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

23 Jan 05 - 01:25 AM (#1385731)
Subject: BS: You Know Your'e Getting Old Wehn....
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull

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!


23 Jan 05 - 01:27 AM (#1385733)
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From: Peace

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


23 Jan 05 - 01:29 AM (#1385734)
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From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull

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


23 Jan 05 - 01:30 AM (#1385736)
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From: GUEST

It depends on WHICH seat she is offering.


23 Jan 05 - 01:33 AM (#1385738)
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From: Peace

DANG.


23 Jan 05 - 01:37 AM (#1385741)
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From: GUEST,ConSeated

Now THAT was funny.


23 Jan 05 - 01:43 AM (#1385743)
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From: GUEST,TwoTeated

So was THAT!


23 Jan 05 - 01:44 AM (#1385744)
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From: Teresa

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


23 Jan 05 - 02:52 AM (#1385784)
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From: The Fooles Troupe

Hands Off!


23 Jan 05 - 03:16 AM (#1385793)
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From: goodbar

i'm a youngun.


23 Jan 05 - 05:38 AM (#1385902)
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From: Liz the Squeak

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


23 Jan 05 - 05:41 AM (#1385903)
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From: freda underhill


23 Jan 05 - 05:42 AM (#1385904)
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From: freda underhill

..your true-love has a hip replacement.


23 Jan 05 - 05:43 AM (#1385905)
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From: GUEST,JfH

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


23 Jan 05 - 05:47 AM (#1385912)
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From: hilda fish

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.


23 Jan 05 - 08:45 AM (#1385986)
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From: Bee-dubya-ell

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...


23 Jan 05 - 08:46 AM (#1385988)
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From: Sandra in Sydney

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)


23 Jan 05 - 08:56 AM (#1385993)
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From: number 6

'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


23 Jan 05 - 09:05 AM (#1385998)
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From: GUEST,Kendall

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.


23 Jan 05 - 09:46 AM (#1386022)
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From: JennyO

Duh, what was the question?


23 Jan 05 - 10:47 AM (#1386054)
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From: gnu

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.


23 Jan 05 - 11:19 AM (#1386079)
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From: Jerry Rasmussen

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

Jerry


23 Jan 05 - 11:32 AM (#1386093)
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From: Bill D

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."


23 Jan 05 - 11:39 AM (#1386101)
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From: GUEST,jacqui.c

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.


23 Jan 05 - 12:12 PM (#1386133)
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From: Phil Cooper

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.


23 Jan 05 - 01:01 PM (#1386180)
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From: Jim Dixon

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."


23 Jan 05 - 02:31 PM (#1386254)
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From: Crane Driver

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

Andrew


23 Jan 05 - 02:39 PM (#1386257)
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From: Cluin

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".


23 Jan 05 - 02:43 PM (#1386261)
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From: MudGuard

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?


23 Jan 05 - 02:47 PM (#1386263)
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From: GUEST,bflat

Your contempories look like your parents and their friends.

Ellen


23 Jan 05 - 03:46 PM (#1386324)
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From: fat B****rd

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


23 Jan 05 - 04:01 PM (#1386335)
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From: frogprince

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...)


23 Jan 05 - 04:21 PM (#1386356)
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From: ranger1

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


23 Jan 05 - 04:43 PM (#1386385)
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From: Don Firth

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


23 Jan 05 - 04:59 PM (#1386403)
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From: Peace

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.


23 Jan 05 - 05:54 PM (#1386467)
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From: Mingulay

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.


23 Jan 05 - 05:59 PM (#1386472)
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From: Don Firth

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

Don Firth


23 Jan 05 - 05:59 PM (#1386473)
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From: GUEST,kendall

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.


23 Jan 05 - 06:01 PM (#1386476)
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From: Polly Squeezebox

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


23 Jan 05 - 06:24 PM (#1386496)
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From: Joybell

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


23 Jan 05 - 06:33 PM (#1386506)
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From: GUEST,Greyling

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?


23 Jan 05 - 06:56 PM (#1386526)
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From: Amos

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

A


23 Jan 05 - 08:49 PM (#1386615)
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From: GUEST,ragdall

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


23 Jan 05 - 08:56 PM (#1386620)
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From: dianavan

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.


23 Jan 05 - 09:05 PM (#1386630)
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From: Bert

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.


23 Jan 05 - 09:45 PM (#1386663)
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From: beardedbruce

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


24 Jan 05 - 07:29 AM (#1386879)
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From: GUEST,Jim Dixon

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


24 Jan 05 - 10:11 AM (#1386916)
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From: Roger the Skiffler

...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


24 Jan 05 - 11:46 AM (#1387027)
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From: Liz the Squeak

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


24 Jan 05 - 12:23 PM (#1387077)
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From: GUEST,Charmion at work

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.


