The Seniors Thread :-)

[darksideofthemoon]

"This is for the Senior members of CS, those born before 1947. Baby Boomers and Generations X & Y are welcome providing you are over 18 🙂

But this is definitely for people who are facing the last long haul.  We have survived babyhood, childhood, being teens and twenties... We have learned to read and write, to drive, have probably been married and the women have survived child birth.

The challenges are constant and the near misses of death are also there.  If we have become a senior we have learned to survive so much, and along the way we have, of course, gathered a great deal of knowledge about life.

The  belief that age diminishes us is not true, it changes us and not all of it is bad.  Yes there can be various forms of dementia for some, but that is also a disease that can happen in younger people.  Alzheimer's can also occur - it is another form of dementia and generally occurs in people over 65, although that can occur much earlier too and not everyone is going to get it.

Most of us keep our mental alertness up to the moment of death, even if we lose our hearing and our eyesight, but of course this can happen at any age too.

What changes is our physical strength, which diminishes but our mental strength and patience grows, it has to of course, to deal with this aging thing.

Arthritis, heart trouble, strokes - all these things associated with age can happen at any time in your life - arthritis can happen when you are a child but they don't like giving out new hips and knees until you are in your 50s and 60s or later.  We can talk about that too.

Cancer can happen any time and that is also something we can discuss here if you like.

The point of this thread is to give the Seniors a chance to talk about how they are coping with age, the challenges it presents and the fears that can come with it... loss of hearing or sight, aging spouses, living alone, retirement villages, even death...

So I will ask that the Juniors treat us in kindly fashion and remember, all this is going to happen to you too - providing you avoid death before you get here 🙂

So, onward and upward.  Let's go...."

[serendipityricho]

Dipping the young sheilas in fronts plaits

into the inkwell on your desk-lol.

The pain and suffering from doing it.

Think i have permanent scars on my rrse

from my schooldays.

Richo. 

[kengillard]

I wore my first bikini ( pink and white check) in the late 50's...very daring.

And what about the rubber swimming caps???? I loved them cos they kept the water out of my ears which I hated.

[kengillard]

Not very glamorous tho...but all the girls wore them

[serendipityricho]

Hi Gilly--what about when the bic biro was invented.

Inkwells were obsolete over night.

The students lined up out side the principals office

to purchase one.

Rich kids got the deluxe-click one for 2 shillings and

sixpence.]

The rabble got the normal one with a cap for 1 shilling and

threepence.

The bic biro salesman handing them out,

had a grin on his face like a rat with a gold filling-lol.

Richo.

[kengillard]

I think I remember reading somewhere last week that Bic biro was invented in the year I was born???1938?

anyway....night to you night owls...talk in the morning♥

[kayedonproducts]

Dipping the young sheilas in fronts plaits

into the inkwell on your desk-lol.

The pain and suffering from doing it.

Think i have permanent scars on my rrse

from my schooldays.

Richo.

Big cheer for me - I did the "quotey thingo" - one of eBay's latest inventions for our enjoyment and good "functionality" :-x

My Oh used to do that also!!!!  He was always getting the cuts with the cane!!!

What state/area do you come from Richo????  I'm sure you've hung around with my OH :^O

He took up smoking at 8 and used to smoke under the those wooden classrooms - the temporary ones that used to stay there forever!!!  Thankfully he gave up smoking 26 years for the last time - then he was hiding behind our garge from the kids :O:^O  I gave it up 28 years ago for good!

I didn't have plaits so it didn't happen to me. My mother made me have short hair until I was in 5th year and then only after a fight because I thought I was old enough to choose my own hair style.  All my daughters had very long hair :^O

I only had boys in my class until Primary - from then on it was all girls, so we were more refined - Bankstown Central, NSW - anybody???   High School - anybody here from Wiley Park High in NSW??  I started 1958 - the 2nd year it was opened. It was very strict - and  we had the worst PE uniform with those horrible bloomer pants. One day, some norti girls decided to just wear their pants and blouses without the wondeful PE tunic down to our knees with the rope cord around the waist - they got into big trouble and probably got detention.  No, I wasn't one of them.  Our school colours were green and yellow - School song started..."We girls who stand in colours of our land, so grand...." - very patriotic. We had to wear brown school shoes and also sandshoes for sport - our headmistress was lovely but very strict and it was almost like a Private School in many ways.

Here's a joke I just read on a US newsletter I get called "Suddenly Seniors" - it

has great jokes if anybody's interested.Can't put some here, as I'll be like Richo was at School :^O

MEMORY GOING?

He was leaving a meeting at the church, and looking for his keys. They were not in his pockets, and a quick search of the meeting room revealed nothing.

Suddenly he realized he must have left them in the car. Frantically, he headed for the parking lot. His wife, had scolded him many times in the past for leaving the keys in the ignition. His theory was that the ignition was the best place NOT to lose them. Her theory was that the car could be stolen.

As he ran from the doors of the church, he came to a terrifying conclusion. Her theory was right. The parking lot was empty.

He immediately called the police, giving them the location and the make & model of the vehicle, and confessed that he had left the keys in the car.

Then he made the most difficult call of all. "Honey, I left the keys in the car, and it has been stolen.

There was a period of silence, and then he heard her voice, "I dropped you off this morning", she barked. Then it was his time to be silent. Embarrassed he said, "Well come and get me." To which she replied, "I will, as soon as I convince this policeman I have not stolen your car."

Well best get back to my listings and see what;s happening.

Thinking and praying for those coping with the awful rain and floods - think Summer has passed us by.

[kayedonproducts]

Richo, guess you're in Vic!

[serendipityricho]

Good morning seniors.

Kaye---in Vic now--schooldays were in WA.

Richo.

[darksideofthemoon]

"...had a grin on his face like a rat with a gold filling-lol."

:^O why does that paint such a clear picture?

Well my internet is still going but my phone is RS for sure 😞  So will be back on to my server again today X-(

Kaye, when I first started school we had navy blue knife pleated skirts that come down to below mid calf with a white blouse and a navy and gold striped tie...  white socks and black shoes... our blazers were navy blue and we were required to wear our hats and gloves when off the school grounds, if we didn't we were given a detention.

No eating in the street either of course 🙂

[rosieglen]

Wiley Park High School was at the end of our street but I travelled to Sydney High.

My OH went to East Hills High but Bankstown Primary - he lived at Bankstown (Dellwood Street) till we were married in 1970 so a Bankstown boy from way back. 
Since moving to Brisbane we have met a lot of people from there!