The realisation you're getting old

[classic33]

I'm definitely getting old. Qualify for free eye tests and prescriptions today. Happy St. Swithins day everyone

Dry for the next forty days then.

 

[Brains]

I miss being asked for proof of age when I buy beer

I think the last time I was asked must have been some time in the 80s

I was with my Dad (then in his mid 60's) when he got asked for ID when buying wine!
he didn't know whether to be impressed of dumbfounded!

 

[aferris2]

Dry for the next forty days then.

... the weather that is. Got plenty of wine at my party yesterday.

 

[ColinJ]

There is hope for all of us though ... A friend of my sister is 103 and recently went from Coventry to Birmingham with her by bus on a shopping trip. She plays the piano for old folks 20+ years younger than her!

My last remaining uncle is 102 but still soldiering on.

 

[oldwheels]

I lived this from a recumbent trike site so apologies to whoever put it up originally. This could be me.

 

[cookiemonster]

Forgetting the difference between ‘your’ and ‘you’re.’

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Old age for me:

Lovely Wife - yup.

Good health for both (currently) - yup.

Nice house in nice place - yup.

Enough money to see us out - yup.

Minimal stress and nice easy life - yup.

Lots of years left to enjoy it all - hell no!

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I know the 'make the most of every day' cliche and we certainly have a lot of fun as we are both hedonistic by nature but... ultimately life has a nasty sting in the tale and love has no happy endings. That's the crappiest old age thing by far.

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However, it's nearly Saturday (I'm not always pessimistic) and when it gets here it's:

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

View attachment 475566 I lived this from a recumbent trike site so apologies to whoever put it up originally. This could be me.

Getting on is easy. Getting off after a long ride when your legs have turned to jelly isn't.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

We do not wither and grow weak with age, we age because we wither and grow weak. So stay active, get out there, and stop withering and growing weak. The ailments of age are really the ailments of an increasingly sedentary lifestyle.

 

[cyberknight]

every day something aches at some point and you get 20 somethings whining about how hard it is doing the same job and you think gawd help them when they reach your age .

 

[ColinJ]

Getting on is easy. Getting off after a long ride when your legs have turned to jelly isn't.

I lean the bike well over and just step away!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Forgetting the difference between ‘your’ and ‘you’re.’

That's a symptom of being of an older generation. The younger generations do not seem to be fixated on correct spelling and grammar .

 

[oldwheels]

Getting on is not easy. Unless there is something to lean against I lay the bike flat and step carefully over it before lifting up. Getting off is a reverse of that. Problem is it tends to cause consternation and concern for anybody passing. Good of them to look out for me but I find it embarrassing. This is why I now have a Bike Friday and a recumbent trike in addition to my Brompton. Easier to handle.

 

[delb0y]

Getting old... Well my earliest memories...I'm not sure I can remember Apollo 11, but I have a clear memory of Apollo 13 and rushing home from school to turn the radio on and see if the crew were back home. I can remember the Beatles Obladi Oblada. I can remember before being old enough for infant school my grand father pushing me in a push-chair to watch the trains and the drivers pulling the whistle and waving at him as he'd just retired from the railways. The street I grew up was gravel and then grass just past our house - there was a scrap yard, a haunted house, and then gravel pits where I first started my long love affair with fishing. All replaced with "modern" houses now, some of them fifty years old. Was a sad day the day they put electricity through the pits and took all the fish away. Better than simply leaving them, though.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The Universe is over 13 billion years old, you youngsters. I imagine the Universe is reminiscing about when it was a singularity before all this nonsense started.