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]

Yep Grandmoon--and the poppet beads inside the back window.

The gear stick knobs made from billiard balls and

old lawnmower pistons.

The sticker with-NRNRH on the window.

Work that out -or mail me-not posting it here-lol.

Fox tails on the aerial.

-im getting emotional---------Richo.

[kengillard]

In about 1960 my first husband had an MGB..

All MG owners would nonchantly raise a forefinger off the wheel in acknowledgement of another MG driver when passing.

Talk about having to tatoo your name on the soles of your feet, otherwise no one would know who you were!!!!!LOL

Can't explain that any better without being so explicit that I'd have to go to the island......

[kengillard]

give us a clue Richo?

by the way thanks to the person who explained Payee to me♥ had a few cheques made out to various docctors who treated me in hospital from medicare ....my name was on the cheque too, so got a bit confused.  Which is nothing new!  lol

[serendipityricho]

Gilly-most young blokes cars in WA and when i moved to

Frankston Vic in the 1960s had one.

Roughly translated it was---No- -Rough stuff No Ride Home lol.

Never worked for me.

What about -sneaking into drive in movies in the boot!

[kengillard]

didn't have that experience Richo.

When we went to the drive in, it was for some serious snogging

lol

[grandmoon]

didn't have that experience Richo.

When we went to the drive in, it was for some serious snogging

lol

Driving off with the sound machine still attached to the car.

[kengillard]

LOL Grandmoon

I remember that!

[serendipityricho]

Yep -fixing the high heel rips in the car headlining

on sundays-memories!

What about those spiv coke salesmen.

They would go into an area and sell the local

milkbar owners a large box of yoyos.

Then stake out a few schools and give a a few away,

at lunch time to a couple of trend setters.

-everyone else had to get one-lol.

[lyndal1838]

Many a true word spoken in jest, Richo!

It's nice having a seniors thread to use expressions that a lot of the youngsters have never heard of.

eg. a tiger in your tank

grabbing a tiger by the tail

etc.

Oh how I can relate to that.

On the old M2M board I was answering some questions from a newish member and used the expression "a trap for young players"...she flared back in high dugeon that she was not that young (in her 30s I think) and that she was not playing at anything.  It took quite a bit of explaining on my part that I was not insulting her or being rude.

I though everyone understood that expression....but it did teach me never to use a throw away remark about anything for fear of being misunderstood.

[darksideofthemoon]

Morning seniors.

Yes Kaye you do get a prize.

Its a futures pack.

A commode and walking frame!

Richo.

Hahahaa oh you are an evil man Richo :^O