What makes you feel old?

[siteguru]

Probably because of my avatar.

 

[Rolfe]

A bheil Gàidhlig agad?

(And if you try asking Google translate, it will lie to you.)

 

[Archev]

A bheil Gàidhlig agad?

(And if you try asking Google translate, it will lie to you.)

Then I confess I’m sunk.

 

[Rolfe]

Am Faclair Beag doesn't censor anything, or pull any punches.

 

[decrep]

But what really drives it home, is when you try to sail further than your mate that's 2 years older. He's got 50Km up but I can only do 30. 12 years ago I did 10 times that!

Had a good session yesterday. improved the nautical mile by a knot, which didn't help, I need another knot or 2). Improved the distance 10km, and moved up 1.
I was hoping for the 50km, but the wind really kicked in and I was buggered and in survival mode, so went with sensible option and left it to another day. 105km will need a very special day, very easy sailing and all day wind, so I can have recovery breaks. doesn't happen often.
Current 81 year old rankings for Nautical mile and distance.,

 

[T1 Terry]

You know when you've reached that age when you joke with the security lady at the front of the store, "If I don't show my docket and run, will you tackle me?" and the snap reply is "As if you could run at your age" They get really cheeky when they know there about the same age as you

T1 Terry

 

[salty]

Another one is, when your trying to describe someone, and you say, you know that oldish bloke. Then you think, Jesus!
I'm the same age.

 

[T1 Terry]

Another one is, when your trying to describe someone, and you say, you know that oldish bloke. Then you think, Jesus!
I'm the same age.

You look at photo of brothers and sisters of the ex and say they look really old, and your 42yr old daughter from the second marriage laughs ...... and you realise you might actually be older than the ones in the photo .....

T1 Terry

 

[siteguru]

You're only as old as the woman you feel ................................

 

[T1 Terry]

You're only as old as the woman you feel ................................

The older you get, the longer it takes to recover from the beating that younger woman gives you, so you just feel old again

T1 Terry

 

[DBedford]

No longer having to crank the handle on our home phone to get connected to the operator !
Mum having our veg (covered on soil) tipped directly into my mums shopping bag. Getting ups at 5:30am to do my paper round! Snickers being full size and more than 2 1/2 bites !!!

You're only as old as the woman you feel ................................

That's what Edward was saying !!

 

[siteguru]

That's what Edward was saying !!

Edward? Or do you mean the Andrew formerly known as Prince?

 

[T1 Terry]

No longer having to crank the handle on our home phone to get connected to the operator !
Mum having our veg (covered on soil) tipped directly into my mums shopping bag. Getting ups at 5:30am to do my paper round! Snickers being full size and more than 2 1/2 bites !!!

Not some much making me feel old, more making me grateful I'm now old enough and still above ground to living in an age that I no longer have to ask to be connected to make a phone call, or get up early to earn some money or crave a snack bar ......

T1 Terry

 

[Rolfe]

Another one is, when your trying to describe someone, and you say, you know that oldish bloke. Then you think, Jesus!
I'm the same age.

My friend and I were on the Waverley paddle steamer a couple of years ago. We went to order food and were told to take a seat and our order would be brought over to us. A little later I went back to the service counter to get something to drink, just as our food was being given to the waiter (a bit of a posh title for a lad in a white apron) to deliver.

Just in time to hear clearly "it's for they two auld wummen ower there." We were both wearing masks against covid, too, so they couldn't even have seen much of our faces.

 

[Ian Key]

It's when you automatically get OAP discount without asking or showing proof.

 

[Rolfe]

That was another story. Somewhere in Germany I think, and I think I was 62 and my friend was 61 (there's nine months between us). She was waved through on the senior discount and I was asked for ID. She was well put out.

 

[dsimpkins]

When you tell your colleague at work how long you've worked there, and they tell you they've not been alive as long as that!

 

[PeterHR2]

Recently realising that it was now more than 50 years ago that I queued up outside Virgin Records in Corporation Street, Birmingham, to get The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway on it's release day in November 1974.

I recall when buses had drivers and it was conductors that issued tickets from a hand-held machine.

I remember platform tickets.

Seeing childhood friends at my mum's funeral who I'd not seen for nearly 60 years.

 

[T1 Terry]

I remember, vaguely, requiring platform tickets, no conductors on busses but the ticket was torn out of a sort of book, each ticket a different colour the denoted travel between which sections, that way the inspector, should on be waiting at stop, could easily see if the ticket was valid or not ...... It needed to be easy for the inspectors, they weren't that bright after all
I remember mum having to pay for ticket to use the public toilets near the CWA hall

T1 Terry

 

[decrep]

I remember mum having to pay for ticket to use the public toilets near the CWA hall

T1 Terry

That's where "spend a penny" came from.