To think I’m officially old now? What was your defining moment?!

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That’s it. I’ve now officially hit old age. Went to a concert with my daughter this week and it was standing. I was on the fringes of a mosh pit and it was very annoying. My feet are still bruised, my hips and legs are killing me and I can’t hear anything. I’m still absolutely exhausted too. I’m 58.

When did you have your epiphany?

I would like to hear about the compensations please 🙏

What is your secret please? 😊

What’s your secret please? ☺️

53 and realising I prefer to go out for lunch than dinner.

When I starting teaching kids of the kids I used to teach lol 😆 Well, the ones who had them very young but still hit a reality for me when I could see their parents sat in front of me through their DC. At parents' evenings when young all parents seemed so much older, now they all look so young. Life cycle eh. Xx

When my mother started gifting me outfits from BonMarche, I was 38 at the time.

Now that I can't follow new films and complain that they "mutter, mutter and don't enunciate!" Most of the talk is new York dialect and drowned out by constant loud music 🤨

Bon Marche is the only place that sells trousers short enough for my mother...I buy all hers there but she is 89 and not 38!

When a lonely local child who had been chatting to me as she rode up and down the lane on her bicycle, posted an invitation to an afternoon tea that the primary school were hosting for elderly people who lived alone! I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, being younger than her parents.

Exactly what i was buying, mortified that she asked 🙈😂. Though i’m also intrigued why they can’t sell to over 60’s. Off to google lol.

Probably now, as in just within the last few days. I have a birthday coming up, it is not a big one, but it is a number that sounds extremely old when I think about it. I’m okay with my age at the moment though!

When I looked at a photo of myself and thought, bollocks, I'm going grey! I was 53.

When someone gave their seat up for me on a bus, I was 68 but it made me feel very old.

I'm getting to the point where lots of things in the news and media just annoying me, rather than make me react emotionally to it as they probably want me to. I'm interested in what is going on in the world, but stubbornly don't want to give the media what they want by responding in a heightened way, as it doesn't really help anyone. I guess this makes me feel old now. I just give less of a shit what people think after years of being a younger person who cares too much.

Also getting to the point at 43 where I have accepted you can't polish a turd and that I'm fit and health for my age, and that is better than the madness of trying your best to look like a sex android, which seems to be the way for women to look these days.

Got called "madam" in a shape when I was 31. That pretty much did it.

Erm what's wrong with sketchers?
My daughter's been wearing them since she was 7!
And even now is the only ones she likes
Me too and I'm in my late 30s

@sunshinestar1986 me too!! I think it’s perception that because older people love em they are somehow ‘not cool’ - my H finds them ‘too light’

Probably when one of my closest friends died after a few weeks' illness. First reaction was, "She can't DO this!" Then I realised that at our age (76) she could and did...

My daughter ( now 51 ) used to joke about me being old, then the other day she said she realised she was getting old, when she looked at a pair of shoes and thought “ ooh they look comfy “ 😂

I find it's lots of small things. I had to fill in an online form. It had a drop down menu to select your year of birth and I had to keep scrolling, scrolling and then scroll a bit more to find mine. 😕

I'm 63 now, but a couple of years ago we went on holiday to Greece. I never wear make up or bother much about my appearance on holiday. So when we arrived at the airport to return home, I was looking 'casual'. I walked into a crowded departure lounge and a woman in her 30s stood up and offered me her seat. I didn't know whether to kiss her or kill her. My DH thought it was hilarious. However I had the last laugh as he had to stand for 2 hours.

When the very young conductor on a heritage train I was on last year with my teenage son asked me whether it was an adult ticket I wanted. I thought it was bizarre that he'd think I wanted a child ticket....then there was a horrible creeping realisation that he'd actually been asking, in a roundabout way, whether or not I was eligible for a pensioner's ticket. I was 52 at the time.

The easiest way to tell if you’re old is to fall over in public. If people laugh you’re young, if they act concerned you’re old!

I think I knew though when I got quite excited about a new washing machine

I'm 63, definitely not old.

😂😂😂😂 This one made me chuckle