(With thanks to The Beatles !!)
When I get older losing my hair
Many years from now
Will you still be sending me a valentine
Birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
If I'd been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door?
Will you still need me
Will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four?
You'll be older too
And if you say the word
I could stay with you
I could be handy mending a fuse
When your lights have gone
You can knit a sweater by the fireside
Sunday mornings, go for a ride
Doing the garden, digging the weeds
Who could ask for more?
Will you still need me
Will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four?
Every summer we can rent a cottage in the
Isle of Wight, if it's not too dear
We shall scrimp and save
Grandchildren on your knee
Vera, Chuck, and Dave
Send me a postcard, drop me a line
Stating point of view
Indicate precisely what you mean to say
Yours sincerely, wasting away
Give me your answer, fill in a form
Mine forever more
Will you still need me
Will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four?
Hoo! 
Well, here I am on the left ….. almost as fit as a fiddle and ready for the time I get my pension in 2011 !! But how did I make THIS lady laugh so much?
6 comments:
Dear TIT,
..........and a Happy Birthday to you, so you made it at last, well done. I expect all those years ago when stood to attention next to your bed in Hill Platoon that you never dreamed one day you would make it thus far.
So from here on your aspect and outlook must change. Do you now approach Old Age, or the Twilight Years or as I heard someone describe it..........Injury Time.
Your [much younger] friend.
MAD
Ah yes, 216 J Pvt **** Sir! Perhaps so but pensions were far far from the mind of a teenager who would travel far and wide across the middle east and Germany. Invulnerable and at one with the world as we all were and as no doubt the "youngsters" are in today's army.
Only 12 months to go and the "old age pension" kicks in....
Your not so much older friend
TIT
J/Pvt?
Surely you are mistaken sir.
Pvt may appear in Websters but I doubt it appears in either the OED or Chambers.
You’re Friend
MAD
Oh? Is not "Pvt" and abreviation of Private? I was only saving space! TIT
My dear TIT,
You know it not to be the case; would Sgt ‘Topper’ Brown accept Pvt? I doubt it sir and your reward for trying it on would no doubt be short sharp and painful. It is of course Pte.
..............and how did you make that lady laugh so much..............would it perhaps be when you told her that Vehicle Specialists were good at drill................. Or that Vehicle Specialists were a clean god fearing and sober lot..................
Still your friend [I hope]
MAD
Of course and ... Pte!!!! Yes yes yes.... it's the brain.
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