You Know You Are Old When

[BravoXray]

When you are 20 years older than the car you are restoring and the car is considered an antique.

 

[MossRoad]

You may not have used a fountain pen in school but your desk still had the round hole cut in it to hold the inkwell.

I recall in grade school one year a nun had a hankering for nostalgia I guess, and we were required to get fountain pens for handwriting class.

They had cartridges. No fountains. So why did they call them fountain pens? Teacher told me to stop asking questions.

And even without fountains, they caused a great mess and we were eventually told to stop bringing them to class.

 

[MossRoad]

If a contractor copped an attitude like that towards me, I'd look for another contractor. Part of being in business is being available when it's convenient for your (potential) customers.

Where do you live that good Friday is considered a holiday?

Stock market is closed on Good Friday.

 

[MossRoad]

Surprised they run at all. I'd read that when Apple went with their current architecture (OS-10?) basically any pre-existing software would not run on the new OS.

Or a LOT of startup stuff. Seems like every program likes to put itself in the startup menu, whether it needs to be running all the time or not. Not to mention programs (like antivirus, etc.) that check in with the mothership for updates and do them immediately, also slowing down the machine.
When I replaced the mechanical HD in my laptop with a SSD, it booted in maybe 60% of the time.

I've never met a PC with a HD that I could not speed up the boot time significantly by running a good defragger that optimizes the hard drive and consolidates contiguous space. After that, I deleted the swap file and defrag again. Then I set the size of the swap file to a fixed size depending on the RAM in the system.

Fragmented swap files on HDs are a major source of slow downs.

Windows is a non-elegant operating system. It never puts anything back where it got it from, and the only reason it works at all is because processor speeds have increased every year and it's enough to keep up with the massive task of looking for file fragments and putting them back together every time they're needed.

 

[garry1p]

Along with age comes new problems, my furnace located in the attic with access in a closet quit working.
To repair furnace. First empty closet (major job), get ladder, climb up through a small access hole and fix it. I "think" I can get up into the attic but I know I'll never get back down. At my age (85) you loose your flexibility, getting up and down can be a problem and living alone I can't take to many chances.
First time I have ever had to have someone come to my house to fix anything.
$545 for parts, $150 service call, $169 technician time plus tax.
Cost to repair $864.39 something I could have done for less than $350.

You know your old when you brain says, you can do it, but your body says, no you can't.

 

[MossRoad]

I'm thinking im just around some helpless people...

A lady up the street had no heat for several days... simple pilot light. We had fast to 100 mph in the Bay that night and PGE was out days for pilot relights.

I also see differences in MDs and Nurses from when I started.

We use to have lots of military docs and nurses were old school.

The new ones are very book smart but require a lot of support... don't know a better way to say it.

The military guys could handle anything and well versed say on every kind of anestesia machine... now they often only know one... say GE for example.

It's like what do you do when the electronic record keeping goes down?

Military Docs and Nurses I've work with have a higher problem solving skill set and do well under pressure.

Our oldest was renting one side of a duplex in PA for several years. Her furnace was in her garage on the lowest level. If she opened her garage door on a windy day, the pilot light would go out. It happened so often that she got tired of calling the landlord and asked me to talk her through it over the phone so she could do it herself. So, I had her take a couple pictures and send it to me, then put me on speaker phone and I told her how to do it. She did well and never had to call the landlord again.

Similarly, her battery died in her Subaru. I talked her through the removal process with a few pictures and she got it out and took it to Autozone for testing. It was bad. She bought a new one and put it back in herself.

I showed her how to change a tire. She changed them about 4-5 times over the years. Either PA has really bad roads, or she's smacking curbs!

Her last flat, she was dropping some paperwork off at a government office and when she came out, she had a flat. She jacked up the car, removed the tire, didn't notice she was on a hill, and the car rolled a bit and fell off the jack. She was not injured, but was not sure what to do at that point. She noticed the police station next to the government office, walked over and asked if they could recommend a tow truck. They walked her over to the fire department next door, and boy, 4 firemen hopped in their truck, drove over to her car and used her situation for a "training exercise" to deploy their air lift bags and change her tire for her. (helps she's cute)

I asked if she was OK with that blatant display of testosterone and she said "Heck yeah!"

 

[MossRoad]

You know you're getting old when you go to a restaurant and are served by third generation members of families who's young grandparents once served you.

Yep.

Also, it's the third generation of family that runs the funeral home that your family uses.

 

[MossRoad]

When you are 20 years older than the car you are restoring and the car is considered an antique.

