Old People

[Cleveland]

Something hit me today. It seems most people on this forum are well ummm older than me ....So I was thinking why can't I feel it. I realized the only reason I even know people are older is because I've seen references to age mentioned in other post. Does this mean most of you are just hip and young for y'alls age or does it mean I'm actually old? O gawd 30 is approaching

Why does everyone seem so young here? I don't mean from the standpoint of maturity. But it's like having that really cool mom or dad who loves video games and keeps kicking your a** in one. Do I feel like I fit in here because y'all are good at staying young? Or do I fit in because...

I'm getting old.

 

[jod5413]

I suspect there are as many younger folks as older folks but I think if you want to enjoy being here, you have to not be an old stick in the mud! No matter what your age.

 

[ksech]

Uhhh Cleveland??? Age is just a state of mind....And today, my mind says I'm NOT old

 

[chayton]

Why you young whippersnapper. Get off my lawn.

 

[Jasminebed]

I actually wanted to change my tag to Embracing My Inner Old Lady but it was a little long. In many ways I feel younger than I did at 30, as a single parent, juggling work, daycare, housework and a limited income.

Most people's income increases as they age, and we have more disposal income, and have sometimes completed paying our mortgages, and now have adults instead of toddlers.

Happiness tends to increase with age as well

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, and happy people are more fun to be around.

Hang in there, someday you too will be old.

 

[chuchu59]

Something hit me today. It seems most people on this forum are well ummm older than me ....So I was thinking why can't I feel it. I realized the only reason I even know people are older is because I've seen references to age mentioned in other post. Does this mean most of you are just hip and young for y'alls age or does it mean I'm actually old? O gawd 30 is approaching

Why does everyone seem so young here? I don't mean from the standpoint of maturity. But it's like having that really cool mom or dad who loves video games and keeps kicking your a** in one. Do I feel like I fit in here because y'all are good at staying young? Or do I fit in because...

I'm getting old.

No prizes for guessing how old I am as its so obvious. Put it this way Cleve, I will never get to the stage when I am twice your age. Definitely in the past but not possible in the future. My hairline is receding slightly and lots of grey/white hair though hardly noticeable from a distance.

 

[samoas]

I love my age and would stay here forever!

Teens are too unstable. Twenties you think you know everything but reality checks?! Thirties you are just getting in the groove of a career and for some a growing family. My forties (43 soon) are awesome. There's light at the end of the tunnel and my fifties should be all mine to embrace! Can't wait!

What I am trying to say is I can't wait until the kids are out of my house!

 

[ksech]

I scared my kids last week Told both of them they had 30 days to remove all their belongings from my home (they're 31 and almost 33) because I may decide I want to move. They asked where I was going to move to. Told them I hadn't decided yet, but when I did, it would be to a one bedroom house and I'd call them when I got to where I was going LMAO. They didn't think it was very funny (kids have no sense of humour sometimes)

 

[anniemac]

You know what the scariest part of getting old (er)? Realizing that your kids will be picking out the nursing home you will be going to.

Age is just a state of mind. Some days I'm 20 and some days I'm 80. Today was a 40 kind of day. LOl!

 

[vinylweatherman]

Something hit me today. It seems most people on this forum are well ummm older than me ....So I was thinking why can't I feel it. I realized the only reason I even know people are older is because I've seen references to age mentioned in other post. Does this mean most of you are just hip and young for y'alls age or does it mean I'm actually old? O gawd 30 is approaching

Why does everyone seem so young here? I don't mean from the standpoint of maturity. But it's like having that really cool mom or dad who loves video games and keeps kicking your a** in one. Do I feel like I fit in here because y'all are good at staying young? Or do I fit in because...

I'm getting old.

My Nieces and Nephew always thought I was the "cool" uncle, even though I am "old". Most kids still consider me "cool" even though I am 50.

50 may bring grey hair, but it also brings experience. I can remember the time before computers in the schoolroom, let alone the living room. Days when getting your first calculator felt like you had just gotten hold of "space age" technology.

I also annoy older "kids" by using things for their intended purpose, such as using my phone to make calls, not play games, go on facebook, etc.

I have at least embraced modern computer technology, but unlike many kids I know what's inside it, and how most of it works. There are of course those few (mostly boys) who DO like to take part in the timeless hobby of taking things to bits to see how they work, and maybe repair them. In my youth it was cassette players, and later valve TV sets (remember them ). Today it's PCs, and many kids can take one apart, and put it back together so that it works BETTER than when it left the factory. I haven't missed out on that, and have had the back off ALL my computers, and NONE of them are now as they were when they left the factory.

I have played online casinos for around 8 years, but I have used earlier experience on UK "fruit machine" gambling to give me a boost in my understanding. I just had to learn a few new games like Blackjack and Video Poker.


