At what age did you realise you were "old"?

😂😂😂Warbler that's fantastic! Best laugh in ages! 😂😂😂

When I hit my 70 th birthday. Now about to hit 75, time is flying far too quickly.

That’s so funny, Warbler. I bet the biker will be dining out on that for months! 🤣🤣🤣

Let you know when I get there before THR 8 weeks I would have said then.

🤣🤣that’s classic warbler
I don’t think I ve realised it yet it’s always someone 5 years older whose old

When I started to become intolerant towards other people at about 65. Small things started to irritate me like female friends who just did not shut up and never let me speak or ask me how I was feeling and got narky when I wanted to do what I wanted and not what they wanted. Their way or no way which became my way as they hit the highway. I now have a lovely small group of friends who are lovely and so socially conscious.

No wonder you were fuming Warbler but you are not old yet. Mid seventies and I try not to use the O word.

It's been coming on gradually since I was 50 and stopped menstruating. Certainly, don't miss that, but other hurdles have been harder to get over.

Miss riding a standard bike, but no longer feel safe on two wheels - stopped riding that bike and bought a cargo bike with three wheels in 2019, when I was 67.

Right now at 71, I have just finished weeding a garden path that has taken a fortnight to get through - okay it is a 15 metre long brick path, but I "used '" to do it in three days.

I also used to clean the whole flat I had in one day and it was the same size as this house that takes me three or four days to spring clean.

But the great thing is, I can still do all these things. My father always said we should be thankful for small mercies - the older I get, the more I agree with his point of view.

I think it was when I realised that all 3 DS were going grey! How can I be old enough to have middle aged sons.
Now 2 DGC are in the 6th form.

But it's my teeth, eyes and hips which are the real bugbear
I shall be 75 in a couple of months and my lovely DMiL has just died aged 98 so I am the old one now
That's so funny you climbing the gate Warbler

It was when I realised that if I was desperate for a wee while out for a walk if I was to squat behind a bush, I’d have trouble standing up again!

Earlier this year, in my 80th year when I had a TIA. Up until then I had been blessed with good health, kept fit and was on no medication.

I am still as fit as ever and feel in as good health, but I taake 6 pills a day and have had real evidence that i am not indestructible.

I have been aware I was aging for over a decade, as grandtanteJE65 describes, I am slower than I was and have less stamina, but knowing I am old. That happened on 5th January 2023.

Warbler - loved it 🤣🤣🤣

Any day now! 😁 (68)

I felt old when my husband left me for a woman 5 years younger …..

When I realised I am the oldest family member still alive (84).

In March this year just after my 80th birthday when I started suffering from Rheumatoid Arthritis. I went from no pills to lots of pills. Definitely a turning point.

Juliet27

It was when I realised that if I was desperate for a wee while out for a walk if I was to squat behind a bush, I’d have trouble standing up again!

😂 me too!

My 70th birthday, last March.

When some kid offered me a seat on the train. I would have been 60 or so.

I think I will feel oldish when my first state pension payment turns up in my bank in the coming months 😱

maddyone

My 70th birthday, last March.

Yes, it was definitely 70 for me as well. I turned 70 in February.

The day after my 80th birthday when that figure '8' hit me so hard!!! I had just retired from 2 jobs and an accident suddenly robbed me of my full mobility. Now a couple of years on I am just beginning to accept that I am old and feeling at peace with myself. Pretending I am still young is not for me - I am enjoying retirement immensely and I love being 'old' (none of that euphemistic 'elderly' garbage!) Age is NOT just a number, it is an achievement - an indication that you have done a good job of surviving throughout a long life and deserve to slow down. I feel I've earned it......

I’ll consider myself old when I can no longer be independent and do what I want. Thankfully that time has not yet arrived.

Not old but older ... can't zip around doing three things at once any more. Difficult to remember even one thing I'm doing 😁