Broken thingys

When flying old aircraft, broken/deferred/inoperative equipment just becomes the norm. I have gotten used to the fact that on most flights, there is going to be something that is not working. Most of the time its little things like a burnt out light bulb or indicator that's not important to the safety of flight, but on today's flight, lots of stuff broke. By the end of the flight, we had filled out 2 pages of maintenance write-ups and essentially grounded the aircraft.
This particular aircraft was one of the oldest in the fleet. It has over 34,000 hours on the airframe. It's serial number is 13. It was manufactured in 1966. Yes folks, that's 1966, the plane is 40 years old. Personally, I think its about time to retire this old bird to the scrap heap.