I am now 'older'

[Soph0571]

When did this happen??? I was sitting on a London Tube on my commute home tonight. Luckily for me I start from my office in outer London to travel to my home in Central London, so I always get a seat. Busying myself on my i-pad while listening to a bbc radio 4 podcast (very interesting about a hidden UK white nationalist on the international scene) I was not paying much notice to what was going on around me. I happened to look up and see a VERY pregnant woman standing (at this point standing room only on the tube) beside me. I, of course, immediately offered my seat. She very politely declined my offer. Fine. But then a young woman sitting beside me turned to me to say ' Oh, I did not notice her until you offered your seat'. She promptly offered her seat which was accepted with enthusiasm by the pregnant woman.

When the hell did I become the woman that needs a seat on the commute over a pregnant lass? Well, today...... OMG I just became 'older'. BTW I am not 90

Question for all - when did you have that moment when the young start to pity you? Would rather stand 8 months pregnant than put you out? As someone in their late 40's I like to think I am a young late 40's...... obviously not.

[spooky3]

1. Awww, don't feel bad. To some people in their 20s or younger,

Everyone older than 30 is “old.” And given that the 2nd woman may have been embarrassed that she did not offer before you did, the standing woman probably didn’t want to make any more of a fuss and so she accepted.

[rzemanfl]

2. I learned I was old while waiting for a table at a nearby Florida restaurant situated in a marina.

Sitting outdoors around sunset I was attentively looking at a woman in a bikini who had obviously left one of the many boats. A girl about six or seven years old ran up to her and said "Grandma! We've got to go!" That's when I knew I was getting old. It was almost 21 years ago.

[shenmue]

3. I feel very old

I just turned 45.

[NBachers]

4. Just turned 69, i still walk 8 to 9 miles a day at my job, and I'm happy to claim whatever "senior"

benefits I qualify for.

[Aristus]

5. I'm a fairly robust-looking guy just about to turn fifty.

So nobody offers me their seat.

But I will say, I knew that I was joining the older crowd when I started using the term 'young man' without irony.

"Your son seems like a fine young man." That kind of thing. What a 'Dad' thing to say...

Inside, I still feel seventeen...

[elleng]

6. People are polite to me,

and sorry to say I'm not happy about it.

[elocs]

7. I felt 'older' at age 25 when at the beach a teenaged girl asked me,

"Excuse me, sir, do you have change for a dollar so I can get a soda?"
Sir? I'm only 25 and I still have a full head of hair.
That's the first day I felt older but I've been getting older ever since.

[frogmarch]

8. I was 15

and I'd taken my younger sister, who was 8, swimming in a state park swimming pool. Several tourists there commented on how much my daughter looked like me.

Earlier, when I was 11, I had to prove I wasn't at least 16 and therefore too old to get into the movie theater at a "child 12 and under" ticket price.

When I was 13, my friend, who was my age + 6 months or so, and I were a walking to the local soda shop one Saturday. We happened to walk by our English teacher's house, and she opened the door and asked me to come in and take a makeup test since I'd been sick on the day it was given. My friend and I went into the teacher's house and I took the test, while my friend chatted with a woman who was there having coffee with the teacher. After we left, my friend told me the woman thought I was her mother.

I am 74 now, and finally!!!! some people have said they think I look younger.

[a kennedy]

9. I'm, cough, cough, 67

I guess I realizes I turned old when my skin turned into old skin., you know the wrinkly kind that my grandma and mom had.

[mnhtnbb]

10. I wish the young woman beside you

had been on the tube when I was in London a couple of years ago. We were getting on a jammed train, with luggage, headed to Victoria Station to take the express to Gatwick. A seat opened and I started toward it. A young guy pushed past me and slid in the seat. I attempted to shame him by telling him I was sure his mother raised him better than to do that, but he just put his ear buds in and ignored me. No one else got up, either. I was 63 at the time.

I will say, though that the people in London were mostly quite kind. Someone always stepped up to ask to help me with my suitcase on the stairs in all the tube stations. Not so in Paris in the metro.

[zanana1]

11. Oh no.

You're just a kid! I'm 66 and people open doors for me. They help me up and down the stairs. I'm finding that, contrary to popular belief, most people are kind. Does it bother me? Hell no!
I'm sure it was just a fluke that the pregnant woman wanted you to remain seated. Don't take it as a sign of old age!

[Fla Dem]

12. Wow, you are not old. To me you're still a youngster.

I really didn't start to think of myself as old until recently. A significant birthday milestone was passed and all of a sudden I started to get aches and muscle stiffness I never had before. Also my Aunt died at 102 in March. She was my Mom's sister and the last one of their generation. That now means my siblings and I and cousins are the oldest generation in our family.

As I grew older, I would laugh to think of what my perspective of age was as a young person. I used to think people were "old". Like school teachers, neighbors, MY PARENTS! As I reached my 30's, 40's & 50's I had a totally different perspective on age.

Enjoy your life and live it to the fullest.