"Pops"

[Frank46]

Well it looks like I finally made the senior citizen club. Went into the local chinese place to get some supper and the girl behind the counter says "Hi Pops". Since I'm in there fairly often I didn't think about it much. Guess the grey hair gave me away. Jeeze getting old stinks, but when someone calls you pops it do put a new perspective on things. Frank

[JeffinNZ]

:-D
All a state of mind Frank.

My did another duathlon at the weekend and there was a 70 year old lady there doing her first triathlon! Hadn't ridden a bike in 40 years and she was giving it death.

I'll be happy if I can still ride my bike at 70.

Keep smiling.

[Four Fingers of Death]

I'm only a young pup (59 in a few weeks) and went into the Turkish Kebab/Coffee joint in my home town. The young Turk behind the counter came out and said " Hi Pop, what can I get you?" I looked up, as did his father who was right behind him and I said, "Does that mean I get a discount on my coffee? If not, I'll have to take you outside for a tune up." I was smiling and said it in a friendly manner. Hi father rolled his eyes back in his head and gave him soft a clip accross the back of the head. "Young people, forget their manner sometimes!" he said. He turned to the teenager and said a few things in Turkish. He then took me by the elbow and guided me to a table and sat down with me. His son served us coffee and Baklava (flaky pastry in honey) and we had a bit of a yarn. As the son was serving us, the Father said, 'this man is a big boss at the jail, if you do not behave like a gentleman, you will end up there and he will, how you say it? Ah yes, kick your a$$!' I've since retired, but I don't get called Pop anymore, not that I really mind.

[monadnock#5]

At age 51, no one has referred to me as Pops...yet. I don't think I'll get too bent out of shape though. It sure beats the alternative.

Ken

[Boz330]

The real pits is when they give you the senior citizen discount with out you asking. I don't ask, too vain I guess. As far as the grey, I've earned every one of those puppys, sometimes the hard way.

Bob

[Treeman]

My wife turned 37 on Sunday.....but she has been receiving unrequested Senior Discounts for 2 years. For some reason this does not please her. ?????

[walltube]

you have arrived...:)

Welcome to Planet Geezer! Enjoy the coupons, Senior Citizen Discounts, and smart-aleck (but well intentioned) remarks from those yet to get here.

I'll be the nice round number of 69 in a few months. By the way, the term "few days, weeks, months or years" changes in perspective as the clock ticks away.

Yours to The Last WW,

Harold aka walltube

[NVcurmudgeon]

I don't mind a bit being classified as a geezer by mouthy young 'uns. I just smile and think about all of them I have outlived!

[walltube]

I don't mind a bit being classified as a geezer by mouthy young 'uns*. I just smile and think about all of them I have outlived!

What do *they know about anything anyway?? :confused: :)


H

[Bret4207]

I got my 20 year pin yesterday, but the "kiddies" have been calling me a "cranky, miserable old fart" for several years. It's that darn perception thing again!

[9.3X62AL]

Uh, RIGHT, Bret.

You haven't LIVED until at age 41 you get referred to as "The Jurassic Narc" by a roomful of 20-something and early 30-something scruffy dope cops. Then, when your serially-issued ID number gets called at a search warrant briefing, and is met by "DUDE, YOU"RE WAY OLD!" Or, getting your 25 year pin, and seeing that a few of the onlookers weren't even born when you started the job.

"Paine's first patrol unit was a sorrel."

"Al's first job was bussing tables at The Last Supper."

"Al's career spanned the eras of both black powder and black rifles."

Yeah, I think I know how ya feel.

[carpetman]

Nobody calls me pop. My problem is just the opposite. I go to a bar or casino where you have to be a certain age and they ALWAYS check my ID. Always the same problem,they don't think it's authentic so they have to do a check to make sure it's not fake. Then when I ask for my senior discount,same problem. They need ID and again check to make sure it's authentic. It's a hell of a problem so I have taken some steps to eliminate it. I have my barber cut a bald spot in the back of my hair. I must say it looks natural,he is a very good barber. I bought some clear lens glasses that actually look like bifocals---of course both the bottom and top portion of the lens is clear. I pad the bottom part of my shirt,and must say I do a really good job,you can't tell it's padded. Doing all these things,my Id gets checked under 50% of the time now in the situations I described above.

[dragonrider]

With my grey hair and receding hairline I used to get senior citizen discounts unrequested all the time. Since I shaved my head I don't get them anymore, :confused:

[Boz330]

OOOKKKK! I bet you have a piece of ocean front property in AZ that you want to get rid of as well. #12
carpetman
Boolit Master




Nobody calls me pop. My problem is just the opposite. I go to a bar or casino where you have to be a certain age and they ALWAYS check my ID. Always the same problem,they don't think it's authentic so they have to do a check to make sure it's not fake. Then when I ask for my senior discount,same problem. They need ID and again check to make sure it's authentic. It's a hell of a problem so I have taken some steps to eliminate it. I have my barber cut a bald spot in the back of my hair. I must say it looks natural,he is a very good barber. I bought some clear lens glasses that actually look like bifocals---of course both the bottom and top portion of the lens is clear. I pad the bottom part of my shirt,and must say I do a really good job,you can't tell it's padded. Doing all these things,my Id gets checked under 50% of the time now in the situations I described above.

