You know you’re getting older when……

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Was that down to me with the nocturnal posting session?

We were indeed the main characters in that double act...

 

[Whistler40145]

We were indeed the main characters in that double act...

One hopes sophisticated

 

[317 forever]

Did a similar thing one evening at work. Put microwave on to cook ready meal whilst I nipped outside. Came back in to a fizzing / smoking microwave and said ready meal still on the worktop. Luckily, local Tesco was open until midnight for me to replace the now broken microwave.

Oh yes, I think it can damage microwaves to have them on for long without anything inside to heat up or cook.

It will inevitably have been an expensive and annoying way to find out.

 

[Peter Sarf]

Today, once again I am reminded that I ride the down escalator of normality at the age of 79...

Awaking early, my throat feeling dry, I made my way downstairs and taking my favourite beaker, put a tea bag in it, switched on the kettle, went to the fridge to bring the milk bottle. When the water had boiled, for some unknown reason, I put a spoonful of strong coffee in the cup then poured the boiling water into the beaker.

You can well imagine my shock at seeing the tea bag then floating on top of the hot coffee drink...

Ah yes that reminds me. Twice caught myself sprinkling coffee all over the cereal.

Oh Paul


I can go one better, making a mug of coffee, put coffee in the mug, filled with water and added milk, only to take a sip, only to have a stone cold brew. It pays to put the kettle on lol

Cold kettle has happened to me. Cause is missus switching the kettle off at the wall socket me not watching for the kettle to boil. She has started doing that to everything to the point that I no longer re enter the time of day on the microwave. The ironic in me thinks I might buy her an electric clock !.

When you stay up, posting on the Quizzes and Games forum well into the night, then completely forget to take your daily seven morning tablets after awaking and commencing a morning posting session until about 11:00 when I remembered...

I am forever checking the missus has taken her medicine (I avoid "reminding" her and thus disguise it as a "check"). She misses one or two doses a week. Gets tricky when she misses two in a row and insists on going to hospital - diabetes. Now I am on a repeat prescription the boot is on the other foot - I can remind her to take hers but completely forget to ask myself !.

 

[AM9]

Lla

Oh yes, I think it can damage microwaves to have them on for long without anything inside to heat up or cook.

It will inevitably have been an expensive and annoying way to find out.

That was the situation with microwave ovens for a number of years but most recent models have provision for warming empty cups or plates, (which have a very low thermal loading) without damage. We have a Sharp 900W model that has been regularly used to heat single plates or cups for over 15 years. What are now cheaper types may not do so well under such tasks.

 

[Dai Corner]

am forever checking the missus has taken her medicine (I avoid "reminding" her and thus disguise it as a "check"). She misses one or two doses a week. Gets tricky when she misses two in a row and insists on going to hospital - diabetes. Now I am on a repeat prescription the boot is on the other foot - I can remind her to take hers but completely forget to ask myself !.

I have resorted to getting Alexa to remind me to take mine.

The other day I arrived home from the shop and found my car key wasn't in my pocket. I grabbed the spare key, drove back to the shop, asked staff if it been handed in, left my number in case it turned up and spent several minutes looking in the car park.

Only on getting home and researching the cost of replacement keys did it dawn on me that I couldn't have started the car and driven home without the key. It works by proximity rather than having to be in the lock and had fallen underneath the seat.

 

[Merle Haggard]

I have resorted to getting Alexa to remind me to take mine.

The other day I arrived home from the shop and found my car key wasn't in my pocket. I grabbed the spare key, drove back to the shop, asked staff if it been handed in, left my number in case it turned up and spent several minutes looking in the car park.

Only on getting home and researching the cost of replacement keys did it dawn on me that I couldn't have started the car and driven home without the key. It works by proximity rather than having to be in the lock and had fallen underneath the seat.

That chimes with me. Being old, I am quite sensitive to my memory becoming poorer as the early signs of total decline, but when I have similar panics it's because I am jumping to a conclusion rather than actual forgetfulness - for example, worrying if I can't lay my hands on my keys, immediately thinking I've left them in the shop/car ignition/garage door when, as in your example, after further thought I realise I must still have them because I've unlocked my front door to be indoors. Similarly with not being able to find my wallet - having jackets of similar colour and looking in the wrong one by mistaking it for the one I last wore causes instant panic as well.
But younger people I know do have similar issues but blame it on having a hectic life and having too many things to think about. Maybe that's our excuse, too...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

When you start sending confused reports to the forum quizmaster team that you would never send if you were 25...

