Just wondering if some of you more senior shapers have started experiencing “old fart syndrome” yet? If so, at what age did you find this starting to occur? Also how many years have you been shaping? Were there any other factors in triggering your “old fartedness”, like, say, kids? Are you seeking remedies for your ailment and if so what are they? And is it too late save yourself from this dreadful illness?
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You’ll get there, if you work with the public at all. “Customers” (and kids) can be infuriating animals.
I know!
Mine kicked in rather suddenly about the age of forty when my grandfathers’s genes fired up. I realized he wasn’t full of shit after all and agreed with his sentiments. Mike
I avoid the dreaded disease by:
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Being a poster child for arrested development
2. Never under-estimating the surfing ability of today's kids. 3. Staying away from longboards.
Surfkid,
Please stop smoking crack here or us old farts might have to kick the crap out of you… Once you are a sleep and we have duct taped your hands and feet togethor. 
Hey Deanbo. Sniffing glue is for losers. You are a loser.
Hey Surfkid. Sniffing glue is for losers. You are a loser.
Maybe it’s loosers…or lessers…or leakers…or slackers… or wackers…
The FART REBREATHER was invented right here on Swaylock’s. Don’t knock it… some day you will ned one…If you live that long
Ray…
Old guy and proud of it!
Let’s see some photos of your boards. Why do you keep asking so many questions for us old farts if you know it all ?
Medical research suggests that most ‘ailments’ are due to some root cause.
I would stipulate that research in your area of concern, with almost near perfect correlation, would reveal that
Grumpy-Old-Fart Syndrome, or GOFS, would always be preceeded by
Wise-Ass-Punk Syndrome.
So all you WAPS complaining about the GOFS, let that be a warning.
There really isn’t much to be done about it. Except join the club: OLD F.A.R.T (Fathers Against Radical Teenagers)
It is nice getting older in some ways, though. You can discover you have mismatched socks on and think, "Who cares? They’re comfortable. " And you can ride the board you want, and you don’t care what everyone else thinks. I’ve seen youngsters riding shortboards that they couldn’t even catch a wave on, and sticking with it because they wanted to fit in.
And to repeat a well known quote from Mark Twain: “When I was 16 years old, my father was so ignorant I couldn’t stand to be around him. Then I went away to school. When I returned, I couldn’t believe how much the old man had learned in just two short years.”
Doug
It is something in the foam, it has to be. The more I work the grumpier I get.
You’ll never get OFS if you never do it for the money.
Old Farts really piss me off.They are grumpy as hell and think they know it all.I am only 59.
Cleanline, I really hate to be the one that tells you, but you’ve got it!
The reason why we’re called that
is because the older we get
the less concerned we are
about letting out a good one in public
maybe you lose spincter control with age
but every one I know in their 80’s
have no qualms about tooting their horn
no matter where they are at
and then they look at you like you just did
but that’s another aspect/benefit of getting old
you tend to forget what just happened a second ago
but remember what you ate for breakfast 70 years previous
I’m listening to oldies FM 107.9 now
they are promoting the “gas man” contest…
My dad farted everywhere we went
most of the time it wasn’t so funny…
nice not to care about things like that anymore…
getting grumpy
has something to do with bowels too
usually means somethings wrong or not satisfied
hawaiians believe grumpiness can’t exist on a full stomach…
Deanbo ,Im tellin ya , (in and old geezer tone) ,if you wasnt so far away Id hobble over and kick your scrawny little puke face butt!!! why back in my day we’d take young green $hitn dwarfs out back and…
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,uhhhhh!,uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,
dang ,doh!!!,
I forgot what the blazes is that I was gonna say!!!???!!!
I guess I got “Old fart syndrome”
LOL !!!
your as old as you want to be
an old fart is just a fart that has been bottled up for a while
when i used to work at kodak , one of my fellow workers used to fart into a poster tube , put the lid on ,
hand it to one of the female co-workers and say …" can you check this poster for me , please ? i think they got it WRONG"
then , of course , being the two 21 year olds that we were at the time ,
we would piss ourselves laughing as she spat the dummy
each new staff member was afforded the same …er …equality , too,
so we were CONSISTENT , at least
ben
[now of course ,
as oneula rightly said ,
we proudly let rip in public , with no conscience whatsoever ]
Most of us have done everything at least once, so we are relaxed about it, most probably because we have been shaping longer than you have been alive. There is another way to say that but I don’t want to be rude.
Boardbumps
One wise old F reminds me that we know we have it when we never pass a toilet without stopping, never waste an erection and never trust a fart…a motto for living?