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

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: GUEST,Charmion at work
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 12:23 PM

You know you're officially Old:

- when they appoint a new Chief of the Defence Staff (senior officer in the Canadian Forces to you furriners) -- and he's younger than you;

- when you find out that the grey-haired Master Warrant Officer with the chestful of medals joined at age 18 -- a year after you got out of the service;

- when someone brings you a "historical" photograph depicting a soldier wearing a uniform just like the one you wore in recruit school; and

- when you realize that the guy in the next office has never heard a manual typewriter in operation, let alone an entire typing pool in full thrash.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 11:46 AM

You go to a museum and see half your toys there... it really happened! In east London, UK, there is the 'Bethnall Green Museum of Childhood'. It has an example of the Triang desk andchair set I had as a child - not to mention half the games I had!

The worst was going to the Victoria and Albert museum (V&A) and finding as an exhibit, the very same design Miss Piggy mug I used as a child.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 10:11 AM

...you find you're discussing the line up of jazz and skiffle bands from the 1950's and realise most of the musicians you enjoyed are dead or retitred!

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: GUEST,Jim Dixon
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 07:29 AM

When you see stuff in antique stores that looks just like the stuff you got as wedding presents.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: beardedbruce
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 09:45 PM

...you start nodding at all the comments in the "You Know You're Getting Old" thread...

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Bert
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 09:05 PM

When you're looking for the lyrics to a song from your youth and you can't find them on the internet.

Or you find the songsheet to the lyrics - in an antique store.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: dianavan
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 08:56 PM

You know you're getting old when your son starts getting grey hair!

BTW - Once I was buying coffee and this guy started flirting with me. I thought to myself, "Whats with the dirty old man hittin' on me." I then realized he was probably about the same age as me. What a shock! In my mind I thought I was a young woman! He really was not being inappropriate at all. He was just trying to strike up a conversation. Poor guy! Poor me! Its taken awhile to adjust my perspective.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: GUEST,ragdall
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 08:49 PM

When you discover that the old person who looks familiar, was not one of your classmates, he or she was one of your students!

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Amos
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 06:56 PM

And when if you want highly sophisticated financial or legal advise you end up talking to someone who, chronologically, could be your grandson.

A

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: GUEST,Greyling
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 06:33 PM

Ha. This is what I've got to look forward to during my "Golden Years"

Straight, grey pubic hair! Now that is a piece of trivia most people don't know about.

Ah, the information you learn here. Some of it might be a tad more than you needed to know (but don't stop).

Greyling

Do dorsal fins get grey or do they curl in old age?

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Joybell
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 06:24 PM

I was a nurse. It's when your pubic hair loses it's curl. Grey doesn't count, but curl does.
Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Polly Squeezebox
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 06:01 PM

When you feel sorry for the old person in the dock at the Court, then look at their date of birth and realise they are younger than you are.

When you are seeing somebody after their release from prison that you wrote the Pre-Sentence Report on - and they've served a Life Sentence!

Polly

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 05:59 PM

You know you are getting old when you sit in a rocking chair and can't get it going.
Or,
When the gleam in your eye is the sun on your bifocals.
or
When all the names in your little black book end in Md.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Don Firth
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 05:59 PM

Oh, what a world
Of woe and sin;
My head grows bald,
But not my chin!
          --Burmashave

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Mingulay
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 05:54 PM

I think it has to be the follically challenged thing. The beard sprouts everywhere if you let it but you find you can now comb your hair with a towel.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Peace
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 04:59 PM

LOL, Don.

I had entered an elevator one day in Edmonton. It was in a fairly fancy hotel--the kind with bright red rugs and chaneleers/chandaliers/chandeleares/ lotsa hanging lights that look like candels/candals/ tapers, and the elevatorr had mirrors on all the walls. Wow! I pushed the button for the whatever floors and glanced around. My eyes were dwawn to the back of a guy's head, and I thought "Poor bugger's losing all his hair."

I got off at the next stop and left an empty elevator behind me. Ouch.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Don Firth
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 04:43 PM

So I get on this elevator and this old geezer dodders on right after me. We glance at each other and he looks kinda familiar. Then he squints at me and says, "Hey, aren't you Don Firth?" I admit to the fact, and he says, "Yeah, I thought so! Don't you remember? We went to high school together!"

Don (that creaking sound you hear is my spine) Firth

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: ranger1
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 04:21 PM

When all you can think of at the end of the work day on Friday is how comfy your PJs are.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: frogprince
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 04:01 PM

When all the cars you wanted (new) in high school show up as "classics" at car shows (Then it gets to be the cars you drove 15 years AFTER high school...)

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: fat B****rd
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 03:46 PM

You know you're getting old when younger women trust you.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: GUEST,bflat
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 02:47 PM

Your contempories look like your parents and their friends.

Ellen

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: MudGuard
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 02:43 PM

Andrew, I've seen that happening a few times - the buildings were knocked down within months of their completion (or even before - they found some toxic stuff in the ground).

Does that make me old?

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Cluin
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 02:39 PM

You download an MP3 of a song you remember rocking out to or making out to when it was new and the ID tag has it labelled as an "oldie".

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Crane Driver
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 02:31 PM

You know you're getting old when you watch them knock down a building which you remember watching them build .....

Andrew

Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 01:01 PM

Many years ago, I went to visit someone in the hospital, and I thought it odd how young all the doctors looked.

I reported this to my boss and he replied, "Wait till it's cops ... and judges ... and senators."

Subject: RE: BS: You Know Your'e Getting Old Wehn....
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 12:12 PM

I worked in a CD store in the mid-90's to help support my musician habit. I figured out I was getting older when high school and college kids would come in to get new CD's at the beginning of the school year and I found their mothers more interesting and attractive. They say it's a sign you're well adjusted when you're attracted to people in your own age group.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know Your'e Getting Old Wehn....
From: GUEST,jacqui.c
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 11:39 AM

You start looking at clothes and shoes from a view of comfort, not fashion.