 

[Gloster]

Only a few days ago when I made up my shopping list (more a list of things that I buy regularly with the occasional odd items added and deleted until I run out of space and do a new list) and included French Undressing. I should be so lucky at my age.

 

[PG]

Only a few days ago when I made up my shopping list (more a list of things that I buy regularly with the occasional odd items added and deleted until I run out of space and do a new list) and included French Undressing. I should be so lucky at my age.

Wherever you shop, I need to go there

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

When you are the only one who remembers the word "pouk" being used.

 

[Killingworth]

When you are the only one who remembers the word "pouk" being used.

I'll bite - when, where and how would it be used to mean what?

 

[gg1]

I'll bite - when, where and how would it be used to mean what?

That was what what my dad used to call a stye or large spot. I thought it was a purely Black Country word though so @Xenophon PCDGS may have another definition in mind.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

That was what what my dad used to call a stye or large spot. I thought it was a purely Black Country word though so @Xenophon PCDGS may have another definition in mind.

No, that was the very meaning used by my two great aunts.

 

[PeterC]

A couple of times I have been on the way out of the house before remembering: on one occasion I was on the bus into town before I did so. There was even one day when I am not sure if I took my morning ration, also seven, as things didn’t square at lunchtime (just two and not so vital): I can’t risk taking them twice as that might be fatal with one of the pills.

I have taken my medication twice, luckily all the tablets were half the maximum dose. After that I bought one of those day by day tablet boxes.

 

[Ashley Hill]

I’ve walked home from work and wondered where my car was. Then realised it had been raining that morning and I had driven in.

 

[PeterC]

I have resorted to getting Alexa to remind me to take mine.

The other day I arrived home from the shop and found my car key wasn't in my pocket. I grabbed the spare key, drove back to the shop, asked staff if it been handed in, left my number in case it turned up and spent several minutes looking in the car park.

Only on getting home and researching the cost of replacement keys did it dawn on me that I couldn't have started the car and driven home without the key. It works by proximity rather than having to be in the lock and had fallen underneath the seat.

I sometimes panic that I have forgotten my house keys after driving off despite them being on the same ring as the fob for the car.

I have also worried about leaving my phone behind despite the dashboard display showing that I have a Bluetooth connection.

 

[Gloster]

I have taken my medication twice, luckily all the tablets were half the maximum dose. After that I bought one of those day by day tablet boxes.

The problem for me is that one, possibly two, of the tablets are not supposed to be removed from the packing before use. My main method is that one of the less important tablets, taken one in the morning and one at night, comes on a strip with two rows of seven: there should be an even number in the morning when I start. I forget occasionally, but so far, I seem to remember when I forget (you know what I mean) and so know it is uneven for a couple of days until I miss the evening one to get things square again.

 

[Calthrop]

When you are the only one who remembers the word "pouk" being used.

A new one on me -- but I'm a heathen from the east of England. Is it pronounced to rhyme with "stook", or with "gowk" (Celtic-fringe word for "cuckoo")?

 

[Gloster]

I’ve walked home from work and wondered where my car was. Then realised it had been raining that morning and I had driven in.

The following story may appear incredible, but it is true. Back in the 1970s a friend of my mother’s, so probably well under sixty, once went into Guildford to do her weekly shopping. Afterwards she went down to her usual car park, got in the powder blue VW Beetle, drove home, opened the garage door and found…her powder blue Beetle: she had gone in by train, which she did occasionally. In those days the variety of keys were far fewer and by an incredible coincidence one with the same combination of keys (*) was parked in her usual place.

* - Somebody I told this to once said that it was quite common for a dealership to get a delivery with all the vehicles having the same keys. As there was a major VW dealership nearby they may have both come the same garage.

Another example: I wrote this, pressed reply and saw it merge with the text of #2418, thought that I had written it in the wrong thread, quickly deleted it and then realised that it was the correct thread.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A new one on me -- but I'm a heathen from the east of England. Is it pronounced to rhyme with "stook", or with "gowk" (Celtic-fringe word for "cuckoo")?

My great aunts, who lived in Burslem, used if to rhyme with gowk".

 

[Acey]

One of my new routines as I get to my dotage is the daily ritual of the horrible two-step of indecision and forgetfulness.where I check if Iv'e turned a light out and then seconds later go back and check again ad ifinitum ,this occurs on most daily functions from checking car keys are in my pocket to ensuring gas appliances are fully turned off ,etc etc ,it's not funny getting old,is it ?

