...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)...

Mister B

.......when you can remember when there was cream on top of the milk......

(Mister B: [last item] Been there, done that. Scar healed nicely. No recurremce [yet] - GO FOR IT).

D.

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.:confused:

You've got towels that have been in RAF service longer than the new guy on Sqn has been alive....

"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.:confused:"


:ok: :O

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 :(

What?

HB (I think)

I loved the Matt cartoon of the retirement age protest march: "What do we want, what were we saying, why are we here.....?"

Why am I posting?;)

I've been demobbed 49 years and we still have some RAF towels!

I honestly wish we could buy more of them.

They don't make 'em like that any more.

I like the:

"What do we want?"

"A cure for Tourettes!"

"When do we want it?"

"#%$^!"

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.

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.

My wife remarks on my ability to navigate, anywhere we go on 2 Continents, via Gents lavatories.

I regard it as a life-skill, rather than a problem :cool:

You read and reply to this thread..... Oops I'm old :{

You find your Maths papers from your HSC exam (nearly 80 years ago) at the bottom of an old trunk, and try to understand the questions ! :confused:

Don't worry Nutty ...we can have you Carbon Dated if you like :p

...... 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.

Smudge:ok:

When your old flying socks are white.

When you realise that your old grey flying socks used to be white

Tell you what, there's nothing like putting on a pair of old cape leather flying gloves. Trouble is all of the touch screen kit in aircraft these days works better with a naked finger.

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..

You know you're old when you empathise with all the other posts about 'you know when you're old' and don't give a sh!t anyway.

. . . when you can remember the 'secret sign' on your Dad's betting slip (illegal in them days, of course) which you took to the bookie for him, or your Mum's Co-Op 'divi' number (2563) but can't remember the PIN for your Barclaycard and have to wait for the bank to open to get some cash.

I can't remember what I was going to write.

Your getting very old when you can tell the youngsters how we used to FLY our shiny new aircraft before scrapping them :ugh:

The girl at the checkout asks whether you would like help packing your shopping (or even worse, help to your car).

However, this is my personal favourite:

...when you don't know how old you are without working it out from your date of birth.

Nice post FODp. George Burns certainly knew what he was talking about! Also when you stoop to tie your shoe laces and the back fasteners of your braces ping off your trousis, embarrassing when it happens on the main concourse at Waterloo!


Rgds SOS

You get to top of climb and you have to go back down again to remember why you were up there.

I still can't remember what I was going to write.

you stoop to tie your shoes


Velcro fastened shoes or 'slip ons' are the old mans friend. I have several pairs!

... you go to fasten your shoes (laces/Velcro) and find you haven't got any on.

find you haven't got any on.


And you realise that cracked and dried skin has a strong resemblance to crocodile shoes.

Oh, God, is this my fate?

Where's the Mess Webley when you need it?

Quote:

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Where's the Mess Webley when you need it?

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I've forgotten.

"Where's the Mess Webley when you need it?"

I gave it to the wif....................................................