The realisation you're getting old

[oldwheels]

I have had the same with my name.

Jon often, once Jhon, rarely John.

We were once asked to do hats with names on for a kindergarten in London. The variations of spelling of a simple name were almost unbelievable.

 

[oldwheels]

Pretending you don’t understand something because you are old. Not because you don’t understand the technology. Just because you can’t be bothered with that particular application. An example is those McDs touch screens. Sod that I’ll walk to the front and order my burger and let the assistant do the work.

You only get away with it, because they think you are old and genuinely can’t work the screens.

That happens to me with the self service tills in Lidl in Oban as there is often no manned checkout. After freezing the system somebody always appears quickly to do it all for me.😄

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Being asked my name for a COVID queue and the spotty youth not knowing how to spell it. 'Christopher' seems to be going the same way as 'Rupert'.

But is that a sign of kids getting thicker instead?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Prince Andrew looks in pretty bad shape for a teenager. 😄

People assume because he’s royal he’s had an easy life. Life has been very hard on teenage Andrew!

 

[Rusty Nails]

That happens to me with the self service tills in Lidl in Oban as there is often no manned checkout. After freezing the system somebody always appears quickly to do it all for me.😄

We have a cafe we go to that has ordering via their app which was introduced as a Covid precaution. I can do it fine, but it really is such a fuss scrolling through the menu ordering for four of us, unless we want the same things every time, that it is much quicker to tell them my phone is too old for the app and order via staff.

They are not going to turn away sales because people don't have the app.

 

[further]

They are not going to turn away sales because people don't have the app.

This happened to me in Cardiff ,I was asked to leave.

 

[Mo1959]

This happened to me in Cardiff ,I was asked to leave.

Ridiculous. I rarely bother taking my phone with me. Afraid I’m not welded to it like many these days.

 

[Rusty Nails]

This happened to me in Cardiff ,I was asked to leave.

I'm in Cardiff. Was it Coffi Co in the Bay by any chance?

 

[Rusty Nails]

Ridiculous. I rarely bother taking my phone with me. Afraid I’m not welded to it like many these days.

I always do when out on the bike. Has come in handy twice to get my wife to collect me from A&E.

 

[BoldonLad]

Can you remember that particular winter? I lived through it in our Esso Blue paraffin, coal fire heated, single glazed windows house, but being only 2 years old at the time I don't have any memories of it.

Yes, remember that winter. I was 14.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Ridiculous. I rarely bother taking my phone with me. Afraid I’m not welded to it like many these days.

Same here

 

[Alex321]

Ridiculous. I rarely bother taking my phone with me. Afraid I’m not welded to it like many these days.

I'd never dream of going more than a few hundred yards on the bike without my phone. Always useful for emergencies, either for contacting somebody, or paying for something.

I've rarely had to use it, but if I didn't take it, you can guarantee that would be the time it would be needed.

 

[LarryDuff]

Having turned 60 last September I finally realised I was old last week when a bowel cancer screening kit arrived in the post.

 

[bagpuss]

Gardeners world is a must programme on the telly

 

[Accy cyclist]

Gardeners world is a must programme on the telly

Does Percy Thrower still present it?🧐