 

[cb a1]

A new one on me -- but I'm a heathen from the east of England. Is it pronounced to rhyme with "stook", or with "gowk" (Celtic-fringe word for "cuckoo")?

In Scotland we have the plook (as in Plook on the Plinth award) to mean pimple / carbuncle / spot / zit

 

[Calthrop]

My great aunts, who lived in Burslem, used if to rhyme with gowk".

My thanks -- "every day", etc. ...

In Scotland we have the plook (as in Plook on the Plinth award) to mean pimple / carbuncle / spot / zit

Which have seen applied to Cumbernauld New Town, North Lanarkshire (witnessed also mis-identified by very-far-south Sassenach colleagues, with "Cumberland" ) .

 

[Peter Sarf]

The following story may appear incredible, but it is true. Back in the 1970s a friend of my mother’s, so probably well under sixty, once went into Guildford to do her weekly shopping. Afterwards she went down to her usual car park, got in the powder blue VW Beetle, drove home, opened the garage door and found…her powder blue Beetle: she had gone in by train, which she did occasionally. In those days the variety of keys were far fewer and by an incredible coincidence one with the same combination of keys (*) was parked in her usual place.

* - Somebody I told this to once said that it was quite common for a dealership to get a delivery with all the vehicles having the same keys. As there was a major VW dealership nearby they may have both come the same garage.

Another example: I wrote this, pressed reply and saw it merge with the text of #2418, thought that I had written it in the wrong thread, quickly deleted it and then realised that it was the correct thread.

My first car, an Allegro best described as mustard colour.

In a multistory around 1983. Found my car and opened it but as I stepped in I realised the clutter inside was very unfamiliar. My first thought who dumped that in here ?. Second thought was wrong car. I locked it and realised the door lock worked much better than on my identical car !. Found mine slightly further from the stairs and as usual had to jiggle the key to open it. Always though it ironic but I suppose my door lock might have been more worn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Remembering a comic once telling a story about a salesman for a brand of washing powder asking people if they used Tide washing powder and met Mr Wong who ran the local "Chinese chippy" .....

Salesman to Mr Wong...."Do you wash in Tide"

Mr Wong..."Ah yes, too damn cold to wash outide"

 

[Calthrop]

Remembering a comic once telling a story about a salesman for a brand of washing powder asking people if they used Tide washing powder and met Mr Wong who ran the local "Chinese chippy" .....

Salesman to Mr Wong...."Do you wash in Tide"

Mr Wong..."Ah yes, too damn cold to wash outide"

Prompting a for me hard-to-resist, trans-lingual far-fetched "thing" which came my way some months ago -- an address at a service at the church which I attend, concerning an episode from the book of Genesis. This involved doings of Children of Israel versus several ancient-Middle-Eastern kings -- "baddies" from the Israelites' point of view -- including one, hitherto unknown to me, wondrously named King Tidal of Goyim. I could not help fantasising -- with a sad lack of reverence -- that that would have been a appropriate name for England's early-11th-century Jewish community, to apply to King Canute. King C. famous for his "tidal" exploit; and "goyim", widely used over the centuries and up to today, by Jewish folk: is the Hebrew word for Gentiles ...

 

[AM9]

Prompting a for me hard-to-resist, trans-lingual far-fetched "thing" which came my way some months ago -- an address at a service at the church which I attend, concerning an episode from the book of Genesis. This involved doings of Children of Israel versus several ancient-Middle-Eastern kings -- "baddies" from the Israelites' point of view -- including one, hitherto unknown to me, wondrously named King Tidal of Goyim. I could not help fantasising -- with a sad lack of reverence -- that that would have been a appropriate name for England's early-11th-century Jewish community, to apply to King Canute. King C. famous for his "tidal" exploit; and "goyim", widely used over the centuries and up to today, by Jewish folk: is the Hebrew word for Gentiles ...

Wow! - for decades I've been aware of the Jewish use of the word 'goy', but you've now explained all.

 

[Western Lord]

Remembering a comic once telling a story about a salesman for a brand of washing powder asking people if they used Tide washing powder and met Mr Wong who ran the local "Chinese chippy" .....

Salesman to Mr Wong...."Do you wash in Tide"

Mr Wong..."Ah yes, too damn cold to wash outide"

To place an order by phone did you ring the Wong number?

 

[Gloster]

This morning I decided to go into the village and drop off my repeat prescription. Only when I got to the creek at the bottom of the hill did I remember that I had left the prescription on the shelf by the front door. As climbing two hills a day is my limit and the chemists is up the hill on the other side of the creek, there was no possibility of walking back home and collecting the prescription.