To ask when did you realise you are old?

[MyMonsteraisDeliciosa]

My son just changed my phone settings for me so the font is big and I can read everything. I'm just turned 43 and I just felt properly old for the first time. Boo! I'm waiting for new glasses which should help but I've always had perfect vision until the last couple of years. Poor me

What was it that made you realise you are no longer a youngster? Please.help me feel less alone in my sudden dotage!

For me it’s when I have to state my date of birth and spin that blasted wheel! I’m spinning backwards for ages!!

I'm in my 50s and the one thing that really hit me, as others have mentioned, is when I found out that I needed varifocals.

when I realised my work colleagues were younger than my kids.

When I realised that young people today think so differently from people my age. E.g. that young faces need Botox, that people can change sex and if I say they can't I'm being 'unkind', and anxiety is a reason for not doing things.

My knees are making me feel ancient at the moment!

Btw the things I wrote above don't actually make me feel old, they just make me wonder at the strange direction the world is choosing.

@MrsMop1964

when I realised my work colleagues were younger than my kids.

Or were not even born when I started my job. Or when you realise that there are now adults that were born in this century.

When they were commemorating something that happened 50 years ago and it was in the same decade as I was born.

I've also had the 'these things happen to our eyes when we age' comment from my optician who looks like a child and nowhere near old enough to be a graduate professional.

Not being able to work technology - of any kind but particularly the tv remote. I’m a scientist for goodness sake!

Having to wear varifocals.
When someone is on a talk show and it is said they have had 2 No.1s and 1,000,000 sales of their latest , and you think ' Who' ?
And yes the Police / Doctors etc seem to get younger all the time .

When I listen to Kisstory and my fave songs are on there which I thought were pretty recent

Aw @NovemberR I doubt it was cause you were ''old" - I recoil if anyone goes to hug me - I hate 'friendly' hugs! I'm a bit of a weirdo though so 🤷‍♀️

Well I'm only 30 but a lot of people I work with (PhD students mostly) are younger - during a conversation about driving, realised most of them had never used a paper A-Z!! or had to drive anywhere without a satnav/smartphone! and also had no idea what ceefax/teletext was! That made me feel old!

Also when teaching uni students, a year or so ago the new freshers were born after 2000 - I clearly remember the millenium (although I was only 11)!

Had another of these moments when I was about 18 and a beaver scout leader - one of my beavers (aged about 6/7) asked me if I'd heard of this new band - the spice girls! He had no idea that that was the second time around for them!

When I play music from the 80s, 90s, noughties, or refer to older song artists and actors and my daughter or colleagues don't have a clue what or who they are.
Working with people who were born after a finished secondary school!
My shite metabolism and sluggish digestion!!

Well I'm only 30 but a lot of people I work with (PhD students mostly) are younger - during a conversation about driving, realised most of them had never used a paper A-Z!! or had to drive anywhere without a satnav/smartphone! and also had no idea what ceefax/teletext was! That made me feel old

Oh, God, this. One of the trainees I was mentoring was more impressed that I found my way to one of our client sites 100 miles away from memory alone than my encyclopedic knowledge of all aspects of our profession, even though it was a fairly simple route and he knew I had been a good few times before.

Helen Daniels is dead? I thought she was still painting in the Bungle Bungles!

I'm so old I could be mother to all my office based staff - and some of them are menopausal ! It really hits me when one or other of them will talk about problems their mother has, such as bad knees and said mother is 5 years younger than me.

When it turned out my very own children had not idea who Sade was.

Heathens.

When I tried to get up to stand on a chair and just couldn’t do it. It was fine again the next day. I’m much older than all you spring chickens here though!

Last year when I decided to try keep up with the office chat and watch love island (ok would have been the last summer love island.... so 2019?).... anyway, saw one of the girls wearing a beautiful dress and went to buy it but quickly realised I don't go clubbing anymore and have no where to go out wearing something like that haha!!

Also when I watch make up tutorials and think I'm gunna buy that eyeshadow palette then again realise, I have no where to go with a full face of make up like the girl on the tutorial lol!

I genuinely remember when it was all fields round here! Also having a discussion about something and realising it happened 50 years ago.

When I’m bending to sit on the toilet and I’m farting before I even hit the seat.

@howrudeforme

When signing up to something online and they need my date of birth and I’m scrolling and scrolling and scrolling back down the years for ages to get my year of birth.

This ^^.

The last time I went out with friends and got 'drunk'. I'm 35 (was 34 then, before covid of course).

The next day I actually thought I was dying. Never used to get hangovers and used to drink a LOT more.

In the car with DH when I said as a kid I used to play in fields and woods right here. We were on the M25 !!

Also when I watch make up tutorials and think I'm gunna buy that eyeshadow palette then again realise, I have no where to go with a full face of make up like the girl on the tutorial lol

Ha, I suppose I have eyeshadow palettes older than these girls.