You Know You’re Getting Old When

You've finally given me a valid excuse for not losing any weight. I don't want to scare my friends and family like that

 

You know your old "When the Grandies" ask "How old will I be if you reach ("insert age") 50/60/70 ?? Happened to swmbo about 5 or 6 years ago, she has now reached "''THAT"'' age and Granddaughter now Knows !! LOL

 

I meet an old Army friend once a month or so for lunch and to catch up. The preliminary conversation is invariably a ‘tour d’horizon’ of who has croaked, his prostate, my knees, his hearing aids, my flatulence......it is grim growing old when the teenager within still wants to go green laning. Mind you, his wife banned him from bikes after he leapt a German forest crash barrier on his Sprint in 1999...... he said his reactions had slowed....he would have been in his early 40s.

 

Beginning of last year I lost 2 stone, and had exactly the reaction you describe when I went to a work do and met up with some colleagues I don't see that often!
The other thing that is a bit of a cliche but true none the less, the copper who pulled me for speeding who was younger than my son, made me feel old!

 

When you stop at a petrol stop for a pee and ride on without refuelling because your tank is half full.

 

So when I get old these are some of the things that I can look forward too

 

Your only as old as you feel. I'm coming up to 62 but I feel like I'm 72
Arthritis in the knees, back ache and eye sight failing. All the joy's of getting older

 

...when old injuries from your younger days start aching when the weather changes in a way that cripples you instead of merely being an inconvenience.

 

when you go out to the garage and within seconds you've forgotten what you went out for, go back to house, remember what it was, go back out again...repeat three times. By the time you've remembered you were going to go for a ride it's started raining, or you need another pee...

 

Glasses, I have just started this, on, off ,bring them along, forget them, decide you can manage with out, then, have to admit you need them, B4st@rd

 

when you are going out on your bike and the next door neighbour says do you want any help

 

Thursday

 

Are you young uns taking the pish out off us older gentlemen,,,,,,,,It’s three thirty and todays Wednesday not Thursday.

 

When you see a beautiful girl walking up the street - and wonder what her mum looks like