BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Joybell
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 07:08 PM

Liz, you're just a baby yet. My plate and cup were "bunnikins" ones. We didn't even have mugs and Miss Piggy wasn't born. Cheers, Joy.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Peace
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 07:12 PM

Joybell. I didn't see your birthday thread, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 07:27 PM

...when the waitress enjoys having you flirt with her only because she knows you can't be serious.

...when the cashier asks if you're entitled to the senior-citizen discount.

WORSE:
...when she gives you the discount without asking.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Don Firth
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 08:54 PM

Inside every seventy-year-old is a teen-ager asking "What the hell happened!!???"

"You go to a museum and see half your toys there." Or you suddenly realize you unwittingly lost a fortune way back when you had a cleanout.

I was a Buck Rogers fan and I had one of THESE when I was a kid. Got it sometime in the late Thirties. Helluva water pistol. Huge capacity. You could really soak somebody down with the thing. Scroll down and look at the price!!!

I also had a copy of the first comic book that Superman appeared in. Got it off the stand for a dime. Last I heard, a copy in halfway decent condition sold for $25,000.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 12:13 AM

...your contribution to any conversation is, "That's nothing! I remember when..."

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Bert
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 12:25 AM

Liz, you're still a baby yet. MY cup and plate were bakelite;-)

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Gurney
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 02:56 AM

Some of the toys, well, they were very non-PC.

As a child I had a money-box which is now advertised as 'Collectable Negro Money-Box.' When you pressed a lever behind the shoulder, it raised its arm and swallowed an English penny. No other coin worked properly. It wasn't called negro, then.

When you start volunteering how old you are.
When your contempories are dying of natural causes.
When you are NOT ready to go out after work.
When someone offers you a beer and you say "Rather have a cup of tea."
When you know what is on the TV for any night.
When they re-run 'Happy Days' and you relate to the parents, not the Fonz.
When you can't remember how to spell.
When the kids you babysat have kids older than they were then.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 11:56 AM

You don't have a glass of wine anymore because it makes you feel lousy the next day. The gray hairs are appearing in ever more alarming numbers. Staying up late does not feel as good as it used to. You don't feel the least bit anxious at the thought that you might not have sex with anyone this year... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Amos
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 12:09 PM

The first time you hear one of your babysitters has passed away from natural causes...or you catch yourself reading the Obituary page for entertainment.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 12:24 PM

kids you babysat for are becoming grandparents. You get more junkmail from the AARP then anything else.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Peace
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 12:34 PM

I knew I was getting old when I stopped wearing ties. I worried that I'd go to urinate one day and leave the washroom after tucking my tie into my shirt. Jaysus, ya know?

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Amos
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 01:26 PM

I hear ya, pal. Either that or tie them ten inches too long on one end.

A

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Peace
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 01:30 PM

Amos, that would confuse me more.

LOLOLOL

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: C-flat
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 01:48 PM

As Fat B*****rd rightly says "You know you're getting old when younger women trust you."
At a recent gig a gorgeous young female came up to talk to us in the interval and was extremely complimentary. The guys in the band were all gawping in a pathetic-middle-aged-If-only-I'd-remembered-my-tablets way. I killed the moment by pointing out that the only reason she's talking to us is because, at our age, we're considered safe!!

C-flat.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Bert
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 02:58 PM

considered safe!

If only they knew!

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 05:07 PM

WHEN IT IS TO HOT TO PLAY LAWN BOWLS

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 05:14 PM

Young women are lovely to look at, fun to talk to, and best just leave it at that... :-) They make good friends.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 05:46 PM

You can't wait to have the next.......

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 05:47 PM

69

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 09:13 PM

The president of the United States is younger than you are.

There is not enough hair on top of your head to hold the front hairs down.

Before you do anything, you have to do something else, usually piss.

You get an extra meal when you floss your teeth.

You see an obituary and say "Was that old bastard still alive?"

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: Investing is not the same as gambling, and downtown is not :||

||: the same as uptown.                                        :||

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Linda Goodman Zebooker
Date: 26 Jan 05 - 12:08 AM

You're discussing a current movie with a slightly younger colleague, and you ask if she saw a movie by the same director that came out a few years ago. She listens to the year, then says, "Well I wasn't born yet..."

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: freda underhill
Date: 26 Jan 05 - 12:14 AM

you wonder how much time is left to do what you still want to do.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Bert
Date: 26 Jan 05 - 12:36 AM

When you go to see "The Ladykillers" and nobody knows it's a remake.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Jan 05 - 06:14 PM

...the body starts getting a bit less flexible.

...the heart starts getting a bit more flexible (in the area of compassion, I mean).

