You know you are getting old when:

[BobHufford]

When your first thought on your birthday is not how old you are, but how much closer you are to retirement.

 

[tonyb]

You know you're getting old when you're the only person in the "compulsory meeting to discuss workplace culture" who thought it meant "who left the moldy tuna fish in the office refrigerator?"

I wouldn’t last an hour.

In my experience, such meetings were called mostly to remind us underlings of just who was in charge. I count among my blessings that I haven’t been in such a “workplace culture” in decades, and that I can’t imagine any circumstances under which I would ever again find myself in one. (Who am I fooling? They wouldn’t hire me in the first place.)

 

[Harp]

When your first thought on your birthday is not how old you are, but how much closer you are to retirement.

I first 'retired' from the U.S. Army at twenty; chased waves and wahinies at Kaneohe, Oahu;
came back mainland for Vietnam's GI Bill college and law school, now putting retirement papers in
order though I have mixed feelings about leaving. A gal pal called last nite to confirm the rumor and the
page turner moment really drove home time's passage.

 

[Trenchfriend]

You're not too old, when you're able to do this, three times a week.

I still love it. Just so relaxing your whole body. Always feeling twenty times younger, after.

 

[tonyb]

… it’s well into the month of March and you find yourself doing a mental double-check to confirm not only the month but also the year.

 

[LizzieMaine]

...somebody mentions "1988," and your first thought is how futuristic that sounds.

 

[GHT]

When your first thought on your birthday is not how old you are, but how much closer you are to retirement.

Retirement is only an option. Yesterday was a day when, if it can go wrong, it will go wrong, with added whistles and bells. A day like yesterday I haven't experienced in over thirty five years. Yet despite the grinding thirteen hours that I did, there was at the end of it, a sense of stimulation, in turning things around, that nothing in retirement can match.

 

[earl]

Retirement is only an option. Yesterday was a day when, if it can go wrong, it will go wrong, with added whistles and bells. A day like yesterday I haven't experienced in over thirty five years. Yet despite the grinding thirteen hours that I did, there was at the end of it, a sense of stimulation, in turning things around, that nothing in retirement can match.

I take it you're still employed. Me, been retired 3 years. Grinding 13 hour workday followed by sense of accomplishment eh? Well, that's a nice way to look at it and I suppose retirement can't give you that. But, I'll take relaxing and doing whatever whenever over that any day.

 

[GHT]

Horses for courses really. Enjoy your retirement, it's all the more rewarding if it's as relaxing as you say.

 

[tonyb]

^^^^^
I need specific tasks with hard deadlines facing me lest I fritter away my life. It needn’t be work (meaning money-making activity), necessarily, but it can’t be “make work,” either. My lovely missus is expert at pointing out tasks requiring my attention.

 

[GHT]

My lovely missus is expert at pointing out tasks requiring my attention.

Let me reassure you Tony, you don't have a monopoly on that.

 

[drewestin]

If you want to keep your teeth, then eat right. There will be no strong teeth if the body lacks fluoride and calcium. Calcium is absorbed with the help of vitamin D, which comes from food or is synthesized by the body independently under the influence of ultraviolet light. Therefore, we take a pen and write down: veal, poultry, eggs, butter and sea fish are a source of vitamin D; yoghurts, cheeses, spinach and broccoli are a source of calcium; black tea, coarse bread and fish contain fluoride. We include these products in our regular diet — and everything is within our teeth. When I switched to this diet, a month later, on the scales vont.com, I saw significant changes. So not only the teeth will be in good condition, but also the whole body.

 

[Turnip]

…work life balance becomes more important than a few bucks on top.

 

[Zombie_61]

Why does no one write about nutrition, does it not affect the teeth?

If you want to keep your teeth, then eat right. There will be no strong teeth if the body lacks fluoride and calcium.

 

[Trenchfriend]

When you still know commercial like:

""BAUKNECHT KNOWS, WHAT WOMEN WANT!""

 

[Zombie_61]

When you still know commercial like:

""BAUKNECHT KNOWS, WHAT WOMEN WANT!""

Would that be Bauknecht the household appliance manufacturer, or Bauknecht the funeral home and crematory? I mean, it really could go either way.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Would that be Bauknecht the household appliance manufacturer, or Bauknecht the funeral home and crematory? I mean, it really could go either way.

First.

 

[BobHufford]

... you finally hire a "kid" to mow your yard.

After 55 years of mowing my own yard in town I finally hired someone to do it. When I started I charged $3.00 for the neighbor's typical sized yard and did ours for free, of course. It's a bit more than that nowadays. I still could mow, but now that we are at the farm most of the time I would have to travel almost four hours round trip to get it done. I have six acres to mow weekly here, so I'll still have my hand in it (and a bit of money as the first 15-gallons of gas for this season cost $63).

 

[KILO NOVEMBER]

I mowed my yard for the first time this year on Saturday (between sleeting). I'm looking forward to a move to Florida where I will hire someone to do it. As I approach my 69th birthday, I'm planning on a single-story house where stairs won't be a challenge when I pass my 80th (God willing).

 

[tonyb]

I don’t make every trip down the basement stairs and back up again count for something each way, besides just transporting my decrepit self, but I typically do. Or at least give the matter some thought.