How do you know when you're getting old?

[skipper734]

Two channels. You were lucky. Nothing but sitting as close as you could get to the minuscule coal fire and reading with Mum knitting away and the Light program on the wireless. Then in 1954 one BBC channel on the marvellous 14" Pye Television.
Send to Keynsham, Bristol. Spelt K E Y N S H A M. Only the elderly will get that last bit.

 

[otk]

When you won't go out in the snow for fear of 'falling over...'

 

[SJ's Love Monkey]

When you can remember when Brighton actually played Palace regularly

 

[NMH]

I actually told some kids off the other day for playing football near my car

In the old days, they'd slink to a safe distance then hurl a torrent of abuse at you.
Now they just stab you for being a grump.

 

[NMH]

I realised I was getting older when I told some young lads to stay clear of my car - and they were in their 40's.

(boom boom!)

 

[coventrygull]

I had to start wearing glasses recently. I looked into the mirror and saw my father.

 

[andybaha]

Couldn't get to work today. All the kids are out in the garden playing in the snow, 'Come and play' they said. Sod that it's too cold.

I might commandeer their snowman and stick an Albion scarf on it though.

 

[andybaha]

When we have a day out, I like to look around for somewhere to get a cup of tea and a cake.

 

[Norman Potting]

When you can say. "actually I saw Peter Ward score a goal at the Goldstone".

 

[Barry Izbak]

when you realise that the oldest player at the Albion wasn't even born when you went to your first game.

or

when you are chatting up some bird only to realise that her parents are younger than you are - OUCH!!

 

[Jahooli]

THREE channels? You were lucky... When I were a lad, it were either BBC... or ITV! Closedown and test card by 11.30, then all we had after that were Radio Soddin' Luxembourg, which were always fading out.

[ AND we all had Northern accents back then, even if we lived in soddin' Hove. ]

And you had to get out of your chair walk all the way to the telly and push a button or twiddle a knob and then walk all the way back again.
Things are certainly diffferent after all these new fangled changes.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

When the leader of the Conservative party and President of the US are both significantly younger than you.

When June Whitfield is the face of TV ads aimed at your age group and they try and tempt you with an attractive carriage clock.

When a stranger looking like a hungover version of your dad looks back at you each morning when you shave.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

When the leader of the Conservative party and President of the US are both significantly younger than you.

When June Whitfield is the face of TV ads aimed at your age group and they try and tempt you with an attractive carriage clock.

When a stranger looking like a hungover version of your dad looks back at you each morning when you shave.

 

[Trufflehound]

When you get up feeling quite youthful, then you go into the bathroom and the face that stares back at you in the mirror is not you, but your dad*.

















*I asked him to wait until I was finished, but he said he had a weak bladder...

 

[Trufflehound]

When these new fangled computers keep making you post everything twice and you don't know why...

 

[Barry Izbak]

When the leader of the Conservative party and President of the US are both significantly younger than you.

When June Whitfield is the face of TV ads aimed at your age group and they try and tempt you with an attractive carriage clock.

When a stranger looking like a hungover version of your dad looks back at you each morning when you shave.

and when you keep repeating yourself

 

[Jahooli]

I think that happened to me once or maybe it was twice.

 

[NMH]

When you would certainly love to give Joanna Lumley a very hard rogering.

 

[Hunting 784561]

When you walk into a room - but you cant remember what it was that you went in there for ?

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

I still get wet dreams but these days it is the pillow that gets wet from the drool that seems to flow from my mouth each night.