[Ricochet]

I saw an absolutely gorgeous young lady of 27 in the office this morning. As I filled out paperwork I noticed her birthdate and had the thought: "Babies I've delivered are her age now!"
:-D

[qajaq59]

Our friends moved up to Georgia from Florida and when she went to pay ther real estate taxes the woman behind the ****er said, "Are you over 65?" "Yes" replied our friend and was told that got them an 82% discount.

[7br]

A few months ago, I called our outsourced tech support at work. After carefully explaining the problem a couple of times, the young man on the other end of the line said, "Anything else I can do for you, dude". I wanted to tell him that my son was called "Dude" and he could call me Mr. Barb.

Last week, I helped a guy with some issues over the phone. At the end of the conversation, he said "Thanks a lot amigo". We have never met. We have never shared a bottle of tequila and we sure haven't busted out of a jail in Tijuana. I was not amused.

[MT Gianni]

Any one feeling old needs to read the post about "Dad Farr" , the rifleman who cleaned up 71 straight 1000 yd in the black at age 62. Great readhttp://www.bobrohrer.com/sea_stories/end_of_an_era.pdf for all. Gianni.

[Frank46]

Well you made me feel ok now. I jst remembered that with one exception all the guys I worked with are still working and have a few years to go before retirement. And that the young lady who started all this wasn't even born but twenty years or so ago. I wonder what my wife would have said had she been with me. That would have been good for some laughs. Frank

[Four Fingers of Death]

There was a nice young lady of about 25 working at the headquarters before I retired. I worked there for 6 months. Every now and then she would have a big grumble about having to turn up for work every day. I cheeringly used to say, 'The first 40 years are hard, after that it's f&%$*ing impossible :D

really used to cheer her up (NOT!!!!)

[bruce drake]

I've got a Soldier in my Maintenance Company that when she checked in from her Basic Training unit, I read her Record book and and found out she was 5 months old when I joined the Service! Now she is pregnant from her Soldier husband so in a few months I could be a surrogate grandfather and/or her Company Commander!

Bruce

[Bret4207]

My standard line used to be, "Kid, I got socks that have been on the job longer than you've been breathing". My new one is, "Kid, I got dingleberrys that have more time on the job than you do". A little coarse, but effective.

[Dutch4122]

My standard line used to be, "Kid, I got socks that have been on the job longer than you've been breathing". My new one is, "Kid, I got dingleberrys that have more time on the job than you do". A little coarse, but effective.

My favorites are credited to a friend that works for another local department that I have worked side jobs with in the past:

"Listen junior, I've got more time on disciplinary action than you do in a cop car" and "My Mag-light has more time on the job than you."

Kinda takes the attitude out of the twenty-somethings when you put it that way.

[Nueces]

One version amongst 'Old, Bold' fighter pilots is: Sonny, I got more time inverted that you got total!

[NVcurmudgeon]

Navy version:

I've passed more ship's masts than you have telephone poles.

I've washed more salt water out of my skivvies than you've sailed over.

I've worn out more sea bags than you have socks.

I have more time in the chow line than you have in the service.

etc. etc.

[Bret4207]

I was under the impression that there were no "old, bold" fighter pilots. At least that's the way the pilots in the VMA-223 told it back when Uncle Ronnie Regan and I were kicking the USSR around. (That may be a slight exageration, but Marine pride demands I make claims I can't necessarily back up)

[azcoyhunter]

Air Wing Version

I have forgotten more about F/A 18 engines than you will ever know.

Clint

[Poygan]

The version I heard was, "There are old pilots and there are bold pilots but there are no old bold pilots".

Poygan, USAF, Retired

[Frank46]

Our employee numbers started at 5 digits, usually at 10000 and whent from there. We had a meeting and on sighin you had to leave your number and name. After lunch the teacher started calling out names and numbers and when he got to me he said "Darn, how long have you been here" and I replied "since the flood". Frank

[Bret4207]

Azcoyhunter- When I was in it was F-4, A6, A7 or 8 (The Corsair jet), A4, AV8-A+B, OV10's. We even had 1 lone Corsair prop job at Cherry Point. Let me tell ya about the time Chesty and I......

[DanWalker]

Azcoyhunter- When I was in it was F-4, A6, A7 or 8 (The Corsair jet), A4, AV8-A+B, OV10's. We even had 1 lone Corsair prop job at Cherry Point. Let me tell ya about the time Chesty and I......
I hear ya!
When I was sporting a high and tight and strutting around in my salad suit things were a bit different as well.
My platoon was the last at Parris Island to fire 45's. We were the second series to attend BWT out at carter air field. My first tank unit still had vehicles with shrapnel scars from Beiruit. My machinegun instructor was a survivor of Hill 881 by khe san.
Remember when the m16a2 service rifle was new? I was a field evaluator/torture tester for the m60hb when it came out. The original tanks I trained on are now artificial reefs off the florida coast. I remember firing the m9 beretta for the first time and thinking,"What a ***!" I remember firing the m2 for the first time and falling in love. Nothing helps a fella to sleep soundly in a dangerous place better than the knowledge that all he has to do to unleash hell on earth on the bad guys is to just sit up in his sleeping bag and grasp those butterfly handles.
Remember when Marine hand to hand combat training took place in the local bars?
Remember these classics?
Gunny's so old that he was a crossing guard at the parting of the red sea.
Gunny's first sea duty was on Noah's ark.
Gunny's first mess duty was the LAST SUPPER.


