One of the first times I felt "old" today...

[tomturbomatic]

Jon, It's not that you are so much older, it's just that those people in your class have poor memories.

Ron, you have probably discovered the interesting relationship between blessings and gratitude is that the more gratitude you offer up for your blessings, the more blessings you receive. It's like making an electric circuit complete. The electrons don't flow unless they have a complete path from the source to the recipient and back.

I hear songs on the radio from the late 60s and early 70s and think back to that stage of my life. I compare where I was then to where I am now and am overwhelmed by the blessings I have received all along the way, kinahora.

 

[gadgetgary]

What wonderful sentiments....

Thank you for posting Tom~!

 

[petek]

At 50 I don't feel like I'm 50 the way I used to think of 50 year old folk when I was 20 cept for one thing. I always swore to myself back then that when I got to be 40 plus ish I was NOT going to be one of those old geezers still hanging around in some twink nightclub looking like an old geezer. LOL. I was quite happy the other day when I popped into the Rexall and got the seniors discount, not from some young twink either but a middle aged woman, she said she knew I wasn't a senior but was gonna give it to me anyways. When I look at pics of my dad when he was in his late 30's and 40's he looks older but I think that has something to do with how people dressed back then. Besides a little box of Just For Men goes a long way.

 

[irishwashguy]

Feeling old???

i just turned 35 about a month ago.A 21 yo guy I work withtold me that I was almost the same age as his mother(OMG) she started early. When I was growing up, we had one TV, a big console RCA record player combo/TV/Radio.I remeber when my Aunt Fran's New 76 "T" bird was really new. Watching Wonder Woman on Friday night( I just adore her!!) Laugh in Re runs, When Rotary phones was all there was at my house because touch tone was more expensive and new fangled as my mother put it. The only caller ID we had was picking up the phone and saying WHO IS IT! Seeing all in the Family when it was on CBS the first time and not on TV land. I don't have any grey yet, I am a red head, my hair will just turn white( So i am told.Itish grecian formula, well maybe someday. I have pants that will fit me again from 1992 and my first drivers licence in 1988. I have enclosed a scene from Wonder Woman circa 1977. Cheers, Ritchie

 

[perc-o-prince]

When Rotary phones was all there was at my house

....and I remember when you rented them from the phone company!!!

Rich

 

[toggleswitch]

...and when Ma Bell would measure the ringer current draw to see if you had a phone you were not paying for....

In those days, you had a phone (where the street wiring first met with an indoor fnsihed space where the phone was located)and an extension, probably where the wiring was extended to get to a second phone-set.

 

[perc-o-prince]

I remember it well!!!

I remember hooking up several "illegal" extensions and my grandmother worried, for months, that the "phone police" were going to come and do something too horrific for words!

Then again, she also told me, as a very small child, that the gypsies would come and take small children away. When the gypsies did finally come knocking at our door (selling handmade lawn chairs), I climbed into the dryer to hide!! Oh how I miss my best friend/grandmother :-(

Rich

 

[veg-o-matic]

Feeling old

Funny this thread should come up now as I've been feeling rather old myself, lately. I guess in the Grand Cosmic Scheme, 46 really isn't all that bad. And I have my health, so that's something to be thankful for.
Oddly though, this afternoon I flashed on a picture of myself at some point in the future (next week?): a paunchy old guy with wispy hair, wearing his pants too high and buying chicken magazines at the porn shop. On a really hot Saturday night, I'll treat myself to a box of Raisinettes too.

veg

 

[perc-o-prince]

Veg,

I think I just wet myself laughing!!!

Rich

 

[frontaloadotmy]

Veg Dearest

The paunch and wispy hair signals the onset of Cenile Agitation, take it from one who nose deerie!

Jon- in North Hykeham Lincoln , I turned 36, 23 days after you were born. Keep stashing those little things that bring you pleasure now; because they will do the same thing when you're 36 or 66!

 

[dalangdon]

When I was a very young kid, our phone number was still four digits. When I started into first grade, it was pounded into my head that there were now THREE! MORE! DIGITS! in front of the previous number. (Not that it really mattered - in those days Northwestern Bell still had local operators, and anyway, any little kid who was lost would have probably been recognized and put in touch with the folks, pronto)

The big irony about aging with me was facial hair: In my early career, there was NO WAY a hotel employee could have ANY sort of facial hair. Then, they said you could have a mustache - but only if you grew it on vacation. Since I looked like a real dork with my wispy vacation mustache, I stayed clean shaven, and got used to people thinking I was their fourteen year old bellboy, instead of the person who would end up being responsible for their silly wedding reception or banquet.

But then came the New Covenant: Not only could non-uniformed women wear SLACKS (but only before 5pm), but the men could have goatees!!! We felt so liberated!!

So I grew mine (and I didn't go on vacation to do it - luckily, this coincided with us "going computer", and I was the one of the few who understood the "new techonolgy", so I spent three weeks facing a wall and entering future convention bookings into the computer, all while gestating my 'goat)

Once I did that, I magically looked older! People didn't expect me to carry their bags up to their room anymore! I felt like an adult!

Nowadays, I have no problem with people mistaking me for a youngster, unfortunately

 

[aquarius1984]

ChesterMike your 1 year and 2 days older than my Dad lol.

I plan on retiring at 30 because the way technology is going at work I wont be able to keep up. hand held devices everywhere, computers and printers that tell me silly messages and freeze. And im meant to be of the computer generation.

