How do you know you're getting old...

[Master Ray]

When you are getting nearer and nearer to 30 but have not accomplished much.  By 30 many others have families and careers instead and at least one meaningful relationship instead of crap jobs and a life alone.

I know that I probably seem young to many here but I don't want to be nearing 30 and not have accomplished much of anything.

Aw, hun, chill out.  I have a decade on you and I am in exactly the same position.

It's about the race, and what you do in the process, not just some imagined finish line.

Yes, I don't have children or a life partner or financial security... but I do have some great memories of stuff I did that so many of my 'settled' pals could never dream of having.  I might have, one day, the things that they have... but they will never have the experiences that I have gone through! 

You're not even 30 yet?  Bloody hell!  So many years in front of you to do exactly what the hell you want!!!

Get out there, kid, do what the hell you feel you want and **** anyone who tells you otherwise!!!

 

[Pol]

You start saying things like when i was younger,back in my day
You carve things from your youth be it sweets ,music, films etc

[Heno]

when you know what ray means when he says "saw it in the pictures"

[Master Ray]

when you know what ray means when he says "saw it in the pictures"

Um, say what now, mate?   

[Wessexy Witch]

I've got new glasses today and they're varifocals.

OLD !

 

[Master Ray]

when you know what ray means when he says "saw it in the pictures"

Ignore my last post to you, Heno.  I might have been slightly, ahem, 'refreshed' when I posted that.

You know when you're getting old when you see a band you like being referred to as 'veterans'... when you remember eagerly awaiting their debut album...   

[Shush]

When Heno compares an image of two old men to  me and M/Ray 

[Master Ray]

Kermit says YAAAAAY!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_w4oSCJIQk

 

[Heno]

i know when i read this thread and am familiar with every post.......


but thats OK

for now anyway

[Red]

Also just had to start wearing varifocals, at least my specs aren't hanging from a chain 

just started a new job (heavy manual labour,track maintenance on railway) which involves working outside in all weathers and at all times of day and night.

Found out after having an enforced 4 year break (I did it for 20 years) I'm definitely not as young and mobile as I once was 

[andydrbeard]

When everything feels stiff apart from the bit you want to be!

For me it's when the optician said "it's time for varifocals". And when talking to someone about a programme you "taped" off the tele  and they just look at you without an idea what you're on about. And when you started work the year your colleagues were born, I could go and on. And when you keep going on about something etc etc.

[Rusco]

just started a new job (heavy manual labour,track maintenance on railway) which involves working outside in all weathers and at all times of day and night.

Found out after having an enforced 4 year break (I did it for 20 years) I'm definitely not as young and mobile as I once was 

You know, it sounds just the same as what I've faced. I used to unload containers full of car and lorry tires. It was contract work so the faster you did it the better was the pay. There wasn't pallets at all and we had to unload it with hands and palletize the tires for the warehouse. There were two of us + at times someone with a forklift. If there wasn't a forklift nearby we had to bring a 6 meters long steel cage loaded with tires (weighting 900 kg's) with A hand forklift. The problem was that the hand forklift did not have forks long enough so my mate had to climb up the cage as adding more weight to 'this' side so that the other side rised from the ground - that we could get it to move! 

And few years ago I tried to get back to that job because the pay was quite good if ya unloaded 3-4 containers per day. This time I  went unloading wine containers but I realised I'm not so mobile anymore. Well the pay wasn't that good with that firm either...

Sad thing is that it's not so easy to find new jobs when I'm getting older. Who would want to hire an ugly and bald old man who asks for a fair pay... 

[Pol]

When you look at the gig guide in the paper and you've never heard of most of the people playing

[Heno]

man, i need some testimonies about this varifocal lark

or should i get lasered?



anyway, you know you are getting old when the movie around the plot is better in the original than in the remakes


strange thing is, listening to bands on youtube from back in the day and the tunes and words are still with me. if they taught school through music then i have no doubt we would be all rocket scientists or the like

[jc]

Find a good surgeon and get lasered. The key is the surgeon, make sure it's the same person who does your consultation as who cuts you as who sees you afterwards. Ask them how many they've done, their re-work rate. I've had it done a couple of times and cannot stress more strongly that it is the surgeon and their protocols rather than the equipment.

Cheers

jc