You know you're old when...

Jennie · Post by **Jennie** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:03 pm

When I complained to my mother-in-law about my fortyish aches and pains, she put it into perspective for me. She sighed, got that sort of far-away look she has, and said,

"I never really felt old until I realized that I have _four_ menopausal daughters..."

Arlene's no longer conversing, but she does seem to enjoy our visits. My daughter played her fiddle in the nursing home last time, and the younger daughter danced to it, and their grandma smiled. She is beautiful.

Jennie

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:17 pm

This is life.
You've described a lovely vignette.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:42 pm

Jennie wrote:
"I never really felt old until I realized that I have _four_ menopausal daughters..."

Indeed,

Now there's a sobering thought.

The age question hits me when I walk down the High Street and see people in their sixties pushing their aged parents around in wheelchairs, stopping ocasionaly to wipe a lip or settle a blanket down over their lap.

My Mother and Father died at 54 and 63, so I will never have to do that.

It breaks my heart to see people struggling with age and it's problems looking after people who are even more aged than they are themselves.

Only a few days back I was going into a shop and an old women with a walking stick was trying to reverse out of a door with her Mother in a wheelchair. Her handbag got caught in the door handle and things were getting a but tricky. I went over and sorted out the door while she untangled her handbag and got the wheelchair out.

We exchanged a few polite words and has she moved away, a weak and withering arm rose from the wheelchair as a very tired and weary voice gasped "Thank you".

Around all this were kids on bikes and more kids pushing prams with even smaller kids smiling in the prams.

I'm gonna be 49 very soon.

Too late to die before I'm 40.

Slan,
D.

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:23 pm

I think the first time I actually felt "old" was when my oldest daughter told me she was engaged. That did it, in fact my words were-"Now I feel old"

Now that I really do feel some of the years in the old bod, I look at my 83 year old mother who babysits her 3 year old great- grandaughter and keeps up with her too. Then I tell myself to shut up.

Actually she said that age has it's avantages- particularly that you can get away with a lot- jumping line, like you don't know where it ends, telling people exactly what you think(rude), pretending you don't understand, etc. Everyone thinks "oh, she's just old".

little do they know...

I fight it tooth and nail.
example: Tomorrow morning I'm up at 5:15 for a three hour drive to march in a killer parade(lots of up-hill) with the pipe band. I don't know how I'll get along lugging that drum, but I'm gonna try.

MarkS · Post by **MarkS** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:47 pm

My grandmother (91 and still going strong, God bless her) gave me a fridge magnet once that reads:

"The more you complain, the longer God lets you live"

I suspect there's more than a grain of truth in that...

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 8:21 pm

dubhlinn wrote: Too late to die before I'm 40.

The 50s aren't any better...

There's so few options.

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 9:53 pm

I kind of feel like I'm just getting started . . .

Tommy · Post by **Tommy** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:04 pm

If I see change in the parking lot, it has to be a quarter before I will bend down to pick it up. Nickels, dimes, and pennys I leave for the younger.

missy · Post by **missy** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:34 pm

a lot of people that I first started working with are....

RETIRING!!!

We're too young to be retiring!

And my son's getting married!

I'm too young to have a son getting married!

djm · Post by **djm** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:48 pm

I went out with a woman with three daughters, all in their late teens to early twenties. Dirty old lecher's paradise, right? I couldn't help be struck how ... juvenile they were; pathetically struggling to look and sound adult. I know I fail at looking and sounding adult, too, but there was nothing attractive about these girls as they were floundering their way through life.

Maybe I'm getting old or something. Great! So now I'm a failure at being a lecher, too.

djm

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:55 pm

djm wrote:I went out with a woman with three daughters, all in their late teens to early twenties. Dirty old lecher's paradise, right? I couldn't help be struck how ... juvenile they were; pathetically struggling to look and sound adult. I know I fail at looking and sounding adult, too, but there was nothing attractive about these girls as they were floundering their way through life.

Maybe I'm getting old or something. Great! So now I'm a failure at being a lecher, too.

djm

Perhaps you've just developed better taste . . .

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:13 pm

djm wrote:So now I'm a failure at being a lecher, too.

It's best to lear from a distance...

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:13 am

MarkS wrote:My grandmother (91 and still going strong, God bless her) gave me a fridge magnet once that reads:

"The more you complain, the longer God lets you live"

I suspect there's more than a grain of truth in that...

I love it. I can think of one or two people that need to be told this one!

SteveK · Post by **SteveK** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:27 am

You know you're getting old when you look back at your 40s and 50s and say "Gee, that was the prime of life."

C age ing · Post by **C age ing** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:49 am

Purchasing Long Life Milk seems pointless.

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