard it on a car radio i think and came in and announced it to us all.

Itsmytemporaryname · 21/02/2017 18:36

This week at work I sneezed and a trump came out.
I had to slip into the cupboard to hide. Confused

spangles06 · 21/02/2017 18:39

Let me see

Grey pubes
Enjoy listening to Women's hour on radio 4
Reading glasses always perched on the end of my nose
Wrinkly elbows....elbows ffs
Varicose veins
Get pissed on two glasses of wine then suffer with two day hangovers
Avoiding eye contact in youngest DDs playground as I just can't be bothered making friends with the mums in her year. I'm too old for new friends
I'm 42

Hushabyelullaby · 21/02/2017 18:40

When i'm inside wearing my coat and I say think, 'i'll take this off or I won't feel the benefit of it when I go outside otherwise'.

Seeing teenage girls in the street without a coat and thinking 'bloody hell she'll catch her death of cold', also seeing teenage girls in short skirts and commenting about the lack of size of it. (This is often followed by the 'she'll catch her death of cold' statement).

ShatnersBassoon · 21/02/2017 18:41

I've just this minute ordered some sandals from Hotter, then came on here and saw this thread Grin

The80sweregreat · 21/02/2017 18:42

I begged ds 2 to 'do his coat up, your making me feel cold'
He is 19

Topseyt · 21/02/2017 18:42

Yes, I remember that day too 80s. It was I think still a couple of years before I had DD1, and she will be 22 in May!! Shock

No doubt my parents felt the same about us learning about the second world war in history. They were children during it.

The80sweregreat · 21/02/2017 18:45

It was an awesome day. Maggie's face !

My dad is 95 and fought in WW2 . He often says ' im feeling my age' ! Bless him.

lavenirestanous · 21/02/2017 18:55

Lovely sheepskin slippers that cost more than some of my shoes.
My teenage daughter goes out on a weekend when I'm thinking of going to bed.
Nights out rarely involve drinking as I like to be able to drive myself home, and the thought of a hangover (which these days is brought on by surprisingly little alcohol and lasts a couple of days) is horrifying.
Stray chin hairs and the odd wiry eyebrow hair.
I enjoy crochet, knitting and a nice cup of tea.
I haven't heard of about 80% of the music that is in the charts.
I listen to the Archers.

PutTheBunnyBackInTheBox · 21/02/2017 19:06

A few posters have mentioned grey pubes but no one has mentioned their vajingo heading south? Or is it just me Blush?

ohgoshIdontknow · 21/02/2017 19:13

I get called madam not miss by eg shop assistants.

Grey pubes! Just the odd one but really!

Can't be arsed to go out most of the time.

Liking a nice cup of tea.

Feeling a bit depressed about the way the world is going.

SquarePegRoundHole · 21/02/2017 19:13

To be more excited about my brand new sparkling all singing all dancing Kitchenaid Artisan Food Processor than my other half Blush Grin

The80sweregreat · 21/02/2017 19:14

I feel depressed most of the time too!

atheistmantis · 21/02/2017 19:15

Remembering events that happened before your colleagues were born - miners strikes, 1976, power cuts, solidarity in Poland, the Cold War etc etc.

PutTheBunnyBackInTheBox · 21/02/2017 19:15

Oh God it's just me Sad

phoenix1973 · 21/02/2017 19:16

Ooh there is hope!
I like Human by Rag and Bone Man.
I love Kisstory on my Kiss KUBE app when I'm running (Or anytime)
I love what I can do with my iPad and phone.

Drawbacks.....to read my phone I have to lift up my -9.5 prescription specs and put the phone v. Close to my eyes. Dead giveaway that I'm a crusty.

The80sweregreat · 21/02/2017 19:17

Put( me too)
Runs off to name change

JenniferYellowHat1980 · 21/02/2017 19:23

My shortsightedness is beginning to correct itself - so in other words I'm going to be needing reading glasses if it carries on.

Long term memory is dreadful.