You know you are getting old when:

[Edward]

I don't know, but I'm rather glad that George Harrison mortgaged his house to put up the money to get Monty Python's Life of Brian made.

I was thinking musically - but yes, Harrison gets major props for bailing out the Python boys. Also, Harrison has a cameo role in The Rutles (as a journalist, if memory serves), which I enjoyed.

 

[GHT]

The birth of the Travelling Wilburys was a happy accident. Warner Bros. Records’ International Department had asked that George Harrison come up with a B-side for “This Is Love,” a single from his Cloud Nine album. At the time it was customary to couple an A-side with a never-before-heard track, giving the single extra sales value.

This was mid-1988. Cloud Nine was just out. George, along with cowriter Jeff Lynne and their friends Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Roy Orbison, had been hanging out in Dylan’s studio. I suppose George figured that as long as his pals were on hand, why not use them to knock off this flipside?

A couple of days later George went to Mo Ostin's office to play the new “B-side.” They then went next door to A&R head Lenny Waronker’s office so he could hear it too. George played: “Handle With Care.” Their reaction was immediate. This was a song they knew could not be wasted on some B-side. Roy Orbison’s vocal was tremendous. They really loved the beautiful guitar figure that George played. The guys had really nailed it. Lenny and Mo stumbled over each other's words, asking: “Can’t we somehow turn this into an album?” They also had a suspicion that perhaps George had been hungering for another band experience.

Once the idea of a full, collaborative album was agreed, George took over. The five front men: Harrison, Lynne, Petty, Dylan, and Orbison, decided not to use their own names. George and Jeff had been calling studio equipment, that's the limiters & equalisers, “wilburys.” So first they named their fivesome The Trembling Wilburys. Jeff suggested “Travelling” instead. Everyone agreed.

 

[Tiki Tom]

Yippee! The fountain of youth discovered!

https://www.studyfinds.org/cellular...discovered-extended-human-lifespan-to-follow/

You know you are getting old when you find such stories annoying and irritating. Since at least the eighties I have been reading about amazing medical breakthroughs, and they are always at least ten years away... but they are coming! If I remember correctly, about ten years ago we were going to be able to regrow teeth and dentistry, as we know it, was going to be replaced by an entirely new field. Bah! Humbug!

 

[Zombie_61]

Fountain of Youth? Meh. My 59th birthday is approaching and I don't even care if I live that long.

 

[Tiki Tom]

Fountain of Youth? Meh. My 59th birthday is approaching and I don't even care if I live that long.

The FL would be sadly dull without you.

 

[LizzieMaine]

When you're a kid, you are at all times acutely aware of your age, because it defines what you are or are not allowed to do. When you grow up to young adulthood, age loses much of its meaning, and for long stretches of this time of your life, you often forget how old you actually are. Does it even matter? And then when you pass the threshold of middle age, you often forget how old you actually are, not because age is irrelevant, but because you literally can't remember. And finally, you reach the point, from late middle-age onward, where you are at all times acutely aware of your age, because it defines what you are or are not capable of doing.

 

[GHT]

The FL would be sadly dull without you.

Well said Tom, The Lounge is such a lively place thanks to to The Lounger's input.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

When I was a kid, anyone over 20 was old. Then when I was in my 20's, anyone over 40 was old. When I was in my 40's anyone over 60 was old. And now, anyone my age is old. I must have missed a chapter.

 

[ChiTownScion]

"When you grow up to young adulthood, age loses much of its meaning, and for long stretches of this time of your life, you often forget how old you actually are."

When I was about 40 I was purchasing a bottle of wine at a local grocery store and the young lady at checkout asked for ID. I told her flat out as I handed her my license: "I'm now deeply in love with you. Were I not already a married man, I'd propose to you!"

It got a laugh.

 

[Fading Fast]

"When you grow up to young adulthood, age loses much of its meaning, and for long stretches of this time of your life, you often forget how old you actually are."

When I was about 40 I was purchasing a bottle of wine at a local grocery store and the young lady at checkout asked for ID. I told her flat out as I handed her my license: "I'm now deeply in love with you. Were I not already a married man, I'd propose to you!"

It got a laugh.

Not to burst your bubble, and maybe you looked that young at forty that she was unsure, but in general, the reason clerks do that is because they've been told to card everyone so that they don't get into arguments with people about how old they do or do not look. A friend who owns a liquor store told me that and I've even heard a clerk now and then say it to someone arguing with them, to wit, "store policy is I have to card everyone."

