I know I'm getting older

[Dtail]

Saw the Carol King concert tour recently (no real Carol King) which was a very good production. We had never been to the venue before. Had to park a good walk away.

We just followed the walkers and canes to it. I felt pretty young!

Yeah I do feel younger at the Happy Together tour.

 

[FI_RElater]

I had my Trek road bike tuned up by a bike technician whose father was younger than my bike (1984).

I hate to say it, but....

my Trek is FIVE YEARS OLDER than yours

Just today I was talking to someone (looked on the "older" side)__ had cap with same undergrad school and I asked which year, since he might have been same or similar,.... and it was after I had already finished grad school (elsewhere).

GULP.....

 

[FI_RElater]

A little OT, but this thread brought it to mind.

I know a number of folks on this thread are connected to a piece of rural land. I was reminded of my transience a few years ago when I sold mom and dad's old place, a hundred-acre farm that I knew by the square foot. It got me thinking of those who had lived and died there before, a history I had in hand, documented in a title abstract that went back to the acquisition of the Northwest Territories. I passed it along to the new owner, a mutual fund manager who was buying up rural land in my area for investment.

A great Midwestern writer once observed that the land may belong to you, but you also belong to the land. "The land remembers." I hope the land remembers me.

Amazon.com

Along your line...
spouse's parents (both gone) house was in midwest. Some time before I'd had reason to look up their old deed at the county:
the original surveyor for their property was.... GEORGE WASHINGTON !!
and the original was on parchment

 

[FI_RElater]

The list is endless:

• First time you receive an AARP mailer.
• When you start noticing gray hair.
• Retiring.
• When you start Medicare.
• When you claim Soc Sec.
• When you start RMDs.
• When athletes, musicians, actors, celebs you grew up with - die.
• When your parents pass away.
• When peer aged friends or family pass away thru illness.
• One day you look in the mirror and say to yourself "WTH?"

Evidently I'm not really old yet (in the first group)...



And here's a checklist: You Might Be Old If You Remember

Penny candy
Candy cigarettes
Soda machines that dispensed glass bottles
Diners with tableside juke boxes
Metal ice cube trays with levers
Party line telephones
Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Butterfield 8)
Newsreels before the movie
33 RPM records
Reel-to-reel tape recorders
Green stamps
Roller skate keys
Hula hoops
Washtub wringers
The Fuller Brush man
35-cent a gallon gasoline
15-cent McDonald hamburgers with 10-cent fries
5-cent packs of baseball cards with that slab of pink bubblegum

actually it was 25-cent gas !
(and some stations also gave away coin banks to kids, either with their logo or with their "mascot" like Dino the dinosaur)

there's others:
"duck and cover" (anyone in school of a "certain age" remembers that)

a milk dispensing machine (half gallons)
{rare, but did see it in 60's}

actual silver coins (and "silver certificate" dollars)

{...and there's the obvious ones like
"where were you when Kennedy was shot " (the first one).... answer: still in elementary school in TX

"what was your draft number ?"
answer: lucky on that one as had to sign up and get it (and had to have it to get our scholarship in undergrad) but "lottery" was over (older brother's was one that was drawn later, but he also went to school and had deferment; "old man" was one of the old "lifers" when there in Nam and lost barracks in "Tet", which is why we'd been in many states and schools growing up)

...am I "old" yet ??

 

[Koolau]

actually it was 25-cent gas !
(and some stations also gave away coin banks to kids, either with their logo or with their "mascot" like Dino the dinosaur)

there's others:
"duck and cover" (anyone in school of a "certain age" remembers that)

a milk dispensing machine (half gallons)
{rare, but did see it in 60's}

actual silver coins (and "silver certificate" dollars)

{...and there's the obvious ones like
"where were you when Kennedy was shot " (the first one).... answer: still in elementary school in TX

"what was your draft number ?"
answer: lucky on that one as had to sign up and get it (and had to have it to get our scholarship in undergrad) but "lottery" was over (older brother's was one that was drawn later, but he also went to school and had deferment; "old man" was one of the old "lifers" when there in Nam and lost barracks in "Tet", which is why we'd been in many states and schools growing up)

...am I "old" yet ??

Yeah, sounds like you're about my age. Biggest "biggie" was my high draft number. Got lucky to the max on that one. I was 1-A after university and had passed my draft physical.

 

[Walt34]

Yeah, sounds like you're about my age. Biggest "biggie" was my high draft number. Got lucky to the max on that one. I was 1-A after university and had passed my draft physical.

A good friend of mine was "lucky" and drew the highest possible draft number - 366! The only problem was that he was a Marine in Da Nang at the time....

When he got back I bought him a beer in celebration.

 

[Koolau]

A good friend of mine was "lucky" and drew the highest possible draft number - 366! The only problem was that he was a Marine in Da Nang at the time....

When he got back I bought him a beer in celebration.

A double lottery winner! The highest draft number AND he came home from Da Nang. Better than winning a Billion in the Power Ball.

 

[FREE866]

I recently found and bought off ebay a black light poster I had when I was a kid. It will be 50 years old next year...yikes...


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thats an awesome poster!!!

 

[brett]

When I turned 65 our health authority sent me a Blue Cross card for drugs.

