To have found the new landmark for aging

[BumpowderSneezeonAndSnot]

When you notice you're no longer checking out the hot son on a tv programme or film but the hot dad instead

What other landmarks have you reached?

@Lweji it’s quite a shock isn’t it? Was the one with the same name the son of the other one?

Watching Rosemary and thyme for the garden makeover and dh calling felicity Kendal a sexy piece.

The lovely young bar tender at our local raising his voice slightly as if I am bloody deaf! It’s not me it’s the background noise and these kids mumble

Thinking not only Alan T attractive but also Nick from DIY sos and that Tommy Walsh mainly because they are useful in the garden and house

Making involuntary groans when standing up, trying to decide if you really need that thing that you have just dropped on the floor ( cos you dont want to have to kneel down. )
And Mark Harmon ( NCIS ) is very good lucking

My politics are no longer left of Corbyn.

Hate to break it to you @peanutbutter but I’m 27 and was born in 1991

DH when DCs school friends asked why their granddad was collecting them from school, how I laughed. But when asked if my new work colleague was my daughter, I was horrified, only to realise that actually she is 28 years younger than me.

Feeling the urge to tell DD she ought to wear a vest under whatever piece of fabric she is trying to pass off as suitable for college, and only joking a little bit.

I love this thread, it has made me laugh so much , just what I needed this evening. Thank you to bumpowder for starting it and all the mumsnetters out there that have added to their thoughts to it .
Now if you will excuse me I need to rub some deep heat into most of my joints and creak of upstairs to bed.
( that another one when your joints creak more than the stairs / floorboards in your house )

When you see someone young pull up in a car and fill up with fuel.

Oh and my husbands workmate saying he fancied me but he is nearly 20 years younger than me! 35 years younger than my husband!!!

When I excitedly told a colleague about the great carpet cleaner I'd discovered.

When I referred to well-publicised a corporate merger that happened shortly after I joined my workplace in conversation with a younger colleague, and realised he hadn't actually been born when it happened.

Was the one with the same name the son of the other one?

No. Just a coincidence. But quite distinctive.

When you talk about what was number one on the day you were born and your colleague mentions Whitney Houston’s I will always love you.

Mine was Gerry and the Pacemakers. I felt ancient that day.

Angie Mark Harmon is mine; I have lusted after him since Chicago Hope.

I felt old when the 12 year old who was pretending to be a trainee haematologist expressed surprise that I still had periods (I'm only 52, and peri menopausal), and another one thought I needed varifocals as I push my glasses on to my head for close work. They were both put back in their boxes and told not to come out til they turned 16; and that chewing in front of patients was not a good look.

The kids that used to come to the youth club I used to run are in their 40s and some are grandparents!!!
What the hell?

We are on holiday at the moment.
Walking down the street outside the disco club, the bright young things are being handed flyers and cards for entry. We passed by as if invisible...DH commenting under his breath, 'didn't offer me a fucking free entry' actually perplexed
No DH, that's because we are closer to 50 than 20 and are no longer human.

I’m 41yo and still feel 17yo.

I refuse to accept I’m anywhere near middle age and according to dd am quite disgraceful, going roller skating and listening to Paramore, dressing like a 20yo and flirting with my PT.

one of my friends daughters did say to her the other day that MrsTylerJoseph is having a midlife crisis!

When you trip up and people react with concern rather than mirth!

When DHs young trendy cousins (early 20s) bought us a bottle of sherry for Christmas

BigSandy

Sherry is having a revival - I bet they know about it and have acted accordingly, given said trendiness :)

When I realise that all the children that look after DD 4.5 in nursery- such a responsible job- are all in their early 20's and I at nearly 45 am CERTAINLY old enough to be their mother

Hehee, what is it with people over 60 being upset as being perceived as old? 34 is old to a 17 year old, of course it is, it's double their age!
I was just remembering the other day how family talked of one of the relatives dying "young" in their 60s, and as a child not understanding it, thinking surely 60 is old enough to die of old age 😁
60 is a spring chicken to someone in their 80s, I'm sure ;)

Ha, I had a slightly surprising conversation with my DD (18), when I asked her if her best friend met her new boyfriend online. She scoffed: what are we, a hundred?
In her opinion only "old" people (probably over 25?) meet dates online 😀

When two lads in a scaffolding truck jumped out of their lorry to give me a hand in changing a flat tyre ( got spare out ready to go only to discover DH had 'borrowed ' the jack ) and when I thanked them one said " that's alright love , wouldn't want to see my granny stuck out in the dark "

Plomino 😂

Have fallen in love with the small car I bought for my daughter (low tax, low petrol consumption, better for the environment, so economical!) and have decided to replace my formerly beloved sports car with something similar...