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You know you are getting old when:

2jakes

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2jakes

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Falling asleep without removing my eye-contacts.
Next morning (from memory) I somehow
made my way to the bathroom sink to splash water on my face and was able to
remove them but they were all stretched
out of shape and no good after that.
Feel sorry for Polo who has to watch the many dumb things I've done at home! :oops:

At work... I left my video camera at the TV station when I was in a hurry to go cover a hotel fire.
My reporter was p.o. but soon after she started laughing hysterically.
I believe this was her way of relieving stress! :(
 
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It gets worse, you're halfway on the staircase and you can't remember if you were going up or coming down.
This reminded me of an anecdote I heard many years ago. One of Albert Einstein's friends encountered him on the street one day, and the two men stopped to have a chat. After they had finished and parted ways, the friend had only taken a few steps when he heard Mr. Einstein calling his name. He returned to the spot where they had been chatting, and Mr. Einstein asked him, "Before we stopped to talk, was I walking up or down the street?" When the friend informed him that he had been walking up the street Mr. Einstein replied, "Oh good, I've already had lunch then," then turned to continue walking up the street.
 

Scott

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You know you are getting old when:

When you feel compelled to respond to "You know you are getting old when..." threads. :p

(sorry if something similar was already posted, but hell if I was going to read through all the posts to find out. Besides, I'm about at that age when you just don't really care...)
 
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When you dye your hair, get a facelift, stucco your face with "age-defying" makeup, stuff your aging avoirdupois into industrial-grade Spanx, and then have a fit when you *don't* get the Senior Discount.

On that note ...

I find few things as off-putting than people in general (but women disproportionately well represented in this category) into the 60s and 70s and beyond who avail themselves of all that industry and medicine have to offer to disguise that plain fact.

Dolly Parton comes to mind. As does Barbara Eden. It’s almost hideous what these people do to themselves.
 

3fingers

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I drive through the university campus here for work from time to time. I decided some years ago that I needed to make a conscious decision to try not to look too closely when I realized my kids were older than many of the students on the street.
 

2jakes

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I have five sisters who attended school in freezing conditions.
They dressed accordingly having to walk to school.

Indeed it was the ''bunk’’ if you could only wear a dress instead of other clothing during below zero weather conditions.
My folks made sure we were bundled up before stepping outside.

I'm making reference to dress codes today that allows for students to wear practically
not much which shows a lack of respect for themselves as well as for others.
That you had to put up with certain rules or dress code during the weather conditions
that you mentioned is sad and can understand why you feel the way you do.
 
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