Topic: Signs you are getting really old!!!!!!!

[rb550four]

  I remember as a young man in the Army that PT meant Physical Training , I liked that.
It has a new meaning for me now, physical therapy, not so much a fan.

  Then there was the hearing test....remember when you had a shot at passing it?
 I haven't heard the blinkers tick in the car for ten years. Drives my kids nuts when I drive, "Dad , turn off your blinker!"
   It's not all bad , I find it handy around the house sometimes.

When the phone rang it would be a customer making an appointment, now it's the doctor's office.

When you got in the car and forgot your glasses.....I call it driving by shadow.

[rb550four]

When you rely on an electric starter instead of a kick starter.

[scunny]

When you wander out to your kick only bike, and say to yourself, not today. I hate that.

[gpzkat]

Fly is often down, but nobody's that excited about it.

[Steve F]

My old dad had to go to the doctor so my mother drove him there.  Once in the office, the doctor told him he needs a stool sample, a urine sample and a semen sample.  Being hard of hearing, dad says to mom WHAT DID THE DOCTOR SAY???  Mom turns to him and says HE WANTS YOUR UNDERWEAR!

[Alan F.]

Steve you should post that over at the joke of he day thread.

http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,183682.0.html

[scottly]

When you wander out to your kick only bike, and say to yourself, not today. I hate that.

I reached that stage about 3 or 4 years ago, and re-installed the electric starter, after being kick only for 20 years or so.

[Magpie]

A sign I'm getting old, lack of patience when dealing with a shop or store. I took my Pathfinder into an upholstery shop for a repair of the bolster on the driver's seat. The material they used for repair no where near matches the seat. Dammit. Take it back in the morning. Why can't it be done right in the first place? Dammit.

[RAFster122s]

In another thread...

[dave500]

im with Magpie,lack of attention to detail by #$%*s that only do half a job,in my day you went the extra mile like all screws say on wood work/homes the slots or crosses all aligned?but does it really matter?

[RAFster122s]

Dave that is pride in one's work and craft / craftsmanship. Still exists but now in faster pace world they sre more worried about speed and output than making it look great as they quickly do it.

[Don R]

A couple hours in the shop seem like a good days work.

[HondaMan]

im with Magpie,lack of attention to detail by #$%*s that only do half a job,in my day you went the extra mile like all screws say on wood work/homes the slots or crosses all aligned?but does it really matter?

I does matter.
Only once in my life did I not 'do it right', and I've been ashamed of that one thing every since. Never did it again, neither. Only 3 other peole knew about it, all but one are gone now, and he was the one who directed me to do it. He apologized for that later (he was my boss in those days), as he learned how I roll during that episode, and how unhappy I was about having to do it.

Scientists quantitized the energy of sound waves in air and found that it traverses vacuum as electrical impulses. So, every word we've said has made it, in some small way, to the boundaries of space as energy impulses. And while those typically dissipate as the square of the traveled distance, they are still there: so, every word you've ever spoken is essentially preserved forever.

Humbling, isnt it?

[dave500]

Burp.

[Ichiban 4]

I does matter..

Scientists quantitized the energy of sound waves in air and found that it traverses vacuum as electrical impulses. So, every word we've said has made it, in some small way, to the boundaries of space as energy impulses. And while those typically dissipate as the square of the traveled distance, they are still there: so, every word you've ever spoken is essentially preserved forever.

Humbling, isn't it?

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Mark..
That's a cool explanation about how sound travels through a vacuum.  Hadn't heard that one before (although I took several years of Physics in school). 
Wanted to share my understanding about 'where sound/things go after being said'..from my Zen experience tho.  It's basic to the Buddhist school called Abhidharma..which underlies all Buddhist philosophy BTW.
Buddhism is essentially atheistic..or agnostic at least. So the question of eternity or that things 'go somewhere forever' doesn't exist in Zen/Buddhism. 
In other words..everything is regarded as impermanent and transient..and has no ultimately fixed form. So by that reckoning..everything we say or do persists only to the degree that we give it meaning/significance. 
If we 'choose' to remember things..they can persist (in our minds anyway).  But if we choose not to remember things..they eventually fade away.  Hence..the 'impermanence' perspective/explanation.
Hope this doesn't appear too esoteric here.  But have found that over the past 25+ years of visiting Japan..it's helped me to understand a little better how the Japanese mind works (majority in Japan are Buddhist oriented BTW)..and how they may tend to see things a little differently than we do in the West. Feel it's a less dualistic way of seeing things/phenomena..and potentially a more harmonious way of dealing with things (which we could all use a little more of nowadays..seems to me).
Cheers Al/Ichi

[Magpie]

When I have to scroll down twice to get to my birth year.

[70CB750]

im with Magpie,lack of attention to detail by #$%*s that only do half a job,in my day you went the extra mile like all screws say on wood work/homes the slots or crosses all aligned?but does it really matter?

Friend of mine worked as a mason in Germany.  Told me how they boss checks brick distances in the wall to make sure they are all the same - the wall was later covered with stucco and nobody could ever see it again.

[Don R]

 I was doing plumbing in a new high dollar house, came in one day to find the brick layer had returned and was sitting in his truck just looking at his work. I asked what was up and he said he was admiring the spacing between the colors of brick and lack of noticeable patterns, he wanted to get a picture of it before they painted it.
 My friend that builds race cars aligns the screw heads so they all face the same direction. One day at a Drag expo he found Don Garlits admiring his work. When he said hi Big showed him the detail on the car, my buddy said thank you,  I did that.

[dave500]

toe nails and ear hair starts growing at an alarming rate!

[gpzkat]

Yeah, I'm married so I know this to be true!

.... every word you've ever spoken is essentially preserved forever.

Humbling, isnt it?

[Don R]

 I did some election judge work at my union hall today and a guy from my apprenticeship class (also retired) mentioned how many of our classmates are dead already. 

[emlupi]

im with Magpie,lack of attention to detail by #$%*s that only do half a job,in my day you went the extra mile like all screws say on wood work/homes the slots or crosses all aligned?but does it really matter?

You’re not alone on this. I always look at the finish plates on electrical switches and receptacles to see if all the screw heads are aligned vertically. It drives my wife crazy sometimes because I look at things everywhere we go and comment on installations that are not plumb, level, or evenly spaced.

[BomberMann650]

Told a college boy he needed to get off my lawn.

[HondaMan]

Told a college boy he needed to get off my lawn.

You have a lawn?!

[CBJoe]

hell...I knew I was getting old when I spent 200$ on a farking pillow

but after reading comments now I have an overwhelming desire to buy some coveralls