Grumpy Old Man
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
Went out for a mate's 50th a few weeks back.
Only time I've worn my wedding ring in months. Usually it lives in a drawer where I keep my other shit like keys.
Now I can't find the fucking thing. Pretty sure I arrived home with it.
Wasn't even drunk. Just fucking old and having trouble retracing my steps mentally.Update: last week I went to put on a pair of shorts I wore the day after the 50th birthday mentioned above.
Guess what was rattling around in one of the pockets?
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Anyway, new grump: when the mother-in-law died (Xmas 2022) she left behind a bunch of shit that has since been cluttering up the garage. Additionally were a few of the MIL's things and Mrs TA's Dad (who passed Feb '23).
I finally got Mrs TA to look through that pile as I was rearranging the garage and didn't want that shit cluttering up my garage or her mental space any more.
Included in this fuckery were a pile of DVDs and CDs the MIL had burned of photos etc. Effectively these were so she could show photos of our kids to her parents as they didn't have a PC but could look at them on the TV.
I looked into having someone rip all the discs for me, but all the advice pointed to buying an external DVD writer (can't buy just readers any more) and copying everything myself.
And that's where it starts to get grumpy.... fuck me there must be 300 fucking discs here... A lot of them copies of other discs! FML...
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
Went out for a mate's 50th a few weeks back.
Only time I've worn my wedding ring in months. Usually it lives in a drawer where I keep my other shit like keys.
Now I can't find the fucking thing. Pretty sure I arrived home with it.
Wasn't even drunk. Just fucking old and having trouble retracing my steps mentally.Update: last week I went to put on a pair of shorts I wore the day after the 50th birthday mentioned above.
Guess what was rattling around in one of the pockets?
A condom?
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@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
Went out for a mate's 50th a few weeks back.
Only time I've worn my wedding ring in months. Usually it lives in a drawer where I keep my other shit like keys.
Now I can't find the fucking thing. Pretty sure I arrived home with it.
Wasn't even drunk. Just fucking old and having trouble retracing my steps mentally.Update: last week I went to put on a pair of shorts I wore the day after the 50th birthday mentioned above.
Guess what was rattling around in one of the pockets?
A condom?
@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
Went out for a mate's 50th a few weeks back.
Only time I've worn my wedding ring in months. Usually it lives in a drawer where I keep my other shit like keys.
Now I can't find the fucking thing. Pretty sure I arrived home with it.
Wasn't even drunk. Just fucking old and having trouble retracing my steps mentally.Update: last week I went to put on a pair of shorts I wore the day after the 50th birthday mentioned above.
Guess what was rattling around in one of the pockets?
A condom?
Don't know varieties that rattle.
I was thinking, metal testicles. -
@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
Final count: 365mm or roughly 305 discs....
True (nerd) love!
If Mrs NTA doesn't appreciate this, she's not worthy! -
@nostrildamus said in Grumpy Old Man:
True (nerd) love!
If Mrs NTA doesn't appreciate this, she's not worthy!Prediction: she'll get sad looking at the photos of her parents and grandparentrs who have passed, happy at some of the early kids shots, and fascinated by the stuff from her grandfather's time in Port Said.
Appreciation for my efforts doesn't really come into it. After all, I "forced" her to go through and sort all that shit out, which just made her upset 😜
Garage is fucking mint tho. Got a squat rack in there and everything now.
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
@nostrildamus said in Grumpy Old Man:
True (nerd) love!
If Mrs NTA doesn't appreciate this, she's not worthy!Prediction: she'll get sad looking at the photos of her parents and grandparentrs who have passed, happy at some of the early kids shots, and fascinated by the stuff from her grandfather's time in Port Said.
Appreciation for my efforts doesn't really come into it. After all, I "forced" her to go through and sort all that shit out, which just made her upset 😜
Garage is fucking mint tho. Got a squat rack in there and everything now.
Get some home brewing stuff too. You don’t want to get too fit
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@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
@nostrildamus said in Grumpy Old Man:
True (nerd) love!
If Mrs NTA doesn't appreciate this, she's not worthy!Prediction: she'll get sad looking at the photos of her parents and grandparentrs who have passed, happy at some of the early kids shots, and fascinated by the stuff from her grandfather's time in Port Said.
Appreciation for my efforts doesn't really come into it. After all, I "forced" her to go through and sort all that shit out, which just made her upset 😜
Garage is fucking mint tho. Got a squat rack in there and everything now.
Get some home brewing stuff too. You don’t want to get too fit
Plot twist. It was always there, just not visible.
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
I have a Dan Murphys within 3 minutes of me. Why would I want to brew my own beer?
thats dangerous, love it, but I would be there far too often
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
I have a Dan Murphys within 3 minutes of me. Why would I want to brew my own beer?
I am same, have supermarket 2 minutes drive (at most) where I can buy beere, including a pretty wide range of craft beers, so keep life easy huh?
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A meme but probably more relevant to this thread.
