Tuesday, May 17, 2005

You know you're old when....

  • it takes you four days to recover from a big night of drinking.Those cocktails provide by Elaine were excellent except that the Tom Collins might have had just a bit too much sugar syrup added. My memory of that night fades in and out but I can't seem to recall all of the activity that has been reported. That's the problem of getting older, your memory ain't like it used to be.
  • the clothes you wore to an 80's party were the clothes you wore in the 80's. Not only that, but you had a choice of what to wear still hanging in your wardrobe.
  • when you realise that you were 14 when your dad was the age you are now. No wonder I found it tough playing backyard soccer against him. True, he was a professional soccer player, but back then I thought he was way over the hill and that I should have thrashed him.
  • you are made a life member of a sporting club. You also realise that your association with the club covers over one-fifth of the club's history. I gotta get out more.
  • the youngest player currently in the AFL was born after you left high school. Not only that, you are also older than the oldest current AFL player. The scary thing is that you think you could play better than half the guys out there, particularly when you team has lost their last three games after starting so well.
  • guys like Alexander the Great, Bruce Lee and Mozart died at a younger age then you are now. But at least I outlived them.

1 comment:

elaine said...

Small mercies:
1. at least half the sugar syrup made it onto the floor rather than into the tom collins (and despite three moppings with hot water the floor is still sticky!
2. You don't actually play football (your body is too fragile to recover)

I too am still recovering.