You know you are getting old when:

[LizzieMaine]

You know you're getting old when you start getting spam suggesting you find a meaningful relationship on "Senior People Meet." Like hell, buddy.

 

[Zombie_61]

You know you're getting old when you start getting spam suggesting you find a meaningful relationship on "Senior People Meet." Like hell, buddy.

Not long after my mother-in-law died in 1986, my wife suggested to her father (who was in his mid-70s at the time) that he visit a local center where senior citizens gather to socialize. After considering it for a while he decided it might not be such a bad idea, and visited the center to see what it was like. He stayed for a couple of hours before excusing himself so that he could "go home to eat lunch", and never returned. When my wife asked him why he didn't want to go back, he replied, "That's for old people." Mind you, this is a man who was legally blind, seriously hearing impaired, suffered from congestive heart failure and chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and who, when he was in his early-80s, visited his doctor with the complaint, "Lately I go out and do a little yard work for three or four hours, then I have to go inside and rest for a while. I think there's something wrong with me." lol

 

[Matt Crunk]

I know I am getting old when I can see one person's "one and only post" being one of "I quit" !!!!! lolololol!

Obviously their contributions to the forum will be sorely missed.

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Having just returned from the Brimfield Antiques Fair, you know you're getting old when half of the stuff there is from your childhood!

 

[Zombie_61]

I thought some of you might appreciate this:

Kids React to Rotary Phones

 

[gear-guy]

Having just returned from the Brimfield Antiques Fair, you know you're getting old when half of the stuff there is from your childhood!

:eusa_clap Been there done that last week. It really hurts!

 

[Stearmen]

I had a real, "You know you are getting old when:" moment yesterday. I went down to the DMV to license one of my old Harleys, I asked about the Horseless Carriage plates, he said a vehicle had to be 53 years or older to qualify, which my 1930 did. Then it dawned on me, I am more then old enough my self. It is just not right, to be old enough to be part of the Horseless Carriage generation!

 

[Zombie_61]

Several years ago my wife and I attended a rock concert, and as we were waiting for the show to begin it occurred to me that it would be the first time I was older than every performer on the stage. lol

 

[gear-guy]

How about you know you're getting old when you keep coming back to this thread because you forgot what you read yesterday.

 

[Dan Allen]

My mailbox is suddenly being flooded with hearing aid adds--surely that is a sign.

 

[ChiTownScion]

I'm getting a lot of updates on Facebook about grandkids of people with whom I attended grade school. And the grandkids of those classmates' younger sibs. Tempus fugit, indeed.

 

[Alive'n'Amplified]

When you start looking out your front window and checking on the house party across the street, saying to yourself, "Those kids better not park in front of my house," and then asking your wife if you should call the police when you start hearing voices in their driveway.


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[galopede]

You know you are getting old when it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night...

OK, I'll get my coat.

Gareth

 

[Stray Cat]

First sign of getting old(er): children passing by you and they put on the serious face while greeting you with "Good day". :nod:

 

[GHT]

You know you are getting old when it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night...

OK, I'll get my coat.

Gareth

Oh yes, Fred Wedlock, how could I forget him. So sad to hear of his passing.

[video=youtube;-kALGhbTxdg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kALGhbTxdg[/video]

 

[Zombie_61]

You know you are getting old when it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night...

Surely you're referring to sleep. I can't remember the last time I slept longer than two or three hours without waking up, or got more than six hours of sleep in one night.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Drink your Ovaltine. That'll help you sleep.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

I never liked Ovaltine, I thought it was nasty stuff.

 

[jamespowers]

I never liked Ovaltine, I thought it was nasty stuff.

It was and IS nasty stuff. Nothing has changed but it will put you to sleep. You will fake sleep to get out of drinking it.

 

[jamespowers]

Surely you're referring to sleep. I can't remember the last time I slept longer than two or three hours without waking up, or got more than six hours of sleep in one night.

Well as you get older you needless sleep. It ain't like you are growing anymore.