When did you first realize that you were "getting older"?

[Heavenly44]

When people starting pointing out grey hairs on Me.

When my work colleagues are young enough to be my children!

When filling in online forms i have to scroll for ages to find my year of birth 😭😭😭

When I realised that my son was being taught things that happened in 1992 in his History lesson.
When the new team member at work has a year of birth that is a compound sentence. 'I was born in 2000 and' AND?? 😂😭

When I was buying a bottle of wine in the supermarket and the checkout girl said, 'Have you got ID?' and I turned to face her and she said, 'Oh, sorry', because it was obviously ridiculously embarrassing to imagine anyone could ever in a million years mistake me for someone remotely young, and then blushed deep crimson and said, 'Oh! Oh no! Oh sorry!' because acknowleging my decrepitude was presumably meant to be even more embarrassing for both of us. (Which was actually not that long ago, so I've had a fairly good innings at 50something.)

When doctors, opticians, lawyers i saw were the same age as my DC or younger.

When my periods ended.

When I realised I could actually rent or buy a retirement flat.

When DB bought me an electric heated pad for Christmas and I was really excited about it. As if by magic I put my back out while I was staying with him so was able to test it out .

Just this last month. Discovered I’m pregnant with my 3rd child at 42 and every thread on mumsnet seems to berate anyone for thinking about having a baby past 40 because I’ll basically drop dead before they grow up. I’ve had to stop reading them! Also a deep frown line seems to have appeared at the same time. Need some cement to fill it never mind Botox

I also felt it a little a couple of years ago when I was IDed and the woman in Sainsbury’s took one look at my driving licence and blurted out 1978!!! in a “how can anyone possibly be so old” kind of voice. Normally getting IDEd is flattering - that one was humbling...

@Serin

When the young girls in my local shop call me "love". As in "can you manage that, love"

Ha, I had similar earlier today. “Can you manage that box,”etc. from someone in their 20’s. She meant well, but I’m not decrepit yet, it wasn’t even that heavy.😂

Suddenly realising I will have an adult child next year - oof.

The 90s is considered vintage

I asked someone I worked with, an adult, if she remembered where she was on 9/11 and she told me she was four.

I was in a shop also with someone I worked with and she was asked if I was her Mum.

I still haven't recovered from either occasion.

When purchasing alcohol at the self checkout and the shop assistant looks at me and then presses 'purchaser clearly over the age of 25' without hesitation.

Yes, I really can't cope with the thought that babies born in the 90s are hurtling into their 30s. That decade was only a few years ago, surely?!

When I heard myself using words like 'nowadays'.

OMG JUST NOW

MeMarmiteYouJam - now you’ve said that I’ve realised that I too will have an adult child next month

And being caught unawares when my phone camera is facing towards me, not outwards.

I was watching the Crown this week and was just browsing on Google whilst doing so. I saw that Princess Diana died when she was 36 years old. I am also 36 right now. It absolutely terrified me.

@NoProblem123

OMG JUST NOW

MeMarmiteYouJam - now you’ve said that I’ve realised that I too will have an adult child next month

Sorry for ruining your Christmas.

I hen I went to get a carrier bag and only I’d Tesco ones, no Dorothy Perkins, Next or any other clothes shop.

Oasis' What's the Story Morning Glory is 25 years old.

Or noticing beside table was full of medicines and not condoms.

Reading glasses at 43.

Now. Never married. Never proposed to properly (with a ring proper, been asked, no ring 😬) and people telling me I’m a getting old to not be married. So it’s making me question if I am really old not if I should get married.

Also feeling tired all the same time and not having much of a life. Thanks covid.

When I started getting work colleagues who were born when I was at university. (Honestly, how can people born in 1997 be old enough to have a full time job? The 90s were only the other day)

This thread has made me cringe because I'm probably that person correcting their child... In my defence I realised a few years back how much I unconsciously say 'man/girl' instead of 'man/woman' so I made a conscious effort to not pass that on to my dd.

At 36 when my stomach stopped being magically flat each morning regardless of what I ate the day before. It was all down hill from then.