Looks at darn digicam sat next to me, heap of junk good for nothing BLEEP! even my mobile phone does not like me lately.

Nick

 

[carlstock]

Awww! Poor Nick! ;-)

Nick you get back to work, you lazy so-and-so! ;-) I’m watching you!!! ;-)

I know what you mean, Nick, about new technology. I love computers, gadgets, anything… However, I am getting really fed up with lots of new products simply failing on me! Grrr!

Anyway, I was born in 1979, and I know I am getting old! I already have some grey and white hairs, as well as less hair on top (although the latter has been the case since my late teens! LOL). However, I have a ‘baby face’, so I look about 20! LOL

I remember TV-am, which was a UK breakfast TV *station*, I hasten to add. TV-am was the national ITV breakfast-time contractor in the days when ITV1, the UK’s biggest commercial TV network, was just called “ITV” and had a myriad of different companies broadcasting in separate regions. TV-am was *not* a programme, so there! ;-)

I’m a mine of, erm, useless information, me. ;-)

Oh, the olden days. ;-) LOL Wac-a-day! hehe

Regards,

Carl

 

[tomturbomatic]

No other hand-held device will replace my two favorite hand-held devices: loved ones and my loved one.

 

[abcomatic]

Phone numbers? We lived on the farm in the 50's and our phone number was 3 long. We had a party line of 7 or 8 people. The phone was on the wall and we had to crank it to get central and then the central (operator) would connect you with the number you asked for. Our phone would ring 3 long rings and we knew that the call was for us. Everytime someone was receiving a call, their number would ring in all of the houses on the line; everyone knew everyone's phone number and could listen in at will. If the phone rang 2 long and one short, that was the Erickson's, 2 short, one long, that was the Knudsen's and so on. Those were the days for sure. Gary

 

[aquarius1984]

Something Positive!

Today on 3 occasions I was smuggly made to feel nice and young and "with it" too! something ive not felt lately with the commitments to work ive been making etc etc. So much "adult stuff" lol.

Went to the opticians finally and instead of the usual worsening of my prescription my eyesight is actually better! YAY! still had to get new specs though as some ********** stole them from work.
Cant put anything down for 2 minutes in that place.
So now atleast my handwriting is neat again lol and I can watch more than an hour of TV and do computer stuff wothout feeling like I have the worlds worst hangover.

I also managed to decide which 2 pairs of specs I wanted within 10 minutes, last time it took 2 hours of dilly dallying just for the 1 pair.

When it comes to things like this I feel somewhat conscious of wearing upto the minute fashionable ones but this time I chose some nice Pewter Hugo Boss ones and some Ralph Lauren ones with a blue frame! usually a big no no! (not boasting as they were only affordable because they was buy one get one free mind! and theres was not much difference between the regular frames etc etc).

I was in "George" wearing said new specs, checking out something new to wear and a 50ish old lady asked me which option to buy for her 27yr old son.
I told her I dont really have much fashion sense but to my surprise she said I dressed sexily. hmmm the laugh i gave lol. Great got the older women after me now jeeez!!!
But I suggested a nice checked shirt for sure tho, that she liked!

So with all this good luck im going to attempt to post pics with that darn camera!

Everybody have the bestest day!

Nick
(with not so good grammar today! pmsl)

 

[seamusuk]

Glasses..

Hey Nick

Did they come from Boots by chance

Seamus

 

[aquarius1984]

no they didnt Seamus

but im guessing you should have gone to specsavers! LOL Nick

 

[wishwash]

age

We're not old, we're classic!

 

[oxydolfan1]

"Retro"??

 

[washertalk]

Don't worry about it.

"2) I have no interest in watching 'Made' on MTV."
What is that?

"3) Every new rock band sounds like the pale retread of a band from my past."
It is. don't worry.

Corporate created rock lacks originality. is typically down beat, regressive.

At 39 I have no interested in being part of todays youth. I actually feel sorry for them. When I was growing up I got to see the premiere of the original MTV and that was great. The original is always better. The dawning of the computer generation.
The music from the 70s and early 80s and yes the 60s was great. so progressive and upbeat. (that is why I love those periods) I don't think you could find an upbeat song today if you tried.

remember all the awesome movies.
And the Sex back then was done with a passion. Studio 54
Love it. If I could go back then and be young. THAT would be great. besides todays 60 is middle age. there was a time in the not too distant past where people didn't even live that long.

 

[kirk280980]

Today while taking a break at work, I was sitting with some colleagues when one of them randomly piped up "Oooh, you've got a few grey hairs coming through, they're *really* noticeable!"

"Erm... thank you for pointing that out Leona!" LOL. Had to laugh because you usually only hear such brutal honesty from the mouths of toddlers, before they get to the age when they learn all about tact and when to use it.

Won't be reaching for the dye bottle any time soon though, despite being only 26, because a little tell-tale grey is the least of my worries right now. Besides, when I have my hair cropped down to almost nothing you could never tell anyway. Women seem to love Philip Schofield (a British TV presenter), and we all know how much the boys here melt over Anderson Cooper, so perhaps a little grey isn't such a bad thing.

 

[toggleswitch]

Some start young.

I saw on an airplane not long ago a family (probably Brazilian) with three young boys.

They must have been 16, 13 and 10. Very grey. Some grey, and just a few.

*WOW*

That was wild!