Glaring at seated young men on the tube because they haven't offered you their seat. Feeling depressed if they offer their seat - sans glare - because that means you look older than you think.
All perfectly appropriate .... except the weird one about it being time to get a watch ... I find the older I get the less I need a watch - haven't worn one since I stopped work 9 years ago!
Ha ha, Jack. I agree, I don’t like the “10 ways to improve your….” genre either. However, I have written about ageing many times. I do so legitimately. I work hard; I hike daily. I was born before the age of television. The world contained one-third of the people it does today. When I say, ‘I was born before the war’ – people ask, ‘Which war?’ And yet – I am NOT old. Today, some are old in their 20s. My grandson has a football coach who is 20. It’s the next stage in his career. It’s fun to pick out things one doesn’t know or understand (I find that with ‘celebrities!). Many of the other missing pieces are the result of too much knowledge available everywhere. No one needs to keep up – whenever they were born! Anyway - thanks for all the fun...!
Despite being weeks away from becoming a pensioner, only four on your list apply to me. However, you have probably not included another 35 examples of which at least 25 would apply to me, including moaning about pavement cyclists, using my age as an excuse, people walking in busy streets with their faces buried in their phones, transport users with their phones baring music etc........I'd better stop there before my blood pressure goes up - it's an age thing.
Becoming more right-wing and thinking more about death. Oh, and after looking at an old film or tv series checking google to see whether the actors are still alive or when they died- and of what.
Ok, so when I lost my mind and watched old BBC election night coverage, I started googling to see which MPs/commentators were still alive and it became a macabre guessing game.
28. Goose or duck fat, not oil
Telling people you age for no real reason, other than you want them to look shocked and say ' you really don't look it'
I fear me doing that would not lead to the hoped-for shocked reaction!
The thing is, it doesn't!
Thinking…’That Peter Mandelson wasn’t such a bad chap after all’ - ‘ I made a mistake and now I must go’
Kind of amazing that Mandelson was a figure of some import in the 1980s and still is today...
Glaring at seated young men on the tube because they haven't offered you their seat. Feeling depressed if they offer their seat - sans glare - because that means you look older than you think.
Ah yes — impossible for anyone to win. Love it.
All perfectly appropriate .... except the weird one about it being time to get a watch ... I find the older I get the less I need a watch - haven't worn one since I stopped work 9 years ago!
34 out of 35 ain't bad!
Love Point 11 - totally brutal - hilarious!
Ha ha, Jack. I agree, I don’t like the “10 ways to improve your….” genre either. However, I have written about ageing many times. I do so legitimately. I work hard; I hike daily. I was born before the age of television. The world contained one-third of the people it does today. When I say, ‘I was born before the war’ – people ask, ‘Which war?’ And yet – I am NOT old. Today, some are old in their 20s. My grandson has a football coach who is 20. It’s the next stage in his career. It’s fun to pick out things one doesn’t know or understand (I find that with ‘celebrities!). Many of the other missing pieces are the result of too much knowledge available everywhere. No one needs to keep up – whenever they were born! Anyway - thanks for all the fun...!
Despite being weeks away from becoming a pensioner, only four on your list apply to me. However, you have probably not included another 35 examples of which at least 25 would apply to me, including moaning about pavement cyclists, using my age as an excuse, people walking in busy streets with their faces buried in their phones, transport users with their phones baring music etc........I'd better stop there before my blood pressure goes up - it's an age thing.
Banning phones blaring music in public is a universal one!
I love the “agreeing not to make a noise rising from, or descending into the seated position”. I may be too late for redemption on this one!
Staying up to watch the BBC news at 10.
Worrying whether you need to wear factor 50 sun protection in December
Or indeed remembering when it was the BBC News at 9...
Going out to pick up fish and chips on friday and seeing all those delivery bikes.
Get those steps in and you can have extra chips.
Becoming more right-wing and thinking more about death. Oh, and after looking at an old film or tv series checking google to see whether the actors are still alive or when they died- and of what.
Ok, so when I lost my mind and watched old BBC election night coverage, I started googling to see which MPs/commentators were still alive and it became a macabre guessing game.
35 things because it's your 35th birthday? If so, - have a good one!
It isn't but thank you!