You know you are getting old when....

[Fyldewhite]

When you've hit your drive into trees 20 feet high and can remember when they were staked saplings

 

[c1973]

When the toys you played with were made of metal, had sharp edges and were painted with toxic lead paint!

 

[Doh]

When your daughter rings you with the good news " I'm going to be a grandma ?

 

[vkurup]

Your Grandchildren start school...

In some parts of the country, you would still be about 35..

 

[srixon 1]

When you can remember that Waggon Wheels used to be much bigger than they are now.

 

[need_my_wedge]

When you pee at 06:30 every morning, but don't get up till the alarm goes off at 07:30

So glad I put my drink down a few seconds before reading that one....

 

[gripitripit]

All your favorite music is in the bargain bin at Tesco

 

[6inchcup]

You look forward to October just because it's cold enough to have stew....... Hmmmmmm stew!

i read this and txt the misses to get some ox tail,dumplings and proper roast spuds,thats tea sorted tomorrow will have pea soup with ham shank on sat,proper food proper northern.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

i read this and txt the misses to get some ox tail,dumplings and proper roast spuds,thats tea sorted tomorrow will have pea soup with ham shank on sat,proper food proper northern.

Just prompted to get HID to get the Gordon Ramsey stew recipe out again for the weekend. Big batch and freeze some

 

[Slab]

When you can remember that Waggon Wheels used to be much bigger than they are now.

Or you had a car with only 4 forward gears!

 

[Slime]

Or you had a car with only 4 forward gears!

And a manual choke, plus, optional extras such as a heated rear window, radial tyres and a heater!


Slime.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Tudor Crisps were the tuckshop choice being cheaper than Smiths (with Walkers nowhere in sight) - 2.5p cf 3p - and you can remember getting an increase in pocket money from 6d to 1s

...and things, in general, just ain't like they used to be

 

[williamalex1]

And a manual choke, plus, optional extras such as a heated rear window, radial tyres and a heater!


Slime.

My first car was a 1956 Austin A30 it had pop out finger type indicators, a long starting handle.

Cross ply tyres usually baldy no tread, but legal back then, brake shoes no discs. The engine valves had to be de-coked every few thousand miles,

Nearly all cars carried 2 tyre levers ,a jack and a puncture repair kit. Oh! and petrol 5 shillings a gallon I'm really old i guess.

 

[USER1999]

Cresta, it's frothy man!

 

[williamalex1]

Cresta, it's frothy man!

A Vauxhall Cresta with the bench seat and column gear change, romantic man !.

 

[daymond]

1930's (I think) Austin Ruby. Bought it:5 miles;warped head:steam:scrapped. One of life's early lessons.

 

[SocketRocket]

There are two problems with getting old.

1) You start losing your memory.
2) I cant remember the other one!

 

[williamalex1]

There are two problems with getting old.

1) You start losing your memory.
2) I cant remember the other one!

 

[SocketRocket]

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

....when the thought of a pretty girl sending you sexually explicit pictures is attractive and exciting - but you are wise enough to question why she might want to see pictures of you in your paisley pattern jim jams and decide that actually it's not a good idea.