Signs that you're getting old

Wibbs wrote: »

They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.” [/I](I love the image of gobbling up dainties. )

It's the "cross their legs" :eek: that gets me! One of my clearest memories of my maternal grandad was the way he used to sit with his legs crossed like a DNA double-helix! That Greek fella would have been disgusted. :pac:

BrianD3 wrote: »

Being single helps IMO, I've seen a few men develop a much older attitude once they got married and had children, settling into a comfortable yet hectic domestic existence of changing nappies, IKEA, watching soap operas and tut tutting about the youth of today.

Ah, g'way outta that. I'd give anything to have a rake of nappies to change again, or snotty noses to wipe, or tantruming toddlers to lock in the shed ... :rolleyes: The mentally oldest guy I know of my own age has been single forever. I'd say hanging around with young people - the full spectrum from 0 to [self-10 years] - is the best way of staying "young" as you get to see more of the world through their eyes, and changes aren't as much of a shock because chances are you knew they were coming.

When you don't understand or
Know who most of the threads are about on boards...

Dial Hard wrote: »

I just hurt my shoulder putting on a polo-neck.

I put my back out wrapping myself in a fluffy, soft bath sheet after a shower.

When you walk across the wood flooring, there are more cracks from your knees and ankles than the floor..

matchthis wrote: »

And he starts flipping the mirror around at the end to show your bald patch progress

Very true. I tell my lad not to bother showing me. I trust you etc

Hate seeing the bald spot !!

matchthis wrote: »

And he starts flipping the mirror around at the end to show your bald patch progress

The "I only see my bald patch at the barbers" club is a membership I wish I didn't have!

Just do your own thing and be true to yourself. No one gives a sht anyway. We found our groove by saying this, and it doesn't involve false attendance at anything.

The young ones don't care, and the oldies wish they weren't there most of the time (Weddings, big birthdays and so on).

Each to their own!

Putting Rennies on the weekly grocery list
2. Having a weekly grocery list.

When one of the kids phone and say everything is great mam and you get off the phone and your husband says how much? And you say no they are great and then you start thinking something is very very wrong because they didn't ask that.

That 'old people' on the TV when you were growing up, don't actually seem that old in the reruns...