I've even had the back off a Microgaming casino to see if I could fix it - and I did, beating Microgaming to the punch

 

[ksech]

My sister and I had the task of cleaning out my fathers work shop after he had passed away. He had several old dressers filled will all kinds of "treasures". One drawer contained nothing but old ciger boxes filled with old tubes from various tvs all labeled with model numbers and makes.
Another drawer contained old transitor radios. These dressers where heaped full of stuff like that. Whenever we broke something, we'd take it to dad. We'd go to the basement and we'd go through the drawers and sure as shit he'd have the parts to fix the darn thing.

@VWM, you brought back some good memories, thank you!

 

[Cleveland]

I actually wanted to change my tag to Embracing My Inner Old Lady but it was a little long.

How do you change the tag? I thought admit did it

 

[vinylweatherman]

My sister and I had the task of cleaning out my fathers work shop after he had passed away. He had several old dressers filled will all kinds of "treasures". One drawer contained nothing but old ciger boxes filled with old tubes from various tvs all labeled with model numbers and makes.
Another drawer contained old transitor radios. These dressers where heaped full of stuff like that. Whenever we broke something, we'd take it to dad. We'd go to the basement and we'd go through the drawers and sure as shit he'd have the parts to fix the darn thing.

@VWM, you brought back some good memories, thank you!

I wish I had a basement, my "stock" (spare parts, old radios, TV bits, PC bits, etc) takes up loads of room in the house, garage, my Mum's garage, etc.....

I don't like throwing stuff away unless I can be certain it will NEVER be of use again. I have often found a need for something YEARS after filing it away, or even found that something from years back has a value to someone else like a collector, and should be sold rather than binned.

Maybe I will soon throw out that spare head assembly for a VCR, or the drive motor from an old Vinyl record player, but only because they are model specific, and I don;t have the model they fit, and probably never will.

Even so, I could still start selling this "crap" on eBay in the hope that someone else will pay good money for my old crap. I have heard of decent sums being paid for the silliest things on eBay, and if I could get Golden Palace interested, I would be "minted"

 

[chayton]

How do you change the tag? I thought admit did it

I'm assuming you mean admin... But no...

Click Settings then under 'My Profile' on the left bar click 'Edit Profile' - scroll down to 'Optional Information' and it's the first item called 'Custom User Title'

 

[Jasminebed]

My mom was the TV repair main, and we'd go down and test vacuum tubes as many times as it took at a local place. She spliced cords for the kettle and iron, and you didn't throw stuff out you fixed it.

I hate hate hate throwing out anything good. And it's a generational thing, and maybe even genetic. Took my dad 1 1/2 years after my mom died to put out full boxes of newspapers that had been saved for scouts that hadn't did a paper drive in 10 years.

Okay, I fess up, I'm old too. My parents were older than most of my friends' parents, and my daughter was way more prepared to deal with life as an adult than most of her peers.

I'm happier now than anytime in my past, I and think have happier still to look forward too.

Now does anyone have an extra stylus?

 

[Mousey]

One thing about old people... I usually have a story... LOL

Reminds me of the last time I bought a Playstation2 vid game in a B&M. The young man helping me find the latest Tombraider game, kept suggesting that my grandkids would probably like the latest and greatest (whatever the newest shoot 'em to pieces and blow 'em to hell) game was at the time, even though I'd said I wanted the new Tombraider. And he'd stop and point out yet another spiffy new game just out for PS2, and the kids would love it. And finally, I stopped right in the middle of the aisle and told him the game was for ME, I had had a PS1 that I used till it nearly fell to pieces and now my PS2 is old and been though several incarnations of Lara Croft and Tekken and Devil May Cry and a bazillion more, and someday I'd like a new PS3 for Xmas for myself, and puh-leeeze just unlock the cage, free Lara Croft, and let me get the devil out of here.

There's a young man at work (around 23) started trying to call me 'mom' right after he went to work for us. I politely told him that just wouldn't do. One of the others took the kid to the side and I heard him tell him... "You can call her a lot of things and get away with it, but you call her Mom again, and she's very likely to rip out your tongue and stuff it down your throat." The young guy looks at me, I smile and shoot him the bird, he says... "Cool!" (Oh, and no, there were no customers harmed during the exchange. LOL)

There's rarely a day goes by that I don't wonder who the hell that old lady is in my mirror.

 

[jod5413]

I have to admit, Mousey, that it is funny as Hell to pull that type of stunt with a younger person. The look on their faces, priceless!!! They get so shocked that this "old woman" could even know what flipping the bird is, let alone use it.

I am sure my grand parents cussed, I mean doesn't everyone (almost)? But, I would have passed out if they had ever used those major league cuss words in front of me!!

My mom had a fit when I ever used the bad cuss words in her presence, it was "trashy" she'd say. And I would say, nope, in today's world they are common words! At least among the young folks.

Ah, memories!!!