Sorry, but...warnings to the youngsters among us

[MumBod]

Sorry, but...white wiry eyebrows do happen to women.

...you may need to trim your nasal hair too.

...and there will come a time when you'd rather grate your nipples than enter a nightclub, hard as that may be to believe right now.

Any others?

Oh you don't get hangovers? Just wait.

Tbf on the 25 year olds they probably do get some of this because what I've noticed is that it's not the years that age you. It's the bloody children. My ex was ten years older than me. He seemed young when I met him but after we had kids we both immidiately aged the same amount at the same time. He was only slighter younger than I am now on meeting, but I am ancient.

Children are like some crazy Bermuda Triangle where your youth goes to die.

Also I remember being 16 and thinking my mother was OLD and she was 35!

I remember my nan being 40 and she seemed like a little old lady with her calf length pleated skirts and granny shoes.

I'm nearly 40 and wonder how kids see me.

I'm 26 and quite a few of these I emulate with😋

You eschew Conde Nast and spend your clubcard vouchers on Cruise International magazine instead.

And to the PP who said slim has inexplicably become scrawny that gave me a wry smile thank you

"Then you remember, that's because you were around for the 20th anniversary of Sgt Pepper... these features are written for a younger generation for whom this is all new."

Ahem, I remember the Beatles breaking up - it's one of my earliest memories (because my big sister was so upset.

"I was born less than 30 years after the end of World War Two."

Make that more like 20 for me.

(Wanders off grumpily murmuring that this thread is full of young whippersnappers...)

I wouldn't worry about 20 or 30 years after WWII as I was born less than 10 years after the war.

I have chin hair, reading glasses, greying pubes and I wear comfortable knickers, but no one will ever get me out of my high heels!!!! Never!!! I will not succumb (although my feet do hurt for about 2 days after I wear them)
Much of this applies to me, and I embrace it. But when I have to give up the high heels I will be truly sad 😔

Me an' all, larry

The dust had hardly settled after the Blitz when I decided to stick my head out.

Sorry but...

... You will put on the radip and not have a clue whatthe song is about because you are no longer down with the kids and don't get the 'lingo'

... You will realise it's beneficial to carry emergency tweezers to pluck out the random blacker than black hairs that sprout spontaneously on your chin or upper lip

... As much as you are trying to keep up, one day you will be the one at work relying on the 'young ones' to help navigate your computer

... You will realise it's beneficial to carry emergency tweezers to pluck out the random blacker than black hairs that sprout spontaneously on your chin or upper lip

you know the ones......they appear after you leave the house and before you get out of the car for your first meeting of the day.

If you don't wax/shave whatever you will look like a fantasia faun within three days.

thank you for that image.

Ah, you know the really annoying thing that old people do - holding papers at arms length to read them, scrabbling around for their glasses, looking over the top of their glasses, swapping their glasses for their other glasses, saying ' oh, I can't see that, I haven't got my glasses?' And you fight your irritation and think ' I will never do that!!!' And then one day you're doing it all!

However good your mirror you won't be able to apply eyeliner neatly

Sara

The 'glasses struggle', as I call it, has happened to me pretty much overnight since turning 40

whitehandled - dying at that one, too!

I keep tweezers in my glove compartment for emergency car-park pluck age of the one thick and wiry black hair that mysteriously appears on my upper lip between 8-8.30am some mornings

whitehand!ed yes, those are the ones I meant. They grow miraculously 1 inch by the time your meeting is finished.

Sorry but...

One day you'll need your magnifying glass specs in order to see all of those pesky chin/nose/upperlip/nipple hairs

Sorry but...

... one day you will trap your boob between your chest and armpit during your sleep. And you will try and buy the best push up bra there is on the market. Heck, you will probably also buy the matching brazilian brief or thong and attempt to wear them both on the same days.

... You will soon revert back to wearing your frumpy bras and B.I.G. knickers because you will put comfort before looks. And you've realised your bum looks awful in those fancy knickers after you caught sight of it in the fitting room mirrors

Mrs I already do this, the bloomin oversized things are always getting in the way, and I already go for comfy underwear and clothes

Haha I am still wearing my maternity massive tent like underwear nearly 10 months postpartum

Sorry but...

You will only manage being out past 10pm if you have had a nap during the day.

You will start to look at sensible shoes and not sneer at them but rather think "Oooh they look comfy!"

Maybe it is just me but....When you are out late and look at the time and it is past your regular bedtime, instead of thinking yippee! you start to feel really tired and your lovely bed beckons!

Sorry but ...
You will be competing with 30 somethings at a future point in your career.