Getting old is a PITA

49 now, joined this current forum when I was 28, I was on the one prior to this though in 2001 for sure.

I can't say I feel any different to be honest, I walk a few miles a day, do at least 50 pushups a day. Sometimes go out at the weekend till 5am, showing the 20 year olds how to actually dance like a headless chicken!
 
Penfold101 said:
I’m 42, had my first child 6 months ago. He was 5 days old when we got chatting to a 95 year old in Sainsbury’s out doing her weekly shop by herself.
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Was working at a woman's flat the other week. She was 92 and living on a first floor flat. She had a stair lift but didn't use it. She kept going out to put rubbish in the outside bins.
I kept saying I'll take that down for you but she wouldn't have it. She said it's my exercise and I like to go outside.

My heart was in my mouth every time she went down them.
 
dcsarge said:
@DXP55 Well if nothing else you have motivated me to find the right spares and replace the kitchen tap cartridges. The drip has been getting worse but I kept putting it off :p.
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Don't get motivated too much -About 4 yrs ago I had my head under the sink renewing pipes and putting isolator valves on and a new tap -The tap cartridges were done last year but we had a water metre fitted in July and copper dust got in the tap so the joints had a load of vasaline on from last time and I have got in habit of not wrenching thing up bar tight.
 
sprite1275 said:
Was working at a woman's flat the other week. She was 92 and living on a first floor flat. She had a stair lift but didn't use it. She kept going out to put rubbish in the outside bins.
I kept saying I'll take that down for you but she wouldn't have it. She said it's my exercise and I like to go outside.

My heart was in my mouth every time she went down them.
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This reminds me when we went to St Ives for the day in summer.

We couldn't find parking so parked at the top of the hill at the leisure centre. Walking down the hill towards the beach and an old chap, collapsed and died in front of us. Anyway at the end of the day, we were walking back up the same hill and I saw this little old lady walking up the hill, got to have been in her late 80s, early 90s and all I could think about was the chap from earlier. This lady walked up that hill better than me and said she does it all the time. Meanwhile I thought I was going to need an oxygen mask for myself.
 
I'm 60 and retired a year ago, used to write advanced software for control systems.

Mentally I feel the same as I always have, I read, keep up to date with computer software & hardware, currently I'm doing an OU course in Geology.

I go to the gym a couple of times a week, go walking & cycling, climbed three mountains in the Lake District a few weeks ago.

Feel much fitter than I did a year ago - keep active as you get older it helps a lot.
 
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