You know you’re getting older when……

[pitdiver]

you know you are old when you can remember Lawrence Payne coming to your school and presenting the prizes on prize day. ( Lawrence Payne was an actor who played Sexton Blake on TV. He was a former pupil at my school)

 

[75A]

Must have been a good school; we had to make our own hole with the straw.

Being the biggiest in our class I had the job of taking the crate of milk upstairs to the classroom before the day started and returning it back down when empty.
Strange thing was I never drank milk then or now.

 

[Peter Sarf]

Being the biggiest in our class I had the job of taking the crate of milk upstairs to the classroom before the day started and returning it back down when empty.
Strange thing was I never drank milk then or now.

Probably you were therefore the only one they could trust not to dip into other peoples milk. Takes a certain age before one starts thinking like that.

 

[nw1]

Given a year of birth, you under-calculate their age by 10 years by "missing a decade".

Happened to me earlier today when I heard someone on the radio talk about something that happened when they were 25, and they gave their year of birth as 199x. (didn't catch the exact year). My initial thought was "but no-one born in the 1990s will be 25 until next year!"

 

[Busaholic]

You may now relive your youth

Well, thanks v much for that. It must have been the one I bought, but I was probably disappointed by the material on it. I never bought another of his records again, though I believe he was more successful in the UK than the USA as the 1960s progressed. He was a guitarist with a unique sound/style and played with some greats.

 

[Howardh]

I saw a few pages of a Radio Times from 1973 on the web. Every programme was like it was on yesterday. The titles, cast, or the sports, presenters etc. Peter West introducing the cricket. I must have been 16 and I'm looking at it 50 years later.

 

[MasterSpenny]

Now I really know I am getting older. The reason I give for this is because I have sat my first written GCSE exam (I sat Combined Science Biology) this morning - hopefully I have good results from these exams!

 

[Typhoon]

Now I really know I am getting older. The reason I give for this is because I have sat my first written GCSE exam (I sat Combined Science Biology) this morning - hopefully I have good results from these exams!

I hope the rest of them go well. I was still sitting exams in my 50s (having sat the Kent Test when I was 9 - I can still remember the format)!!

 

[dangie]

When you reach for something on the bathroom shelf and in doing so you knock everything else off.

When you mow the lawn and constantly get your legs/feet tangled in the mower cable.

 

[75A]

I always get tangled up with the garden hose, happened twice in the last 3 days. The Wife's planting quicker than I can water.

 

[birchesgreen]

When you reach for something on the bathroom shelf and in doing so you knock everything else off.

When you mow the lawn and constantly get your legs/feet tangled in the mower cable.

These arn't really signs of age, i was doing stuff like this when i was a teenager!

Now I really know I am getting older. The reason I give for this is because I have sat my first written GCSE exam (I sat Combined Science Biology) this morning - hopefully I have good results from these exams!

Good luck! I was updating our college's e-learning for that course just a few weeks ago.

 

[D6130]

These arn't really signs of age, i was doing stuff like this when i was a teenager!

....and now you're a recycled teenager - just like me!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

When you wake up and have no idea what day it is. Unfortunately, this has happened more than once to me recently.

 

[Calthrop]

When you wake up and have no idea what day it is. Unfortunately, this has happened more than once to me recently.

If it's any consolation: my brother -- a mere stripling of 66 (and by the way, an extremely bright guy in most respects) -- has had lifelong, an extremely poor sense of time / dates / scheduling / everything connected therewith; he very often has no idea what day it is. He occasionally opines that he ought to have been a prehistoric man, for whom all such matters would be covered just by "the past / now / the future": to heck with all the fussy stuff with which the rise of so-called civilisation has tried, to the utmost, to ruin life.

 

[Trackman]

When you wake up and have no idea what day it is. Unfortunately, this has happened more than once to me recently.

Problem I had when on shifts is it AM or PM when I have a nap-Is it the day after or before?

 

[Howardh]

Had a back tooth removed years ago, but the stump was still there which was neither a help nor hindance. However this weekend it came loose, and I've been spending all day fiddling with it with tongue and fingers, and finally it's come out (no blood, nicely sealed gum!!) so for the first time I'm delighted to lose a tooth, or at least what was left of one!!

In my younger years I'd probably have gone to the dentist to try to save it, thinking the stump might be the only one left when all the others have rotted away! Adds - for the last 15/20 years I have only had minute amounts of sugar due to the risk to my remaining teeth, so far it's worked and no fillings or removals in that time.

The dentist does want to remove my final two wisdom teeth (or ignorance teeth in my case) but they are giving me no bother so she's happy for me to carry on sugar-free and cleaning 2 - 3 times a day.

 

[Busaholic]

Had a back tooth removed years ago, but the stump was still there which was neither a help nor hindance. However this weekend it came loose, and I've been spending all day fiddling with it with tongue and fingers, and finally it's come out (no blood, nicely sealed gum!!) so for the first time I'm delighted to lose a tooth, or at least what was left of one!!

