You know you're getting old when....

[Bibbyman]

When you buy a set of new tires for your main-line car and they are the "CLASSIC" model.


That happend to me today.  Replaced a couple of  235R7015 white wall tires on our Buick Roadmaster.  Took a look at them as I was filling the Buick with gas and was a little shocked   to see they had the word "CLASSIC" molded into the side wall.

[CHARLIE]

Bibbyman, they put CLASSIC on those tires so they can charge more for them. ;D

[Frank_Pender]

You know, Bibbyman, that I thought about your thread titel and recalled last week seein one of my students I had not seen in 32 years.  It was just the opposite for me in that situation.  Besides being gorgeous when she was young she got even better in those 32 years.

  Anyway, when she saw me, she said,   "Golly you look as good as you did 32 years ago."  I don't blush easily, but my tin hat sure got warm, as I received a big long hug.  Followed by, "Your skin sure looks good too." :

  Perspective and time.    8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

[Tom]

Lookout Frank!  She's after your body. :D

[sawyerkirk]

skin lotion for real men = sweat and sawdust applied heavily throughout the course of a day.

[Haytrader]

What did Mrs. Pender think about all this?
You told her just like ya told us, right Frank?

 :D  :D  :D

When our custom wheat cutters showed up this year, the owners 17 year old daughter had lost the braces and filled out, if you know what I mean... ;)
They didn't come last year due to drought so it had been two years since we had seen them.
I asked my son what he thought and his reply was.......
"Boy, she sure did out grow the ugly".

     

[woodmills1]

  about three weeks before the end of school i was in the middle of a conversation with one of the freshman boys in my class and I swear I had to look up a foot during the conversation to keep eye contact.  His mother is a guidance counselor at the school and when I recounted the story to her she said he had grown about a foot during the last month.  So fast in fact that he was outgrowing his knees and ankles and the doctor was worried about it.

[shopteacher]

You know your getting old when you get up in the morning and it's easier to count the places that don't hurt rather than the ones that do.  :D
     I figure I'm still in pretty good shape if I can still have sex twice; I still like the one in the summer best though. 8)

[Frank_Pender]

Sawyerkirk, you are absolutly correct. 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

Why, of course I told her. ;D :  I have her Senior picture on my office wall.    

[OneWithWood]

The big clue for me that I was maybe looking older than I think is that the younger folks ( mid-thirties and younger) have taken to addressing me as 'sir'.  Now I have not been knighted and always thaught the sir was reserved for my father's generation!   ;D :D :

[Mark M]

When I was eating lunch yesterday at McDonalds a little girl about 5 years old keep peaking at me from over her seat. Then she stood up and said "ho-ho-ho". I said to her "I surprised you recognized me without my red suit." Needless to say her eyes got really big :D

[Bibbyman]

....  when ol' timers include me in with their generation, like - "You can remember how hard it was to buy a new car after the War?" (WWII they're talking about)

Mary's hair started to turn silver very early in her adult life and completed the transition a good number of years ago.  She is often "amused" when women of a generation or two more mature than she lump her into their age group.  Bet they think she pretty spry to be running a sawmill!

[Captain]

I'm just having a hard time picturing a fine automobile like a Buick Roadmaster parked in the yard at Warden's next to the Terex loader  ;D....there have been many a thread on trucks, but never cars....

Captain

[Bibbyman]

Well,  like most threads around here,  this one started out "You know your getting old when....." and not about cars.


Here's the Roadmaster as seen outside the building where Wood-Mizer put on their great 20'th anniversary party.

[inspectorwoody]

 :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D

I thought I was bad  ;D

[Captain]

Aww now Bibby, we wanted to see a picture of the Roadmaster in the barnyard at the mill with you and Mary covered in sawdust ready for a lunch run....that one there is downright cosmopolitan. :

Captain

[ElectricAl]

Captain,

I was down at Bibbyman and Mary's place last summer.

Bib and I were chatting by the sawmill when Mary cruzed by in the RoadMaster

Nice gal in a nice ride ;D

Mary wipped into the garage and walked over ready to work.

But as far as a lunch run................bet not.

Now jumping in the Terex for a lunch run, I could see that happening ;)

[Bibbyman]

You know you're getting old when - you've driven Route 66 long before it was Historic Route 66.

You know you're getting old when - you remember back to the first couple of BRAND NEW cars you bought and they were equipped with a "three on the tree" manual transmission.  (It'd be fun to see if I could still drive one.) :D

[shopteacher]

You know you're getting old when - you've driven Route 66 long before it was Historic Route 66.

You know you're getting old when - you remember back to the first couple of BRAND NEW cars you bought and they were equipped with a "three on the tree" manual transmission.  (It'd be fun to see if I could still drive one.) :D

You KNOW your old if your first car had 3 pedals on the floor. :D

[Wudman]

You KNOW your old if your first car had 3 pedals on the floor. :D

How about when there was 4? (one for the starter)

Wudman

[Bibbyman]

I've driven a few with the starter button on the floor but not bought a new one with one.

Don't forget the dimmer switch on the floor. ;)

The old 54 Chevy Dad had had an ignition switch that you could lock and take the key or you could un-lock and take the key and still start and drive it.

Dad had an old Plymouth that had a shifter direct into the transmission.  It would hung up real often and he'd just take the cover off and use a screwdriver to pry it back into place.

[shopteacher]

Oh, in the car I was refering to, the one pedal was high, netural & low gear,  the middle was reverse and the other was the brake.  Gas and ignition was on the steering column. The starter was out in front of the radiator.  8)

   When I was stationed in Maryland I bought a 49 Ford pickup.  I loved that truck, old flathead six.  Use to go to the base salvage yard and sipon gas out of 4 scrap helicopters. Ran that thing for a year on that AV gas. Never seem to hurt it, for a matter of fact nothing ever seemed to hurt it.  Only bad thing was the 6 volt system, couldn't get that thing started on a winter morning.

[Bibbyman]

Dad was a GM man,  uncle down the road a Ford man. Many a cold morning the only thing that would start was Dad's 54 Chevy.  He'd go down and jump my uncle's Ford.  

Could be that my uncle was none too good at keeping things up and runnin'.  Dad would always say "If he (my uncle) would ever get a car that ran, he'd have to tear it apart just to see why."

[Jeff]

Ya know your getting old when you see what looks like 10 year olds driving cars.

Ya know when your getting old when your arms are to short to read the newspaper anymore. I swear, my arms have shrunk 6 inches in the last two years. I'm lucky I can still scratch my nose.

[Jeff]

I asked Tammy if I could ride the flat cart with our tile on it as she pushed it from the home depot store to the car last night. She said sure, but ya gotta pose like a surfer. :D

I asked because it looked easier not fun. :D