Morris Minor Owners Club

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

Why?

It's called a sense of humour Bill

I guessed that

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

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.

It's called a sense of humour

The first thing to go, apparently

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

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

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

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

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.