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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:
CurlsandCurves · 21/02/2017 20:57

I felt so old talking to the lady who does my nails about going to see T2. She had no clue about the original film. In my head she's an adult like me, so how could she not? But she's only 27....

DS1's teacher was still at school when he was born, that freaked me out a bit.

And, ok, yes to the fecking chin hairs!

WashBasketsAreUs · 21/02/2017 20:57

Yep to thinking why haven't kids got their coats on.
Hair appearing everywhere.
Quiet satisfaction when you finish the crossword and you've been doing it FOR SO MANY YEARS you know all the obscure clues cos you've seen them a million times. X

WildwestWind · 21/02/2017 21:05

Not going out on a 'school night'. My youngest left 13 years ago!
My car parking space at work
Fungal nail infections that last forever
Sparse pubic hair

The80sweregreat · 21/02/2017 21:11

Liking my own bed. Hotel/ beds on holiday are not the same!
Luckily i dont go on holiday or to hotels that often!

humanfemale · 21/02/2017 21:23

Love this thread. Fellow crones.

Bingo wings are a given, but I have noticed my forearms are getting saggy. The fleshy bit is hanging away from the bone now! Hmm

Bought a packet of Fig Rolls the other day. To have with my interminable cups of tea, obvs.

Classes at the gym are my only link with modern music. I listen, l like some of it, but I have literally no clue who it is! Smile

Gingernaut · 21/02/2017 21:33

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

Nope. Not just you. I've started going to the toilet as part of my preparations to leave the house/cinema/shopping centre you know, just in case.

My pubic hair is darkening up and spreading sideways across the tops of my thighs. I could comb it, it's so luxuriant.

Meanwhile, I have a bald patch on my mound and the hair 'dangling' below is getting longer.

Yes to nose hair getting longer.

Yes to long, curly eyebrows.

Yes to shaving my toes before plasters.

Yes to being miffed that "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" by Aerosmith is "before I was born" by a pregnant patient who was born in 2000.

Yes, one of the new assistants at my local Costa is tiny which accentuates her youthful looks. She seriously looks like a 12 year old.

Gingernaut · 21/02/2017 21:34

I Don't Want to Miss a Thing was 1998. Jesus! Shock

Tinabn · 21/02/2017 21:39

I've just bought a magnifying glass for the kitchen!

carabos · 21/02/2017 21:48

Yes to planning trips to town around where the free, clean loos are.
Parking - I refuse to pay to park if I can avoid it, so I go to the sneaky little spots that I know about where I don't have to spend a quid I can easily afford on a ticket. I then trek back to the shops feeling v smug, while DH rolls his eyes.
Soreen. With butter.
Gloves.

ijustwannadance · 21/02/2017 21:55

I bought some gorgeous very high heels for a work do but took them back when I realised I could no longer walk in them and bought a pair of comfy, wide fit clarks instead.

I am old enough to be a grandma. Sad

greenmidgetgems · 21/02/2017 21:56

We were buying a new bed the other week and did a cost per night calculation / analysis.

Being pleased with yourself to be in bed at a reasonable hour. Bonus points if it's before half nine.

Ariandenotgrande · 21/02/2017 22:16

Yes to going to the toilet 'just in case' and bingo wings - where the fuck did they come from ? Nothing I could have eaten or drank in my life warrants those flappy monstrosities. I enjoy crosswords and empty pubs, can't stand loud music in shops and make a granny-like satisfied groan when I sit down somewhere comfy.
I am currently drinking tea out of my favourite, but sensible, China mug
On the plus side I don't give a shit what anyone thinks of me and I'm much happier now I'm an aul fart

amusedbush · 21/02/2017 22:22

Ooh, yes to 'just in case' toilet trips.

Graphista · 21/02/2017 22:31

Yep mines a Mallen steak too. (FYI the tv series is almost 40 Shock ) Can't afford to dye just now.

If my first pregnancy had survived I could possibly have a grandchild, they'd be 25 now.

helzapoppin2 · 21/02/2017 22:38

All my clothes stretch.
I rattle with pills, vitamins, supplements.
I remember Ena Sharples.
I'm baffled as to why young women dye their hair grey.

rollonthesummer · 21/02/2017 22:39

Yes to all of these! I also constantly need a wee-no matter what time of day it is or when I last went!!