People tell you you sound like your mother on the phone.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know Your'e Getting Old Wehn....
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 11:32 AM

You know you're getting old when you can't take "yes" for an answer...
however......
"Just because there's snow on the roof, it doesn't mean the fire's out in the furnace."

Subject: RE: BS: You Know Your'e Getting Old Wehn....
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 11:19 AM

You know you're getting old when you have to shave your ears. And it's not even a full moon.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: You Know Your'e Getting Old Wehn....
From: gnu
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 10:47 AM

My buddy's fourteen year old son asked for use of the telephone and I directed him to it. He stared at it. He did not know how to use a rotary dial phone... never saw one before.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know Your'e Getting Old Wehn....
From: JennyO
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 09:46 AM

Duh, what was the question?

Subject: RE: BS: You Know Your'e Getting Old Wehn....
From: GUEST,Kendall
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 09:05 AM

You know you are getting old when someone admires your alligator shoes and you are barefoot.
...when your back goes out more often than you do.
...when you sink your teeth into a steak, and they stay there.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know Your'e Getting Old Wehn....
From: number 6
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 08:56 AM

'how young the policemen look' .... good one John! I remember thinking that some time back ... that is when you know you are getting old. Even feel older when you realize some of them are younger than your son.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: You Know Your'e Getting Old Wehn....
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 08:46 AM

I've always had problems with memory & it will probably get worse

A couple of years back I saw a very young policeman who would have been asked for ID when not in uniform.

He looked like a 14 year-old wearing his father's gun & a cap that was a bit large. He was with 2 other officers on patrol in the streets of King's Cross (Sydney's "entertainment" centre) & I wondered at the time what criminals & other no-goodniks would think when they saw him. I was telling friends later & one had also seen him & thought the same as I did.

I hope he has had his growth spurt since!!

sandra (almost another year older)

Subject: RE: BS: You Know Your'e Getting Old Wehn....
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 08:45 AM

Well, I may be getting older, but 20-year-olds in short skirts and skimpy tops still get the same reaction they've been getting for the last 30+ years.

And, yes, the cops are getting younger too, but more of them are female and there's just something about an authoritative young woman with a Glock in a bulletproof vest...

Subject: RE: BS: You Know Your'e Getting Old Wehn....
From: hilda fish
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 05:47 AM

You can't remember the name of the person you were just introduced to and resort to referring to them as 'dear' with no shame to cover the embarrassment.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know Your'e Getting Old Wehn....
From: GUEST,JfH
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 05:43 AM

Your daughter is in her 30's?
:-)

Subject: RE: BS: You Know Your'e Getting Old Wehn....
From: freda underhill
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 05:42 AM

..your true-love has a hip replacement.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know Your'e Getting Old Wehn....
From: freda underhill
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 05:41 AM

Subject: RE: BS: You Know Your'e Getting Old Wehn....
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 05:38 AM

You find a grey hair and it ISN'T on your head.....

You choose knickers (pants, trolleys, undercrackers, panties, drawers, smalls) for supportive ability and what they cover, not how much lace they have and what they reveal!

The only person you have to worry about seeing the 'thousand wash grey' bra, is the nurse at the chest clinic...

Your daughter asks you about the 'olden days' because they're doing them in history lessons, and you find out they're doing the 1960's...

But the worst, as I found yesterday in a clothing store, your daughter is desperate for the same style clothes (flouncy tops, layered skirts in shades of brown and denim) that you remember being desperate for when you were the same age she is (about 30 years!!)

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: You Know Your'e Getting Old Wehn....
From: goodbar
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 03:16 AM

i'm a youngun.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know Your'e Getting Old Wehn....
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 02:52 AM

Hands Off!

Subject: RE: BS: You Know Your'e Getting Old Wehn....
From: Teresa
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 01:44 AM

You know you're getting old when

... kids ask you where Vietnam is.

...what records (the musical kind) are.

... when talking about classic Star Trek scenes, you have to specify "the original series".

Last year was my twenty-year high-school reunion. [sigh]

Oh, and I know I am getting old when I am flattered to be asked for my ID card! :)

Baby stuff, for some of you 'catters, and I say that with respect. But hey, it sure is amazing how time does fly by, and I suddenly realize I'm not the teenager I feel I am!

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: You Know Your'e Getting Old Wehn....
From: GUEST,TwoTeated
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 01:43 AM

So was THAT!

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From: GUEST,ConSeated
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 01:37 AM

Now THAT was funny.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know Your'e Getting Old Wehn....
From: Peace
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 01:33 AM

DANG.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know Your'e Getting Old Wehn....
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 01:30 AM

It depends on WHICH seat she is offering.

Subject: RE: BS: You Know Your'e Getting Old Wehn....
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 01:29 AM

I was tempted to stop, and shout to her = "get some clothes on dear, you'll catch your death of cold"!

Subject: RE: BS: You Know Your'e Getting Old Wehn....
From: Peace
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 01:27 AM

Wait until some young gal offers you her seat on the bus.

Subject: BS: You Know Your'e Getting Old Wehn....
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 23 Jan 05 - 01:25 AM

Hello
I work as a hot fod delivery driver in a northern Uk City,
tonight I was driving my van around town, it was very cold [-4 C], I noticed a young woman, wearing a short skirt and skimpy top.

A few years ago, I'd have thought, Hmmm, she's nice!, or wathever!,
tonight, i saw this young woman, [ I guess shes was about 20?]
I thought= "She must be bloody freezing"!


I realised, after thinking that, that I must be getting old!
Also, have you noticed how young policemen are nowadays?
there just kids!