h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I was quite pleased to make it to 40 without becoming a granny

My 20 year old daughter says she feels old when she doesn't get ID'd getting into clubs!

How they could really cheer up the folk by putting a bouncer on the door of the day centre Xmas party to check IDs - to see that you're old enough!

My neice has not yet produced fruit from her loins, but she is 18 already.. Maybe she will have the same idea as me and let the blood line die out.

There is still the question of that girl who "fell pregnant" when I was quite young! Never really got resolved that, maybe a grandchild squirrel is possible yet?

Now I really feel old - and a little worried.

When I'm out with my 18 month old daughter and people, seeing my grey hair, assume I'm her grandmother!

Dye it girl dye it. Cover the grey. OR Grin and bear it and enjoy your daughter and don't give a cuss what people think.

i am due to dye my hair!!!!!!!so i felt old this morning when i looked in the mirror and saw my grey hairs and the bags under my eyes

You need a new mirror

I never thought of that good one.

The only mirror in my house is a little round one that I use to put my make up on in the dark every morning. However I am even starting to look a bit old in that!

I am not old, but I do FEEL old. I'll be 30 this August, and I already have 2 kids (and that's it, I promise! For now...)
I have grey hair too, and doesn't show that much, but I know it's there. You know?

So you're turning into a silverback - don't worry about it, among gorillas, that's a sign that they're the leaders

I'm not a gorilla! I'm a chimp...

Maybe I'm a chimp, too. Jane Goodall thought I was cute as a baby

But she worked with Gorillas, did she not?
How did you meet her?

She worked with both, I think.

And my parents are both biologists so I came along to quite a few lectures as a kid

I'm confusing her with Diane Fossy...
Gotta run!

Two things have made me feel old this week:

1. Finding some of my favourite albums in the £2.99 bargain bin at a motorway service station.

2. I work in a University - the students that are coming next year were born in 1990 - that seems like yesterday!

That's really scary!

Oh my gawd, now that makes me feel old. 1990 was only yesterday.

being shocked by fashion scares me. and I had a mullet.

I'm shocked by fashion... mostly because a lot of what's fashionable now was rebellious when I was in my teens, it's very odd that the sort of people who used to make fun of the way I dressed in my late teens/early twenties now dress how I used to, but they got it all from trendy high street shops.

What really makes me feel old though is that I'm seriously starting to consider the sartorial merits of tweed.