When did I get this old, there’s been a mistake?

[Pete999]

Well my brain thinks I'm 21 but in actuality my body is 72 and don't I know it.

 

[Taylortwocities]

Everybody gets old, the optional bit is growing up!

 

[Spoon]

It’s a shame my brain hasn’t aged at the same rate as the rest of me......it still thinks I’m 21 not 44!

Im physically 51 but my missus says mentally I havent reached double figures..

 

[Charlie_]

The worst thing about getting old!

 

[Dustydazzler]

Just turning 40 and I ache a little bit more as each year passes.
Started on the tools aged about 19 when I would rush around like a mad man , fly up and down ladders , scale scaffolding like Spider-Man , crawl about lofts with ease.

Now it takes me 5 minutes just to up and down my tall steps and my shoulders start to ache after making off just 5 lights.

Getting old sucks....

 

[The Ghost]

I did have a little chuckle the other day. The DNO came to change the main fuse in a commercial place and I was alongside them changing an RCD in a hager DB. Both were about 45 cm above the floor. I was working cross legged sitting down comfortable while the young men were complaining about their backs working so low. Just yesterday a client who had volunteered to do first fix about 38 years, agreed to go into the loft to feed a switch wire down. He nearly go stuck up there with his "bad back" Moaning and swearing, I had to do it instead. So age has not wearied me! Seems the upcoming generations are aging faster. My Son is receding faster than me. To be fair I did over forty years training in martial arts so maybe that helped me to be more supple and resilient.

 

[PEG]

I did have a little chuckle the other day. The DNO came to change the main fuse in a commercial place and I was alongside them changing an RCD in a hager DB. Both were about 45 cm above the floor. I was working cross legged sitting down comfortable while the young men were complaining about their backs working so low. Just yesterday a client who had volunteered to do first fix about 38 years, agreed to go into the loft to feed a switch wire down. He nearly go stuck up there with his "bad back" Moaning and swearing, I had to do it instead. So age has not wearied me! Seems the upcoming generations are aging faster. My Son is receding faster than me. To be fair I did over forty years training in martial arts so maybe that helped me to be more supple and resilient.

.....wax on.....wax off...

The thing which is most prescient,regarding all the above talk,has not been mentioned.
Lifestyle and diet.... no point whining about bits failing,if you've treated yer body to a selection of non-prescription party narcotics,and then gone to Mac d's

Come on down to me shaolin temple,and get dull

 

[Intoelectrics]

I remember my old man turning 40 and me laughing at him complaining about his aches and pains. Jokingly I used say to him that when folk reach 60 "really old" they should be sent to pasture. I remember very clearly turning 40 myself and experiencing those aches and pains my old man suffered.

Now I'm heading towards pasture time my knees are shot, my eyesight is shot, I ache so much each morning I wish I could just stay in bed. But my brain still fools me into thinking I'm still in my prime.

My old man just smiles and says "I told you so"

 

[Marvo]

You just have to adapt to the age thing. I carry a pair of reading glasses, magnifying glass and knee pads in my tool case to combat the age problems.

 

[Taylortwocities]

And an apprentice?