You know you are getting old when:

[Trenchfriend]

He under me, classmate of my Grandma, generation 1935, is still active as best as possible.
Half-blind, but the needed household stuff can be done. His wife is maybe same age, but in much worse condition and on crutches. Grocery shopping with rollators is done by both. Also receiving daily mobile medical care.

But I didn't expect them to reach year 2025 in our classic apartment block without elevator.

But aside of that, I got nearly no business with them and avoid them. Small helps when we encounter, but that's it. People, you don't want to become friends with. And they stopped learning new stuff probably 70 years ago. Classic boneheads.

 

[GHT]

Also do a cough + a little fart...

Just a little fart? Listen when I multitask with the gas it ain't no little fart.
Cough, fart and pebble-dash my underpants, it's not difficult!

 

[tonyb]

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But aside of that, I got nearly no business with them and avoid them. Small helps when we encounter, but that's it. People, you don't want to become friends with. And they stopped learning new stuff probably 70 years ago. Classic boneheads.

Have these people been unkind to you?

 

[Jon Crow]

Also do a cough + a little fart...

Following through is the problem haha

 

[BobHufford]

 

[Trenchfriend]

Old folks often say, the time runs faster, the older you get.

But when I think about it, my time from 20 to 30 ran same fast as 30 to 40. When I reached 20, time was accelerating enormous, for whatever reason.
I mean, personal things went a little better from late 2004 on, but not that much.

So I still think, the "point of acceleration" could be very differrent?

 

[ChrisB]

The slippery slope starts at 50.

 

[Trenchfriend]

When we would have invented Ibuprofen, we would be rich, today, right?

At least Ibu 400 is OTC in Germany, since 1998.

Funny enough, the last 20pcs box, I bought some days ago, is indeed from a new storebrand, self-produced by a german apothecary-cooperation and it's new own manufacturer!
So back to "in-house-production".

Reason for that must be, that the wholesale situation was sometimes critical in Germany.

 

[Liam_Og]

He under me, classmate of my Grandma, generation 1935, is still active as best as possible.
Half-blind, but the needed household stuff can be done. His wife is maybe same age, but in much worse condition and on crutches. Grocery shopping with rollators is done by both. Also receiving daily mobile medical care.

But I didn't expect them to reach year 2025 in our classic apartment block without elevator.

But aside of that, I got nearly no business with them and avoid them. Small helps when we encounter, but that's it. People, you don't want to become friends with. And they stopped learning new stuff probably 70 years ago. Classic boneheads.

Sounds like they must have wronged you in some way.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Sounds like they must have wronged you in some way.

Not only me. Practically everyone in our "hood". She's a stupid psycho with a mischievous heart and He's a calm guy, but despite more or less unfunny.
The reason, why their both grandchildren (I played with as kid) rarely visit them. And of course, there are no friends.

But now, they are finally infirm since years, they are a little more companionable than before.
In the first years in my apartment, 2010/11/12, I strictly avoided them, ALTHOUGHT I had the big pro not to be a stranger for them!

Just imaging, I would have been a stranger when I moved in, OUCH!!

And when they will be gone, no one will miss them. Loathsome Germans directly out of the 50s, baaah...

 

[Trenchfriend]

And luckily, my first direct neighborhood is gone since early 2018.

He was a wonderful buddy, but sadly born 1930 and died 2016. But SHE (born 1932), was the prototypical loathsome german dragon, now still living in assisted living, around the corner. I always avoided her strictly.

 

[Liam_Og]

And luckily, my first direct neighborhood is gone since early 2018.

He was a wonderful buddy, but sadly born 1930 and died 2016. But SHE (born 1932), was the prototypical loathsome german dragon, now still living in assisted living, around the corner. I always avoided her strictly.

Is she my mother in law?

 

[GHT]

Is she my mother in law?

 

[tonyb]

Ask any woman who was ever involved for any length of time with me or either of my brothers and she’ll tell you how icy my mother could be. My wife just came out and asked her, going on 30 years ago, “Why don’t you like me?” Mom was befuddled by that. I believe she was just oblivious to how she was coming across, and to some extent she still is, although at her now well-advanced age I can chalk some of it up to creeping senility. In some ways I’m glad to be living well over a thousand miles from her, seeing how if I saw her on a regular basis I might say something I would later regret.

At some point it’s best to remind oneself that difficult personalities are their own greatest victims, and for that reason a person might at least consider cutting ‘em a little slack. But that doesn’t make them any less difficult to be around.