In my younger years I'd probably have gone to the dentist to try to save it, thinking the stump might be the only one left when all the others have rotted away! Adds - for the last 15/20 years I have only had minute amounts of sugar due to the risk to my remaining teeth, so far it's worked and no fillings or removals in that time.

The dentist does want to remove my final two wisdom teeth (or ignorance teeth in my case) but they are giving me no bother so she's happy for me to carry on sugar-free and cleaning 2 - 3 times a day.

You know you're old when you can remember having an NHS dentist!

 

[Gloster]

You know you're old when you can remember having an NHS dentist!

…and NHS spectacles.

 

[pdq]

You know you're old when you can remember having an NHS dentist!

They do exist! Our family have had the same dentist (NHS) since we moved to this area in 2004. Not sure we'd be as lucky moving here now.

 

[Howardh]

You know you're old when you can remember having an NHS dentist!

Still do, but she's miles away and there's a private one nearer which isn't that much more expensive than NHS treatment!

…and NHS spectacles.

Wow, those were the days, in the 60's and 70's when I was a kid and needed specs, they didn't come free on the NHS, just a reduced price and that was eye-watering, and the cost of private ones were unaffordable for most of us. So when we got a pair they had to last, which explained a lot of sticking plaster and superglue to hold them together.

Nowadays you can get a pair of basic spex for £20-30 so I have at least half-a-dozen pairs knocking around, and daily/monthly contacts are £20-40; so one thing about these days while dentists are few and far between, at least we can afford to see!!

 

[Trackman]

Still do, but she's miles away and there's a private one nearer which isn't that much more expensive than NHS treatment!


Wow, those were the days, in the 60's and 70's when I was a kid and needed specs, they didn't come free on the NHS, just a reduced price and that was eye-watering, and the cost of private ones were unaffordable for most of us. So when we got a pair they had to last, which explained a lot of sticking plaster and superglue to hold them together.

Nowadays you can get a pair of basic spex for £20-30 so I have at least half-a-dozen pairs knocking around, and daily/monthly contacts are £20-40; so one thing about these days while dentists are few and far between, at least we can afford to see!!

You can actually buy retro NHS frames now from the 70s

 

[Busaholic]

…and NHS spectacles.

Never needed them, even now! Good genes in terms of eyesight I suppose, not so good with other aspects of health.

 

[al78]

You know you're old when you can remember having an NHS dentist!

I have an NHS dentist, have had one since I moved to Horsham nearly 22 years ago.

 

[jfollows]

Nowadays you can get a pair of basic spex for £20-30 so I have at least half-a-dozen pairs knocking around, and daily/monthly contacts are £20-40; so one thing about these days while dentists are few and far between, at least we can afford to see!!

Yes, my first pair was £5/11/6 and my second pair £10:24, so a lot more in real terms than today could be. I think they discount the base price and try and get you to “go large” with upgrades these days.

 

[Howardh]

Yes, my first pair was £5/11/6 and my second pair £10:24, so a lot more in real terms than today could be. I think they discount the base price and try and get you to “go large” with upgrades these days.

If that was 1970 then you're looking at £80 in today's prices. If it were earlier then it's even more!! Don't mind all the "upgrade" stuff as long as the base price is cheap and does the job.

 

[Welshman]

When you wake up and have no idea what day it is. Unfortunately, this has happened more than once to me recently.

When I was at theological college we had a lecturer who said "When I wake-up, if I'm in my pyjamas its time for mass - it not its time for tea!

When you stare and marvel at the many types of artisan breads and different-flavoured bottles of Listerine etc on the supermarket shelves, and long for the time when it was just white or brown and mouthwash.

 

[dangie]

When you wake up and have no idea what day it is...

I’m just thankful I wake up. Also I’m thankful I go to bed each night.
At my age the bathroom mirror is your best friend. See your reflection that’s another day you’ve ticked off

Note: Had a night in the pub on Titanic Stout. I’m in one of those maudlin moods……

 

[Ashley Hill]

Note: Had a night in the pub on Titanic Stout. I’m in one of those maudlin moods……

Lucky you! I`ve had to put up with Doom Bar as the Proper Job was off. Now thats enough to put you in a mood!

 

[Dai Corner]

Lucky you! I`ve had to put up with Doom Bar as the Proper Job was off. Now thats enough to put you in a mood!

My mate at work used to ask how I was every morning as I passed his office. I said "Well I woke up this morning so I can't be too naf'.

I'm in a Welsh pub drinking Butty Bach, an ale brewed in England with a Welsh name.

 

[dangie]

Lucky you! I`ve had to put up with Doom Bar as the Proper Job was off. Now thats enough to put you in a mood!

You have my sympathies