You know you're getting old when......
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...you become eligible for a free bus pass, winter fuel allowance and a bowel cancer test kit drops through your letter box (I regret ignoring the last one)...
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You know you are getting old when you and the wife come out of the supermarket wife gets into the front passenger seat and you put the shopping on the back seat then get into the back seat with it and wonder where the steering wheel is and your wife nearly has a heart attack laughing so much.
The other one is when you decide to do a bit of google searching, so open the computer, start google and look blankly at the screen wondering what you wanted to search for.
The other one is when you decide to do a bit of google searching, so open the computer, start google and look blankly at the screen wondering what you wanted to search for.
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"The other one is when you decide to do a bit of google searching, so open the computer, start google and look blankly at the screen wondering what you wanted to search for."
Or sitting at the computer and thinking while doing something else that
you must look up such and such.
Then 5 minutes later, after having shut the computer down, you remember that you wanted to search for something
" Or sitting at the computer and thinking while doing something else that
you must look up such and such.
Then 5 minutes later, after having shut the computer down, you remember that you wanted to search for something
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You've got towels that have been in RAF service longer than the new guy on Sqn has been alive....
I honestly wish we could buy more of them.
They don't make 'em like that any more.
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I loved the Matt cartoon of the retirement age protest march: "What do we want, what were we saying, why are we here.....?"
"What do we want?"
"A cure for Tourettes!"
"When do we want it?"
"#%$^!"
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When your attestation date was closer to the Wright Brothers 1st flight, than your latest birthday is to Gagarin's 1st space flight.In a couple of years, my attestation date will be closer to the Wrights' flight than my latest birthday. But I'm not old.
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When the old joke about old guys never passing up an opportunity to take a pee and never trusting a fart.
Becomes the real facts of life for you.
Back on a the aviation theme, one of the DC-3s I used fly was only three years older than I was and it flew in World War Two.
You fly with the granddaughter of one of your old co-pilots and she is a former Air Force pilot.
Becomes the real facts of life for you.
Back on a the aviation theme, one of the DC-3s I used fly was only three years older than I was and it flew in World War Two.
You fly with the granddaughter of one of your old co-pilots and she is a former Air Force pilot.
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When the old joke about old guys never passing up an opportunity to take a pee ....
I regard it as a life-skill, rather than a problem
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You read and reply to this thread..... Oops I'm old 
...... When your most comfortable (mentally and physically) evening wear includes an old pair of green flying socks, that somehow you managed to retire with. Seriously, nothing is warmer, nor more cosy.
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When your most comfortable (mentally and physically) evening wear includes an old pair of green flying socks,
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When like Bruce Willis's teeshirt in Die Hard, you remember when your now green aircrew socks used to be grey and before that white..