The realisation you're getting old

[Accy cyclist]

This isn't just a photo of my open boot! No, this is a photo of my boot that'd been left open for an hour while I went shopping in the local Tesco! I got back to my car to see i'd left it open. Thankfully it looks like nothing has been pilfered.

 

[Accy cyclist]

There I was this aft' trying to cross a busy road, with a mini roundabout and a blind bend/corner. Every time I put a foot on the road another vehicle came along forcing me to step back on the pavement. I had a walking stick in my left hand and a dog on a lead and a shopping bag in my right hand. Instead of someone offering to help me across this busy road I had to ask someone for help. A asked a young woman walking by. She took my bag and linked her arm with mine, then put her hand up to alert approaching vehicles so I could cross with her. Yes, I felt like I was 80, but it was better than being mowed down! If only the buggers would indicate as they approached that mini roundabout, I might've made it across without help!!

Today I was the one helping someone across the road. Well, not just me but me and a friend saw an elderly lady almost teetering on the kerb, probably wiliting in the 80 Fahrenheit heat, trying to put a foot on the road, but not seemingly being able to find the road with her foot. We both linked an arm and helped her across, to a waiting taxi. When we got her to the taxi you'd have thought the driver would've taken over and helped her to sit down.but no, he just sat there gawping at his phone! I asked her if she'd be ok getting out at the other end, hinting to the driver to help her, but he didn't respond! I know it's not their job to help passengers in and out of their cars, but come on, she must've been in her late 80's and could hardly walk!!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

This isn't just a photo of my open boot! No, this is a photo of my boot that'd been left open for an hour while I went shopping in the local Tesco! I got back to my car to see i'd left it open. Thankfully it looks like nothing has been pilfered.

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Isn’t the body missing?

 

[Chris S]

A teabag burst and left some tea leaves at the bottom of my cup. That was normal in the olden days when most people used loose tea.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

A teabag burst and left some tea leaves at the bottom of my cup. That was normal in the olden days when most people used loose tea.

Did you not use a tea sock to prevent that?

 

[Chris S]

Did you not use a tea sock to prevent that?

He was too busy running the Irish government.

 

[bobzmyunkle]

Watching Glastonbury on TV. Not only old, but curmudgeonly.
Actually Dexys are on now, the man never could sing, but it's recognisably music. And it's reminded me that I have a Geno Washington cd I can listen to.

 

[Chris S]

 

[ExBrit]

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I was at the gas station yesterday and noticed the average price of a pack is $10. That's 10x what they cost when I quit smoking 35 years ago. How is it I'm not a millionaire with all the money I saved?

 

[raleighnut]

I was at the gas station yesterday and noticed the average price of a pack is $10. That's 10x what they cost when I quit smoking 35 years ago. How is it I'm not a millionaire with all the money I saved?

I packed up smoking for 3 months when I had the pin removed from my femur and the inside of the bone drilled out and a bigger 'Intramedullary Nail' inserted 11yrs ago (they said that the fact I smoked could have interfered with healing but it turned out it had been infected during surgery) I've never been so bored in my life, now I roll my own fags so that's an activity on it's own unlike just grabbing one out of a pack and there is a lot less Tobacco in a 'roll-up'.
Oh and if you think 10 bucks for a pack of smokes is expensive they are roughly 3x as costly here in blighty somewhere around £20 for a pack

 

[Mike Ayling]

I was at the gas station yesterday and noticed the average price of a pack is $10. That's 10x what they cost when I quit smoking 35 years ago. How is it I'm not a millionaire with all the money I saved?

Just under $50 AUD or about $33 US. Heavily taxed here.

 

[Chris S]

I've just seen a busker with a contactless card machine set up to take a £2.50 tip.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

This isn't just a photo of my open boot! No, this is a photo of my boot that'd been left open for an hour while I went shopping in the local Tesco! I got back to my car to see i'd left it open. Thankfully it looks like nothing has been pilfered.

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A sign of getting old is that no one wants to nick the contents of your open boot.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I was at the gas station yesterday and noticed the average price of a pack is $10. That's 10x what they cost when I quit smoking 35 years ago. How is it I'm not a millionaire with all the money I saved?

Must be heavily subsidised to still be that cheap.

 

[raleighnut]

Must be heavily subsidised to still be that cheap.

Nah just not taxed to the hilt like blighty