Author Topic: You know you're getting on when...  (Read 5784 times)

hellymedic

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You know you're getting on when...
« on: 23 February, 2019, 06:33:31 pm »
... a schoolmate posts a picture of a grandchild on Facebook and the child looks JUST like the schoolmate.

Zipperhead

  • The cyclist formerly known as Big Helga
Re: You know your getting on when...
« Reply #1 on: 23 February, 2019, 10:18:12 pm »
Recently my mother showed me a picture of one of my cousins, who I haven't seen for years as he lives on another continent, and it was very eerie because he looks just like my/his grandfather. Exactly the same.
Won't somebody think of the hamsters!

Re: You know your getting on when...
« Reply #2 on: 23 February, 2019, 10:33:34 pm »
When I hear my voice recorded, I hear my late father.  It's not a pleasant sensation.

T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: You know you're getting on when...
« Reply #3 on: 24 February, 2019, 08:17:11 am »
...you start interpreting every little thing you forget and every little fumble as a sign of the dementia your father suffered from and died with at your age.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

robgul

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Re: You know your getting on when...
« Reply #4 on: 24 February, 2019, 08:44:59 am »
Realise that you're 19 years older than your mother when she died, and in about 3 months from now will be older than when your father died.

Rob

Giraffe

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Re: You know your getting on when...
« Reply #5 on: 24 February, 2019, 09:01:00 am »
Mirror mirror on the wall, I look like my father after all!

Bloody reflective TV screen!
2x4: thick plank; 4x4: 2 of 'em.

Re: You know you're getting on when...
« Reply #6 on: 24 February, 2019, 09:47:30 am »
...you start interpreting every little thing you forget and every little fumble as a sign of the dementia your father suffered from and died with at your age.
Oh dear! I thought it was just me.

Paul

  • L'enfer, c'est les autos.
Re: You know your getting on when...
« Reply #7 on: 24 February, 2019, 11:57:52 am »
You’re shorter than you used to be!

I thought I had a few years before that would start.
What's so funny about peace, love and understanding?

Jaded

  • The Codfather
  • Formerly known as Jaded
Re: You know your getting on when...
« Reply #8 on: 24 February, 2019, 01:13:23 pm »
You forget where you put things.
It is simpler than it looks.

hellymedic

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Re: You know your getting on when...
« Reply #9 on: 24 February, 2019, 01:17:04 pm »
You forget where you put things.

Scatterbrains of ANY age do this.

My toyboy has excelled in the two decades I've known him.

Re: You know your getting on when...
« Reply #10 on: 24 February, 2019, 01:59:43 pm »
When you wonder why scaffolding has been erected on a new building, which you remember pushing your son's push chair past during its construction.

Son is now 45.

Re: You know your getting on when...
« Reply #11 on: 24 February, 2019, 03:19:53 pm »
Mirror mirror on the wall, I look like my father after all!

Bloody reflective TV screen!

Quite a few years ago I was walking down the stairs at my place of work - said stairs had a glass wall (with a great view of the brick wall just beyond), but in the dark this glass acted like a mirror. I nearly fell down the stairs when I saw my father walking towards me. This is what persuaded me to grow copious amounts of facial hair - to avoid looking like my father. (I've been told that now it's trimmed to a sensible design that I look like Lenin in certain lights  ??? )
Too many angry people - breathe & relax.

Wombat

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Re: You know your getting on when...
« Reply #12 on: 24 February, 2019, 06:21:13 pm »
Realise that you're 19 years older than your mother when she died, and in about 3 months from now will be older than when your father died.

Rob

Hmm, similarly, I have reached twice the age my father was when he died (I'm 66) Mother is still alive, and pushing 93 years old.
Wombat

hellymedic

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Re: You know your getting on when...
« Reply #13 on: 24 February, 2019, 06:57:35 pm »
Realise that you're 19 years older than your mother when she died, and in about 3 months from now will be older than when your father died.

Rob

Hmm, similarly, I have reached twice the age my father was when he died (I'm 66) Mother is still alive, and pushing 93 years old.

I am 19 years older than my paternal grandfather was when he died. Other antecedents are long-lived.

T42

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Re: You know your getting on when...
« Reply #14 on: 09 March, 2019, 12:48:42 pm »
When there's no point in working out what day of the week it is; it'll change by tomorrow.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Beardy

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Re: You know your getting on when...
« Reply #15 on: 09 March, 2019, 05:02:13 pm »
When you notice a thread title that should be in the ‘grammar that makes you cringe’ thread. 😊
For every complex problem in the world, there is a simple and easily understood solution that’s wrong.

hellymedic

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Re: You know your getting on when...
« Reply #16 on: 09 March, 2019, 06:02:39 pm »
 ;D ;D ;D ;D

Giraffe

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Re: You know your getting on when...
« Reply #17 on: 10 March, 2019, 08:51:21 am »
When there's no point in working out what day of the week it is; it'll change by tomorrow.
If you do get it wrong, just wait.
2x4: thick plank; 4x4: 2 of 'em.

ElyDave

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Re: You know your getting on when...
« Reply #18 on: 10 March, 2019, 09:04:07 am »
I only realised on the 7th that I'd forgot to reset the date on my mechanical watch due to February.

It still says 7.  I'll get to it eventually.
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” –Charles Dickens

Phil W

Re: You know your getting on when...
« Reply #19 on: 10 March, 2019, 09:32:30 am »
You have a leather jacket that will soon be middle aged.

nicknack

  • Hornblower
Re: You know your getting on when...
« Reply #20 on: 10 March, 2019, 10:51:03 am »
You're using a mains extension lead at gigs that's 10 years older than the lead singer in the band.
There's no vibrations, but wait.

Re: You know your getting on when...
« Reply #21 on: 10 March, 2019, 10:54:16 am »
When your wife is told by next doors roofers “My mate knows you”. She replies “what, the lad?”  Gets the response “No, the boss, you used to teach him”.  ;D
We are making a New World (Paul Nash, 1918)

T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: You know your getting on when...
« Reply #22 on: 10 March, 2019, 11:11:22 am »
Mrs. Macron must get that all the time.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

ElyDave

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Re: You know your getting on when...
« Reply #23 on: 11 March, 2019, 03:52:06 pm »
You start getting spam from Saga for insurance and equity release  :hand:
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” –Charles Dickens

hellymedic

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Re: You know your getting on when...
« Reply #24 on: 11 March, 2019, 04:11:38 pm »
If you listen to Classic fm you get ads for equity release and folk singing about Senokot extra...