How old are you?

[Toshiba Boy]

Did he know you were having a race?

On the basis I managed to catch him, I presume not ;-)

However, he didn't come back round me, but that was nothing to do, of course, with me timing my pass just half a mile from my destination .... nearly half a century of commuting by bike to senior school and work does come with some useful "knowledge". .

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

58½

That's a hat size ..........

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I woke up the other morning feeling like a 21 year old. But I'm far to old to be able to catch one now.

 

[Punkawallah]

‘Old enough to know better; young enough not to care’.

 

[presta]

Money has been arriving in my bank account every month for the last year

Is that an option? They say mine's going to be paid every four weeks.

When I asked Lloyds why their online banking won't allow you to enter a four-weekly payday instead of monthly it just led to a Kafkaesque conversation I have no desire to repeat. If four weeks confuses them I don't know what they would have made of my employers, they paid in eight four week periods and four five week periods a year.

(Edit: I don't mean you can't pay a state pension into a Lloyds account. It has a budget manager which tells you how much will be paid out before the next payday, but you can't use it unless you can enter which day you're paid on.)

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

To be honest I don;t know what we are going to do with the extra money when we get the pension

we manage just fine on our current pensions

We were planning on using it for holidays in far off places - but SWMBO can;t go to hot places anymore so that's out

might try a Northern Lights cruise or something - in spite of saying we won't go on a cruise ship ever again!

or a tour of Iceland
or the freezer cabinets in Tesco - or something

anyway - I'm sure we will find something

 

[Kingfisher101]

If you're under 20 this is no place for you.
Get the hell out of here now before you end up old before your time.

 

[steveindenmark]

Hardly free - I have been paying for everyone pension for over 40 years

bloomin' scrounging lazy lot of entitled old people

until next year when all pensioners will become people receiving their well deserved pension after all those years of working hard for the sake of the country

I have paid all my own installments. 😁 Living out of the UK for the past 20 years meant that I had to stump up for some contributions I was missing. That took 2 years to sort out by letter as the pension people will not correspond by email.

I feel as though I deserve it now. 😄

 

[steveindenmark]

Free? I don’t think so. Unless you never paid any NI.

Once you have paid it all. It feels like its free.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

61 here.
I'm as slow on the bike as when I started cycling at 48.
Didn't get slower though!

 

[Gunk]

I’m as old as my eyes and little bit older than my teeth.

 

[Ripple]

Passport tells me I'll be 41 in a few weeks time.
Mirror tells me after I wake up: "alien, impossible to determine age".
Body after I climb stairs to the 6th floor: "you're so old that you should be dead".
Brain when I find a silly joke funny: "child".

 

[Gunk]

Passport tells me I'll be 41 in a few weeks time.
Mirror tells me after I wake up: "alien, impossible to determine age".
Body after I climb stairs to the 6th floor: "you're so old that you should be dead".
Brain when I find a silly joke funny: "child".

I wish I was only 41, great age to be, just enjoy it!

 

[tyred]

I'll be 45 next month. I sound like 95 when I get up every morning due to all the clocks and cracks from my ankle.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I wish I was only 41, great age to be, just enjoy it!

Every age is a great age to be, albeit for different reasons.