You know you are getting old when:

[tonyb]

The weather forecast is for freezing (barely) temperatures late at night, so I’ve been bringing in the houseplants that spend the warmer months out on the deck.
Those large pots seem heavier than they did a few months ago.

 

[LostInTyme]

The weather forecast is for freezing (barely) temperatures late at night, so I’ve been bringing in the houseplants that spend the warmer months out on the deck.
Those large pots seem heavier than they did a few months ago.

Perhaps, the plants got larger and heavier. I have a similar problem with my aquarium. I have to constantly add water because the fish drink so much.

 

[GHT]

 

[KILO NOVEMBER]

You're not in a medical profession, but you have a sphygmomanometer.

 

[LostInTyme]

I won a spelling BEE with the word, sphygmomanometer. Then I spent my life's work using a manometer and pitot tube.

 

[Trenchfriend]

sphygmomanometer

B L U T D R U C K M E S S G E R Ä T

The romantic german words...

 

[tonyb]

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Life itself is a deadly, incurable, sexually transmitted disease.

 

[LostInTyme]

B L U T D R U C K M E S S G E R Ä T

Well, that solved one of the great mysteries of my life.

 

[DogFacePonySoldier]

When you start appreciating fine cheeses.

 

[LostInTyme]

LOLOLOL: An ouch moment has arrived. I just realized I must be old. My whole life was surrounded by Swiss cheese and Kraft singles. I must surely be old, since now, wine and cheese are among my favorite eats.

 

[Monte.C]

...when you bend over in your seat to tie your shoes, and before you sit back up you look around to see if there's anything else you can accomplish while you're down there.

 

[GHT]

 

[Turnip]

B L U T D R U C K M E S S G E R Ä T

Well, that solved one of the great mysteries of my life.

Wer anderen eine Bratwurst brät, braucht ein Bratwurstbratgerät.

Cooking skills and not to be lost on a table set for a multi-course meal, including drinks, are some more clear hints of high age.

 

[tonyb]

...when you bend over in your seat to tie your shoes, and before you sit back up you look around to see if there's anything else you can accomplish while you're down there.

And you come to appreciate a little spandex in your blue jeans and ads for “step-in” shoes get your attention.

 

[Tiki Tom]

Let’s not even talk about clipping your own toenails. “Yoga” as I call the procedure.
A few weeks ago my wife and her sister coaxed me into getting a pedicure. Oh my gosh, sitting in a comfy massage chair while someone else cuts your toenails! And then they apply lotion to your feet and ankles! I could get used to this. My upstanding self says that such luxury is somehow wrong, yet I know I’ve been given the equivalent of a free sample of an addictive drug.

 

[GHT]

Some guy said to me: ‘Don’t you think you’re too old to sing rock n roll?’ I said: ‘You’d better check with Mick Jagger.'” Cher.

1946 is a good year for some Baby-Boomers.

 

[tonyb]

Let’s not even talk about clipping your own toenails. “Yoga” as I call the procedure.
A few weeks ago my wife and her sister coaxed me into getting a pedicure. Oh my gosh, sitting in a comfy massage chair while someone else cuts your toenails! And then they apply lotion to your feet and ankles! I could get used to this. My upstanding self says that such luxury is somehow wrong, yet I know I’ve been given the equivalent of a free sample of an addictive drug.

I’ve been seeing a podiatrist every three months for the past couple years, to keep the nail fungus in check and to carve out the calluses that form on the balls of my feet and can make walking painful when that hardened skin presses against nerves. The podiatrist trims my nails and then takes a Dremel tool to ‘em. I apply a tolnaftate concoction to those nails daily, and now two years in the fungus is getting close to cleared. The oral medication is not advised for people with my other conditions, so the slow route is what I’m left with.

But yeah, it’s nice to have another person tend to my toenails.

 

[GHT]

You know you are getting old when you start having: "Senior Moments." Technology frustrates me, I can never seem to do that which comes easily to so many others.
Trying to pay for my purchases by tapping my card on the reader. Tap! Nothing. Tap, tap, tap. Still nothing. A voice behind me suggested I use a credit card, they are much more acceptable than a driver's card. I won't repeat the obscenity that went through my head.

 

[tonyb]

Several days into Standard Time and just this morning I tackled resetting the digital clock on the microwave oven.

I found online instructions far clearer than what the manufacturer’s pamphlet provides.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Medical offices, these young female assistans, looking like sixteen years old...