The realisation you're getting old

[Gwylan]

The problem is that what's inside this decrepit old man is a young, vibrant, do anything, go anywhere person. Not obvious as this grey haired, wrinkled old body shuffles towards you. The grim reaper has slowed down so I can keep up with him.
Just the bank of my body cannot honour the cheques that my brain is bouncing all over the town. Even the allegory is out of date.

 

[postman]

i got escorted out of Bodyshop this morning,it seems i got the wrong idea.Lord knows what the Judge will do when he hears about my enquiry at Screwfix.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

i got escorted out of Bodyshop this morning,it seems i got the wrong idea.Lord knows what the Judge will do when he hears about my enquiry at Screwfix.

It’s not called Bodyswap!

 

[Rezillo]

The realisation you are getting old.You start nitpicking..

........vocally, loudly and usually to something on a TV or PC screen, even when there is no-one else in the room. Don't start me on the thread title.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

You begin to resemble your avatar

 

[Tenkaykev]

Recently discovered my daughter is on HRT

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Recently discovered my daughter is on HRT

What does she do on that Channel?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

What does she do on that Channel?

Sells televisions. Everyone knows that HRT stands for High Resolution Telly.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Seeing someone, then thinking they look old, then suddenly remembering they were in my year/class at school! It makes me think what they think, when they see me.

I know folk think I'm a lot older than 61. I'm always getting asked if I've been to here and there on the bus, presuming I must have a bus pass.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Seeing someone, then thinking they look old, then suddenly remembering they were in my year/class at school! It makes me think what they think, when they see me.

I know folk think I'm a lot older than 61. I'm always getting asked if I've been to here and there on the bus, presuming I must have a bus pass.

Someof my wife's family have a bus pass
but she is the oldest and they live in Merseyside where they get a bus pass at 60

We have to wait until pension age

so much for the Liverpool City Region

 

[Petrichorwheels]

Seeing a woman in her sixties wearing skin-tight PVC trousers. Then I realized that she was from the punk generation and not much older than me.

a lot of punks never looked that healthy/alive when young.

had a similar experience with a woman i came across a while ago - was somewhat taken aback by her tales of punk gigs - looked a fair bit older than me/i like to think I am.

 

[Chris S]

Paying for a pint of lager with a fiver and being told it's not enough.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Paying for a pint of lager with a fiver and being told it's not enough.

I thought I spotted a folded up (paper hand fan style) fiver on the pavement yesterday. Thinking like an oldie I straightaway thought you could still fold fivers and that it was worth bending down for! A found in the street fiver doesn't set the heart a flutter, like it did when you could live all day off it!

 

[oldwheels]

Met an ex girlfriend from university days and remarked to my ( fairly tolerant) wife that she looked very old.
The answer came back “ You know why that is? She is the same age as you.”

 

[CharleyFarley]

I don't realize I'm getting old, I realize I've gotten old. Gonna be 76 in a few days but I'm blessed because I can still ride a bike. Florida is too hot to ride far in the summer months so I just do a 4.2 mile fat bike ride early in the morning, and the same again in the evening on a cruiser. Winter months I ride 20 - 30 miles. I know I can't do the things I used to do but if I take my time I can do just about anything, even carpentry. I'm still savvy enough to install a new headset or true wheels; just glad that dementia hasn't set in. I have a younger brother who is now in a nursing home, unable to recognize family. I don't even have creaky joints or wear glasses except for reading or some computer work. And I can easily keep up in the car with drivers doing 80 mph on the highways, but I wish I wouldn't.