You Know You're Getting Old when......
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Bathing is no longer an option.
It takes twice as long to put your socks on.
Shoelaces have to be done up sideways while sitting down.
People start calling you dear.
People talk to you loudly and as if you are 3 years old!
When nothing new that you buy is as good quality as years ago.
Hosting Christmas is a thing of the past.
I could go on but what examples can you add.......
I'd have included people reaction if you fall over. If your young people laugh, if your old people are concerned
Imnotcheap definitely, I've had personal experience of both. Earlier this year I stumbled and fell outside Iceland, felt such a fool but the silver lining was a lovely young man in an open top car saw what happened and rushed over to help, even offered to take me to hospital but apart from bruising, small cut on leg and shoulder ache I was fine.
Imnotcheap this is a good example for sure. My friends and I always would have laughed, but now we fret
PayItForward someone I used to look after at work was offended when teens laughed at her for falling (they was being mean she has learning difficulties) I told her to take it as a compliment that she looks young.
Personally I'm at in between age bit of concern then if nothing broke laugh
- When filling in online forms, you have to scroll to find your birth year.
- When I realise that the turn of the century was almost 25 years ago.
- In relation to the previous one, I still sometimes see the year 2000 as being 10 years ago.
- I see being carded as a compliment rather than an irritation.
- The actress who played Matilda is now 37.
RegularComper91 Not sure what 4 is but can certainly relate to the others. I must admit getting older means adjusting to being an invisible entity to the opposite sex but tbh it is compensated by not having to endure unwanted attention
Lynibis 4 is when you get asked to show ID when buying age restricted products. 
RegularComper91 that's definitely a good one with scrolling down to find your birth year
RegularComper91 love this. All very relatable unfortunately. Matilda is 37, wow I feel even older now
Police and Doctors are younger than you are and people you knew as children have children and sometimes grandchildren of their own!Oh and you enjoy going to bed at night rather than hanging out with a crowd.
MelissaLee1 I must admit I have always been a member of your last sentence. Even when young I never enjoyed pubbing and clubbing nor live music in venues. I look forward to bed as I always have a good book on the go.
Lynibis I've have become increasingly insular with old age.As much as I like people I get weary half way in.I have a friend who visits and stays for hours..it's exhausting!
MelissaLee1 They sure are police, but they only carry pepper spray and a taser so it's not even that effective. If they are PCSOs (sort of novice police), all they have is a bullet/stab proof vest, nothing else.
Imagine if Sydney Wilson was in England and attacked a policeman, he'd be a goner.
Bodycam if you're interested:
I asked a policeman what if he was attacked with a machete, and he said: "Get to somewhere safe and call for backup" really? Jesus, police in countries like Spain, Portugal, America use guns while England uses tasers? This is ridiculous. Tasers don't necessarily stop a suspect from coming at him.
End of rant. :/
PhilipMarc Someone in London once referred to PCSOs as Plastic police .They still do a grand job though.We need all the help we can get on the streets of London these days.
MelissaLee1 I get that, but it is a dangerous job to accept without any kind of protection.
You have to have the big light on to read the questions in the puzzle magazine. You can’t get up without holding onto something. You are half deaf and you can no longer cut your toenails easily.
When your aches and pains don't come with an exciting back story -
years ago a back ache was because I'd landed roughly playing rugby, nowadays it's because I slept funny or got up too fast.
Bad back, going out for a meal rather that out for wild drinks. A favourite pan. Grey hair
possy ...Our 26 year old only child doesn't go out for wild drinks, she hardly drinks & she's the one that keeps an eye her friends making sure they are ok & looking after the ones who have had too much. A chip off the old block , just like I looked out for my friends when I was on a night out as I was the sober one! X
possy ...Our 26 year old daughter loves cooking & baking, it is her HAPPY place & yes she has her favourite pans too!
janphoenix51 I am so glad it isn’t just me. She sounds like she has a sensible head on her shoulders x
I can't even have a lie on in bed because i toss and turn so much because my body aches so much
arussell322 ...I can't lie in the Dentist chair , I have to shuffle up as it hurts my back, I can't lie on a floor on my back for long but I can get up without using my arms for balance, just using my legs...
arussell322 I wake up most nights with a really painful leg which I have to slowly bend or unbend and then keep doing it until the pain subsides. It is not cramp but as I have had it for so long now I don't feel it is anything to worry about.
Is there a reason for your problem, maybe a warm bath or even a weekly massage if you can.
I only do Christmas for my close family and offer for my mum.
I did hear some kids shout to each other oh look it's that fat old lady again. I don't think they meant for me to hear or meant it rudely just that they'd spotted me going home. K live above a supermarket
Lynibis it is. But it's not particularly great as its an Iceland but it's fine for essentials. It's a franchise so is expensive
You lose hair in some places and grow it elsewhere where you don’t want it!
You always seem to be making another doctor’s appointment, well you would if there were any doctor's left so you put up with each new ache & pain instead.
You talk to your friends about changes in young people’s attitudes and realise that your own youth is so far behind you that you hardly remember being young.
You have to get up to wee, at least, once a night sometimes more!
When walking people give way to you because you are ‘old’.
You don’t seem to have much of a connection to the ‘modern’ world anymore.
tumblespots that last one. Things change so quickly it is hard to keep up when you are slowing down. I still haven't worked out how to use my new tumble dryer (the dishwasher was bad enough), they just expect you to know and the manuals are often badly written.
Lynibis These days you are luck to get a manual at all, our last washing machine had an A4 piece of paper with information jammed into it, so small you can hardly read it! At least I was able to look it up on the internet to find out what it actually said but not everyone has the internet!
And, as you say if they have been translated, and I use the term loosely, it is gibberish...
When you’ve had a night out and takes you a week to get over it!
Need a nap in the afternoon.
Hear creaking and clicking but it’s your joints.
"Hosting Christmas is a thing of the past."
Seeing Christmas being celebrated is beautiful and part of our tradition, those who don't like it just ignore it.
PhilipMarc I’m still hosting Christmas with my husband. We have around 14 every year. I’m looking forward to not hosting one day lol
PhilipMarc I think you misunderstood that part of my topic, or I wasn't clear. I meant that I no longer feel capable of coping with cooking for more than 4 people, just lifting a large Turkey out of the oven is exhausting lol. My older son sometimes goes away for Christmas so I take the opportunity to host my other son and his wife and my grandson but rest of the time I go to them in turn and their wives do a brilliant Christmas.
Being called ‘that lady’ instead of ‘that girl’. Talking about tv shows and films no-one has heard of because they were born 20 years after its release
PayItForward I hate it when I occasionally get called madam. And no one under a certain age has heard of James Stewart, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, et al.
I hate people that visit then ask if I want to go for a walk! I can barely walk to the toilet, by the time I've made them endless cups of tea it feels like I've done a workout 
Reading all these comments and it’s making me giggle, it’s scary how they are all so relatable
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