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    Today I felt old

    So I guess this is it, it's going to be downhill from here.

    I had to fit a new toilet seat. It look me over 20 minutes to do, what should be such a simple task.

    Me knees were aching on the cold floor, my back is now feeling a little bit stretched. I'm old hexus.

    So older peeps of Hexus, what are the milestones that I should be looking forward too? I'm worried it will take me more than 5 seconds to pay at the checkout.
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    Re: Today I felt old

    When you grunt when you pick something, you will know you are old.
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    Re: Today I felt old

    When you've been working longer than your minions have been alive...
    If Wisdom is the coordination of "knowledge and experience" and its deliberate use to improve well being then how come "Ignorance is bliss"

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    Re: Today I felt old

    my joints creak when I stand up, and I have to have a little stretch before moving.

    cant take steps/stars 2 at a time anymore and need to hold onto handrail when going down.

    wearing 2 jumpers because its a bit nippy.

    and i'm only 33

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    Re: Today I felt old

    I'm now 41

    Sight isn't as strong as it was even with specs, loads of aches and pains after exertion

    I have found myself watching more stuff that I grew up with also (retro stuff aside), as an example been sat watching GOLD for the past few hours and it has been loads of episodes of Open All Hours

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    Re: Today I felt old

    Greater insight as "Ive seen it all before"

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    Re: Today I felt old

    When you tell the kids to turn the volume down on the tuneless cacophony they pretend is music .... then recall your own parents saying the EXACT same thing to you, over the wonderful music you like.

    Or when you wish for the days where you got more than four hours of uninterrupted sleep per night. Or didn't suffer from a bladder that appears to have shrunk to a third of it's former capacity.

    Or when you daren't pick up something without holding one hand on your back, just in case.

    When you do everything from getting out of a chair to getting out of the bath, to extreme activities like putting on socks SLOWLY .... because doing it too fast runs a serious risk of pulling a muscle.

    When you realise that, having bent over, you can straighten up, or untwist, but you really don't want to do both at the same time.

    When you realise just how long the list of things you either can't do at all, or have to be very careful about doing, is getting.

    Finally, for now, when you get a very smug, wry grin at the thought of what's in store for, and the dawning realisation of, those thinking the above list is funny.

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    Re: Today I felt old

    When the motorcycle that you saved and saved to buy, appears on the front o9f 'Classic Bike' Magazine
    Society's to blame,
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    Re: Today I felt old

    Oh, and on a distinctly more morbid note (but you did ask, TA) when the typical age of those whose funerals you attend goes from much older, to older, to the same age, to younger .... than you.

    And when you realise why this is the case .... that the list of those older than you available as candidates is getting shorter every year.

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    Re: Today I felt old

    Ouch... that's a dark thought Saracen...

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    Re: Today I felt old

    1) you are old

    2) that means you should be able to afford the services of someone younger to do these things for you

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    Re: Today I felt old




    Everyone on TV is younger than you.
    You stop dreaming about doing something and wish that your (future) kids can do it instead.

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    Re: Today I felt old

    Let's see... What makes me feel old?

    Not being able to sit down or get out of a comfortable chair without unknowingly emitting the patented old man groan.

    My younger brother, whom I once rocked back and forth in a pushchair being able to legally hire a car.

    Album anniversary editions... Did you know that Rage Against The Machines first album and Nevermind by Nirvana are knocking on for twenty five years old now?

    Furbies making a comeback and now being Bluetooth enabled... As well as terrifying.

    That I have been single so long that next year I will be able to enroll that aspect of my life in secondary school.

    That the words "classic" or "vintage" are now readily applied to vehicles and instruments made in the late eighties and early nineties.

    That almost every time a cast list is announced for a major movie, the internet goes insane over it and yet I recognise nobody at all.

    Speaking to "adults" who have no memory of VHS cassettes.

    Being able to feel draughts.

    The recent trend in male fashion where every t-shirt has a glamour model on it.

    Working out how many years it has been since 9/11.

    The fact that I am completely non-plussed by and struggle to understand my Kindle and the hype behind e-readers as a whole.

    The cacophany of clicks, cracks and creaking noises that my knee's, elbows, ankles and back emit every time I get out of bed in a morning.

    Looking at my Hexus User ID number of 41 and knowing that I was registered here for many many moons even before the reboot.

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    Re: Today I felt old

    The creeping fear that one day you might, just might, find that the desire to be a rock star is now all about having that much movement in your neck..

    Starting to wonder who you might enjoy spiting in your will (heh )

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    Re: Today I felt old

    when the car in your garage, in mint condition, shiney and cared for.. is older than the under grads who work for you.

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    Re: Today I felt old

    You played the original Elite...
    If Wisdom is the coordination of "knowledge and experience" and its deliberate use to improve well being then how come "Ignorance is bliss"

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