You Know You're Getting Old When...

[Grams]

Yes ! thing sure have changed ! It was so nice and friendly back then !

 

[Helen]

You have to be pretty ill now for that to happen...

I wasn’t aware that it ever happened any more...but the night my dad died the doctor dropped by , ( I had called for advice) ...he gave us a script for morphin , looked at dad’s feet , and said It will probably happen tonight , if not soon. Made a joke with my dad and left.

I 5hought that was kind of him. Until my dr son-in-law smiled and said- “He did that for himself not dad...by seeing your dad tonight , he doesn’t have to come to the house to ‘declare him dead..’ within five days. He can just write the death certificate from his office ! Oh well.

I liked him though, he was a good doctor.

PS ...I asked a nurse why did he look at dad’s feet...she said ...” the feet turn dark blue before death...so , when you are next in hospital and they check your feet for the colour , you know why!! Haha!

 

[Grams]

WoW ! I never looked at my husbands feet....... wish I knew that back then..

I always figured I would go home first ! But ,,,,, GOD took him first !
Cant wait to go home..... this life these days are not like they were in my early life.
Thing's in the world have mad it ?????? so very different !

 

[Hisman]

You know that you are getting old when you have to ask your wife to spell the most simple of words.

And when you find yourself using - 'you know, that thing', a lot, and for a moment forget the name of even a cheese grater or something !

But, we must always laugh, it keeps us young.

 

[farouk]

You know that you are getting old when you have to ask your wife to spell the most simple of words.

And when you find yourself using - 'you know, that thing', a lot, and for a moment forget the name of even a cheese grater or something !

But, we must always laugh, it keeps us young.

Good you can laugh, Sir! I must admit my eyes and my memory and my hearing are not as good as they were...

 

[Helen]

Good you can laugh, Sir! I must admit my eyes and my memory and my hearing are not as good as they were...

My husbands hearing is dreadful...but his eyes are better than mine.
The one thing that we BOTH find, is the lack of a good sleep!!
Those days have now flown.
It's amazing how well we do on such little sleep.

But sense of humour is a must. :)

 

[Waiting on him]

You know you're getting old when:



1. You and your teeth don't sleep together.

2. Your try to straighten out the wrinkles in your socks and
discover you aren't wearing any.

3. At the breakfast table you hear snap, crackle, pop and you're
not eating cereal.

4. Your back goes out but you stay home.

5. When you wake up looking like your driver's license picture.

6. It takes two tries to get up from the couch.

7. When your idea of a night out is sitting on the patio.

8. When happy hour is a nap.

9. When you're on vacation and your energy runs out before your
money does..

10. When you say something to your kids that your mother said to
you and you always hated it.

11. When all you want for your birthday is to not be reminded of
your age.

12. When you step off a curb and look down one more time to make
sure the street is still there.

13. Your idea of weight lifting is standing up.

14. It takes longer to rest than it did to get tired.

15. Your memory is shorter and your complaining lasts longer.

16. Your address book has mostly names that start with Dr.

17. You sit in a rocking chair and can't get it going.

18. The pharmacist has become your new best friend.

19. Getting "lucky" means you found your car in the parking lot.

20. The twinkle in your eye is merely a reflection from the sun on
your bifocals.

21. It takes twice as long - to look half as good.

22. Everything hurts, and what doesn't hurt - doesn't work.

23. You look for your glasses for half an hour and they were on
your head the whole time.

24. You sink your teeth into a steak - and they stay there.

25. You give up all your bad habits and still don't feel good.

26. You have more patience, but it is actually that you just don't
care anymore.

27. You finally get your head together and your body starts
falling apart.

28. You wonder how you could be over the hill when you don't even
remember being on top of it.

You can hide your own Easter eggs

 

[farouk]

You can hide your own Easter eggs

LOL...takes us back a long way...

 

[Helen]

You can hide your own Easter eggs

Yes, and whenever we meet anyone..we think we have never seen them before..Every day is a new day, and every person is a new friend...even if we have known them for years! :)

( not 'quite' there yet, but I am sure it is coming LOL )

 

[Helen]

We watch old shows or movies, and we are convinced that we have never seen them before...and we don't even remember who the 'bad guy' is

We are very easily pleased !!

 

[Nancy]

My husbands hearing is dreadful...but his eyes are better than mine.
The one thing that we BOTH find, is the lack of a good sleep!!
Those days have now flown.
It's amazing how well we do on such little sleep.

But sense of humour is a must. :)

It IS amazing how well we can do on such little sleep! I have never been a "good" sleeper, takes a long time to fall off. Then up a couple times . But then, I can go all day!

 

[marks]

i don't really feel invincible so much as i refuse to accept disease as a normal part of healthy function, and i don't see the point of going to a guy whose statistical lifespan is 5-10 years less than your own for health advice, especially if he profits from it. Fwiw i do not think Drs are bad either, i send ppl to doctors all the time, bc many ppl just aren't capable of fasting or other necessary steps that require a strong will. Not sure what you mean by organic and healthy, these are pretty subjective; your serum O3 level is not

true, but they were meant to last a lifetime, and i accidentally fell in with some 90+ year olds who still beat me to the top of Mt. Sopris, and lay concrete every day, etc.. Fwiw we don't ever discuss health, or health foods, or sickness, or doctors, none of that. Not saying we avoid it; the subjects just never come up
i should say that i would surely have made the same choices y'all have if i were making them when you made them, most likely, and if i were 80 and satisfied with my health i doubt i would change anything. Now, i plan to be doing one-armed push-ups when i am 90, but that hardly has to be everyone's goal i guess.

you guys will just have to pardon my blind spot here if you would, i watched my dad talk himself into a wheelchair making those jokes though, ok

I know this was a while ago . . . still digging around in here!

But I don't call it a blind spot. Neurolinguistic Programing . . . words mean things.

Much love!
Mark

 

[CoreIssue]

My husbands hearing is dreadful...but his eyes are better than mine.
The one thing that we BOTH find, is the lack of a good sleep!!
Those days have now flown.
It's amazing how well we do on such little sleep.

But sense of humour is a must. :)

My hearing is perfect with my hearing aids.

My vision pretty good with my glasses on.

My back is a disaster and my diabetes under control.

Both my wife and I sleep like rocks.

Luckily we both have a sense of humor, especially after both having another birthday. Her being 51 weeks younger than me.

 

[Taken]

You know you're getting old when you are still telling your kids to HANG UP the phone.

Taken

 

[Taken]

Hello,
Hello, is Johnny there?
Sorry you have the wrong number...
What number did you DIAL?

LOL, when is the last time you DIALED a phone number?

Taken

 

[Taken]

You know you're getting old when A Fire Extinguisher accompanies your Birthday Cake.

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[Taken]

You know you're getting old when you still think it's popular to put doiles on an arm chair.

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[Helen]

You know you're getting old when you are still telling your kids to HANG UP the phone.

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Oh yes...the corded rotary phones. :)

No, you are getting old when you start moaning to each other that the adult grandkids have not texted you or come by to say hello. :)

In getting older we become more obsolete to their life.

 

[Helen]

Hello,
Hello, is Johnny there?
Sorry you have the wrong number...
What number did you DIAL?

LOL, when is the last time you DIALED a phone number?

Taken

Love that.. How true ..we do still talk about 'dialling a number' and 'hanging up the phone.' Good one!! :)

 

[Butterfly]

A corded party line phone.

We had one of those - and the people sharing our line were always on the phone.
There is a hilarious video on Facebook of some young people trying to use one of the old phones. They can figure out that they have to turn the dial, but none of them can work out that they have to pick the receiver up first !
Rita