Question: You know you're getting old when?

[Darrell]

When a lie-in is a thing of the past because you get up at 1,4,7 & 9am to go to the loo.

 

[moonloops]

Question: You know you're getting old when?

BOOM!

.. You buy your first Mercedes



(sorry it had to be said/typed)

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

I'm only human after all

Ours in North Manchester used to call "Ragbone" but it probably varied in different parts of the country.

I remember the rag and bone man with horse and cart in the late 50's early 60's but they didn't collect bones. It was mostly scrap metal. They used to give out yellow pumice stones for cleaning the step.

No idea who the guy with the tattoos was.

"I'm only human after all" but I do remember rag and bone men calling "rag bone" outside my flat in Wandsworth ('78-'80), and outside my parents home in Hampshire in the 70's. On a horse and cart. None of this flatbed lorry lark.
And they did take anything - although probably not bones...

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

When your mother-in-law buys the fast Stannah stairlift

So that she can get to the top of the stairs before she forgets why she wanted to go up there. (She is 90)

 

[190]

There are many reliable indicators of middle age: an expanding collection of Mantovani vinyl, for example and a familiarity with the gentle caress of thermal underwear. Next thing you know you're looking longingly in the direction of Mercedes saloons and sensing a distinct quickening of the pulse. In 1983 however Mercedes launched a car that finally proved you don't have to be an old git or the president of a banana republic to own one of it's 4 doors. So I don't feel so bad about the hot flushes I get when every time a 190 wafts past.


James Rupert on the 190e in the Sept. 1993 edition of Car magazine.

Just a few months later I bought a 190e.

 

[Mactech]

When Muffin the Mule was kids program...and still perfectly legal

 

[rifiki]

Toys etc you played with are now in museums.

 

[ftb]

When you spend most of your time talking about all things old on the forums.

 

[Headhurts]

When getting up from the floor requires a support and mental determination.


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[c63chris]

When you stop referring to body parts as left and right and instead the good one and the bad one!


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[brucemillar]

Everywhere you go, there is strong smell of wee



















and it's not him....

 

[219]

BOOM!

.. You buy your first Mercedes



(sorry it had to be said/typed)

I was handed down my dad's old Mercedes after passing my test at 17 , and bought my first one at 19 .

 

[artyman]

When your back goes out more than you do.

 

[WDB124066]

You look at tall trees and think how much they have grown.

Or,

You think this is groovy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuy-10Ejck4

 

[fab1975]

Younger people referring to a modern cover version of an old classic as "the original" and call THE original "a weird cover"...

 

[BEJ]

When it takes all night to do once what you used to do all night.

 

[Deleted member 6183]

When it takes all night to do once what you used to do all night.

The oldest swinger in town.

Fred Wedlock

 

[CLSMark]

When you remember Fredos being 10p

 

[Scott_F]

When you remember Fredos being 10p

Have they gone up ??

 

[CLSMark]

Have they gone up ??

25p now!!!!