Popular Post Dennis1209 Posted July 5, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 347 Topics Per Day: 0.13 Content Count: 7,468 Content Per Day: 2.70 Reputation: 5,378 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/27/2016 Status: Offline Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2019 3 hours ago, other one said: Well, I'm 72 and I'm not sure you understand "old" yet. LoL You got that right! For me; mentally feeling old is remembering having bottled glass milk delivered to your front door. Getting mail delivered twice a day except Saturday's. Buying and chewing 2 cent wax soda. Thinking someone 30 years old was ancient. Picking up and searching for 2 cent soda bottles to cash in and becoming a gizzionaire. Twenty-four cent a gallon gasoline. Going to the neighborhood cobbler to get your shoe repaired or get 'taps' put on. Getting physically old: Gimping into the kitchen refrigerator, opening the door, then wondering what you wanted to get out of there, was it something to eat or drink, or just cool off? Showing your wife you haven't lost a thing and are still as strong as ever; all the while of holding back the tears of pain and screaming inside in agony. Watching your son pick up two bundles of roofing shingles and climbing up the ladder to the roof, then telling him I'd do it too but am conserving my energy. Looking at old photographs of yourself and thinking, my, my, and asking the wife, "who's this"? Trying to impress the wife and show her you can still do 'one handed' push up's; and creaking and crackling like Rice Crispies while bending over to get into position, and falling and injuring your shoulder, elbows and pride. Yeah, I just don't think she understands yet 2 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other one Posted July 5, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 29 Topic Count: 598 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 56,126 Content Per Day: 7.56 Reputation: 27,854 Days Won: 271 Joined: 12/29/2003 Status: Online Share Posted July 5, 2019 46 minutes ago, Drafido said: I've had joint pain due to bad posture. In my 20s. I corrected it by laying a flat board of wood under my mattress and only sleeping with one small pillow. But it's taken around 15 years for my condition to heal. I don't know if this technique might work for other people but it seems to have worked for me. I am actually experiencing that now... I may give that a try.... but then again, I'm 72 and no telling what's going to go out before I'm 87 LoL 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted July 5, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 952 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,573 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 9,054 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted July 5, 2019 Well I am not so much old as busted up. At 75 I am looking forward to at least one more career opportunities. Ache san dpains, I have had them all my life i just introduce the new ones to the old ones and tell them , party on. My own So Ca days were from 1959 Huntington Beach, Hwy 39, racing wherever another vehicle was on the Hwy, batching my tickets and bringing my tooth brush to court hearing like the sheriff's deputy advised. Turned out his police interceptor merc was faster than my Plymouth Sports Fury Convertible. I figured that out as I hit 115 and saw him shifting that three on a tree from second to third and still gaining on me. Wow was he fast. I did a lot of So. Cal dumb things including making two CHIPs drop their bikes as I turned in front of them trying to race my way onto the Santa Ana Fwy. oops. And very expensive plus I was banned from LA county for a year. But today? I don't know just met a lady born in 1923 at the Blood lab getting her blood drawn. She was upright fast walking fast talking and energetic. Maybe old is not chronologic at all. Last thing my own mom said on her death bed at age 94 was "When will I ever get better again? She had been down for a couple weeks and finally into bed" Then she closed her eyes. She had been fine, in charge of her own home till the very last. Old? a state of mind. The body? It is fragile from day one. At seventy five much of mine is now fused together, all the broken up stuff is good to go, it just doesn't bend anymore. There is no old - just "well used". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jubilea Posted July 5, 2019 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 9 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1,515 Content Per Day: 0.86 Reputation: 3,121 Days Won: 11 Joined: 06/27/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted July 5, 2019 1 hour ago, Rebecca Pickles said: You can feel physically old at 40, but still have to plod on until you are 70 before you can retire. And yet someone at 75, who feels fit and healthy, and full of beans, can take it easy if they want, as they are retired. You're right, Rebecca. And sometimes a fit and healthy older person, who is doing excellent work and doesn't want to quit, is forced out to pasture anyway. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jubilea Posted July 5, 2019 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 9 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1,515 Content Per Day: 0.86 Reputation: 3,121 Days Won: 11 Joined: 06/27/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted July 5, 2019 1 hour ago, BeauJangles said: Goodness gracious, please don't remind me! Hmm . . . if you had to be reminded, I wonder if your memory is going, too . . . (Couldn't resist, BeauJangles . Just kidding, of course.) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvelloustime Posted July 5, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 15 Topic Count: 206 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 5,608 Content Per Day: 2.83 Reputation: 11,415 Days Won: 33 Joined: 11/26/2018 Status: Offline Share Posted July 5, 2019 1 hour ago, Jubilea said: You're right, Rebecca. And sometimes a fit and healthy older person, who is doing excellent work and doesn't want to quit, is forced out to pasture anyway. Yes, that's right. They are forced to leave their job, all just because they are turning a certain age. I've heard loads of stories about that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortangel Posted July 5, 2019 Group: Senior Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 48 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 839 Content Per Day: 0.44 Reputation: 634 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/12/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted July 5, 2019 when I realized that I was turning old when I turned 40 I may still be young but I know i'm getting there to 50 lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmuffet Posted July 5, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 34 Topic Count: 1,991 Topics Per Day: 0.48 Content Count: 48,689 Content Per Day: 11.81 Reputation: 30,343 Days Won: 226 Joined: 01/11/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted July 5, 2019 (edited) 7 hours ago, other one said: Well, I'm 72 and I'm not sure you understand "old" yet. LoL I'm not that far behind you oo and I can relate. God is with me every step of the way. That is a good thing Edited July 5, 2019 by missmuffet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayne Posted July 5, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 16 Topic Count: 107 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3,820 Content Per Day: 1.30 Reputation: 4,806 Days Won: 2 Joined: 03/31/2016 Status: Offline Share Posted July 5, 2019 Old? Whose old? I'll be 58 in a few weeks and I don't have a gray hair in my head! Ah, but don't ask me about my knees!! It's the aches and pains - the arthritis in three of my fingers that aren't too bad yet, the joints [mainly the KNEES!], and the fact I can't move sometimes without the body saying, "What are you doing? You are NOT 18 anymore!" I get mad when it does that. But I don't FEEL old inside, in the mind or the heart. I don't think of myself as old, but I am older than I was last year. I think old is relative. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyKay Posted July 5, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 12 Topic Count: 385 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 7,692 Content Per Day: 1.93 Reputation: 4,809 Days Won: 3 Joined: 05/28/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted July 5, 2019 8 hours ago, PinkBelt said: I would like to hear anyone from anyone else when they had their first "I'm getting old" moments/revelations. It is hard to say. Nearly all the people I went to school with are now grandparents. I'm still raising a 13 year old. But I do think all the new music is not really music. Not like the music we had back in the 80's. Now that was real rock n roll. I don't know what this whoop whoop stuff their playing now is. I find myself saying stuff like that. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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