You visit a Science and Industry Museum and in one of the exhibitions are items you used to work on, Manchester and the media exhibits that included a Strowger tone generator, cord switchboard and payphone 🙁

Apparently, there’s still a Strowger buried deep beneath the House of Commons. Or so I’m told. Relays will work post-nuclear apocalypse. As you well know.

You know when you are getting old when

Policemen and politicians look like upity youngsters. /thread.

I fitted out one of those in the early 80’s in Chester, its now the toilets for a bar. Also worked in the one deep below Manchester city centre in the late 80’s. What they have no doubt forgot is that there’s hardly anyone left that has been on a relay adjustment course or still has all the tools.

When you can’t remember how old you are…

When you can’t remember how old you are…

Naa, I was like that in my mid 30’s, now I know for sure that I’m old at 61. 😥

When your staff are younger than your years of service.

Naa, I was like that in my mid 30’s, now I know for sure that I’m old at 61.

Well, since you’ve remembered your age, you can’t be old!

Russell96 – Member
I fitted out one of those in the early 80’s in Chester, its now the toilets for a bar. Also worked in the one deep below Manchester city centre in the late 80’s. What they have no doubt forgot is that there’s hardly anyone left that has been on a relay adjustment course or still has all the tools.

Interesting. I dont know of anyone who can still trim them.

Most of my working day right now is centred on decom’ing a chunk of old (but not as old as Strowger) DMS switches. Its challenging.

The barber asks if he can trim your ear/nose hair…..

A new starter colleague was born the year Top Gun came out…

The Mk1 Focus RS recently celebrated it’s 15th birthday!

I worked on it’s development, and it still feels like yesterday!

Here’s me, looking ridiculously young, with Neil Briggs from Ford (now of course of BAC – Briggs Automotive Company – Mono fame) with a Pre-Production RS at the top of Stelvio pass in Italy:

..when you’re whinging about fireworks upsetting your dog on another thread…

Your boss doesn’t know what a remington fuzz-away is

When you go to the North York Moors Railway to see locomotives you used to see when you went trainspotting as a kid.

Deltics not steam loco’s 😆

monkeysfeet – Member

The barber asks if he can trim your ear/nose hair…..

Add Eyebrows & he just does it without any questions

@maxtorque – jealous!

This tweet is topical and made me chuckle https://twitter.com/Bill_Gross/status/920406104911233024

You know when you are getting old when

It takes you all night to do what you used to do all night… 8)

Can’t decide between the mum and the daughter

Can’t decide between the mum and the daughter

Both?

Policemen and politicians look like upity youngste

Why thank you.

When your new colleagues are a year older than your daughter.

when buildings completely disappear:

first place I worked at is bizarrely completely green fields with cows

remember opening night at what was then the new Sheffield Poly’ Pheonix students union building – in 1976 think Human League topped the bill – knocked down in 2007

When the school that replaced your old school is about to be demolished because its past it’s service life.

Working with kids keeps me feeling young, normally. But last year we had an open day on my birthday. My team got me a cake, which I couldn’t eat because of allergies, so I gave it to the students that were working for me. And this one girl goes, “oh, it’s my birthday too!” Exactly half my age. I wanted to kick her in the face.

When your farts smell like your Dad’s.

When you go to the pub and a hot girl comes up to you as says

You know my mum!!

When you’re chatting to a copper while waiting to go on a job and he says he was born in 1993. After a few seconds of “hang on…. that means… err… wtf????”

Or chatting to someone about a music act and say “can you believe that album is 25 years old” and they say “Wasn’t born then”

Sea’s that way…>

…going out for a big mac could be to buy a waterproof coat or some fast food

When you have worked with the son of your first boss.

When just about everything annoys you 👿

You pick a pice of cat litter & put it in your tea thinking it was a sweatner….

What was the question ?

when you vote Brexit

That you’re staggered that people born this century are driving now.

That you’re still telling people about a ‘new’ trail network in Brechfa that’s more than 10 years old.

That you’re staggered that people born this century are driving now.

I was going to put this as I realised this year whilst checking students provisional licences that I am getting old.

Saying things like ” wow, 2000 feels just like yesterday ” just gets a look of the student as if to say ” shut up ” 😀

It used to all be fields here…

When a young student offers you her seat on the bus 🙁

you go shoe shopping, and come home with some very comfy skeetchers slip on’s.

At work we ordered an enamelling fork for our small kiln, it arrived in 2 pieces, one bag was labelled ‘fork handle’, I held it up and laughed saying ‘four candles’ nobody had a clue what I was on about!