You know you're getting old when.....

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Re: You know you're getting old when.....

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Tue Jan 24, 2017 9:12 pm

Fat Cat wrote:You know you're getting old when Donald Trump becomes American President 8O

To quote Ford Prefect in "The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy" - "Drink up, the world's about to end."
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Re: You know you're getting old when.....

Postby banjo » Fri Jun 09, 2017 8:54 am

when its your birthday today.happy birthday to me. ::):
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Re: You know you're getting old when.....

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Fri Jun 09, 2017 9:18 am

banjo wrote:when its your birthday today.happy birthday to me. ::):

Many happy returns of the day, Banjo old son. :D

Another year older, but still none the wiser. :wink:
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Re: You know you're getting old when.....

Postby banjo » Fri Jun 09, 2017 2:45 pm

ta much tcs.this none the wiser quote just reminded me that I will be 35 years wed on Monday. 8O
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Re: You know you're getting old when.....

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Fri Jun 09, 2017 4:48 pm

banjo wrote:ta much tcs.this none the wiser quote just reminded me that I will be 35 years wed on Monday. 8O

Well, in that case, a very happy Coral Anniversary (just looked it up on good ol' Wikipedia) to you and your good lady wife. :)
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Re: You know you're getting old when.....

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Wed Aug 26, 2020 6:26 pm

You know you're getting old when the folk you started Primary 1 with start dying.

I got the news last night that one of the lassies I knew from school passed away. She'd been fighting cancer for a few years, and seemed to be in the clear, but with these things you can never tell.

Things being what they are with the COVID restrictions, it'll be close family only at the funeral.
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Re: You know you're getting old when.....

Postby Dot » Sat Sep 05, 2020 5:43 pm

You look in the mirror and think you are no spring chicken but you will do for now.
Then you put on your specs and see everything close up and it's frightening.
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Re: You know you're getting old when.....

Postby Henrysix » Sat Sep 05, 2020 9:35 pm

And you can’t help but read the obituaries, brings it home, I am always pleased when I see my fellow Wegians draping off in their eighties, as a 61yr old it gives me a wee bit of hope!
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Re: You know you're getting old when.....

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Sun Sep 06, 2020 9:55 am

Further to my post about Primary school.

Someone posted our P2 class picture onto Facebook, I'm not in it (long story, don't ask), but I guess I'm getting old cos I've only the vaguest idea of some of my classmates names.

I mind the teacher's name - unlikely ever to forget her.:(
What do they say? You remember the good teachers, but you remember the bad ones more.
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Re: You know you're getting old when.....

Postby Henrysix » Sun Sep 06, 2020 1:15 pm

I am guessing you were not in the photo because it was your signing on day at the Bru, me too, I can’t find anyone who was at school with me or without me, Buchan St in the Gorbals, Wolseley St in Oatlands and then it was big boys school at Adelphi- perhaps they are all deed, I am 61 you know that’s ancient
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Re: You know you're getting old when.....

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Sun Sep 06, 2020 2:44 pm

Chances are I'm not in the picture cos the teacher was a horrible auld cow who didn't want the wee baldy heided boy (me) spoiling the look of the thing.

This was the woman who once got me so upset about some tiny trivial thing, that I puked on my desk.

She's long since gone to the Bad Fires, but it's one of my biggest regrets that I only learned about her death years after the fact.
Otherwise I'd have driven a stake through the bitch's cold black heart, just to be sure.
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Re: You know you're getting old when.....

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Sun May 23, 2021 5:43 pm

One of my mates passed away quite suddenly last Friday. He was only a couple of years older than me. Still waiting on autopsy results, but it's looking like complications from diabetes and a change in his meds.

So that's what's making me feel old today.

But it says a great deal about the shitty state this country of ours is in, when his younger sister (his only family) and his best mate/flatmate have had to set up a GoFundMe page in order to raise money for the poor bugger's funeral.

I'm happy to say I donated. He was a damn good friend. And if the situation had been reversed, I'm sure he'd have done the same.
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Re: You know you're getting old when.....

Postby Henrysix » Sun May 23, 2021 6:06 pm

Spleen sorry for your loss, you keep ticking over son, eat, drink, play and rest sensibly!
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Re: You know you're getting old when.....

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Sun May 23, 2021 6:19 pm

Aye, I was out on Friday there. A mate I'd not seen in about a year and a half came through to Greenock for a while.

So we went for a meal and a drink in the pub, talked a load of crap for an hour or so, and raised a glass in memory of our departed friend.

Funeral arrangements TBC, but likely to be mid June.
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Re: You know you're getting old when.....

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Sun Aug 27, 2023 3:31 pm

My eldest niece turns 30 in a week or so. That's making me feel old today.
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