I acn't say gray hair because I have had this one strand of gray hair since I was a young kid...one doctor says lost of color pigment. I was mean to one teacher back in 7th grade for April Fool's Day I told her all of the stress gave me gray hair...she believed me HAHAHAHA
When you don't get angry with people because you can imagine them as newborn babies.
you groan when you bend over to pick something up off the floor
When there isn't enough room for the candles on the birthday cake
when you realize that you have stopped waiting for your fabulous life to begin
When your kids reach over to you in the passenger seat to protect you while braking.
When I see old pictures of people I thought were old, I realise now they were actually young - or am I getting old?
You know you are getting old when...
your grand kids want to take your "stuff" to the antique road show.
you see more candles than cake
the smoke alarms go off when the candles are lit
the firemen arrive after your cake is lit
everyone is taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation
your walls and ceiling have smoke damage
your insurance won't cover the damage
your insurance offers you the senior discount
i never felt pain . i could bend and climb run and jump .i could do cartwheels and walk on my hands . but the very day i turned 40 . my knees began to ache . and my eyes started to squint.
Your mantra becomes,"reading glasses, don't leave home without it"
AC/DC, MEGADETH, and OZZY are considered "CLASSIC ROCK" and teens have no idea who these bands even are anymore!!!
you get married, have a kid, become disabled, and have 1 or 2 friends in your neighborhood anymore..everyone suddenly forgets you when you used to have 15 people over every friday, now Im lucky 2 see anyone
just thought of this from another post
embarrassing things can happen when you sneeze
You know you're old when you meet a kid in his or her thirties that was born the same year you graduated high school.
When I was younger I could fall down flat and jump right back up. Now if I fall down it takes me like five minutes to get back up.
Every year at the doctor's there is a new test that you must take.
20s- BSE AND Paps
40S ADD Mamogram
50s Add Bone density and Colonoscopy
60s-70s Check every orifice and more often
80s Forget it!
when you see a situation that someone thinks is earth shattering, and you realise it is really nothing at all..... you have seen so many things so much worse, over and over and over again.... oh to be young, with the wisdom of the elderly, that would be a dream come true
When a child thinks you had dinsoaurs for pets ( hopes Mark dont read this )
When you were raised in a small town that hasn't existed for 30 years (eh EK?)
Ohhhhh Im mortally offended Pearldiver , fancy dissing the sausage capital of New Zealand besides they should have set movie there , 'Out Of Tuatapere' well it worked for Africa
You Make sure that you're wearing Clean Undies then on your Filmy Debutie
But I wasn't referring to Tuadeckedcameron or Tuahosepere...
Remembering when it was okay to drink milk straight from the cow.
When the cashier ask if you would the senor discount and you are just turning 40. or ask if your husband is your son and you are the same age.
When your sitting on the floor playing with kids and when its time to get up, they all spring up, while it takes you a good 5 minutes to get up and straighten your back.
When your child doesn't realize they used to take our temps anally
Sorry to interrupt this banter with seriousness, but all this talk is "graveyard humor" to make us feel better about something that we've all been programed to think is normal. As long as we do, we re-enforce a program in our marvelous and powerful mind that has terrible effects. Top aging researchers are saying that aging is a disease, and we can cure it. I suggest we not play around with fire. What if we can really reverse the aging process and grow younger?
Aging I believe is a natural process which we can never stop..but we can DELAY which requires a lot of work, thats why we have a lot of anti-aging products and operation are like mushrooms nowadays..promising youth but whatever we do we cannot really stop it, it will come day by day...we just have to learn how to age gracefully... :-)
Maudine...That's what we've been conditioned to believe and so that's what we create. As her therapist, I helped a woman heal herself of terminal cancer by finding in her mind a powerful ability that knew that she was killing herself subconsciously by shutting down her immune system. Our mind is extremely rich and powerful but neutral. We must be its master or it will master us. My point is that we don't know, at this point, what we are capable of doing with the aging process. At the very least, we can slow it down significantly by replacing the old programs, like "senior citizen." with new ones like "60 is the new 40." I have always refused senior citizen discounts for just that reason. Take them and your subconscious will make sure you become one and quickly. I personally find it much more exciting to find ways to grow younger than to accept the "inevitable." In my book, that's aging gracefully with authentic power.
When you had your 33rd high school reunion and your youngest is still in high school. What was I thinking!!!
When you have to get a doctor's permission for safety to have sex
hilarious. out of the whole thread this one gave me the biggest laugh.
no i ment you know when you give up . on thanksgiving i visited my mom my dad picked my grandmother up from the nursing home that they had to recently put her in because of a stroke shes 87. i went out to the truck when she arrived to help her into the house . i just wanted to pick her up in my arms. but she asked for her walker and frail and trembling she took afoot . as she scooted to the front door me at her side waiting to have to catch her falling weight . she said this i aint giving up yet
When you have more friends waiting for you in heaven than you have here on earth.
When politicians look young.
When your 20 year old son says 'Let me drive dad' - and you do because your bored of driving.
and like the song goes "When it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night!
.... when they stick a needle in you for a blood sample, dust comes out.
You look at the painting of the Last Supper and wince at your 'big hair' days
when someone labels you by the decade...
didn't they used to do that in the 80s??
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