24 Jan 05 - 07:08 PM (#1387625)
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From: Joybell

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.


24 Jan 05 - 07:12 PM (#1387635)
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From: Peace

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


24 Jan 05 - 07:27 PM (#1387652)
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From: Jim Dixon

...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.


24 Jan 05 - 08:54 PM (#1387728)
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From: Don Firth

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


25 Jan 05 - 12:13 AM (#1387819)
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From: GUEST,Guest

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


25 Jan 05 - 12:25 AM (#1387823)
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From: Bert

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


25 Jan 05 - 02:56 AM (#1387881)
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From: Gurney

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.


25 Jan 05 - 11:56 AM (#1388112)
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From: Little Hawk

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... :-)


25 Jan 05 - 12:09 PM (#1388130)
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From: Amos

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.


25 Jan 05 - 12:24 PM (#1388144)
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From: GUEST,MMario

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


25 Jan 05 - 12:34 PM (#1388158)
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From: Peace

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?


25 Jan 05 - 01:26 PM (#1388226)
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From: Amos

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

A


25 Jan 05 - 01:30 PM (#1388232)
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From: Peace

Amos, that would confuse me more.

LOLOLOL


25 Jan 05 - 01:48 PM (#1388253)
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From: C-flat

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.


25 Jan 05 - 02:58 PM (#1388316)
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From: Bert

considered safe!

If only they knew!


25 Jan 05 - 05:07 PM (#1388450)
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From: GUEST

WHEN IT IS TO HOT TO PLAY LAWN BOWLS


25 Jan 05 - 05:14 PM (#1388455)
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From: Little Hawk

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


25 Jan 05 - 05:46 PM (#1388484)
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From: Georgiansilver

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


25 Jan 05 - 05:47 PM (#1388485)
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From: Georgiansilver

69


25 Jan 05 - 09:13 PM (#1388661)
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From: GUEST,Joe_F

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    joe_f@verizon.net

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

||: the same as uptown.                                        :||


26 Jan 05 - 12:08 AM (#1388750)
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From: Linda Goodman Zebooker

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..."


26 Jan 05 - 12:14 AM (#1388755)
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From: freda underhill

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


26 Jan 05 - 12:36 AM (#1388761)
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From: Bert

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


26 Jan 05 - 06:14 PM (#1389570)
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From: Little Hawk

...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! :-)


26 Jan 05 - 06:24 PM (#1389587)
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From: Joybell

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


26 Jan 05 - 07:24 PM (#1389682)
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From: Georgiansilver

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!!!


26 Jan 05 - 07:26 PM (#1389684)
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From: Little Hawk

What were we talking about? Umm...


26 Jan 05 - 08:08 PM (#1389731)
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From: jaze

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!


27 Jan 05 - 05:01 AM (#1390076)
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From: Gurney

Now, what did I come into this room for?


27 Jan 05 - 07:52 AM (#1390113)
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From: GUEST,Jim Dixon

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.


27 Jan 05 - 08:46 AM (#1390125)
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From: GUEST,Amos

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


A


27 Jan 05 - 03:09 PM (#1390395)
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From: Micca

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!!!!!!


27 Jan 05 - 04:02 PM (#1390450)
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From: Little Hawk

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


27 Jan 05 - 04:03 PM (#1390451)
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From: beardedbruce

Micca-

Ouch!


28 Jan 05 - 02:20 AM (#1390976)
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From: Peace

Ditto that ouch.


28 Jan 05 - 05:19 PM (#1391681)
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From: Mr Red

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

Boogie Woogie Red


28 Jan 05 - 05:54 PM (#1391728)
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From: Little Hawk

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


28 Jan 05 - 06:03 PM (#1391741)
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From: Liz the Squeak

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


28 Jan 05 - 08:54 PM (#1391893)
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From: beetle cat

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


29 Jan 05 - 01:48 PM (#1392414)
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From: Tannywheeler

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


29 Jan 05 - 06:49 PM (#1392689)
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From: Joybell

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


29 Jan 05 - 07:43 PM (#1392751)
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From: frogprince

"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).


30 Jan 05 - 03:30 AM (#1392974)
Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: JohnInKansas

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


30 Jan 05 - 01:59 PM (#1393404)
Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: SINSULL

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.


31 Jan 05 - 10:11 AM (#1394257)
Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Leadfingers

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 !!


31 Jan 05 - 11:14 AM (#1394322)
Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: GUEST,Joe_F

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    joe_f@verizon.net

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


31 Jan 05 - 11:22 AM (#1394332)
Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Paco Rabanne

97


31 Jan 05 - 03:07 PM (#1394610)
Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: GUEST

98


31 Jan 05 - 06:30 PM (#1394876)
Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: Joybell

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


01 Feb 05 - 07:34 AM (#1395458)
Subject: RE: BS: You Know You're Getting Old When....
From: 42

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

sheesh!
j