when did i get old?

Post by **rob.hardy1** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 6:56 pm

Having got my MEA in november last year i have decided to get under a bonnet for the first time in 35yrs. I was chatting to polo2k about some things i would need including a lead light for working underneath and,for good old health and saftey i would need to get some totecters. He looked down on me ( he is very tall) and told me that its not a lead light its an L.E.D. light, assuming i had got it wrong and asked what are totecters.
When did i get so old that i talk a different language?

Post by **motherofgod** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:05 pm

I thought MEA, was some sort of masters degree before I carried on reading!

I presume it would be a lead LED then( opens can of.......)

James

Post by **Dean** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:11 pm

I think the word toetectors is widely used in industry, so maybe that is the reason. It's definitely a word I still hear at work.

Post by **Matt** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:41 pm

Im 24 and regularly use both those words... shame I can't spell though ;)

Post by **LouiseM** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:45 pm

Im 24 and regularly use both those words

Yes, but you've got a beard and drink real ale so technically you're an old man

Post by **LouiseM** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:47 pm

Oops. Apologies. Just realised it's your brother that has the beard

Post by **bigginger** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:51 pm

Post by **Judge** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:09 pm

LouiseM wrote:
Im 24 and regularly use both those words
Yes, but you've got a beard and drink real ale so technically you're an old man

Why?

Post by **Peetee** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:10 pm

I never thought I was getting old insomuch as I looked and felt sprightly in comparison to those around me of a similar age. At 43 I can still run backwards faster than most can forwards and throw myself at the ground without injury(play fighting with my son - before you think I'm some Dali-esc sado-masochist).
What has sneaked up in the last 12 months though is deterioration of my eyesight. I've needed glasses since I was a child but recently I've really struggled to focus at arms length. I was fitting the radio on Albert a few weeks back and glasses or no glasses I couldn't focus to do up the screws

Post by **paulk** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:49 pm

What has sneaked up in the last 12 months though is deterioration of my eyesight

Don't believe a word of it he's driven me around before and the glasses have been needed for years

Yes, but you've got a beard and drink real ale so technically you're an old man

I think I must fall into that group

Oops. Apologies. Just realised it's your brother that has the beard

Post by **LouiseM** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:42 am

Why?

It's called a sense of humour Bill

Post by **Judge** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:38 am

I guessed that

Post by **Kevin** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:15 am

When did i get so old that i talk a different language

Its not that you got old Rob its that some of the youngsters have their own language

Post by **dunketh** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:04 pm

As an 80s child I know about pit lamps and steel toe cap boots.
I'm assuming these closely resemble the alien items you refer to?

I've never working in the engineering trade though... I guess thats a big handicap. I had to learn a whole new mechanical vocab when I first bought the Minor.

Also, drinking ale doesnt make you old - it just means you have taste.

Post by **Lou** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:06 pm

It's called a sense of humour

The first thing to go, apparently

Post by **dunketh** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:10 pm

Surely as a Minor owner a sense of humour is an essential - that and a sense of adventure!

Post by **paulk** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:52 pm

And no sense of feeling in your fingers once you've dropped the starter motor on them for the 3rd time in a row

Post by **bigginger** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:47 pm

Some of us (well, me) have "no sense of feeling in (their) fingers" permanently ;)

Post by **mickessex** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 8:10 pm

Some of us (well, me) have "no sense of feeling in (their) fingers" permanently

Snap!
I don't mind so much, quite often miss with the hammer and think to myself "at one time that would really have hurt!".

Failling eyesight is just plain frustrating.

Mick

Post by **8009STEVE** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:38 am

glasses or no glasses I couldn't focus to do up the screws

You are like me then. Nothing wrong with the eyes, it is just that my arms are too short.