Useful tips I’ve learned over the years.

Speak more slowly to the elderly. Give them chance to compute what you’re saying.

Jings, Urmstongran! We're not all in our dotage yet!!

Never go to the supermarket hungry or on date lonely because both times you’re going to come back with something you don’t need.
Always take your makeup off before bedtime.
Never put your job before family.
My mum use to say ‘the more you do for a man the worse he’ll treat you.

What's that volver I didn't catch what you were saying?

🤣

Oh volver yes of course you’re right! I didn’t mean to imply anything - just that I’ve spent a fair bit of time with my 90y old this past 2 weeks and had to explain some aspects of his treatment and realised I was rushing it a bit. Just because ‘I knew’ didn’t mean that he did straightaway. And his friend who called was 87y and a bit deaf.

It just made me more aware is all.

I was just kidding Urmstongran

Don't try to wax both legs at the same time.

Smile and say 'good morning/afternoon' to people.

Thank people who give way. hold a door open.

You get further with the doctor's receptionist if you are relentlessly cheerful and can make them laugh even when you just want to scream at them.

Ah. Without a smiley emoji after a comment it’s not always easy to work out!

say phone numbers more slowly on the phone.
i find them difficult to take down.

Don't put it down put it away! (If only I could practice what I preach.)

Make a mental note where your glasses are every time you take them off. Looking for them when you don’t have your glasses on is the most frustrating thing ever - bitter experience.

Thanks Urmstogran

My mum used to say “Take your coat with you when it’s fine, do as you like when it’s raining”.

Well done Urms. Some useful tips.
I like Calendargirl's mum too. Makes good sense.
As I get older, I am slower so must give myself time to get ready.

Speak more slowly to the elderly. Give them chance to compute what you’re saying

Note to self: speak more slowly to DH. It's not that he is a bit deaf or has selective hearing (thanks GP!) and yes, he can quite quite well compute what you are saying - he just doesn't. And he is getting on a bit too.

Think and concentrate before you move, do not move in haste.

Remember an ambulance may take 11 hours to arrive for a potential heart attack, even not on a strike day.

For husbands: Don't leave the grill door down because your wife could walk into it, bash herself and the resultant language is quite shocking 🤬

If somebody started speaking more slowly and clearly to me I think I would thump them.
Something I am more than capable of.
😉😄

It costs nothing to be polite and speak to people the way you would like them to speak to you.
First impressions don’t always count don’t judge a book by it’s cover.

Don't walk downstairs with reading glasses on !

Annsixty I would like like to witness this! Shades of Little Britain.

And Callistemon's note to husbands.
Mine could be annoying too but I miss him so much.

Keep a note of the email you use and the password for each online account you use. Keep the notebook somewhere safe though.

Try and let go of the past (if its not serving you well) and move forward.

I think that speaking more slowly should be addressed to some of the younger generation. They speak at a rate of knots, often not clearly as well, then wonder why you haven't processed all that has been said. 🫣

I include our DS2 and DGS 3 under this heading. So I must practice listening, as DGS3 is visiting soon.

BBC Radio 4 presenters gabble and frequently come out with the wrong words.

Does anyone else remember Jack de Manio? He was always telling us the wrong time so was probably very irritating too.

Some useful tips. I already did some of them. I buy foundation in a glass bottle with a pump action top. When it stops dispensing, I prize the top off with nail scissors and find there is usually enough left in there for another couple of weeks.