tramsey Loc: Texas

Your kids are becoming you, & you don't like em. But your grandchildren are perfect! Going out is good. Coming home is better! When people say you look "Great", they add "for your age!" When you needed the discount, you paid full price. Now you get discounts on everything ...movies, hotels, flights but you're too tired to use them. You forget names, but it's OK because other people forgot they even knew you!!! The 5 lbs you wanted to lose is now 15, & you have a better chance of losing your keys than the 15 lbs. You realize you're never going to be really good at anything ... especially golf. Your spouse is counting on you to remember things you don't remember. The things you used to care to do, you no longer care to do,
But you really do care that you don't care to do them anymore. Your husband sleeps better on a lounge chair w/the TV blaring than he does in bed.
It's called his "pre-sleep". Remember when your mother said, "Wear clean underwear in case you GET in an accident"? Now you bring clean underwear in case you HAVE an accident! You used to say," I hope my kids GET married. Now, "I hope they STAY married!" You miss the days when everything worked with just an "ON" & "OFF" switch, when GOOGLE, iPod, email & modem were unheard of.
And a mouse was something that made you climb on a table. You tend to use more 4 letter words like "what?" & "when?" .Now that you can afford expensive jewelry, it's not safe to wear it anywhere. Your husband has a night out w/the guys, but he's home by 9:00PM. Next week it will be 8:30PM. You read 100 pages into a book before you realize you've read it. Notice everything they sell in stores is "sleeveless"? What used to be freckles are now liver spots. Everybody whispers. Now that your husband has retired, you'd give anything if he'd find a job!
You have 3 sizes of clothes in your closet 2 of which you will never wear. But old is good in some things: old songs, old movies, and best of all, OLD FRIENDS!!!

Country's Mama Loc: Michigan

Oh how I hate to say it, but I can relate to most of that.

renomike Loc: Reno, Nevada

Hear...Hear.... :thumbup: :thumbup:

Mike

steve40 Loc: Asheville/Canton, NC, USA

I can also relate to most of that, especially things that have only an on/off switch :thumbup:. I spent most of my life as an Electronics Tech, and I really hate progress it drove me crazy. :twisted:

mistascifi_2000

Here's my 2 cents " I've reached the metallic years, I got silver in my hair, gold in my teeth and lead in my a_ _.

auclair784 Loc: Winchester, TN

Well said my friend "I'm too young to be this darn old"

charsbridge Loc: St. Louis, Missouri

EXCELLENT!!!!

Wild about Loc: Kingsport,Tn.

I didn't realize I was getting old until I looked at a image of myself in my high school year book.What happened!

Joy Loc: NW Georgia

Dito,there's a stranger in the bathroom with you in the mornings too. don't know who that is looking back at u in the mirrow.

tk Loc: Iowa

:( :( :( I'm sitting in a corner sobbing. Were you watching me?

tramsey Loc: Texas

the golden age is really the metallic age, thats so true
DO NOT LOOK IN YOUR HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK

PalePictures Loc: Traveling

:thumbup:

You once had the psychological need to be right no matter who you hurt.
Now you just want internal peace.
And you learn this lesson again and again

Pix11

I know who is that person, oh it's mom, how did she get in the mirror?

Robert Graybeal Loc: Myrtle Beach

When I walked into my H.S. reunion ... I thought I was in the wrong place! Who are all these old people?

imntrt1 Loc: St. Louis

Getting old is not for the weak!