How old is old?

sexylulubelle

lol love this thread..... I'm 31 I still think I'm 17 and embarrassingly still act it sometimes..... I do however love it when I get asked for my ID........... at the supermarket for me bottle of wine because that means that they think I look younger than 25:D that makes me very happy........ my 7yr old son is so mature for his years I sometimes wonder who is the child and who is the parent

System

I keep forgetting I'm 27

Which makes me feel "old" when I remember. I also have a lot of friends who are 18-25 that I know through my unis rock society (which I'm still an honoury member of!) and my bf is only 22 (nearly 23!!) so I think I'm still in the mindset of a 23/24 year old. Plus due to essentially losing 3 years of my life to my illness (sounds ott but those 3 years were horrible and I was really just existing) I feel kind of behind. Other people my age have careers, mortgages, husbands and kids. All of those things that I so am not ready for yet. Even though age wise I should be.

Hermia

I think I was old when I was young and am young now that I'm getting older. When I was in my teens/20s I didn't fit in at all. I loved the arts, museums, crafts etc. I hated boy bands, clubbing, dressing like a slapper and behaving like an idiot. So I was seen as an old granny. I'm now in my late 30s and I don't want children, love living alone, want to travel until I physically can't and love getting out there and discovering new things. Lots of my friends have settled down and lost touch with all their interests so are becoming a bit boring IMO. I think they see me as an overgrown teenager!

We had a few 18 year olds working in the last place I was in. They actually told us that people over 25 should not be into fashion and should definitely not go to gigs or comedy. They were horrified that some of the older members of staff liked The Mighty Boosh and Little Britain. We pointed out that the guys in those programmes were the same age or older than us!

dandy-candy

I cried for two days when I turned 30 because inside I felt 18, and 30 sounded SO old.
This year I turned 40. Before hand my friends were ringing me saying "You're not going to blub are you?", and actually I didn't - turning 40 was wonderful, because inside I feel about 60!

codemonkey

A few months ago, it was raining really hard, and I was walking up the street with an umbrella. A group of boys in their early teens were standing on the street. As I got closer I heard one of them say to the other "Get out the way, there's an old woman coming past". I looked around to find the street empty - yup, they meant me. I'm 33!! :rotfl::rotfl:

aileth

My parents are 63 each. They had me fairly late in life, and when they used to take us out and about, people used to stop and comment on what lovely grandkids they had! My mum was 38 when she had me, so this was between her being 40-45!

I'm only 25 and my OH is 30, we were having a conversation with a 19 year old the other day and we were laughing about old TV shows, like live & kicking, mr motivator, pat's funhouse etc, noel edmond's house party... the 19 year old had absolutely no idea what we were on about. I said to OH afterwards bloody hell, are we really at this phase now....

Edit: I think a woman I used to work with forgot how old she was. She was in her 70s, but dyed her hair bright ginger, wore some incredibly revealing clothing (this was a law office), had a mouth like a sailor, and every Thursday I'd come into work and brace myself for her talk about Salsa class the past evening and this fit young instructor and how he obviously had the hots for her etc etc... and when she went on holiday endless stories of 20-30 something old fellas who she thought were hitting on her. Her name should've been in the dictionary next to the definition of cougar.

lady1964

I've got a special birthday coming up next year, one that begins with a 5 and I'm trying hard not to be depressed about it

Some days I feel much younger and I look at my grown up kids, the youngest of whom is almost 19 and wonder where the years went and I can clearly remember my life at 19 - young, free & single lol

My body sometimes feels old, mainly thanks to starting the menopause at 35 but in my head, I am 25. I try to keep myself attractive, I dress nicely - hopefully I don't look like mutton - and try to keep up with trends in music. I find it hard to believe I've been married for 26 years and being mortgage free helps me feel older than I am.

My parents are 71 & 75 and in reasonable health, I really hope the same is in store for me.

Oh and we have a man who comes into work, who's probably late 50's and he calls me 'young lady', that helps me feel younger hahaha :j

heartbreak_star

It used to tickle me when my Nan used to refuse to go on day trips and things because "they're just for old people".

She was 89 at the time. Bless her.

HBS x

This_Year

zaksmum wrote: »

I did feel old the other day. Went to buy a loaf from a bakery and the woman behind the counter - speaking very loudly - asked if I was a pensioner. I've just started getting state pension so said I was.

"It's 10% off for pensioners," she announced. "So the loaf will have 9p off, going down from £1.08 to 99p. All helps to eke your pension out!"

I think she expected my undying gratitude but I felt like hurling the loaf at her!

Think I might have said, I may be a pensioner [luv/dear*] but I can still work out 10% of £1.08 - and it's NOT 9p! :rotfl:


Or I may have wandered off growling to myself.


*"dear" is what I use when I feel in a particularly sarky mood. Said in the right tone, it can be extremely patronising

hazyjo

dandy-candy wrote: »

I cried for two days when I turned 30 because inside I felt 18, and 30 sounded SO old.
This year I turned 40. Before hand my friends were ringing me saying "You're not going to blub are you?", and actually I didn't - turning 40 was wonderful, because inside I feel about 60!

Exactly the same here. HATED turning 30. Enjoyed my 40th Was a perfect day. I actually hate most birthdays - not really the getting older bit, more the not wanting to let people down bit. Something always goes wrong. People take you out for a nice meal or buy you things and there'll be something wrong somewhere down the line and it just makes me blub cos I feel like I'm somehow letting them down, even though I'm not.

Once, went for drinks which turned out to be hideously expensive and I felt really awkward, walked on to a restaurant only to find it closed, it peed down with rain and we ended up going back home and getting a takeaway (cabs both ways - very annoying, paid twice to basically end up having one drink in an overpriced pub!). Another time we were off to Greenwich or Camden and the trains all went t*ts up and we ended up going nowhere. Last year I booked a Thai with friends and the food was pretty awful. Luckily we'd all drunk a lot (I'd been to lunch with other friends) and were all very happy and merry so it didn't affect us greatly. I now book the day off work and try to do something lovely, even if it is just spending the day indoors with the BF!

Jx