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You know you're getting old when.......
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As life moves on there are signs which tell us, without any chance of doubt, that we are getting older, going downhill, coming off the final bend or generally ready to turn off the lights, lock the door and depart gracefully. What is/are your particular tell-tale symptoms?
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You know all the solutions to all the episodes of Murder, She Wrote
You can spend a whole morning writing a letter and taking it to the Post Office.
You find that peer pressure has significantly reduced.    I stole that one; the first time ever ... sorry.
You think Salisbury is in Southern Rhodesia. (Falstaff) Shurrup!
The phrase "To be or not to be ..." becomes more than just a literary quotation.
- You can add numbers quicker in your head than on a pocket calculator.
You begin every other sentence with the words "In my day..."
You can have a nap after lunch without being disturbed
[Raak, re: Post Office] Blimey. I must be older than I thought.
You keep noticing that you're older than you thought.
You feel that a video game needs at least four hands to be played.
You feel that videogames have never been the same since colour and sound was introduced.
You understand specifically what the "everything" refers to in "sans eyes, sans taste, sans teeth, sans everything."
You don't care any more if you sound like a Tory.
You feel that pinball has never been the same since flippers were introduced.
Nothing impresses you.
(well, this means you're either old or a teenager)
You have a great idea for a posting in a game but then something distracts you and you think of something else for a second and ... um, ... where was I?
You smile indulgently after you fart, saying "pardon", but not really meaning it.
You get irritated by people who talk in like up-speak?
You smile into the mirror and a stranger is frowning back at you. *sigh*
- you are able to remember things that happened in the '60's clearer than last week.
When you have to admit the truth of "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, I am my father after all"
When you still refer to something built in 1965 as "the new . . . ."
- When you can't be bothered to upgrade your mobile unless its broke.
When a new piece of technology is already obsolete by the time you notice it.
You vote
High Court judges seem to be getting younger.
Your defence lawyer describes you as 'an innocent elderly gentleman/spinster'
It's not the flies that bother you it's those pesky things which you see out of the corner of an eye that you think are flies.
An allotment is only 6' x 3' x 6'.
All the good jazz musicians are dead.
Lowering the tone a bit: Rigor Mortis is the only way to get it up. ---- *slam!*
You just don't give a damn anymore.
- You have a good crop of hair everywhere except on your head
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