Old?

**JDNSW** · 26th May 2007, 12:14 PM

Yesterday I was driving through next door's, and stopped to look at a couple of blokes they have in with a portable sawmill (from the other side of a fence). After watching for a few minutes they shut the motor down and one came over to his ute which was sort of closer to me than the mill but off to the side a bit. He commented to me that with the saw doctor in town on holidays they had to sharpen their own saws. His mate called out "What was that?" - which got the reply "I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to the old bloke here".

I may have been nearly old enough to drive when the first Landrovers arrived in Australia, but I don't think I'm that old! Emailed this to my twin brother - he replied telling me that last year the company he was contracting to put in a PC for him - IT had to give it a name for the network, and they called it :- "pops" !

**Utemad** · 26th May 2007, 12:22 PM

Well if you were nearly old enough to drive in 1948 (is that when they came to Oz?) then I'd place you at about 74.

To me that is old

However my Grandad is 82 and he was water skiing until 80 or 81. Still plays tennis and bowls. Beat me three games to none in billiards last month.

**scrambler** · 26th May 2007, 12:47 PM

Was talking with a fellow yesterday who was telling me the sad fate of the first Land Rover owner in Toowoomba (struck by another car and killed while changing the tyre on the way home with his new purchase). That was 1949. Mind you, my informant was driving ex-Army jeeps at that time - still has 2 and the parts for a third. And he's not happy with the medical profession for knocking him back on his pilot's license last year.

At 80 I don't think that's too bad going

He still works at his heavy vehicle reconditioning business.

**JDNSW** · 26th May 2007, 12:51 PM

No, I'm not that old - I don't think Landrovers arrived until 1949, and I said nearly old enough - and I started driving when I could reach the pedals, albeit not on the road.

John

**Relay** · 26th May 2007, 01:33 PM

Look at this from my perspective...most of you are OLD!

**Utemad** · 27th May 2007, 08:59 AM

I think the year you start feeling old gets put back by one year every bithday

So going by that 'old' must be 28

Although I used to have a laugh when people I worked with said they started work in 19xx and I'd say something along the lines of "I was in primary school then". However when I started my new job this week one of the girls said that to me

**DeeJay** · 27th May 2007, 04:06 PM

I thought one of my teachers was old when I was 17- in fact most of them.
Got a surprise when I met him at a recent barby and when talking to him another person said how do you two know each other?.
I said we both were at the same school -- as I doubted they would have believed he was my teacher

He must have been around 25 back then..

**BigJon** · 28th May 2007, 12:26 PM

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

Sadly tho, no matter how old you feel, your body is generally the age it is and the older it gets the more it starts to break down. So while you think you can still do all those things you could at 20, it just doesn't happen the same way

Of course, if you use and abuse the body you have it gets old even faster!!

Me...I'm about 21

As the song by Toby Keith says "I'm not as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was..."

**Quiggers** · 28th May 2007, 12:32 PM

Ah, so what JD.......

Sounds like you do a lot more than people a half of your life.

What annoys me tho' is that I get some people who think I'm my sons' grandfather - he's exactly forty years younger than me and soon to be a great big TEN!

I'm off to the hairdyer now, to get rid of the silver stuff

(Think Bob Hawke).....

Which leads me to an idea for a thread - look for 'what was your first few cars'? (I'll start it in 'the parking lot') or has it been already done?

GQ

**Nat130** · 28th May 2007, 12:42 PM

We went to the supermarket the other day to buy alcohol and when we went to the register the girl asked me for ID, I hadn't got my wallet with me and I panicked for a minute.

Then I said that I am with my partner who was going to pay, she turned around straight away (given his grey hair) and said no problems then

He was less than impressed and I couldn't stop laughing!

Reminds me of a joke....

A retired gentleman went to apply for Social Security.

After waiting in line for quite a long time he arrived at the counter. The woman behind the counter asked him for his identification to verify his age. He looked in his pockets and realised he had left his wallet at home. He told the woman that he seemed to have left his wallet at home. "Will I have to go home and come back now?" he asks.

The woman says, "Unbutton your shirt."

He opens his shirt revealing lots of curly silver hair.

She says, "That silver hair on your chest is proof enough for me,"
as she processes his Social Security application.

When he gets home, the man excitedly tells his wife about his experience at the Social Security office. She says, "You should have dropped your pants -- you might have qualified for disability, too."

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