Tell me about a time when you felt old

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This is absolutely ‘just for fun’ on a wet Sunday, so please take this in the spirit that it’s intended!

I was at an 18th birthday party a few weeks ago. I went to the buffet and there was hot and cold food (think curry and sandwiches) so I had a plate of both. A lovely young man behind me, asked where I was sitting and whether I needed help, carrying one of the plates back.

Im able bodied and 44 😆 but appreciated the sentiment

Your turn!

I am a university professor. I came as a real shock to me that, suddenly, when I met them at graduation, my students' parents were much younger than me. The problem with this job is that every year I get older, but my students - in their incoming classes - stay the same age.

In the Apple Store, buying a top of the range Apple Watch with money I had earned from my own consultancy, where my day rate was probably 10x that of the teenager serving me.

She turned away from me to my dd and said "have we chosen which colour strap we want yet?" with a tilty head and a smile. I was We.

I was INCANDESCENT with rage.

Yes! It strikes me that the main problem with ageing is not how we feel, it's how other people treat us. Badly mostly. I once had to go to the ticket office at the National Theatre as very unusually i failed to manage buy a ticket online. The young woman serving me kept putting her head on one side and saying "ah, bless",she was so nauseatingly patronising i was stunned.

when I was with my dd in a phone shop looking for a new phone for me..when I spoke he listened and then looked at my dd the whole time explaining and discussing options like I was an deluded old woman from 1800s .. then on purchasing phone and leaving he said thanks love 😳🤬🤬 I felt like a helpless old woman I was fucking fuming.. I was about 46 ffs

The little boy who lives across the road from me shouted "Grandma" at me the other day. It was probably just his way of saying I reminded him of his grandma but I still felt old! (Also, I know his grandma and she's at least 20 years older than me).

Walking along a high street in london. Woman handing out flyers for a nightclub. Took one look at me and pulled in her arm and turned away.

I had a similar experience recently. I’m in my forties, and relatively slim and petite. As I was walking towards someone hanging out nightclub flyers they reached out as though to pass me one. But when I was level with her and she saw my tired, distinctly mid forties face, she quickly moved away the flyer away from me.

When my daughter was 7 and I was 46, a parent at her new school asked me if I looked after my grand-daughter full time.
That’s not as bad as when I was 13 and proudly pushing my new-born cousin’s pram, someone admired the baby and congratulated his mother (my aunt), who was walking alongside me, for having such a lovely grand-child.

Last time I went into London to see my son. Both times when I got on the tube a lovely young person got up and gave me their seat. I am 61 and really fit but clearly look like someones gran.

I was in the dentist and they had the radio on in the background. A rap song came on with quite explicit lyrics. The dentist FLEW across the room to turn it off and apologised profusely. I was late 50s and pretty unshockable.
Also a meeting with a much younger colleague. I suggested we nipped over to the canteen to get a coffee but he thought we'd better not as he was worried the path would be slippery.

Why do people talk to older women as though we are infants? Disgustingly ageist and sexist.

At DDs 6th birthday party one of her friends asked if I was DDs mum or grandma!! I was 37!!

I wonder if this dates back of the Mary Whitehouse era when everything was socially more conservative and older ladies would have been shocked. Older ladies are more likely to have been punks nowadays! It's like old people's homes who still put on Vera Lynn, forgetting that someone who is 80 would have been young in the 60s not the 40s.

When my 25 year old boss asked what it was like in the war.
I was born in 1961 😵‍💫😵‍💫

Took my little son for an X-ray on his broken arm, radiographer asked “is it mum or grandma?” Looking at me quizzically…..

I'm 28 but teach in a secondary school so get plenty of god I'm old feelings. This week it was saying "thats a bit final destination" to a student waving scissors

Preceded by a whole year 10 class asking what's that?

Well these stories have given me a wonderful laugh. Ive laughed so hard my false teeth fell out 😆

My sons friend, who was about 7, asked him if his Nan was staying long. The "Nan" was my YOUNGER sister 😅
30 years on it still tickles me

@LunaStars Im a youth of nearly 65 and I quite like a bit of Vera Lynn 😍 I love a smidgeon of Glenn Miller as well ( my mums era)

I have a nursing student born 2 years after I qualified ☹️

I said thank you and had a lovely day wfh. Thought to myself, great perk here.

I went to see the latest Final Destination film at the cinema with my 18 and 17 year olds a while back.
They love these films and I used to have to make up FD bedtime stories for them 🤣

I showed DS16 this advert on Youtube a few weeks ago, after a cute armadillo turned up in my Twitter feed. "It's a Dime bar advert". "What's a Dime bar?"

I recently got cystitis on holiday and thought, no problem, I'll drive back via Tesco's and get the pharmacist to prescribe antibiotics - they can do that since I had my last bout, years ago.

The young assistant took one look at me and said "how old are you?". I said 66. She said "sorry but we can't prescribe for anyone over 64. You'll need to visit your GP.". Gah!

I don't understand this one.
Why shouldn't your son be asked to reach the top shelf?

I remember, many years ago, my son asking me if I'd been given groats for pocket money "when I was young".

They'd been studying the Middle Ages at school. I'm not sure what age he thought I was, though. Surely not several hundred years old?