To ask what’s made you think “I’m getting old” recently?

[overstimulatedhermit]

I’ve noticed I’ve got a favourite seat in the living room and it’s accumulated a few of my things on and around it like my handbag, sweets, book, medication (because it’s the only thing that helps me remember to take it) a couple of letters that I opened and haven’t put away yet and a pack of baby wipes.
Dh is watching the game just now and I’ve sat down in my spot and accidentally knocked my medication off the armrest. I turned to dh and said “ do you know what would be handy, a little table next to me so I can put all my bits and bobs on” 🤦🏻‍♀️ my life flashed before my eyes before the words finished leaving my mouth. I’m 41 by the way how has nobody told me about this monumental moment.

@justasking111im waiting for my one to arrive! I think it was you that recommended to me on a thread where we were discussing our knackered hips!

Tinnitus 😫

I have always been a dog person but two summers ago I started feeding two skeletal stray cats that were semi feral and belonged to a neighbour who moved in with her daughter and left them behind.

I have fallen in love entirely with these two cats. They utterly fascinate me. I got them tame over the space of a year and I love watching them. I love grooming them. I love feeding them and talking to them and washing their bedding and making their life as lovely as I can.

They are just boring black moggers but I wish they were young so I could have them all their lives.

I am a mad old cat woman!

I lied facing head down on a climbing net thing at the park today

That made me feel old

Hello again. I thought of you when i typed it out. I'm having a new hip in six weeks and two days. Can't wait. So I'll be half walking after that. Trouble is the other hip is going fast. Really struggled to get into the bath this morning. It's the en suite shower for me now I think 😔

Read on a card the other day, getting old means nobody chuckles when you fall over but rush to see if you're ok.

That and everything aches and it's rare that I like any new music.

At 53 I have decided to return to study. It’s sooo hard because I have zero tech experience. Also everyone’s sooo young.

@justasking111definitely worth counting the days over, I hope you get lots of relief and it staves off the second hips deterioration for a while! I haven’t got in the bath in a very long time, DH would have to hoist me out I fear 😆

🤔 shouldn't that be 'wipe front to back' ?

So that you don't get any of the stuff that's being wiped in the front??

We have a lovely shower over our bath though 😭😭

Husband will put in a grab rail for me he said and there's nowhere to put the soap

I’m considering a rollator, that makes me feel old. Or just disabled… I walk with a stick or crutches and i think a rollator with a seat might help me get out more, but it is very much a hard mental bridge to cross.

This is nothing! You can pull yourself up or sink into it - give yourself 20 years, THEN come back.

It's when you use a Dyson hand dryer in the public restroom and the backs of your hands transform into a weird choppy sea of loose skin.

@MrMucker - that’s so true. Makes me feel like a bulldog that’s stuck it’s face out the window of a fast-moving car.

Seeing how young my kids’ teachers are 😫

When you are putting your year of birth in on a rolley thing online and you keep going and going and going.

Kitchen1234567 · Yesterday 16:46

Not knowing instinctively where to tap my card when paying

YES!! The awkward moment when you think you have chosen the correct position to hold your card over the machine, then (when the card hasn’t beeped after a few seconds), the staff member has to gently tell you you’re in the wrong area. I feel so old every time this happens 🤦🏼‍♀️.

I'm a physician and had an itch down there. Told a colleague and she said ah 37.. now the haemorrhoids appear 🥲🤣

I purchased a magnifying glass.

The legend that was Victoria Wood put it perfectly.

In her early stand up she said that you know you are ageing when you look at Dr Scholls and think "ooh they look comfy". 20 years later she said "You know you are old when you look at Dr Scholls and think "oooh no, bit racey"!

Oh fuck yeah, the scroll of doom.

And it taking far longer than it should to realise that you can hit the year to change it instead of going back 50+ years month by month.......

Well you are wrong. My millenium party was in January and it was 1985 five years ago.

HTH!

When you retire and go to a cafe with your DH and find yourself greeted by a middle-aged woman who greets you warmly as her former teacher...and then she introduces you to her grandson.

Oh mate......thats harsh!

I was at work when a lad of about 10 ish wanted a glass of water and I heard his dad say "no, ask the old lady at the bar". Thanks for that.

And how we used to have to wait for the telly to warm up after we turned it on. Sometimes if the reception was dodgy we used to have to whack the side of the telly really hard. I'm not entirely sure how this helped, mind you. 😂

And I've just realised, reading this back, that there will be a whole generation of people thinking 'the side of the telly? TVs had sides ?'

Yes folks, TVs used to be about 3 feet deep and they weighed about the same as a washing machine. At least it felt that way when you needed to move one.