...somebody tells you about a prediction for the imminent "end of the World", and it's at least the 150th one you've heard about in the last 5 or so decades! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Joybell
Date: 26 Jan 05 - 06:24 PM

brucie, Thank you. Yes I'm now 60! There I said it. I get a seniors card soon. Oh Goody! Free tram rides once a year! Our own special day! Cheery bye, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 26 Jan 05 - 07:24 PM

You know you are old when two things happen to you:-
The first thing to happen is that you tend to forget things...simple things....easy things...and the second is....the second is...the second is...Oh sod it!!!

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Jan 05 - 07:26 PM

What were we talking about? Umm...

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: jaze
Date: 26 Jan 05 - 08:08 PM

The kid at the Taco Bell drive thru window asks you if you want your senior discount, and you're only 45! Alright , my hair was pretty gray(all gray now 5 years later). But still. I was stunned speechless, with my kids in the car laughing their asses off. In hindsight, I should have taken the damn discount!

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Gurney
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 05:01 AM

Now, what did I come into this room for?

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: GUEST,Jim Dixon
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 07:52 AM

There is only one thing you have to do today, but it takes you half the day to get ready for it, and the other half to recover from it.

You do the math and realize that you own more books than you will have time to read for the rest of your life.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: GUEST,Amos
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 08:46 AM

Jim:
The books? That's just a sign you were born young, not that you're yet old!


A

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Micca
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 03:09 PM

You are given a pack of cards called "50 things everyone should do(at least once) in a Liftime" you check them out and find you have already done 42 of them!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 04:02 PM

Is "make love to Cher" in that pack of cards?

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: beardedbruce
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 04:03 PM

Micca-

Ouch!

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Peace
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 02:20 AM

Ditto that ouch.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Mr Red
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 05:19 PM

"When your lips make a date your hips cannot take - that when you know you are growing old"

Boogie Woogie Red

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 05:54 PM

When I want a good date I go to the grocery. Medjul Dates. They can't be beat.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 06:03 PM

I read those '50 things to do' cards... I'm worried. Micca is about 18 years older than I am, and I've done 30+ of those things!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: beetle cat
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 08:54 PM

you get older your whole life, not just when you are old.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 29 Jan 05 - 01:48 PM

I realized I'd "grown up" (stopped thinking of myself as approx. 15-25) when I was looking at my daughter and her (then)2yrold son -- and suddenly realized what the odd look in my mother's eyes had meant during the last few years of her life meant(even before she knew she had cancer). I was glad I had made her so happy.      Tw

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Joybell
Date: 29 Jan 05 - 06:49 PM

Now I really feel old! I just read the list of discounts for seniors card holders. Discount tickets to Johnny Farnham concerts cheap incontinence pads !!**&%^^**, old-lady glasses, easy crossword puzzle books and books of trivia questions all about the 1940s, cheap do-it-yourself will kits. I don't like this 60 thing any more. I'm hanging out for the re-run. Grumbles, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: frogprince
Date: 29 Jan 05 - 07:43 PM

"Please let me go 'round again, Lord;
Please let me go 'round again;
You give mighty short rides on this merry-go-round;
Please let me go 'round again."
       ( by the philosopher Benny Hill, who was sometimes mistaken for a mere comedian).

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 30 Jan 05 - 03:30 AM

Toys you used to play with?????

A couple of years ago (I'm even older now), in an Antique Mall in Blackwell, Oklahoma I came across an item that I quite possible may have manufactured at an early job in a sheet metal fab shop.

It must be a classic. Sold originally for $2.25 and I had to give the guy $10.00 for it - but it was in "mint" condition.

John

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Jan 05 - 01:59 PM

When you look out the window and see your purse propped in a snow bank where you left it LAST NIGHT (!) when you brought in the groceries. Or you find your lost keys stuck in the door where you left them the night before. Good thing I moved out of NYC.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Leadfingers
Date: 31 Jan 05 - 10:11 AM

When you stop halfway up the stairs because you cant remember what you were going upstairs for , then cant remember wether you were going up or down !!

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 31 Jan 05 - 11:14 AM

And, oh, yes, you have a photo ID from the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority with SENIOR stamped diagonally across it in huge red letters.

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: To be born is to fall down the chimney of a strange house. :||

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 31 Jan 05 - 11:22 AM

97

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Jan 05 - 03:07 PM

98

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Joybell
Date: 31 Jan 05 - 06:30 PM

Well, Well Benny Hill! Oh yes, Frog Prince I'll second that thought. Or did I just first it but less poetically? Anyway when I get another ride I want a horse again - on the outside - one that goes up and down. Never could understand why anyone would want to ride on an inside, passive merry-go-round horse.
Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: 42
Date: 01 Feb 05 - 07:34 AM

... the only thing that really pisses you off is guests hanging around waiting for the 100th post.

sheesh!
j