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You know you're getting old when...

Come on, both knees, both hips, both thumbs.
I proudly possess the full house.
Gets you the queuejump ticket on the coasters after a full morning's gardening.
 
rob666 said:
Come on, both knees, both hips, both thumbs.
I proudly possess the full house.
Gets you the queuejump ticket on the coasters after a full morning's gardening.
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You're making me worried now. My hip (as far as I'm aware) is fine, but I do get thumb pains and my knees feel really fragile these days. I'm not even 40 for another few months.

Sadly, I can point to when it all went down hill. 28. I felt fine after this, but suddenly Doritos and beer didn't just go through me like they used to. Year after year of putting on weight, even though I'd starting cutting back on the body abuse and even quit smoking. Then the knees starting feeling stiff and suddenly I realised I was basically no longer able to use them any more for kneeling purposes.

But the worst has to be the back. Just been to the chiropractor this evening. I'm grateful now if I have a day with moderate pain and stiffness. Best I've been in years but still can't bend down to pick up even the simplest of things. I used to carry my kids around everywhere but I'm not even able to pick my 8 year old daughter up anymore without careful planning.

For the first time ever I felt crippled after a coaster last week. Got off Taron and couldn't move when I got back to the hotel. You still give me hope though Rob. If you're still enjoying Grand National then I feel rather positive about my coaster riding future.
 
Back pain is common through the years and not usually arthritic.
Damaged a disc in my thirties, no woodies for a couple of seasons.
Nash is good on your back if you stand up down all the naughty bits.
Truly much better than it was.
 
Shaggy_Dog_ said:
You know you’re getting old when you know where all the loos are located at a park, quickest route to them and you make sure you go to one before joining a long queue just to be sure. I tend to drink lots of water on a trip out and you can’t hold it in for hours or days like you can when you’re in your 20s.
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Some of us can't hold it in like when we were in our fifties.
In fact, some of us can't hold it in.
 
When someone you went to primary school with has announced the birth of their second child… seeing that Facebook announcement certainly made me feel pretty old!
 
rob666 said:
Wait 'til you tick sixty or older mate...the last box in the line.
Now I'll be getting spam for funeral plans and incontinence pads.
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A weird one but my Taid was getting a crazy amount of funeral/will/life insurance ads when watching the TV. It was only when I check his sky account online I realised he had personalised ads turned on for the TV. Didn't realise that was a thing outside of interwebs and Chums catalogues.

Someone in the supermarket offered me to go ahead if them at the till because they have "younger legs" than me. 35 is a but too young for that perk to be kicking in right? Right? :oops:
 
Went to my son's parents evening before they broke up, he's in year 8 going up to year 9. Almost every teacher was younger than me. I asked 1 teacher how long blackboards have been gone from the classrooms, he said he'd never seen one even when he was at secondary school. I asked him that if blackboards aren't a thing anymore then what do they throw at the kids messing around at the back of class (like I would've been) if they don't have chalk rubbers anymore? He thought I was joking and laughed. My son said I was embarrassing him.

Place was also like Fort Knox. All the property fenced off apart from the main entrance, the receptionist has to buzz you in through one door then when it closes buzz you in through another. There weren't even any *** butts in the bike sheds. The place was more like an educational establishment than a place to go to be shouted at and beaten up. Certainly made me feel old, schools are unrecognisable these days.
 
Back in the day...
We truly had a pile of slates and a box of chalk for fast "mental maths" at the start of arithmetic lessons...none of your fancy maths or numeracy.
Ten minutes of shouted questions and moving round the room with correct answers.
No wrong answers...ten minutes extra playtime!
****** loved it.
 
Matt.GC said:
I asked 1 teacher how long blackboards have been gone from the classrooms, he said he'd never seen one even when he was at secondary school. I asked him that if blackboards aren't a thing anymore then what do they throw at the kids messing around at the back of class (like I would've been) if they don't have chalk rubbers anymore? He thought I was joking and laughed. My son said I was embarrassing him.
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For some idea, I started school in 2007, and I never saw a blackboard throughout my 14 years in education. I think they’ve been gone a fairly long time.
 
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