You know you are getting old when...

[P5BNij]

Jonny TVR said:

P5BNij said:

My Nan was a dead ringer for Dandy Nichols who played Alf Garnett's long suffering Mrs, she also had a very similar voice, just picture Mrs Garnett saying 'Nancy boy' with a slight sneer and you get the picture!

Sounds like a character

Oh she was, didn't take crap from anyone and was a real trooper, she was an ARP warden in Hammersmith during the war, character building stuff dealing with dead bodies and all that, her stories put me off joining the Luftwaffe I can tell you that! Always made me laugh the way she swore at stuff on the telly, her turn of phrase and delivery was priceless. Recall watching the Euston Films series 'Out' in 1978 with her leaning into the TV set and sneering 'baaaarrrsteeerds' at frequent intervals. Always had a fag on too, with about an inch and a half of ash 'hanging' off the end of it.

[Jonny TVR]

Brilliant! Thanks for sharing

P5BNij said:

Oh she was, didn't take crap from anyone and was a real trooper, she was an ARP warden in Hammersmith during the war, character building stuff dealing with dead bodies and all that, her stories put me off joining the Luftwaffe I can tell you that! Always made me laugh the way she swore at stuff on the telly, her turn of phrase and delivery was priceless. Recall watching the Euston Films series 'Out' in 1978 with her leaning into the TV set and sneering 'baaaarrrsteeerds' at frequent intervals. Always had a fag on too, with about an inch and a half of ash 'hanging' off the end of it.

[GAjon]

When-

The only suit in your wardrobe that doesn’t have dust on the shoulders is your black one.

[DaveTheRave87]

kentlad said:

Morningside said:

Cpme to post something on the getting old thread then realise you've already done it

you come to post something on this thread and forget what it was.

Who's Fred?

[glenrobbo]

DaveTheRave87 said:

Who's Fred?

He was a paedophile TV weatherman, but that's not important right now...

[hungry_hog]

.. the only occasions you are awake past 2am are to use the toilet

[moktabe]

When you drop something on the floor.

In your younger days it was just a case of bending down and picking it up.

You're getting old when you look at whatever is on the floor for a few minutes wondering if you need it any more.

[Sticks.]

Or you finish what you're doing, and wait to see if you drop anything else before bending down.

[SpeckledJim]

GAjon said:

When-

The only suit in your wardrobe that doesn’t have dust on the shoulders is your black one.

That’s rather beautifully sad.

[SpeckledJim]

When you do the maths on a Bag For Life.

[johnxjsc1985]

convincing yourself of the benefits of a Bus Pass.

[anonymous-user]

Sticks. said:

Or you finish what you're doing, and wait to see if you drop anything else before bending down.

spot on

[ColinM50]

You can't bend over without grunting

[glenrobbo]

SpeckledJim said:

When you do the maths on a Bag For Life.

Oh yes! That made me chuckle.


When you pick up a book and check the number of pages in it before deciding if it's worthwhile taking the gamble that you have enough time left to finish it.

[jet_noise]

ColinM50 said:

You can't bend over without grunting

Not the bending over, that's easy...
...it's the getting back up that's hard

[john2443]

MikeStroud said:

Your once profitable way of life robbing the weekly payroll on it's way from the bank to the factory just doesn't pay so well any more.

Mainly cos no one gets paid in cash anymore and there are no factories any more.

When I worked for a company like that in the 80s, Securicor delivered the wages on a Friday, The driver, wearing a helmet a stab vest got out of the cab, banged on the door at the back which was opened from inside by another helmeted guy who handcuffed the case to his wrist and took it into the MD's secretary's office.

He unlocked the handcuff, unlocked the secure case and took the wage packets out.

Then he went back to the van leaving Shirley with a hundred grand in cash on her desk only protected by her stapler and any other office equipment she had nearby! Much easier to walk in there and steal it than stopping the security van, but remarkably no-one ever did!

[motco]

ColinM50 said:

You can't bend over without grunting farting

We all have our personal shortcomings...

[Sticks.]

john2443 said:

When I worked for a company like that in the 80s, Securicor delivered the wages on a Friday, The driver, wearing a helmet a stab vest got out of the cab, banged on the door at the back which was opened from inside by another helmeted guy who handcuffed the case to his wrist and took it into the MD's secretary's office.

He unlocked the handcuff, unlocked the secure case and took the wage packets out.

Then he went back to the van leaving Shirley with a hundred grand in cash on her desk only protected by her stapler and any other office equipment she had nearby! Much easier to walk in there and steal it than stopping the security van, but remarkably no-one ever did!

When I was 16/17 c1978/9 I had a Saturday job at a town centre shop. When the day's cashing up had been done, £3-4k usually, I was sent to deposit it in the night safe of the bank. It was thought safe as no one would expect a teenager to be carrying that amount. A gullible lookingg teenager at that.

[john2443]

Sticks. said:

When I was 16/17 c1978/9 I had a Saturday job at a town centre shop. When the day's cashing up had been done, £3-4k usually, I was sent to deposit it in the night safe of the bank. It was thought safe as no one would expect a teenager to be carrying that amount. A gullible looking teenager at that.

At about that time a school friend had a Saturday job in Boots, her and another staff member would walk down to the night safe at the bank with the takings in a carrier bag, I can't remember the details now but someone robbed or attempted to rob her, she was a stroppy sod even as a 16 yr old (went on to become a hospital ward sister or something like that) so probably told them to get stuffed and threatened to clock them one with a bag of change!

[nonsequitur]

DaveTheRave87 said:

kentlad said:

Morningside said:

Cpme to post something on the getting old thread then realise you've already done it

you come to post something on this thread and forget what it was.

Who's Fred?

Go to bed? it's far too early.