I was watching an episode of One foot in the grave and thought how lovely Margaret is. 😂
You start wearing vests.
You look forward to a cuppa and a nice sit down
Varifocal prescription. **** old shit eyes.
hair growing out of your ears and long eyebrows
Friday night, the wife is away and you think "Great, I can finish the jigsaw!"
Getting out of bed and finding it faster to identify the bits that don't hurt.
Coke and hookers means watching Mortimer and Whitehouse with a glass of fizzy pop.
And thinking a polo shirt with a v-neck, in clashing pastel shades, is how to entice a lady 😉
And thinking a polo shirt with a v-neck, in clashing pastel shades, is how to entice a lady
oooh. saucer of cream sir?
Couple of years ago I was having trouble getting my son to sleep, stayed in the room until he dropped off. Waited a few minutes and triumphantly got up to go.
The crack from both knees woke him up.
Decided to start getting back into shape yesterday, so started on my old core exercises last night.
Lower back pain this morning, turns out I can't just crash out the same numbers as last summer before breaking my foot got me out of routine. Hobbling around like my 79 year old dad today...
When you can't remember what you wrote in the last version of this thread...
...erm. Have you seen my phone charger?
You start to hate the young.Mind,they do seem to be vicious little feral scumbags these days Unlike us if course
You forget what you went into the room for. Or where the thing you've had for the last 30 minutes has gone.
You are sent pictures of yourself at an event you remember vividly, then look around at your colleagues and realise when the pics were taken, the majority of them weren’t born.
When one of you forgets to un lock the rear shock and drops into a 8km 1200m descent and wonders at the bottom why he couldn't keep up. 🤔
School boy error.😂
When one of you forgets to un lock the rear shock and drops into a 8km 1200m descent and wonders at the bottom why he couldn't keep up.
One of my best stage placings in an enduro was when I’d forgotten to unlock the shock. Was the rowdiest stage of the day too 🤣
When sitting down there is an involuntary sigh from the diaphragm
When you turn up at the hotel to deliver or collect bags and the much younger woman at reception says "I'll help you with those", or "shall I take that big one".
...when you have more hair on your arse than your head!
Buying an old motorcycle is considered by your family to be your second mid-life crisis.
@PJay I was offered a seat at St Pancras by a young couple recently 😞
I know user name checks out 😁
The irony is trying to type this I shrunk the keyboard on my phone and had to look up how to resize it 🙄
I now have that special stick for stirring paint
The roady chain gang you're in gets overtaken by a rider with his girlfriend on his wheel.
When a few glasses of nice wine gives you a low sleep score of 54, due to only 5 hrs sleep between 11pm and 630 am ..
The roady chain gang you're in gets overtaken by a rider with his girlfriend on his wheel.
Oh the humiliation, overtaken by a woman.
When you give up taking a spare tube and levers because you know you could never get the tyre on/off out in the wilds.
As you can probably tell I've just read the tyre lever thread and realised it's just me, not that manufacturers are making sidewalls too stiff to remove with a standard size lever
I associate with way too many of these.
I arrived late at a work meeting a couple of weeks back, no chairs left. A colleague leapt up to offer me his. I told him to sit back down!
When the ranting on the Uk government thread just looks depressing.
You get genuinely excited about the prospect of having full length mudguards on your bike
When bending down to tie shoelaces, considering what else you could be doing while you're down there 😉
You get invited to more funerals than weddings.
Actually, this. I was at a funeral last week and we were discussing whether or not it's now time to buy a "funeral outfit".
When all the "big" birthdays coming up are 60th, and conversation is all about retirement plans.
There's a trailer for Geoff Norcott (sorry) on FB where he talks about middle aged sex. He says its like accidentally getting someone else's Deliveroo order. Not planned or expected, but you're very grateful none the less.
Some years back a nice young lady offered me her seat on the bus.
“Hubert, ever the gentleman, offers his seat to a lady in a public lavatory. There is considerable misunderstanding.”
When you're at gig and realise the most of the audience wasn't born last time you were in there (02 Institute / Sanctuary Digbeth
When you painfully realise you represent the older section of the demographic at gigs…
I also find myself enjoying getting slippers at Christmas.
Some years back a nice young lady offered me her seat on the bus.
Hmmmph, yes. I was crossing the carpark at Lidl with an armful of stuff because I was too tight to buy a bag and I hadn't expected to buy as much. A woman in her twenties offered to help me get to the car!
Only people of a certain age hover around the middle of Lidl
I stood by at a different fire station to the one I usually work at on Boxing day, I was chatting with the other guy on the back of the truck and it transpired we had both served in the same regiment before the fire brigade, he enquired when I had joined up and when I told him he laughed and said "I was only three when you joined" that made me feel old ☹️
There's a trailer for Geoff Norcott (sorry) on FB where he talks about middle aged sex. He says its like accidentally getting someone else's Deliveroo order. Not planned or expected, but you're very grateful none the less.
Sorry, not sorry Geoff. I don’t use Deliveroo! 😉
