Things that make you realise you are getting old

[Melton Fox]

Liking Brown Sauce and Marmite, only old people like these :icon_conf

 

[Boy Genius]

shitting myself everytime I move quick

thats too much info

 

[muzzysgal]

Wanting one of these for Christmas

It won't be long......

 

[Boy Genius]

I use this now so I must be getting old

It gets to us all Melts

 

[Steven]

It gets to us all Melts

I used that when I was younger.

 

[NN Fox]

Being able to relate to the following ---

TO ALL THE KIDS

WHO SURVIVED the
1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we
rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank lemonade made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because .. WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down
the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms..........
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
lawsuits

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang
the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

Rounders had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of .. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

If YOU are one of them . . . CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

Reading this and finding yourself agreeing with it.

 

[newtonfox]

Reading ridiculous threads like this. :icon_roll

started by someone in melton

 

[Richie_d123]

Being tired at this time on a saturday night.

 

[spionfox]

started by someone in melton

Ahem - wrong

 

[muzzysgal]

Ahem - wrong

Surely not? Not our newts

 

[spionfox]

Surely not? Not our newts

On another forum its Bob who has a reputation as never being wrong. Is Newts the TB equivalent then? :icon_bigg

 

[newtonfox]

you didnt get it did you :icon_roll:icon_roll:icon_roll

losing the polt due to getting old :icon_bigg:icon_wink

 

[muzzysgal]

On another forum its Bob who has a reputation as never being wrong. Is Newts the TB equivalent then? :icon_bigg

Err, hopefully Melton will be along in a mo with one of his 'Warning' symbols :icon_wink

 

[spionfox]

losing the polt due to getting old :icon_bigg:icon_wink

Sounds painful whatever it is

 

[newtonfox]

Err, hopefully Melton will be along in a mo with one of his 'Warning' symbols :icon_wink

:icon_lol::icon_wink

 

[spionfox]

Err, hopefully Melton will be along in a mo

At this time of night? I'd heard he is normally tucked up with a Horlicks by now.

 

[muzzysgal]

:icon_lol::icon_wink

Nope, this one

 

[newtonfox]

At this time of night? I'd heard he is normally tucked up with a Horlicks by now.

he's a lucky sod too

 

[newtonfox]

Nope, this one

 

[Feriol]

I Find a lot of whats posted in here applies to me, and i'm only 24.