Age awareness

Merrywidow

I too seem to have escaped too much oldie treatment. I am 69 and I think most people round about my age, dress younger than our parents and therefore appear younger. One advantage I have noticed is that when boarding a bus,
younger people seem to let me go first and I really don't push ahead. Incidently I am blond. How old are you lilac-lady?

mary-op

At 66 I don't really feel 'old' apart from bad back but that means I have a young girl to do the cleaning for me and what bliss that is................have to admit to feeling a bit miffed when I made a journey at pensioners rate on National Express and the driver didn't query it..............:rotfl:

Errata

I had a consultation with a hospital consultant this week. Lovely chap, but he did ask me if I could manage to wash/dress/generally look after myself. I told him I'd had to spend the previous two weeks having a strip wash every day and managed perfectly well to put each foot in turn in the bathroom hand basin to wash them, and asked him if could he manage to do that. Bless !

lilac_lady

I've been retired for 2 years now, having reached the magical pension claiming age of 60 two years ago. I walk, swim, babysit, do all my own housework, shopping, gardening, have trimmed trees and branches, cut grass, painted a huge fence and powerwashed my drive. I also painted my bedroom and living room single handed last autumn.

Actually, thinking about it, I look younger than I did when I had to crawl out of bed to go to work early each morning!

Farway

Generally no one seems to bother about my age [67] but I do confess to sometimes playing the "old duffer" card in supermarket when I am unable to find something, or get the blooming self scanner to do it's job

One of my hobbies is photography, including taking photos of pubs [and sample the wares], sometimes I also find the "old duffer" routine handy for suspicious publicans who seem to think I may be from council or brewery planning to knock down the pub

pollypenny

I got 'pretend cross' with a lovely ex-pupil in Boots as she didn't tell me about the 10% reduction for over 60s if you join their Health Club.

I was very pleased at her astonished reaction that I was 60 then.
(Actually, pupils have no idea about teachers' ages. )

horsechestnut

I have been asked in Boots, very politely, if it is my card that I am using, with the assistant holding the card very firmly. I produce my bus-pass and then they smile and comment that I don't look over 60. I am 63.
On the other side. I have just had a hospital appointment and the young nurse who was taking my details said " You aren't sexually, active are you?"

margaretclare

horsechestnut wrote: »

I have been asked in Boots, very politely, if it is my card that I am using, with the assistant holding the card very firmly. I produce my bus-pass and then they smile and comment that I don't look over 60. I am 63.
On the other side. I have just had a hospital appointment and the young nurse who was taking my details said " You aren't sexually, active are you?"

I had some gynae surgery a couple of years ago and, although I'm past 70, it was assumed that I was sexually active. Which I like.

Mojisola

It sounds as if most people have taken the comments made with good humour and I think we do need to do that. Most of them will have be made with good intentions and we don't want to put people off being nice to the older generation.

I know people who won't offer help to disabled people or mums with little ones or seats on buses to pregnant women because they've done so in the past and been snapped at.

Tartanmax

It got nothing to do with numbers and everything to do with attitude!!

My dad is almost 70 but he acts like he's 21!! Half the time I roll my eyes at the fact he's still trying to pull , not to mention the amount of alcohol he can consume!
Put it this way we had a New Years Party at my house last year and while myself and my partner were dying for days after with the worst hangovers over my dad got up on the 1st of Jan and cleaned up all the mess!

I've met people at 30 who are "old" in attitude and other at 90 who are still having way more fun than me lol

Incidently my mother in law is 56 and is currently attending pole dancing lessons!!