You know you're getting old when ...
... you spend ten minutes trying to thread a needle before you give in, hunt out your glasses, use them and thread the first try.
Actually, it should probably read 'it's time to acknowledge you need to use your glasses when ... '
What made you sit up and admit that something about you was irrevocably broken/used up/aged?
or you search for the magnifying glass to use WITH your glasses,to thread the needle!
or when you forget trying and find a threaded one with different colored thread.
I did this a few weeks ago...
My grandchildren will bring flower to my bed and say how are feeling this morning
OK lol this is getting depressing. How's about ... you know you're still young when ...?
Nice eyes mega. Scary - but they look like they can thread needles without glasses. As well as curse whomever they rest upon
...when you get too lazy to get on a plane and go visit a pretty froggy in her very own pond
thanks!
old fellows--and I mean very old--do say things like that
...and that reminds me of my grandpa. how i miss fishing with him...lol
- Toby Hansenposted 14 years ago
0 For the most part, I've remained free of any signs of feeling aware that I'm getting "old", but there's one that keeps showing up for me:
I have a window that sticks, so each Spring when I open it I tend to pull muscles when doing it. Inevitably, the day after opening that window I'll have "chest pain". Also inevitably, I've found myself wondering if that pain might be a heart attack, at least until I remember I opened the window. 20 years ago I wouldn't have wondered if it might be a heart attack. For the last several years, I've wondered about it until I finally realized what happens every Spring - so now I've stopped wondering if it "might be a mild heart attack". That's not my "thing" about knowing I'm getting "old", though. My "thing" about knowing I'm getting "old" is that I'm now old enough to have had that happen for a few years, and I've now begun to ignore those "chest pains" when they show up each Spring. THAT is how I know I'm getting "old".
When you're young you think of things like muscle pulls and minor pains as "a muscle pull or a minor pain". When you're sort of old-ish you don't think of them as muscle pulls/minor pains until after you're at least considered that they could be a heart attack or a sign of arthritis. Once you age beyond that stage and stop thinking those little injuries "might be a sign of something more serious", you just start writing them all off as "nothing".
The way I see it, the next phase of oldness will be when the aches and pains get to be more than minor ones, I'll still be calling them "nothing", and someone will start thinking I'm either "being a martyr" or else being "too senile to know it isn't 'nothing'".you know when you are getting old when you speak so often about the ......
good old days
This generation is like this or that...
when you find everything younger people do is in poor taste, odious and lacking good upbringing
when gravity pulls you down more often- DoorMattnomoreposted 14 years ago0
- Wendi Mposted 14 years ago0
Of course it's far worse for some... But you'd have to be an Old B......, if you complained in a french restaurant that the frogsleg soup that you had spilled all over the table, your lap and the floor, had got there because the legs had still been kicking when the soup was served! (Even though it was french onion!)
True Story... He was drunk and he had gobbled down 3/4 and then intentionally spilled the rest, in the hope that he could dodge the bill!
It Backfired when the manager agreed to forgo the bill if he returned the Frogs Legs, before they kicked anyone else's soup everywhere!
When he grabbed the asparagus off a lady's meal and tried to give it to the manager, telling him that he'd found them trying to kick her lunch onto the floor ... he got Frog Hopped out the doors!
(You Know I've Never Tried That Again Since!)
- ralwusposted 14 years ago0
...not there yet...i'll know - when i can't pull my bike upright and off its kickstand....then it'll be time to do somethin' different like bingo or bridge or hanging out in vegas gambling
....
I'll know it's time when I can't handle the curves anymore!
Or
I find it's easier to leave the kickstand down and bounce on an S-Bend!
Where are the parties??
You know you are getting old when you get a concussion, and can not start your next game.
when you're flirting your best and the guy just stares at you a bit, and then turns and walks away! (or, it could be the guy is getting old, hmmmmmm. . .)
"You know you're getting old when you don't do drugs anymore, 'cause you can get the same effect just by standing up really fast"
(I've just find this thing out in the web..and it really made me smile..)You know you are getting old when:
1. you search for your glasses everywhere only to have your grandchild say that its tuck behind your ears(lol);
2. you find cellular phone and computers as aliens;
3. you get nasty when somebody asks your age;
4. you dance cha-cha to Taylor Swift's songs,hahaha;
5. when you fall asleep in front of the television and gets angry when somebody switched to another channel (my grandpa does,haha);
6. when you don't argue that often anymore.
just a thought..You know you are getting old when you know you're just sleeping but others think you are dead..
.... you remember learning to type on a manual Underwood typewriter that had no markings on the keys....
.... a stranger walks by, and compliments you on your grandson when it is really your own son ....
.... gravity is no longer a friend ....
.... party throwers provide a solitary candle on your birthday cake ....
.... fashion trends come around, not once or twice, but thrice and you remember the first go around ....
.... you do the same thing but expect a different result ....
okay, I'm starting to feel really, really old... geez, thanks Froggy
Nah, you could never get older Beth. Angels like you only get cuter as you age, never older.
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