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!

I have a full set of false teeth ive knitted 3 blankets and ive just finished a quilt.
Along with talking to myself and finding silence blissful and the noise of kids get right on my nerves.
Im 37.

You just described my life. I'm 35. reaches for crochet hook

Other than I probably don't look like your mum or mine I think we might be the same person and I'm in my 30s.

I'd take the win, in that they described you as nice!

I love an age thread on MN. "Some" people get very worked up about what constitutes "old". It's funny how we don't really see it as an insult until we get to that stage ourselves.

I'm 55 this year, technically middle aged. But I do have grey hair. Young people may well describe me as old. I don't mind. I think your attitude of finding the humour in it is far healthier than horrified denial.

I'm half your age OP and not seeing anything wrong!
I still find it weird that people with a birthday in the 2000s can buy alcohol, they're all still toddlers, surely.

We have young neighbours too (and are of a similar vintage to you) and I was really touched that, in lockdown they would always ask how we were doing when we were out in our respective gardens..until I realised that they thought of us as the vulnerable elderly people the government were asking us all to look out for! 🤣🤣

I feel your pain. I'm 63 in years but in my head I'm in my 20s.
The illusion is shattered when I look in the mirror and see my mother staring back at me 🤣🤣

I always felt old was when you got your pension. That is 67/68 so you are not old yet. Make the most of your next 4 years of youth!

I remember being front and centre at a rather energetic gig once. As everyone was leaving a young person (looked about 18/19), said to me "I hope I'm as energetic as you are when I'm your age"....I was 38 at the time. Two decades on and I'm still front and centre but it takes a couple of days for the hips to stop mithering me. Also I have no interest in gardening so I am not old. 😂

A bunch of 14ish year old schoolgirls once referred to me as "grandma"
I was 23.........

I am older than you but only slightly. I am unable to judge whether people are old or not. I am very cross you have put Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in my head and I am trying to replace it with something else.

The guy in Southport who's 112 probably thinks 63 is young

I have no interest in gardening so I am not old. 😂 me too :)

ha ha, "My pubic hair is disappearing, and seems to be making it's way to my chin". Not just me then, also 63.

Old and just back from the garden centre to pick up tomato plants, cukes and courgettes. In the vague hope that it might stop raining and the sun might come out.
Quite enjoying being old and stroppy and getting OAP rates on things but mightily pissed off by smirking younger men in supermarkets going
'Are you over 21, young lady?' when I buy gin. Disrespectful and patronising and above all not funny.

I realised I was old when people started saying “Bless you” to me — when I hadn’t sneezed.

Still enjoying life, though!

Sorry if this has already been addressed but I expect OP was referring to the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang lyrics - "Near, far, in our motor car" - rather than being wilfully archaic.

I voted 'old biddy trajectory'. Talking to your cat indeed!
I hope you are not nagging it for answers.

I remember being 22 and thinking my manager was old… he must have been early 40s! I’m not 42 and mortified that’s what I thought🙈😂

Yes you’re old. I’m late 30s and old to my neighbours who are young guns around early 20’s. (They look like babies to me)

And a red hat.
(if you know, you know!)

I'm 61 and starting to feel old in some ways.
Wouldn't bother me if I heard a neighbour call me old.

I'm a member of a running club with a wide demographic age wise.

I usually have coffee after parkrun with club members younger than me.

The one time I joined the older than me contingent I realised that was a step too far in accepting aging - not that they were particularly old, but the conversation felt different.

Reminds me of someone guessing my age to be ten years older than I am because I'm apparently so mumsy and mature. The actual outrage 😃

I'll never forget my sister's neighbour refusing to be admitted to hospital because 'they'll put me on a ward with old people and I don't like old people'.

She was 95.

God, I’m 62 and this happened a few years back for me!
OP, I think that it’s the geraniums that are making you feel this way. You have to consider buying more modern plants. Oh, and buy period pants - like Tena but makes you feel younger when pay for them.