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!

Hah I love it when cats do that 'maybe it's not raining outside the front door' thing.

I was all geared up to write a really nice, bubbly, cheery post to reassure OP that 63 really isn't old, doing things like that aren't "elderly behaviours" and all that kind of stuff🙃

But a line was crossed, and everything changed.

♬♭OhChittyYouChittyChittyChittyBangBangChittyChittyBangBangWeLoveYou♪♫♭

Yeah, cheers for that OP. Thank you very much. Grand job. Exactly what I wanted stuck in my head for the rest of Saturday night🤣😂🤣😂

Im 50 and my DH speaks of me like I’m 90, he says I’m old hag now blablabla.
He on the other hand acts like teenager, when we are for example in shops, he dresses and acts like Liam Gallagher and walks free and cool and I’m like bag lady behind him carrying all bags while he walks with his parkas and raybans on him..

Nothing about your examples screams old lady to me! You're as young as you feel 😊

YABU - now I have Chitty Chitty Bang Bang stuck in my head!!!

and I have a collection of Peonies and Geums 😅 I can also recommend Geranium ‘Black and White’ if you don’t have it - it’s stunning

Im 38….

Talking to your cat is perfectly reasonable. I should really get one so I can have an excuse for all the conversations I have with no one but myself.

I do I loved that song we sang it all the time in infant school.

I've got no problem having Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in my head. In fact I followed the supplied YouTube link and jiggled around with my headphones on listening to it. The Roses of Success from the same film is ace btw, never get tired of that one - also fits the theme of old people, although they were REALLY old and we aren't!

Someone mentioned Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious as being preferable for an earworm... no, just no. Sorry Julie.

I'm about to enter my 50s and am feeling it. How It's manifesting is that everyone in senior positions looks about 30. I can't cope with this. They're too young to have so much responsibility.

The other day, I was referred to as an older adult in an exercise class. That was embarrassing 😳 I've always been super fit but compared to the 30 year olds in this class, I just couldn't keep up.

You're not old. For me, I notice somebody's 'old age' once they're over 70.

My cousin thought I was ancient when I turned 30 - she's 33 later this year! Fairly sure my kids think that she's ancient

It sounds like we are very similar. I'm 45 and my son is taught by teachers who seem to be around 14.

Edited to say I hadn't realised a bed jacket was the answer to my life issues until I read this post. Thanks!

You don't need to be 'old' to buy Geraniums and plant Hydrangeas? That was a bit stereotypical but I would definitely class 63 as within the old category. Sorry

I'm 52 this year.
I talk to my cat.
Have window boxes with geraniums in. planted by someone else.
I don't care what people think about how I dress.
My knees, elbows, ankles and thumb joints are getting cranky.
The 80's WERE NOT 40 years ago.
I prefer the original Mary Poppins songs as earworms.
My youngest ds is going to university this year.
I've always had better dress sense than my mother, but that doesn't matter though because she's been dead 10 years.

A 85 year old women who has just joined a group I run, was getting a lift from me. She says “when I first met you I thought you were old and grey, but you’re not very grey at all”…. I’m 60.

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🤣🤣🤣🤣

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, better than most of the stuff that's around these days, will people still be singing current songs in 50 odd years time. I'm 62 and I would describe it as approaching late middle age. Keep talking to cats, they are better conversationalists than most people and if you talk to yourself you are always guaranteed of the right answer.

Advantage of being post menopausal is no more shaving/waxing etc legs, underarms or bikini line.

When I was 60, in covid times, I booked a flu vaccination and the surgery asked if I needed a ride (I don't drive). I almost yelled down the phone - No, I can walk, I'm young!!!! It wasn't until after I hung up the phone that I realised that no, I'm not actually young - but neither am I old.

63 is only "old" to young people OP. People in their 70s aren't old in my opinion, I might concede to being old when I get to 80.

Advantage of being post menopausal is no more shaving/waxing etc legs, underarms or bikini line.

I'm many years post menopausal, and while I can get away with shaving my underarms only now and again, my leg hair is no less than it ever was.

best app on my phone!

I'm 36...maybe 37.

I was interviewing this week and a young whippersnapper used the phrase "someone of your generation probably won't be familiar with..."
I'm 37 (3/4)

How young are these young neighbours? Do they even identify as young?Perhaps they do not confirm to the ideals of youth and you could join a geranium appreciation society together! Is there a term for people who would prefer not to be defined by their age, like the gender fluid? A movement of people who want to enjoy their merlin app, wear tena lady under the latest fashions, watch emmerdale whilst tik-toking and be in bed by 8. Could be the next big thing!

we had a power cut last year, longish one
being 'old & vulnerable' at 60+ made me a priority apparently - if it got the power back on sooner, didn't care :)
And I love my free travel card

I was fifty last birthday. When I started posting on Mumsnet, I was early 30s. I'm... not quite sure what happened, because it all feels really recent, those ttc days. Yet my eldest is 16 any day now, and my baby is 10.

I am well into middle age, and somehow the last 20 years have gone like they were just a couple. Yet my 20s seemed to take forever, and my teens decades.

It's very strange, the way we experience time.

You’re so wrong. And speak for yourself.

My sister is ten years older than me - when my friend & I were 11, and she was 21 & newly divorced, we spent a long time telling her she was too old to go out or have a boyfriend.😂