Our 2000 Mercury Sable will qualify for historic plates next year.

 

[MossRoad]

I helped a repair man work on a stacked washer/dryer unit in an apartment today. 5 years ago, we worked on the same unit. Today, I could not fit behind that same unit like I did 5 years ago.

I guess that's not getting old technically... just wider.

 

[BravoXray]

I helped a repair man work on a stacked washer/dryer unit in an apartment today. 5 years ago, we worked on the same unit. Today, I could not fit behind that same unit like I did 5 years ago.

I guess that's not getting old technically... just wider.

The Battle Of The Bulge.

 

[MossRoad]

The Battle Of The Bulge.

I surrender!

 

[stuckmotor]

Yep.

Also, it's the third generation of family that runs the funeral home that your family uses.

Gulp!:-(

 

[MossRoad]

Gulp!:-(

Yeah....

When I was a kid, they had a room in the basement for family to take a break in.

The room was full of taxidermy.

I mean, 30-40 dead animals stuffed and displayed. I found it fascinating. Dad suggested that's how they practiced.

The other family funeral home we use is also in the 3rd or 4th generation of family. They are great! Really nice folks. Super helpful and we are grateful for their services and compassion.

However, they have a pink light over the casket. Dad said it reminded him of the meat counter.

I smile every time I go in there....

which is too often.

Seems the older I get, the more funerals I attend.

 

[jjeff]

I recall in grade school one year a nun had a hankering for nostalgia I guess, and we were required to get fountain pens for handwriting class.

They had cartridges. No fountains. So why did they call them fountain pens? Teacher told me to stop asking questions.

And even without fountains, they caused a great mess and we were eventually told to stop bringing them to class.

My dad told me the story a few times when he spilled an actual fountain of ink on a nuns hobbit during nostalgic handwriting lessons, he ended up graduating from a public school.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

My dad told me the story a few times when he spilled an actual fountain of ink on a nuns hobbit during nostalgic handwriting lessons, he ended up graduating from a public school.

Bilbo Baggins?
(The nun's hobbit)

 

[jjeff]

No my dad didn't go to school with bilbo baggins in Middle Earth. Hobit, fat fingers and or autocorrect. it's the white headdress or possibly blue or black depending what color ink my dad was using.

 

[stuckmotor]

Yeah....

When I was a kid, they had a room in the basement for family to take a break in.

The room was full of taxidermy.

I mean, 30-40 dead animals stuffed and displayed. I found it fascinating. Dad suggested that's how they practiced.

The other family funeral home we use is also in the 3rd or 4th generation of family. They are great! Really nice folks. Super helpful and we are grateful for their services and compassion.

However, they have a pink light over the casket. Dad said it reminded him of the meat counter.

I smile every time I go in there....

which is too often.

Seems the older I get, the more funerals I attend.

My brother likes to attend funerals. Personally, I hope the next funeral I attend will be my own.

 

[Sigarms]

My brother likes to attend funerals.

I have to ask, why does he like to attend funerals?

Personally, as I've gotten older, I've come to dislike funerals because generally they are such a somber occasion, and honestly with some funerals how they march you past the dead body to pay your final respects I find more than morbid.

My dad and I had some talks about what he wanted when he passed. He told me to make certain everyone had a great time and take care of the bar tab for everyone.

Don't get me wrong, I broke down crying when they played taps for him (military service) and taps will get me EVERY time listening to a live bugler at a funeral. Other than that signal, the entire day was great, and even a lot of laughing during his celebration of life event at the funeral home, and everyone had a great time afterwards. The bar tab was on him one last time LOL

I've come the conclusion as I get older a persons death should be a cause for celebration for numerous reasons, no matter how the life was lived.

Then again, everyone has opinons

 

[Hay Dude]

If a contractor copped an attitude like that towards me, I'd look for another contractor. Part of being in business is being available when it's convenient for your (potential) customers.

Where do you live that good Friday is considered a holiday?

Well then add me to that list of contractors.

Good Friday is one of the most important Holidays of Resurrection week. I have church to attend in the morning and no intentions of working unless I want to.

“part of being in business” as you say, is also the business person giving themseves time to observe the Holy Days in your religion that you feel are important to you.

If you don’t follow the Christian Resurrection week holy days, no problem. Just don’t expect me not to follow them because you don’t and be at your house trying to sell you replacement windows.

 

[stuckmotor]

I have to ask, why does he like to attend funerals?

He says the families appreciate it.