Flavio Matani (flavius_m) wrote,
Flavio Matani
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signs of getting old, part 2343

One of the signs of advancing age is that your pockets seem to be full of things. Last month's parking stubs, because you'll need them for the taxman but never remember to offload them into the year accounts' folder. A couple of usb memory keys. The phone invoice still waiting to be paid. The flyer for some club that you might have liked to have gone last month but didn't go and the flyer is somehow still sitting there..

That, and Radio 4. It begins to get really bad when you find yourself addressing the newscaster or the presenter of File on 4, telling them what it really was like. But it may not just be ageing, this last one, is it? I'll ask mark13 on this one...
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