 

[GHT]

When I was about 40 I was purchasing a bottle of wine at a local grocery store and the young lady at checkout asked for ID. I told her flat out as I handed her my license: "I'm now deeply in love with you. Were I not already a married man, I'd propose to you!"

It got a laugh.

Many many moons ago, about 45 at a guess, years not moons, my sister-in-law was visiting us on a particularly hot, sunny Sunday. Too hot to cook, we all dined out. At the riverside restaurant, my sister-in-law, all four-feet, eleven inches of her, a tad more in heels, knowing that I'm paying and won't accept her and her husband's 'share.' So she insisted on buying us all a round of drinks. At the bar, the proprietor served her, he asked her age, she's was 32. "You don't think that I'm 18?" She said, in delight surprise, "I love you." And kissed him. Not one of your gentle, social etiquette pecks on the cheek. She gave him a full blooded, lipstick stained, smackaroonee, right on his lips. He got quite flustered, but took it in his stride, adding: "Tell me again, how old are you?"
N.B. !8 is the age of alcoholic consent in the UK.

 

[Trenchfriend]

I didn't really felt old, but worth to tell, I think:
Yesterday, I came back from supermarket with my shoppping trolley. At the last part of my way, uphill, two teengirls went before me, circa 13/14 yo. One girl probably from our smalltown, looking totally normal, but the other girl probably visitor, looking exactly like these styled big city-Instagram/Youtube fitness b.....s.
This kind:

While a car wanted to pass the small uphill street (which is actually a redirection), I stepped aside with my trolley and waited until it passed. The two girls went on and then there was again much more distance between us.

But when I reached the hiltop, the style girl turned around and called:
"Why do ( formal "Sie") you got your shirt IN your pants?

Me: "What?"

She: "Why do you got your shirt IN your pants? That doesn't now look thaaat good."

Me: "That's totally different. Sometimes I got it in, sometimes out. Always like I'm in the mood for."

Silence...

Discussion succesful "averted".

 

[ChrisB]

I was recently asked for ID at a liquor store, it was to see if I qualified for a senior discount!

 

[Tiki Tom]

I remember the first time I got an unsolicited Senior Discount. I do believe I groused about it for a week.

 

[Trenchfriend]

I remember the first time I got an unsolicited Senior Discount. I do believe I groused about it for a week.

Ah, grousing! The general german hobby.

 

[GHT]

I remember the first time I got an unsolicited Senior Discount. I do believe I groused about it for a week.

When I got my free bus travel concession it really p*ssed me off. Old? Me? Don't be ridiculous. But what I didn't know at the time is that it can be used anywhere in the country. In London you can no longer pay your fare as you board the bus, your ticket must be pre-bought. Most bus travellers by an Oyster card, a pre-paid, use as often as you like, travel pass on public transport.

My wife and I often head back to the capital to visit friends, relations and just for social events. Our seniors card is accepted, result! Not so p*ssed off now! It's not so much the free travel as the irritation of buying the ticket for a single journey, now that hassle is negated.

 

[Zombie_61]

I remember the first time I got an unsolicited Senior Discount. I do believe I groused about it for a week.

I've told this story here before, but years ago I went to a movie theater with the guy who has been my best friend since grade school. We approached our respective windows at the box office and simultaneously requested one ticket, and his ticket was $1.00 less than mine. When he asked why, the person at his window who was also the theater manager replied, "Oh, I gave you the senior citizen discount." My friend, who is five months younger than I am, was not pleased. The manager tried to explain that he recognized my friend as a regular customer and that the "senior discount" was simply the easiest way to apply a discount to the ticket sale, but my friend wasn't having it and got angrier as we walked into the theater lobby. Since the manager has also "given the nod" to the young lady at my ticket window to give me the same discount, the price difference issue was resolved but my friend couldn't seem to understand why I wasn't bothered by what had happened. I told him, "What do I care? Now I have an extra buck in my pocket that I can spend on popcorn, or a soda, or whatever. I couldn't care less about what they call it." That calmed him down a little, but I could tell it still bothered him throughout the movie.

 

[LizzieMaine]

If it was up to me, we'd do away with that discount. It's more trouble than its worth. But if we tried to, the tantrum that would result would be heard from here to Polynesia.

 

[Bushman]

If it was up to me, we'd do away with that discount. It's more trouble than its worth. But if we tried to, the tantrum that would result would be heard from here to Polynesia.

Better yet, make them with a lifetime limit. They expire once you hit 100. If you make it that far and can still go to the store, everything is just free.

 

[green papaya]

when you get a new girlfriend at the old care home thats 90 years young and your 95 , and she makes you feel like you were 80 again!