You Know You're Getting Old When....

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Date: 04 May 2006 12:39:09

You rant like this....

I am preparing myself for this afternoon's journey back to Wales. The sun is shining, the birds are doing what birds do and you can hear the quietness of the countryside spoilt by the sound of kids shouting/screaming in the school playground. Well I suppose that's what kids do.

It was much different in my day. We had rickets, TB, Bubonic Plague and head lice. We didn't have Gameboys, X-Boxes, MP3 Players and videos, mainly 'cos they weren't invented and we wouldn't have had the money to buy them anyway. Kids don't know how lucky they are today.

My other reason for complaining is that my customer's factory has been invaded by Year 12 kids on a Business Studies day out to learn out manufacturing. Lord help them coming here.

First I heard of it was as I arrived behind a mini-bus and 3 cars full of kids and teachers. They seemed more interested in seeing the old git driving the cool sports car than the impending factory tour. Well you can't blame them for that, I would have as well at that age.

As my sister is a Business Studies and IT teacher back in Oldrum I feel for the teachers. If they are like some of her students then Lord help them. How does a teacher manage to obtain and maintain their interest in things these days? It was bad enough when I was a kid. Many of them seem to need to have their hands held at every step and to be nannied into completing their work. Then again I always assumed that homework was an optional extra, so what's changed, yet I still managed to stand on my own two feet.

Maybe I'm just getting old(er). My hair is thinning, my stomach is expanding and my tolerance is reducing an exponential rates. Soon I'll become.....

MY DAD!!!!!!!¬