It can’t be..!!

[Scrumpy]

I moved aside to let an elderly gentleman exit a shop this morning..
He was an interesting looking guy.. Longish grey hair and a face that looked as if he had lived a full life.. He was slightly bent over..
He didn't look me in the eye.. just headed towards his car..
I looked hard at him ,I even watched him whilst he got in his car..

I couldn't believe it..
He was one of the Driscoll twins who went to Saturday morning pictures with us..
He was a bit of a rogue at school.. As was his twin brother..
Threw snowballs with a bit of gravel in them.. Chased us girls .. making us giggle..
I was saddened.. he looked like an old man.. One I would move over to allow  to pass by..
Am I getting old too.. !!
Someone once said to me..
'We don't see ourselves as others see us'..

[klondike]

I used to regularly see somebody I went to school with but who was never a close friend walking around here. He didn't look too sprightly but was always reasonably cheerful when we spoke. I haven't seen him in a while now and fear the worst. Either can't get about or no longer with us. Maybe he's wondering the same about me.

[Mups]

Scrumpy, that sentence about us not seeing ourselves as others see us, it probably very true.

We see ourselves every day of our life,  even just looking in a mirror to brush our hair each day,  so we can't really look at ourselves with 'fresh eyes,'   like a stranger would.   

So  I guess others are bound to notice things we don't  . . .   both good,  and bad.  
Not much we can do about that. 

I wonder if that man you saw recognised you, too? 

I doubt I would know anyone from my school days anymore, too long ago now.  

[dextrous63]

I doubt anybody's still alive from your school days Mups😬🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Scrumpy]

I so wanted to speak  to him.. But , I just wasn't sure..

He saw my son Gary in one of our clubs near by a few years back.. He was chatting to him and asked if his mum was (Me).. and was pleased when Gary said yes..
He invited me round for a drink.. I did meet him one lunch time.. 
It was brilliant.. We go back a long way...

[Alex]

We are old but only in the body  apart from the odd memory problems the head still thinks I'm in my thirties.  My dearest and oldest friend of over 70 years has been in hospital and they have found she has cancer.  It's difficult to accept this, I don't think of her as old, probably because I see her every week so don't notice that she has changed.   If you don't see someone for donkeys, the change is more apparent.

We've reached the time of life when our friends and old school pals will be leaving us, sad innit.

[muddy]

I have no contact with any of the people I went to school with .
They could walk past me an I wouldn't know them .