h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

You're over 29, aren't ya? Yep, you're old.

Hi Hyp! Nice seeing you too. What you doing in this antedeluvian company?

Getting ready to join them. I have a birthday coming up. One of those 'how the heck did this happen' birthdays.

Wish I could help you with that question. I think it has something to do with moving at a speed slower than light.

Birthdays! Yay! Will there be a party? With ? Can I get you one of those cards with the obnoxious jokes about calling the fire department?

and another thing "why is time soooo linear?"

There will be a party indeed! In London. And a pre-party here in Little DooDah. I know the pre-party will have cake. Not sure about the actual one. I don't know what the fire regs are there.

No stopover in NYC? I can bring the blaze to the airport...

I actually considered going through Hartford to see the step-daughter et al, but then my senses returned and I am going through Minneapolis instead.

So Leo, this would be a good time to visit those posh relatives in London again. Only don't visit them and hang out with your hootoo friends instead.

Eugh! I wouldn't go near them. But as for visiting London... my budget at the moment looks like this:

If I don't buy much lunch before the end of the semester
If I get this internship, and don't have to get a car for the summer to get to work
If taxes aren't too high

Then I can afford my junior year. Senior year I don't know about.

Trip to London? Not even for .

But if you can pull Skanky's rhino horn for me, that would be great.

When did 29 become the cut-off age for being old?

It will be that until Leo reaches 29, at which point it will increase. One of these days, Leo...

It is interesting how our perceptions of what is old change as we reach those milestones. It's also interesting how age affects people so differently. Working with the public the way I do, I see people who are old at 60 and people who are still active and vital at 80. Sure, a lot of it is physical, but a lot of it is mental, as well.

One of these days what? You have to catch me first... Ah, young legs. What were you saying about being active at eighty? One of these days I'm going to trek out to Webb City just so I can peer into your office and ask if you're the old grumpy librarian I've heard about. Except there's no point in visiting a library that hasn't got Howl's Moving Castle on the shelves.

I would think 29 is rather old for an , no?

Elves are ageless, Leo. You should only hope.

Hi all my ageless friends.

There is no awkward age - except youth.

One grows into one's age. I went to see a specialist in Canterbury yesterday; travelled with a charming young man of 26, who wheeled me in nmy wheelchair as if I was a Queen.

We then went and waited in a waiting room for nearly an hour and then I went in to see a most charming doctor thirty years my junior.

She treated me like a Queen - we both graduated from the same University in South Africa, and then she sent me on my merry way with the said young man still escorting me.

I then had the visit of another charming young gentleman - a lawyer this time, who is about fifty years my junior. He still made me feel like a Queen.

Oh, how I love being eighty years old, rising eighty one. Each year gets better. !!

Age is in the mind - not in our poor unfortunate bodies who have to bear the brunt of our lives, and whom we so abuse.

So guard and care for our minds - carefully and lovingly. Nurture thme. Only feed them with the finest foods and wines, and fruit and occasionally a wonderful chocolate to keep them sweet and tender.
And naturally the occasional celebratory glass of cold

With my affectionate to all the "young ones"

Christiane.
AlsoRan70

In a few weeks I'll be 50 yep the BIG FiVEoooh! and its going to be the start of the big fun, been saving squibs for a few weeks now......... and also clearing space in the garden for a Vallah fire, been also thinking of changing my name to Odin........ might be a good thing for my Biffday

Thanks for that post, Christianne. You are a true inspiration to all of us.

Turnig 50 REv? You're still a baby.

Come to think of it, another h2g2 Rev is turning 50 this year. I wonder if all h2g2 reverends are the same age? I imagine his birthday party will be more dignified than yours, RJR.

Pick yourself up, dust yourself down and start all over again with the 50+ alphabet.

A is for apple, and B is for boat,
That used to be right, but now it won't float!
Age before beauty is what we once said,
But let's be a bit more realistic instead.


Here we go with your new age alphabet

A's for arthritis;
B's the bad back,
C's the chest pains, perhaps car-d-iac?

D is for dental decay and decline,
E is for eyesight, can't read that top line!
F is for fissures and fluid retention,
G is for gas which I'd rather not mention.

H .. High blood pressure--I'd rather it low;
I .. For incisions with scars you can show.
J is for joints, out of socket, won't mend,
K is for knees that crack when they bend.

L 's for libido, what happened to sex?
M is for memory, I forget what comes next.
N is neuralgia, in nerves way down low;
O is for osteo, bones that don't grow!

P for prescriptions, I have quite a few,
Just give me a pill and I'll be good as new!
Q is for queasy, is it fatal or flu?
R is for reflux, one meal turns to two.

S is for sleepless nights, counting my fears,
T is for Tinnitus; bells in m y ears!
U is for urinary; troubles with flow;
V for vertigo, that's 'dizzy,' you know.

W for worry, NOW what's going 'round?
X is for X ray, and what might be found.
Y for another year I'm left here behind,
Z is for zest I still have-- in my mind.


*I've survived all the symptoms, my body's deployed, and
I'm keeping twenty-six doctors fully employed!!!

Funny. And unfortunately true. Thanks, AB.

So what is the official age now for becoming a ? Is it still 60? Retirement ages keep increasing.

Hi ancient Brit.

thank goodness for Z!!

Christiane
AR80

Hi you two sorry for the delay. I got locked out. It's happened before so have 'Letabin' as a backup. Hope things clear up and I can get back to AB (That awkward old b7gg4r at that more than an awkward age.)
The official age for senior citizenship is still 65 in the UK unless you are in a civil or public service job. The other alternative is be in a struggling industry like I was and take early retirement. I spoke to you along those lines a few posts ago.
I am not quite sure who or what V!! is. I guess that it may be that I have forgotten 'what' it is for.
Ancient Brit - here with he help of my mate Letabin