You know you are getting old when:

[Fifty150]

I cried.

 

[tonyb]

Six decades have passed, so it isn’t that the changes occurred overnight, but we of the papist persuasion clearly recall, perhaps more than most, when Kennedy’s Roman Catholicism was considered disqualifying by many.

I was not as thoroughly steeped in it as our man Harp. I attended the public schools but was compelled to attend catechism classes up at St. Dennis on Saturday mornings, until I was 12, when we decamped for the misty Maritime Northwest and left behind the appearances my mother maintained, mostly to appease my deceased birth father’s strictly Catholic family in Wisconsin. Her mother as well was something of a woman of faith, so among my people it wasn’t just my nuclear family who attended Catholic churches. My long-suffering aunts and uncles and cousins went through the motions, too. Filial duty is what it was, really.

 

[Turnip]

…you finally qualify for your personal flowers and birthday card from the local vicegerent of your confession with your 75th church tax anniversary.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Probably healthier.

Experiment is going fine. I still don't miss the pizza.

 

[Harp]

…you finally qualify for your personal flowers and birthday card from the local vicegerent of your confession with your 75th church tax anniversary.

Te absolvo.

 

[Harp]

Experiment is going fine. I still don't miss the pizza.

You don't miss pizza? I am dying for a slice from Fox's pub or Palermo's. Sausage and fries.

 

[Zombie_61]

You don't miss pizza? I am dying for a slice from Fox's pub or Palermo's. Sausage and fries.

Go back and read his original post; he's talking about not missing frozen pizza. I don't miss that either. Now, sausage and fries? I'm in.

 

[Trenchfriend]

You don't miss pizza? I am dying for a slice from Fox's pub or Palermo's. Sausage and fries.

I'm still substituting with my apple and peanutbutter Burritos. Can eat that every day!

 

[BobHufford]

... when you realize that seven of the eleven buildings you've worked in over the length of your career have now been demolished.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Or three of the seven houses you've lived in.

 

[Harp]

Go back and read his original post; he's talking about not missing frozen pizza. I don't miss that either. Now, sausage and fries? I'm in.

Frozen pizza is leftover last night pizza, kept in the frig for breakfast.
Zap in the microwave, chase with Mad Maxwell Shack joe.

 

[GHT]

Age feels like a downhill ride, it gets faster and faster. It seems like that we have not long ago, taken down the Christmas decorations of 2020, only to have to put them up again. Where did that year go?

 

[tonyb]

^^^^^
Maybe it’s not just an old person’s perspective. Maybe time actually is speeding up.

 

[BobHufford]

I thought getting old would take longer.

 

[ChrisB]

I thought getting old would take longer.

When you are 5 years old, 1 year is 20% of your life. At age 50 it is only 2%. So like a roll of toilet paper, it goes faster toward the end

 

[tonyb]

When you are 5 years old, 1 year is 20% of your life. At age 50 it is only 2%. So like a roll of toilet paper, it goes faster toward the end

Interesting, um, analogy. Sometimes life kinda feels like a roll of toilet paper.

 

[Turnip]

…the dates with health system take 2/3 or more of your black board’s schedule for the coming quarter.

 

[St.Ignatz]

You know your there when you start shouting out answers watching Match Game 75.

 

[GHT]

Sometimes life kinda feels like a roll of toilet paper.

Yep, sooner or later someone's going to crap on you!

 

[Tiki Tom]

Once had the following conversation with a senior citizen:
Me: “wow. Time flies. It is always either Monday or Friday.”
She: “Wait til you are my age. It’s always Christmas, Christmas, Christmas.”