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Alycidon wrote:1) You are lucky enough to remember steam hauled passenger trains (not preserved)
2) You are lucky enough to have been on the Glasgow Tramcars
3) You are lucky enough to have gone to see Francie and Josie at the Kings, and it wasn''t their comeback tour
4) You are lucky enough to have seen the bands at the Apollo
5) You are lucky enough to remember going to Saltcoats on a train leaving St Enoch Station.
6) You are lucky enough to remember Goldbergs, Wylie Hills and Lewis's toy departments at Christmas

I could go on

Being old has its benefits!!

I can tick all those boxes, even substituting Greens for the Apollo.

You're having a wank and have to stop half way though because you're all out of breath, and by the time you've got your wind back, you're not in the mood any more.

HelenD wrote:...you have a flat full of plants and not one of them has a street value.

I feel the need to give this a wee round of applause.

...you return home to find the burglar who stole it has returned your entire CD collection.

HelenD wrote:...you return home to find the burglar who stole it has returned your entire CD collection.

I can top that.

About 15 years or so ago, I worked in the press office of a local talking newspaper. Our computers were so old, they still used 5" floppy discs, and a word processing package called WordStar.

We got broken into once. Nothing was taken. In fact the neds took one look at our shitty equipment and left us half a bottle of Irn Bru as compensation.

Your favorite entertainer as a kid is now on bail.

Your kids think "The Red Death" is a computer game, not McEwans Export....

It takes you a good fifteen to twenty minutes to work up the energy to crawl out of bed after your alarm goes off.

You look round and see all your generation at work look old.

A warm glow takes over when you find that Tartan Special is available in cans again. Not only that but I then acted like an old Grannie by buying four cans for the end of October (when I will be off Tramadol by then) just in case.

You gauge how good your day is when pain from problem A isn't as bad as discomfort from problem B or when that same ethos applies to bloodloss from operation scars.

You find yourself referring to one of two boxes of tops and jumpers as 'winter stuff'.

You look at your hair and decide that's it; number one all over from now on so it doesn't look as if I'm trying to disguise going bald.

I don't turn for for another seven weeks; when and why did this happen?

You walk past a secondary school at chucking out time, and think "Schoolgirls never looked like that when I was in school."

You have to stop every few yards to catch your breath, maybe holding onto a railing or a lamp post, and people look at you as if you're drunk.

You walk past a Primary School at chucking out time, look at all the yummy mummys, and think "People's mums never looked like that when I was that age..."

When you find some posts could cause a little bit of alarm because some could deem them to have inappropriate connotations.

Delmont St Xavier wrote:When you find some posts could cause a little bit of alarm because some could deem them to have inappropriate connotations.

was biting my tongue on it wasn't going to be so diplomatic, so well done Sir