OMG, am mortified/horrified and shocked...........

[CleverLemonCat]

Young neighbours have just moved in next door. This morning (wasn't eavesdropping, honest) heard a relative ask if they had met any of their neighbours, oh yes they replied...there is a nice old woman next door. Old? I'M ONLY 63!!

This got me wondering if I was giving off 'old lady' vibes.

Possible indications:

I occasionally glance in a shop mirror and wonder why my mum is there dressed in my clothes.
My pubic hair is disappearing, and seems to be making it's way to my chin
Last week I bought 3 lovely geraniums
Last year I bought and planted a hydrangea in my garden
After a couple of tiny accidents, am wondering if I should buy some tena lady knickers.
Caught myself wondering if I should crochet a bed jacket ...it can be chilly in bed whilst reading a book!
Am having actual conversations with my cat
My box room is stuffed with wool ' just in case'
This morning, completely out of the blue found myself singing the song from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and I CAN'T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD.
Jumped - in my motor-car - and bought 3 more geraniums

Indications I am not old:

Ermm, I am young in my head!

I am not being unreasonable, you are in your prime!
I am unreasonable. You are heading into old biddy territory!

A friend of mine was recently sent a medical report in which the doctor described her as middle aged - she's 37.

I'm about to turn 34 and I refuse to accept that assessment. Middle age is whatever age my parents are (currently 60 and 64) and I won't hear another word about it 😂

Omg that’s funny 🤣
sorry but to young people 65 is old!!
that’s how they see it! Tbf I still say old lady/man if someone is over 65/70 well depending on how they look and they are older than me! However I’m quickly approaching the old age too!!

I'm getting adverts for geraniums now 😅

From a pure chronology POV... you are old, 60+ is a fuck of a long time to have been around for, experienced things, seen things, lived through stuff.. But its not necessarily ELDERLY, no and the combination of 'old' and 'lady' does seem somehow more of a thing to kick back against than merely 'has lived a long time'..

But I am only 44, I need the Tena pants, the pubic migration began a long while ago and now those migrated pubes I pluck from my chin and face are GREY... I have been home alone today and had several productive conversations with one of the dogs (not the other, one cannot have a productive conversation with something that has the intellectual spark of a soggy candle, no matter how pretty she may be)...

I've bought more yarn than I will live to use, (even if I actually make it to 'elderly') and I am plotting to buy more, googled sheds because we need a new one, googled hanging baskets even though I just kill them..

Now I am thinking very seriously about cake. And fingerless gloves because typing this, my hands are really cold!

Possible indications:

I occasionally glance in a shop mirror and wonder why my mum is there dressed in my clothes. 🤣🤣🤣 This is me and I'm 45.

I refer to myself as an old lady these days. I have started having trouble opening things and don’t know anything about the top 10 - or even if such a thing still exists - but otherwise I have all my own teeth and can easily get up from a squatting position.

I've got one for Roundup.🤣🤣🤣

I relate to most of this and I’m 30 🤣🤣

I'm a few years younger than OP, and often refer to myself as old, but that's very very different from somebody else doing it. DH definitely is, because if he has a day off during the week he always wonders why those kids aren't in school, and I have to tell him they're probably on their lunch break from the accounts department or something.

I'm horrified too!
How utterly rude.
I'm only 43 and have to wear pads everyday as I 'leak'. In fact for the last 10 years probably.
I bought flowers for my garden last week.
I have conversations with anything including spiders,my hoover and stove. I don't even have a cat to talk to.

I play 80's music in my car.

I do not like crochet and do not knit.

I'm more than 20 years younger than you and sound much the same tbh. So, either I'm also old or you are young ....

I got called " the older lady" when I was waiting for a exchange from a customer service person.... I'm 40. 😅I was less amused as I'd just had my hair done!

Hmmm… I have a wireless. The same one we had when I was growing up in the 60s.

Lean into it? Maybe you can ask them to buy you things at the shops when they go?

I'm still officially in my 40s and a man called around a few weeks ago to measure carpets. We were discussing colours when he 'stated' that 'all the young people, a lot younger than me and you, like grey'. He was in his 60s at least and I was 'affronted' :)

I'll never forget my brother who had to go round to the mother of a friend of our mother
They where chatting in the doorstep,when his them girlfriend rang him
'Hang on a minute Eve,ill phone you back,I'm just chatting to an old lady'
She belted him with her walking stick-'im NOT an old lady!I'm 93 and that's not old!'
She then rang my mother so she could tell him off too!
My brother was in his 20's and was suitability told off for calling a 93 year old 'an old lady!'
She died 18 or so months larer and I'll always remember her fondly

@ByUmberViewer I don’t think 63 is old and I’m 38! 83 is old

I don’t have a box room and wouldn’t stuff it with wool if I did. Neither do I know that song, and my pubic hair is in good shape.
The other things I’ve been doing for decades (I’m 70). We all get old.

I’m 46 and could be your twin, down to singing Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

I have been telling people how pleased I am my peony made it through the winter

I remember going next door and asking the young door opener if he parents were in. She lived there with her boyfriend and daughter! In my defence she was actually 19, and when we had family over a few days later I saw her outside and asked them how old they thought she was. MIL thought 16, FIL also 16, BIL thought 14. She still does have a baby face but thankfully never held it against me 😅

I was looking at a dress in the window of Bonne Marche thinking Oh that's nice
My Mum used to buy clothes there .
I am nearly 58 so getting swiftly to "Old Age Territory"

My mum used to talk about the old girl next door. My mum was 80 and I suspect the the old girl was younger. We often don't feel our age, but possibly look it, to others at least.

Oh no! I got a couple of hydrangeas last year and am pondering over geraniums.
I'm 53. Maybe I should wait a decade or two?

MIL frequently tells us how all the 'young people' might not like a particular restaurant or shop. MIL is in her 80s and the 'young people' she means is DH and his siblings, all in their 50s.

On the buying plants alone, definitely not old. Gardening has become quite popular. A lot of people in their 20s and 30s are into it from what I’ve seen on SM, especially growing own food and planting for pollinators.