Thread: Aging

Yea I started thinking. (Bad idea for me). Gramps passed at 82, popps at 74. So i figure i got 20 yrs left +-2 , that f....in sucks. So many AD's so little time.

I flunked my first DMV physical a week or so ago. The nurse practitioner says I might need hearing aids so I can't drive a big rig until I get tested. I laughed and said it's because when I get in a truck the first thing I do is roll up the windows, drop in a Pink Floyd CD and turn it up so loud I can barely feel the truck moving.
Doesn't make me feel older though. It's just 1 of a very few things I have not guarded as far as my health goes. When I did start to use hearing protection back when I was younger the tinnitus drove me nuts not to mention all hear protection back then gave me a head ache or ear ache to some degree.
I am my own experiment and bet. As I get older I am winning. Now as long as I can hear that bus coming :<0)

In the wash my support hose end up in hidden my hoodie's sleeves all the time. LOL!

What can I say...fortunately the avatar fits. The clothes don't. Still have ideals but am not quite so forward in pursuing them.
Projects take longer, and some are unfinished...but...so is life!

As was said in QoftD " I am at an age where 'getting lucky' means I can enter a room..and remember what i came for!"
And "Mike" you should try this new antibiotic...Set you free!

I do know that in some other time and place I would have been dead many times over by now. I would have had a lot fewer chances to try and either succeed or fail, and I have done both many times and mayhap a few more.
Getting old means "We ain't dead yet!
~Richard

In the end you can complain all you want about aging however you know what the alternative is.

Originally Posted by Bruno

Luckily, I manage to stay fit and handsome
But a couple of days ago, I discovered I was old. A 20 something woman at work wanted to ask me something, and called me 'sir...'.

Never mind that, "sir" is OK; it's when folks you've never met before start addressing you by your christian name, as in "now Bruno, would you like to have a seat over here? The doctor/dentist/proctologist etc will see you shortly".

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

In the end you can complain all you want about aging however you know what the alternative is.

My Mom used to caution me that getting old wasn't what it was cracked up to be, and I would remind her that it beat the alternatives. Like Gene Simmons says, if you wake up in the morning, and you're staring at the lawn from the green side, it's a GOOD day.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

In the end you can complain all you want about aging however you know what the alternative is.

Factually no one knows what the alternative is. There are a lot of make believe stories though.....there has never been a culture on Earth that did not have one....the one constant: you ain't here no more.

Originally Posted by WW243

Factually no one knows what the alternative is. There are a lot of make believe stories though.....there has never been a culture on Earth that did not have one....the one constant: you ain't here no more.

Depends on how you define "here".

Originally Posted by Orville

Depends on how you define "here".

Cue the theramin...