Good Lord, time is flying by.
Next june will make 20 years since I was a "STINKING THING" standing on some yellow footprints in the middle of the night and wondering just what the hell I'd gotten myself into.
SEMPER FI and GOD BLESS.

[bruce drake]

We used to say the Salt in our boots had more time in the Corps than the new guys.

Bruce
SGT USMC 89-96
CPT USA 97-Present

[Four Fingers of Death]

In the Prison we called new guys 'baggies' because their uniform never fitted well and the storemen were convinced they'd put on a bit of weight after getting posted so they issued them slightly bigger sizes. If anybody who hadn't been in the service long said something out of place we never took any notice of them, because 'they'd only been in the job since smoko.'

Also the guys who used to put their cap on back first and pull it down over their forehead, making a bump in the top because it was positioned too far down were called 'egg smugglers' because it looke dlike they were smuggling eggs into the prison under their caps :D

Getting a bit off thread here :(
Mick

[milkman-06]

Thank's for all those memories. I'm still a young pup. I remember teaching AIT trainees at Ft Knox to shoot the 1911 A1 and the greasegun. It was funny to watch tall trainees do pushups on the turret floor of a M-60 or 60 A-1. I also liked ma deuce and firing the main gun (using Kentucky windage). I did basic with the M16 A1, didn't care for it.
medically retired from Army in 74. Time is an enemy we can't defeat.
Russ N

[leftiye]

Hey, At least we're not young idiots! (old ones maybe....) Mick, I retired from the Utah S.P. in 94.

[Four Fingers of Death]

When I joined the Army I was instructed by Malaya and Korea vets, that's how old I am :(.

[Jim]

I'm 54 and have been fitting and welding pipe since 1975. The "young'uns" on the job call me "Grampa". That don't even phase me 'cause I know that tomorrow, just like yesterday, one of 'em will come in the pump room and ask me "Hey, Jim, can you show me how to make this fit?". I tell 'em all, one by one, "Keep your eye on the old man, I'll teach ya' sump'm, boy!".

Hey, Mick, I been meanin' to tell you I sure do like your signature statement!

Grampa
Top journeyman pipefitter, certified welder and card carryin' member of the old farts club! And don't you forget it! (you hear me, boy?)

[Buckshot]

............I just turned 54 and a lot of things have really changed. It's hard to identify anything under the hood of a car these days. Although that 87 Dodge Dakota I just got is rather refreshing. I'm reminded of an e-mail that went around awile back that goes if you're less then so and so years old there was always color TV, computers, debit cards and blah, blah blah. That does kinda make you feel old.

Speaking of cars it doesn't seem like it's as much fun to work on'em anymore. It's not as easy to get up off the floor as it used to be. Heck, it's not as easy to DOWN on the floor as it used to be. Just sitting on the bench on the front porch with a beer in the evening and thinking is getting to be a real blast.

Saying stuff like, "Back in '93.............." makes me feel OLD because '93 was like yesterday. I look in the mirror and say, "Who IS that old guy?" :-)

Can anyone drive down the road these days and name cars? Heck they all look alike, excepting pickups and some of them are starting to blurr. Used to be you could not only tell the make, but the year and the model.

I remember when my parents went to buy a cloths dryer and they had to get my grandfather to vouch for them to make payments because there was no credit deals. Nowadays if you don't have a credit card you can't buy anything because you don't have any credit references.

I grew up when all the dads worked and all the moms stayed home.

Ah well, time flys and change happens whether you like it or not.

...............Buckshot

[Four Fingers of Death]

Hey, Mick, I been meanin' to tell you I sure do like your signature statement!

Grampa
Top journeyman pipefitter, certified welder and card carryin' member of the old farts club! And don't you forget it! (you hear me, boy?)

Why, thanks Jim, I can't actually remember him saying that in the movie, someone else quoted him first, but it's pretty much how I treat people and hopefully it will come full circle, if not, no prob, just the way I am. I guess I'll just have to shake out the Rooster DVD and watch it a few times.

I use to have a signature that said "I say that's bold talk for a fourfingered fat man!" I loved Robert Duvall in that movie and his accent and the way he talked.

'Will you give us the road Rooster?'
'I say that's bold talk for a one eyed fat man'
'I'm shot to pieces Rooster.'

Getting a bit OT here! Sorry.

Mick.

[Frank46]

Well went back to my favorite chinese eatery. And now its official. Just call me "POPS" She did it again. Heck I have tools older than her, and jeans even older. I know for a fact that there are wines and cheeses older than me. Guess I'll just have to hunker down and stay the course. Frank

[dakotashooter2]

Old... Cripes they have been carding me for 25 years now. Now I just look at them and say "your kidding , right?"