A week later they sent me a screening test for colon cancer.

I had been retired for 8 years,

Up until that time I had only been to a doctor twice once in 15 years. The only thing I took was was vitamin D.

I asked my spouse.....should I be worried

 

[Calico]

When I turned 65 our health authority sent me a Blue Cross card for drugs.

A week later they sent me a screening test for colon cancer.

I had been retired for 8 years,

Up until that time I had only been to a doctor twice once in 15 years. The only thing I took was was vitamin D.

I asked my spouse.....should I be worried

Wait until the first time you receive a mailer offering to help you plan for your "final expenses" so as to "spare your loved ones the stress and trauma" of dealing with this when you kick the bucket. I think it arrived shortly after I signed up for Medicare, IIRC.

 

[homestead]

I've struggled with the ear crystals issue since I was 50.

"Oh, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now." The Byrds

I've noticed my vertigo (BPPV) has not flared up since I started taking vitamin D.

Love that song!

 

[motley]

When I started to talk cars with my grandson who got his license a few years back and every one of the cars I had was a classic. Here are some;
1966 Mustang
1968 GTX
1957 Chevy Pickup
1973 Camaro
1975 Bronco
1967 Ford Custom 500
1972 Econoline van with 3 on the tree (remember vans fixed up with shag carpet and 'mood' lighting?)
1972 (I think) Lincoln Continental with suicide doors.

You wish they were just classics. They're antiques!

Isn't being old great??

 

[Out of Steam]

Wait until the first time you receive a mailer offering to help you plan for your "final expenses" so as to "spare your loved ones the stress and trauma" of dealing with this when you kick the bucket. I think it arrived shortly after I signed up for Medicare, IIRC.

That seems to be the triggering event. I'd never gotten one of these solicitations before, but have gotten two in the past couple of months.

 

[motley]

I've started asking if there's a senior discount on things

 

[Koolau]

That seems to be the triggering event. I'd never gotten one of these solicitations before, but have gotten two in the past couple of months.

As the saying goes "We have quite a dossier on you."

All those companies buy the same info on us and start blitzing us with "offers" at about the same time. It'll probably get worse before it gets better.

 

[MarieIG]

Well I started going gray at twenty-one . . .

But otherwise:

My kiddos driving;
My kiddos graduating;
My kiddos getting married;
My kiddo having kiddos;
MY KIDDOS COMPLAINING ABOUT GETTING OLD (I didn't tell them the origin of that gray hair, although they have been quick to cast blame for their bad backs and poor eyesight).

AARP solicitations;
Funeral parlor solicitations;
Cemetery solicitations;
Conversations with contemporaries focusing on medical treatment.

 

[marko]

What was the question again?

 

[Flieger]

I can remember going to this worlds famous nightclub a few times back in the early 70's. (Well before John Travolta made it famous in the movie "Urban Cowboy".) This picture doesn't do it justice, the place was huge inside.

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I went there in the late 80's traveling for work with my first J@B! It was indeed HUGE!

Flieger

 

[ldychill]

I realized I'm getting older.

Today I I cut down a tree that I planted about 40 years ago....I outlived my own tree.

What's your example?

When I am filling out something on- line and it seems like forever as I am scrolling to get to my birth year.

 

[NXR7]

I was working on a fire department and we responded to a car accident. The driver was wearing a high school jacket with 93 on the arm. I went, what? You weren't even born when I graduated high school. And now you're DRIVING? !!!

I used to be able to go to a new doctor and when asked what surgeries I had I could say "None" and they were surprised. Now I can barely keep track of all of them.

I'm about to have my third this year and in the last year I've had more eye surgeries than I had in the previous 68 years, all of them, five.

But I am very thankful that modern medicine can fix what I've had so far (rotator cuffs/prostate/various eye/some I can't remember) because I'd barely be functional otherwise. And miserable.

 

[isisdave]

Last weekend was my wife's 56th high school reunion. Well, sort of. Quite a while ago they became "Classes ending in 8" and soon after "ending in 3 or 8" and now it's just "oh, just come" -- partly because the school closed quite a while ago. The Beach Boys and Jan and Dean played at her school; Santana at mine; and Paul Revere and the Raiders at my college dormmate's.

One day recently I got in the mail the trifecta: ads for hearing aids, assisted living, and cremation.

 

[scaubie]

At our annual guys’ golf trip, everybody was up by 6am and we had afternoon tee times.

 

[RobLJ]

• Drove 240 miles Friday to get my 7 year old grandson back to Merced for his first competitive soccer game (he and little brother were in Reno to see the Balloon fest). Had flashbacks to his father and our youngest son's first soccer and first competitive soccer games
• I've now outlived my fraternal twin by 25 years
• I had my first Medicare Annual Exam and had to answer memory questions as well as whether I have fallen (since I hike a lot on steep trails and don't use poles, I usually fall once a year when a foot slips on small rocks going on a steep down. I always fall on my butt, which is cushioned. The doctor was amused.)

 

[Reese]

I start Medicare on Sunday. My cards are already in my wallet.

I'm right there with you.

 

[wildbilly]

Time flies faster because I'm busier now than when I was working :/