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

[Dave Davenport]

You get a personally addressed letter from McCarthy & Stone Retirement Lifestyles, asking if you'd like to move into their new assisted living development.

They'll even pay all my service charges for ten years if I complete by August, I assume they're banking on me not lasting more than two or three.

 

[PpPete]

Write back and ask them if they offer secure bike storage in their appartments?

 

[Dave Davenport]

Actually, after Wednesday's decidedly chilly club run a game of bingo and WW2 themed sing-a-long in a nice warm community lounge sounds quite appealing!

 

[perplexed]

I once had a few letters (personally addressed, not generic) from the builders of a new retirement "village". They were to offer me the "opportunity" to secure an apartment in one of their new developments.

Facilities included, if I recall:

24 hour wardens on site
Assisted living.
Help with bathing.
Visiting hairdresser.
Extra wide doors for wheelchairs.
Regular visiting doctor.
Alarm/panic buttons.
Carer visits.
Grab rails/ramps.
Community lounge.

I wouldn't have minded so much, but I was in my late 30's at the time...

 

[ColinJ]

I once had a few letters (personally addressed, not generic) from the builders of a new retirement "village". They were to offer me the "opportunity" to secure an apartment in one of their new developments.

Facilities included, if I recall:

24 hour wardens on site
Assisted living.
Help with bathing.
Visiting hairdresser.
Extra wide doors for wheelchairs.
Regular visiting doctor.
Alarm/panic buttons.
Carer visits.
Grab rails/ramps.
Community lounge.

I wouldn't have minded so much, but I was in my late 30's at the time...

I'd be upset if I needed that lot in my late 70s!

 

[tyred]

I was listening to the "golden oldies" programme on the local radio station on Saturday while working in the garage and I found myself going "what they playing that for, I remember it in the charts?" to most of the songs. Then I realised these songs were from the mid to late '80s and almost 30 years ago and I am on way to old fogeydom

It's only an old song if it was first released prior to the late 1970s

 

[perplexed]

A visiting hairdresser wouldn't be bad, though. And help with bathing is always welcome!

Depends on who's helping!

With my luck, I'd get a 6' 3" tattooed ex-bouncer called Spike, who'd decided on a career change...

Now if Davina fancied a career change...

 

[ColinJ]

It's only an old song if it was first released prior to the late 1970s

And there was me a couple of evenings ago, listening to an interview with (Sir) Paul McCartney and thinking how old he sounded, and how I used to enjoy listening to my sister's Beatles singles way back in '63 and '64!

 

[Beebo]

Ah, but do you think he has:
24 hour wardens on site
Assisted living.
Help with bathing.
Visiting hairdresser.
Extra wide doors for wheelchairs.
Regular visiting doctor.
Alarm/panic buttons.
Carer visits.
Grab rails/ramps.
Community lounge.

in his mansion?

Maybe he had some of them when he was married to the lovely Heather.

 

[rich p]

I once had a few letters (personally addressed, not generic) from the builders of a new retirement "village". They were to offer me the "opportunity" to secure an apartment in one of their new developments.

Facilities included, if I recall:

24 hour wardens on site
Assisted living.
Help with bathing.
Visiting hairdresser.
Extra wide doors for wheelchairs.
Regular visiting doctor.
Alarm/panic buttons.
Carer visits.
Grab rails/ramps.
Community lounge.

I wouldn't have minded so much, but I was in my late 30's at the time...

Better than one with diarrhoea I suppose.

 

[PpPete]

Better than one with diarrhoea I suppose.

When the tone of a thread has been lowered suffiently .... you can always count on Rich to take it down another notch, or three.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

When the council invites you to something like this...

I was so annoyed about the council's housing people using database information to patronise me that I forgot to go. It's an invitation to a senility seminar next....

 

[Scoosh]

You get a personally addressed letter from McCarthy & Stone Retirement Lifestyles, asking if you'd like to move into their new assisted living development.

After visiting one of their developments, I started getting these a few years ago .....


... because it was a possibility for my ageing Mother.

M&S (the RL ones !!! ) couldn't seem to understand that it wasn't for myself and my wife. I didn't think we looked that old (at the time ).

 

[Scoosh]

It can be a bit disturbing unsettling amusing reading the council's Leisure Activities programme.

Their 'Leisure Activities' (for a Healthy Lifestyle, of course ) for the over-50's seem to centre on aquarobics or wave-your-arms-while-gently-swaying-in-a-gym - with a cup of tea afterwards !!!

Nothing about a 200k audax , though, so I don't go along .

 

[Night Train]

I remember painting the stage at the theatre behind the curtains while the 'old folks tea dance' was on. It started off with Vera Lynn and Glen Miller and I was quite enjoying the music while I painted. Then it switched to 50's rock and roll!
I had to have a peak through the curtains and there were the OAPs jiving and swinging each other about.
I guess it won't be long before OAPs will be 'tea dancing' to Trance and Drum and Bass.


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