Longdistance · 21/02/2017 22:43

My joints ache with the cold weather.

That I've inherited my mother Eastern European mooi yeah, thanks mum Hmm

Whiterabbitears · 21/02/2017 22:44

Buying and actually liking practical but ugly shoes

Not liking or knowing any music from the past 10 years

I have been described as someone who 'potters' I'm done for!

FourKidsNotCrazyYet · 21/02/2017 22:45

You know pubes go grey too? I found that out today . . .

AntiGrinch · 21/02/2017 22:48

I often look at young women and think "she would be incredibly pretty if she just washed her face."

I think young trendy men look really .... weird. Not so much the beardy hipster type, I kind of get that. But the beardless hair gel ones. They look so funny in their tight little jeans that their muffin tops bulge over, and they all have womanly hips, and their funny brushed sticky hair looks so.... funny. I look at them and I can tell by their demeanour that they are probably very attractive in their age group and I think they just look ... funny and effete.

This really makes me feel old. I was born in 1971 and in my teens in the 80s I went to discos which wrapped up with a couple of songs from the 60s which felt ancient. The music of the 90s which I used to go out to in my 20s is now as ancient as that 60s music was then. OH MY GOD.

I knew a few students and older young people (ikwim) in the early 80s who were a bit hippyish. Hadn't quite left the 70s behind, patchouli and long hair, etc. They were sort of the tail end of first generation hippies. That feels pretty incredible now

Whiterabbitears · 21/02/2017 23:02

Oh and everything has elastic waists and my knickers are huge, seriously they come up to just under the bra, so comfy! Yes to thinking young men look silly!

Fooferella · 21/02/2017 23:04

The one thing that sealed the deal on my thinking that I'm properly old was having to be seen at home by a gp when I was very ill was 1) not caring that I looked like death warmed over and probably stunk even worse when he turned out to be absolutely gorgeous with the most lovely bedside manner and 2) I thought "ooooo I hope my ds turns out something like him when he grows up".

My DH insists on listening to popular radio so I know quite alot about chart music but I hate it all. Especially the ones that have that booping whooping thing going on (a la Justin Beiber). Death by ear bleed.

AntiGrinch · 21/02/2017 23:07

Oh yes Foof. Something else - all my life, even when I first had children, I always identified with children rather than "the older generation". But the other day I got on a train and lot of really sweet Scandinavian teenagers on a trip behaved really nicely and made sure I could get to a seat and were really polite etc. For the first time ever, my first thought was "oh, what lovely young people, I bet their parents are so proud"

Willow2016 · 21/02/2017 23:13

Have had a pkt of hair dye on the bathroom shelf for months as the grey hairs were showing again, never actually got round to it yet....looked in the mirror this morning and wtf? Half the front of my forhead hair is fecking grey!

Eyebrows either dissapeared or pointing skywards! Why would they grow UP all of a sudden? Werent they happy lying flat after all these years? I wouldnt mind but I never plucked them really really thin anyway where the hell did they go?
Wont go out the door without eyebrow pencil on.

Couple of chin hairs occaisionally but they have the bloody cheek to be dark brown not grey!

Do the 'oof' when bending down/getting up etc (reminds me of Billy Connoly )

Seriously grumpy and swearing like a trooper when simple things are out to get you/they fall on floor pick them up fall down again/ kids leaving a trail of mess behind them yet again.

Yes to toes and one of my toenails has gone mental too..why just why? I am not a bloody verlociraptor!

Couldnt tell you who is in the charts (do know who Rag & bone man is though!)
Sit in car waiting to pick up kids from high school thinking "thats not school uniform, since when were skin tight leggings/black jeans/micro skirts uniform? She/he must be frozen, dont any of them own a bloody coat its -5 degrees out there!"

I have beautiful stilletos in the bottom of my wardrobe I refuse to get rid of but I will probably never wear them again with my dodgy foot and ankle that I broke and my dodgy knee, shit shit shit Sad

But still like my music loud Smile

Willow2016 · 21/02/2017 23:15

1998? just feck the feck right off thats impossible.
(slopes off crying into her cup of tea)