The last one was too long and I have DSL so I can't imagine how dial up's are surviving. We came from here:http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/833573/#top
I've posted a few things about age and getting older..... but have you ever looked at the advantages??
Perks of reaching 50 or being over 60 and heading towards 70!
01. Kidnappers are not very interested in you.
02. In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first.
03. No one expects you to run--anywhere.
04. People call at 9 PM and ask, did I wake you?
05. People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.
06. There is nothing left to learn the hard way.
07. Things you buy now won't wear out.
08. You can eat supper at 4 PM.
09. You can live without sex but not your glasses.
10. You get into heated arguments about pension plans.
11. You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.
12. You quit trying to hold your stomach in no matter who walks into the room .
13. You sing along with elevator music.
14. Your eyes won't get much worse.
15. Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off.
16. Your joints are more accurate meteorologists than the national weather service.
17. Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can't remember them either.
18. Your supply of brain cells is finally down to manageable size.
19. You can't remember who sent you this list.
And you notice these are all in Big Print for your convenience.
Water Cooler - 8
That is entirely correct.
The only downside is everything hurts all the time.
Govt. controlled healt means reading rheems of paperwork in order to get the medications.
Betty Davis said it" Getting old isn't for sissies"
So true!! Good thing im no sissy!!
- We are all rated - I am a baby boomer.
- Generations are grouped as follows:
- The Silent generation, people born before 1945.
- The Baby Boomers, people born between 1945 and 1961.
- Generation X, people born between 1962 and 1976.
- Generation Y, people born between 1977 and 1989.
Why do we call the last one generation Y. I did not know, but
a caricaturist explains it eloquently below...Learned something new!
Ha ha ha! Good one Sherrie!!
Getting older isn't so bad....
...I've quit chasing girls, cause I can't catch them.
...The second rung of the corporate ladder seems high enough.
...The mailman has to make two trips, the second with all the stuff from AARP.
...Everything a two year old says seems to make sense.
...Your not sure if "shake well before taking" means you or the bottle.
...Both you and the grandchildren are reminded to go to the bathroom BEFORE you eat.
...You can hide your own easter eggs cause you have no idea where you put them.
...The waitress reminds you that you can now order off the over 60 menu.
Ah yes, it does have it benifits!
Chuck
This message was edited Jul 8, 2008 7:50 AM
NO JOKE I'm waiting until 8:15 to go to the Supermarket to shop and pick up RX befor the aisles and parking lot is too conjested and toddlers are screaming in the aisles and walking behind my car where I can't see them.
Its for my safety and theirs.
Occasionally, I like being older. But most days I wonder how my twenty-something mind is in this fifty-something body. I still love adventures and taking risks.
I really resent it when the body fails before the brain.
It's frustrating to visualize projects and realize I cant do them.Nice to have a bit of money now to hire work done.
Its for my safety and theirs
MEANS.....trying some of that fancy Mexican food before you go to someone house for dinner.
taking risks
MEANS....assuming there is enough toilet paper on the roll instead of changing it.
im no sissy
MEANS...I can stay up for the 10 oclock news.
everything hurts all the time
MEANS....I must be OK, I feel the same as I did yesterday.
Why do we call the last one generation Y
MEANS....Y can't they do things the way I use to?
Chuck
MEANS...rambling is something you did in an American Motors car.
(Now that's really old)
Loved it.
Back from the store and no one was injured.
Good for you, Jo Ann
I'm with you Candyce - the package may be getting older, but the mind is still in the 20's! If there was ever a time to take risks - it's now! Gosh, if it were up to me, I would be teaching overseas in some developing country , , , but DH is concerned about quality of health care, terrorists, and government oppression. It makes sense to be concerned when you are raising a family - but my family is grown. Now is the time for an adventure - but DH is resolute, and I don't want to go without him.
Honestly, I figure I have about 30 good years left - I want them to count for something!
i have yet to reconcile my mental age and internal view of myself with what i see in the mirror, pictures, and the number on my driver's license.
sigh.
another b-day next week.
Posted this on old thread moving it over here..
Just got back from dropping the girls off at my parents last night. Really appreciate everyones advice/comments. Definitley points to ponder!!
I like the comment above about how showing respect is not so much as saying sir and m'aam but also in body language. I have seen young kids here approach adults and talk down to them. It definitley sets me back every time since that is not how I was raised... Anyhow times do change!
As for Dave's comment on blind respect it really made me think. We were expected to come running too when an adult called us.. I remember as a child riding my bike out in the middle of nowhere and having an adult pull up next to me in their car asking me for directions.. Me a child of 9 or 10 for directions? I don't remeber what I said but thinking back about me gives me the chills. In todays times maybe it is a good thing that my kids my kids aren't raised the way I was.
