[Humour] How you know you’re getting old.

Tim Over Whelmed

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When young Ladies look at you as "cute & kind" rather than a threat

When you spend more time at St Richard's Hospital than you do clubbing!

When you look for reasons to leave a good party rather than to stay!

When you find "comfortable" shoes!

When all trips are planned with military precision based around toilet availability.

 

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Arthritic Toe

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You start watching and enjoying Countryfile.

 

pasty

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Tim Over Whelmed said:

When you look for reasons to leave a good party rather than to stay!

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I've already got to the stage where I'm looking for reasons not to go the party in the first place

 

Questions

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You actually appreciate the yearly National Trust memberships the kids got you and the wife last Christmas.

 

Barrow Boy

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Rationing was still in force when you were born!

 

Icy Gull

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Arthritic Toe said:

You start watching and enjoying Countryfile.

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No never, not as long as Matt Baker has anything to do with the programme.

 

Icy Gull

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When you remember Fred Binney throwing a strop because a raw young striker called Peter Ward had taken his place in the team.

 

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When you spend weeks planning your autumn sloe picking for the Christmas gin.

 

Tim Over Whelmed

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Questions said:

When you spend weeks planning your autumn sloe picking for the Christmas gin.

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... and you feel you're soooo hip because you smoked your sloes before putting in the gin!

 

Tim Over Whelmed

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When you ... oh hold on a minute, when you ..... now where are my glasses, oops pardon .... when you .... oh don't worry, 42!

 

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Gwylan

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Barrow Boy said:

Rationing was still in force when you were born!

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Oh, I'm not old... it stopped about two years before I was born #stillyoung

 

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maffew

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The Sock of Poskett said:

When you get to standing gigs early so you can find a spot leaning against a wall.

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Gigs!! Those were the days

 

Icy Gull

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maffew said:

Gigs!! Those were the days

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I also remember turning up on the evening of the gig and being able to buy tickets on the door rather than having to book and pay eight months in advance.

Now that makes me REALLY old

 

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Gwylan

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Icy Gull said:

I also remember turning up on the evening of the gig and being able to buy tickets on the door ....

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You can still do that. I've done it a few times in the past couple of years

 

Norman Potting

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Icy Gull said:

I also remember turning up on the evening of the gig and being able to buy tickets on the door rather than having to book and pay eight months in advance.

Now that makes me REALLY old

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...Or sending a cheque (or postal order) and SAE.

 

Telboy

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When you realise your first Albion game was 60 years ago

 

Icy Gull

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Gwylan said:

You can still do that. I've done it a few times in the past couple of years

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I am willing to bet that was for obscure and not massively popular acts? Dare I say old codger music?

 

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TheJasperCo

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When you remember the football pundits on TV, at a time when they were actually half-decent players.

 

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Shropshire Seagull

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When I started my mortgage I thought I was old at 28
Now I'm about to pay off my mortgage at 59 and I don't feel [mentally] a day older than when I started.
But physically, I'm on the doorstep of the scrapheap.

Where DID all those years go ?

 

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sussex_guy2k2

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I went to a day festival a couple of weeks back. It's horrific.