Turvey Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 ...you try and hang a packet of cough sweets (left pocket) on the key hook instead of the car key fob (right pocket) 🙄😃 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Bloodaxe Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 .......you've got a packet of cough sweets in your pocket anyway! You'll know it's got really bad when you start sucking the key fob! I keep finding myself talking about something I did "recently" - and then realising it was 10 years ago........! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenny Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 Your purchasing a prescription for Viagra online 😂 Well I don't need them yet atall but thought I'd try them out on myself and the wife Got 28 50mg last week, Took 7 minutes to take affect from 0-60 😅 my legs gave in after 41 minutes Deflated after three hours Had to face away from the car when closing the door for fear of catching it. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkman Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 If you were a car it would probably be called a lift kit! You certainly know you're getting older when you attend more funerals year by year. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMB Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 Dipped Lights and main beam Now known as Headlamps high beam and low beam (Sounds a bit gymnastic IMHO. lol) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkman Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 I remember when you pressed a switch on the floor beside the clutch pedal with your left foot to dip the headlights and changed gear by means of a lever on the steering column, known as 'column change' which was usually 3 speed and reverse. Does this mean that I'm not getting old but actually am old? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomsFocus Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 ...the new neighbours appear to be 12 years old....honestly, when did they allow school kids to rent flats!? Apparently they're in their 20's and I'm just getting old. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Bloodaxe Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 1 hour ago, TomsFocus said: ...the new neighbours appear to be 12 years old....honestly, when did they allow school kids to rent flats!? It's a serious problem nowadays, school kids every where. They let them be doctors and policemen, drive buses and trains, even seen one piloting an aircraft!😀 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsk Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 Remembering having to thump the door pillar to get the right semaphore indicator arm to come out when turning right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Bloodaxe Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 1 hour ago, Milkman said: I remember when you pressed a switch on the floor beside the clutch pedal with your left foot to dip the headlights and changed gear by means of a lever on the steering column, known as 'column change' which was usually 3 speed and reverse. Does this mean that I'm not getting old but actually am old? My first and third cars had a floor mounted dip switch, which were actually pretty useful, I thought. Never had a car with column change but driven a few, quite popular at one time to permit seating for 3 across the front bench seat. Usually in conjunction with an umbrella handbrake on the dash, though some had a floor mounted lever to the right of the drivers seat. So, sadly, I think the answer to your question is "yes, but you're not alone!" 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turvey Posted February 5, 2020 Author Share Posted February 5, 2020 9 hours ago, Milkman said: and changed gear by means of a lever on the steering column, known as 'column change' which was usually 3 speed and reverse. ...or, three on the tree, as it's known in America 😎 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turvey Posted February 5, 2020 Author Share Posted February 5, 2020 20 hours ago, Lenny said: Your purchasing a prescription for Viagra online 😂 Took 7 minutes to take affect from 0-60 😅 my legs gave in after 41 minutes Can't believe you were sitting/lying/standing with a stopwatch!! 😄 Mrs Lenny walking like John Wayne this morning? 😲 9 hours ago, TomsFocus said: ...the new neighbours appear to be 12 years old....honestly, when did they allow school kids to rent flats!? Apparently they're in their 20's and I'm just getting old. I'm the same with our kids teachers, some of them are more like the pupils than the pupils are!!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenny Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 8 minutes ago, Turvey said: Can't believe you were sitting/lying/standing with a stopwatch!! 😄 Mrs Lenny walking like John Wayne this morning? 😲 I'm the same with our kids teachers, some of them are more like the pupils than the pupils are!!! Woods is my/our surname first name lenny or is this case it was Leonard 😂 It was experimental so I monitored the time and held neutral thoughts in order to provoke anything lol She seems a bit happier anyway 🤷♂️ walked the dog without complaining; she did say the guy next door shouted over to ask if she was trying for number four. I'm not too pleased about that atall nothing to do with him what goes on in my house. Although it was 10am when everyone was out working and the kids were in school; he must have came home during the 43 minute ordeal 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkman Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 I also remember that there was a starting handle included in the toolkit, tyres were 500x15 cross ply and the spare wheel and tyre was a real one not one of these skinny get you home at 30mph ones, some new cars now I believe don't even come with a spare, it's an extra option, how stupid is that! There was a time when the paint on cars was thicker than the metal on newer ones! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turvey Posted February 6, 2020 Author Share Posted February 6, 2020 22 hours ago, Lenny said: Woods is my/our surname first name lenny or is this case it was Leonard 😂 Mr Woods? Very appropriate in this instance 🍆😄 21 hours ago, Milkman said: some new cars now I believe don't even come with a spare, it's an extra option, how stupid is that! We've got a '66 plate Qashqai and it's got a bottle of gunk and a pump! No use if you get more than a nail in your tyre, and you have to replace the tyre AND the TMPS if you use it! Absolute madness! Trying to source a spare and jack etc that doesn't cost an arm and a leg🙄 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomsFocus Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 ...you're watching EastEnders and Ian Beale is wearing an identical hoody to yourself. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkman Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 19 minutes ago, TomsFocus said: ...you're watching EastEnders and Ian Beale is wearing an identical hoody to yourself. Either that or your belly is the same size! Some call it 'middle age spread' others call it 'falling apart'. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenny Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 1 hour ago, TomsFocus said: ...you're watching EastEnders and Ian Beale is wearing an identical hoody to yourself. Hollyoaks or Home&Away I be like a spoon fed baby waiting for its dinner watching either of those 😲 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pragmatix Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 On 2/5/2020 at 12:29 AM, RMB said: Dipped Lights and main beam Now known as Headlamps high beam and low beam (Sounds a bit gymnastic IMHO. lol) They had to change the dipped headlights to low beam because people kept driving into lakes, (old Joke) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkman Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 Not so bad as leaving your landing light on and next morning finding your house full of aeroplanes! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pragmatix Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 You know your old when you remember getting Olive oil from the chemist and it wasn't for cooking. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Heaton Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 Oh aye, olive oil for your ears. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 Even though I'm only just 40, all I want nowadays is a nice comfy car to drive, Radio 2 and a tin of travel sweets from my local garden center Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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