Michaela, I'd love to go on an adventure to a developing country with you! (They need to learn music too, right?) Our DHs can stay home and be stodgy together.
I ALWAYS go to the toilet before I leave the house, order from the children's menu or split something, bring a sweater in case I get cold. And according to Sherrie's list up there, my kids don't exist! My parents are silent, I'm a baby-boomer, my little brothers and sister are gen. X, I'm not even sure I know any Y's, maybe my kids' teachers or my step-children, but my kids don't exist!? Scary, yet appealing somehow....
Honestly, I figure I have about 30 good years left - I want them to count for something!
Actually, you have 34 good years left. I count them at the RU.
Chuck
This message was edited Jul 8, 2008 1:13 PM
My doctor tells me I need to "grow up" and realize the physical limitations of my age. Then he tells me I'm shrinking.
The thirty something swimmer next to me is impressed because I still do flip turns. He doesn't know I'm down from five miles a week to three in the last few years. He's so hot my goggles are fogging. I use marriage as an excuse (to myself, not him).
I'm debating about those tummy enhancing panties from a department store over Victoria's Secret. Designer panties that almost no one sees or slimness from Hanes.
The last time I had my drivers license renewed the cop said, "Is that you? You were really hot!" Terribly disrespectful cop and coming from a state that allows twenty year old pictures on your drivers license. I'm traumatized. I might not look hot anymore, but I think hot.
As for a life adventure, well I'm on one.
Laurel
According to that, I just disappeared! I'm older than anything on there!
I've seen your picture, Laurel, and you are hot, fear not. (Plus, it's about 108 degrees with 75% humidity - everyone's hot in my town tonight!)
It's dripped to 84 here!
LOL - dripped! OK, I might have slightly exaggerated; you folks in TN probably do have it worse. But myself, I am dripping....
Had a few chuckles catching up on the thread!
Jo Ann, It's rough having the body go before the mind, but the opposite is even worse.
My mind went many years ago!
Sorry, freudian slip!!
I'm glad my mother,who was stunningly beautiful, always emphasized "its what you are inside that counts" and ' age gracefully as god intended"
She never used much makeup and plastic surgery wasn't heard of.
" After fifty it's patch and repair"
Dave, talking about minds.
Marilyn always tells me not to let mind mind wander,
it's too little to go out by itself.
Chuck
Thanks Sherrie, thats a new one for me to us.
That's a new one for me too, and I'm old enough to have heard them all!
Wouldn't a mind hafta be BIG to be a whole factory?
I can't seem to get away from this computer today. I think I've been on here 5X already.....HELP!
I'm sure I wouldn't be the only DG'r there.
Chuck, your mind may need a chaperon, mine went & got lost. I'll let you know if I find it.
Doe, I used to wear a Freudian slip. ;^)
I need a screen so I can see the screen when i take the laptop out in the sun. I've seen them.
David, I need a Freudian harness!
A friend of mine sent me this today, I thought it fit in well here. I got a good laugh out of it because some are so true.
Funny, if not so true!!!
It was fun being a baby boomer . . . until now. Some of the artists of the 60's are revising their hits with new lyrics to accommodate aging baby boomers.
They include:
Herman's Hermits--- Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Walker.
The Bee Gees--- How Can You Mend a Broken Hip.
Bobby Darin--- Splish, Splash, I Was Havin' a Flash.
Roberta Flack--- The First Time Ever I Forgot Your Face.
Johnny Nash--- I Can't See Clearly Now.
Paul Simon--- Fifty Ways to Lose Your Liver
The Commodores--- Once, Twice, Three Times to the Bathroom.
Marvin Gaye--- Heard It Through the Grape Nuts.
Procol Harem--- A Whiter Shade of Hair.
Leo Sayer--- You Make Me Feel Like Napping.
The Temptations --- Papa's Got a Kidney Stone.
Abba--- Denture Queen.
Tony Orlando--- Knock 3 Times On The Ceiling If You Hear Me Fall.
Helen Reddy--- I Am Woman, Hear Me Snore.
Leslie Gore ---- It's My Procedure, and I'll Cry If I Want To.
Ringo Starr--- I Get By With a Little Help From Depends.
and
Willie Nelson--- On the Commode Again..
ROFLOLPIMP! A couple I can't recall - but I'm sure I'd recognize them if you hum a few bars!
I can do the humming Carrie. I remember them all.
Oh my goodness! How funny!!