Getting Old Is???

Having an argument about what day of the week it is..... and losing

Going out for dinner on your birthday and looking across to a mirror in front of you and realising the one behind you is showing your bald patch spreading!!

Getting annoyed with text messages from younger people, who seem to no longer have the capability of sending a message in English. Instead they send it in ridiculous text speak, which to me comes across as indecipherable code for which I would need an Enigma code breaker.

What is so difficult about texting the words ‘Thank you’ or ‘Thanks’? What the hell does THX mean? What is it with this lazy arsed nonsense?

Getting old is perhaps inevitable but it is also important never to lose that sense of childlike fun you had and if you have kids, don't neglect them due to work, remember the family should come first like your health. All work and no play makes a father really dull.

Forgetting within about 30 seconds something that I had racked my brains for about an hour trying to recall and then taking another two hours to remember what I had forgotten.

FFS

Watching kids shows from one's youth on YT and realising a) whether they were any good or not, and b) which minor cast members went on to greater fame elsewhere.

Waking up to aches and pains you didn't have the night before.

(15-06-2019 15:51 )Doddle Wrote:  Watching kids shows from one's youth on YT and realising a) whether they were any good or not, and b) which minor cast members went on to greater fame elsewhere.

Or realising most of the cast are dead

When you were young computers, video recorders, camera and other electrical equipment available were a breeze to set up and use. Now you buy something new electrical and you don't have a clue what to do even if you have waded through pages and pages of 'the helpful manual" that comes with it.

Needing glasses or a magnifying glass to read the miniscule written instructions on pill boxes(and leaflet inside them), food labels and manuals supplied with electronic stuff(as mentioned above)