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.

What’s with the flipping night wees though?

im just drifting off and ‘you need a wee’ off you pop - tiny wee - back to bed - repeat 6 times

That's me!!

Taking my child to the max fax department in the hospital for dental work, and the very qualified members of staff looking like young girls to me. Classic. I'll be saying police officers look young next 😆

The optician said the same to me and im 41 too.

Being ushered on to the bus by younger passengers even though they're before me,nice to be offered though.
Being addressed as Sir in shops no retail person has to call me sir I'm as down to earth and ordinary as they come.
Can't get up without saying oh my knees.
It's a privilege getting older as the alternative has rather limited options 👍😀

Over recent years my hair has been admired and I've been asked where I get it done because it's the perfect shade of silver. One colleague asked me to go to the hairdresser with her so they could copy it exactly.

It's all bloody natural. I'm not even 50 yet.

My eldest son was 60 last Friday.

I am late 40s and the sofa is my seat and I put bits and bobs next to me on the bookshelf

Every time I have to get up off the floor, my knees hurt and I say, "Oh my knees!"

As suggested by username, Im into martial arts, at my last grading I was the only adult, Im old enough to be nanna to all that graded..
Oh, the getting up numerous times to pee at night
Taking glasses off to read up close..and I have bloody varifocals too !
Mirrors..hate them..ditto photos..

Oh another one.
I went for an interview for a job. The two interviewing me were old enough to be my grandchildren. (I have several friends the same age as me who have grandchildren who finished uni this year!!)

😂I've always observed that the first signs of old age are those little piles of 'stuff' placed at strategic points around the house that are too important and too regularly needed to be put away in a drawer. It's usually the bedside table, the side table next to an armchair and a special spot on the kitchen worktop. The contents can vary but they almost always include variations on the same theme: Reading glasses or a magnifying glass, medication of some sort, some reminder notes for various things, some discount coupons, a biro and some extra strong mints or Werthers. If it's the spot next to the armchair it probably involves a TV Times and a highlighter pen.

Noticing that many of my anecdotes include the phrase ‘of course we didn't have internet or mobile phones then..’ 👀

Saying 'oof' when you sit down and 'huuuaarggh' when you stand up.

Mad isn’t it how you just change and don’t even notice it happening. I told DD’s friend last night that she should wear something to cover her shoulders because she’ll cathch her death 😳

I was watching Match of the Day last night and realised that not only are the players all younger than me but most of the managers are as well now.

What’s so funny? Eh? Eh?

Most of these except the gym ones. Yy to tables crammed with bits (DH) and wooden boxes (also DH) and fringes of crumbs (both of us) plus hand hoover to remove them.

Alternative to taking photos of labels: bending down (including old people’s noises - ooh! Ahh! Ouch! - to get my nose 2 inches from the price label.
Next step will be asking nice young people to read the price for me. Or maybe a lorgnette on a chain.

I definitely need varifocals, I've had to turn the font size up on my phone.

I saw someone driving yesterday and thought that they looked about 12.

I am definitely old enough to be the mother of all the 20 something's who have started working in my department recently.

When I went for a routine eye test and the optician told me I'd got a cataract that met the threshold for surgery. Most of the people I know having cataract surgery are in their 80's. I'm 61.

Bed time is getting earlier for me and so is the time I get up.

I had never heard of Charlie Kirk

Having to pay someone to come in to do odd jobs that DH and I wouldn't previously have thought twice about doing ourselves.

I'm very fond of telling my children about the big clunky push buttons on the telly in the days before remote controls and the fact that it was a very big deal when we finally got a fourth channel after donkey's years of only having three.

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. 😂

Charming! What did they look like?