The other day when I went to the chemist to fill my rather large prescription for the dreaded chest infection I had acquired, the pharmacist asked me if I was on any other medications. As I started to reel off the multiple medications that are currently improving my health and way of life I started to realise that I sounded old. Like proper old.
“I sound like an old woman” I joked to the barely adolescent pharmacist.
“That’s okay” he responded flatly, although I could clearly tell that he was thinking “that’s because you are an old woman”.
I don’t feel old (apart from when I have a chest infection) but when I think about it there are a fair few things that point to me actually being older than I think:
- I still talk about “taping” stuff on TV.
- I remember wind down windows in cars
- I roll my eyes a bit when I see young girls in what I can only call “ridiculous” shoes
- I frequently begin sentences to Little Pencil with the words “when I was a little girl…”
- Little Pencil once asked me, admittedly when he was very small, if water had been invented when I was young
- It is becoming increasingly difficult to encounter a doctor or specialist that is older than me. Unless you are at a golf club or retirement home
- Talking of doctors, my own doctor, who is older than me by mere months, still uses a fax machine
- I prefer to listen to ABC 702 in the car over music stations although I am not yet so fixed in my ways that I wont change the channel when my son is in the car
- When I run on the treadmill (at least I can still do that) I listen to podcasts of Conversations with Richard Fidler rather than loud heart thumping music
- I actually cringe when I read “gangsta talk” like “Imma tell you bitchez….” and “fo shizzle”. Even typing that made me dry retch. I seem to see more and more of that talk online – maybe I should be reading actual paper newspapers
- I would rather sit at home with a cup of tea in front of me and my family next to me than do just about anything else
- A friend who is the same age as me is learning to play bridge
- The next 40th birthday party I go to will probably be my niece’s. That said there are a lot of 50th celebrations to look forward to (if you actually celebrate being 50)
- No one looks at me in disbelief when I say I have a son in high school
- I have friends who are the same age as me who have children that are finished school
- I am the same age my mother-in-law was when I got married
- My husband told me I should no longer be shopping at Sportsgirl. He told me this about ten years ago.
- When I see young kids smoking outside the high school I think I am one of them and smile conspiratorially, they think I am a creepy (and scary) old woman
- The doctor says things to me like “at your age…”
- My little boy is a teenager.
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I better stop, I’m making myself feel a little morose.
But I do wonder when we really start to feel our age.
When I was a child I would look at my mother and her friends and think they were so sophisticated and smart, I wondered when I would start to be so worldly. I thought the time would come when I would choose to sit on the couch instead of the floor, but at 46 I’m still sitting on the floor wondering when I will feel my age.
My son thinks I’m old , maybe I am compared to him. But I know that when he is my age, he’ll probably feel just like I feel right now – and to feel ageless your whole adult life can’t be a bad thing.
Perhaps one of the best parts is you can blame your actual age for not remembering that the list above actually exists.
How old do you feel? Is it anywhere near your real age?
PS This is the second time I’ve spelled a heading wrong in the last week. I’m horrified. I’m not really “agless” I just didn’t have my glasses on and I can’t change the heading without affecting the URL because I’m old.
Ha! I can identify with most of your list (well, those which apply to me), and I’m turning 31 this week. Now I’m feeling much older than I was before I read this…
But I feel much younger so thank you! xx
Mmmm… depressing isn’t it. Oh well, better than the alternative. I’m a few years older than my mother was when I made her a Grandma!
LOL. I nodded wildly at your list (but I’ve NEVER been asked if water was invented, nor the wheel!) And I’m a firm believer in not acting one’s age…EVER) 🙂
I think we would get along well
It’s strange – I know so much about the world we used to live in –
the world before PCs and iPhones and the InterWebs –
the world of handwritten invoicing, tea-ladies, and typing pools –
a world where you were paid a salary each week in cash, and where bankbooks were written in by hand…
a world where there were only 4 TV channels and if your local library didn’t have a reference book about the subject you were researching, then you’d never know the answer
a world where I knew no one outside my family, or my neighbourhood…
And yet, I don’t feel old – I still feel the same way I did before technology changed our whole world… I’m still, essentially, the same person I was 20 or 30 years ago – I just know more now, and I’m wealthier and happier… more contented and confident – but still me…
I grew up in a world of no television let alone 4 channels!!
Glad to be in such good company 🙂
Don’t worry Lana, I nodded along to a lot of your list and I’m 26!
Good! That keeps me young! xx
Hey you – you can edit the heading without affecting the url 🙂
As for age. Well it kinda freaks me out that some people born in the 90s are now adults … To me that is just wrong!
No Kelly YOU can edit the heading without affecting the URL, I can’t. I knew how once before but I forgot because I am old xx
And so I have now 🙂
Posts >> All Posts >> Hover over the post title >> Quick Edit >> Change the post title (but don’t touch the url) … and save 🙂
You do know that although this reply is very late – I do love you? xxxx Thank you
I am 54 so I can relate to everything on your list !
My 19 year old daughter constantly tells me of how OLD I am.
The one blessing I have is that when I volunteer at the nursing home all the old lovelies call me ‘young lady’ 🙂
Not only does that put a smile on my face but it also reminds me to appreciate my years…they have helped me accumulate some wisdom…which is pretty handy to have when you are a young lady.x
Chuckled at everything on your list. My baby will be 32 later this year and I was one year short of 32 when she was born.:)
Thanks for these thoughts Lana – I can identify with them all, too. But one thing, until about 5 yrs ago, my grandmother (who is now 100) would still go into Sportsgirl or one of the other shops in her centre, and often come out with ‘a little top’ she’d picked up (and amazingly, they would really work with her Fletcher Jones slacks, for instance). She probably still would if she didn’t struggle to walk there by herself now. So I don’t think you are ever too old for SG!
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