Senior Moments

[buckthesystem]

Come on you people, I know it's hard, but try to remember the "absent minded" things that you did. You don't have to remember when you actually did them though.

In the supermarket where I used to work our manager had a marvellous saying, it was his excuse for everything. If somebody might say to him, something like: "I asked you ...... days ago ..... and you said ...." he'd say "I forgot, when you get old like me you forget things". The funny part about that is that he was only 32.

I don't usually admit odd things that I do, but yesterday was a "doozie". I stopped to get some petrol, and not only did I not hand up the nozzle on the pump correctly afterwards, necessitating the worker at the petrol station setting it in the right place so that he could read the amount that it cost, but I realised that when I got home the lid petrol tank lid thing on the car was open and the cap missing. The stupid thing is that I had heard what I thought was something falling from the roof about a mile away from home so I walked along the road looking for the cap. I couldn't find it so I had to sheepishly go back to the petrol station to get another one.

This is more common than I thought. They had a box full of petrol caps and the guy said "yes people are always leaving the petrol caps behind" so he just gave me another one. Now hopefully nobody will notice.

[KarenJo5]

Actually my mind is fine its the fact that my body just won't do what it used to any more that drives me crazy. For instance the phone rings and I jump up out of my chair to answer it and I am halfway across the room before my body is completely upright. My right knee squeeks, yes squeeks! whenI am walking upstairs. I used to could do splits, cartwheels, and hand stands and was telling my daughter so about 2 weeks ago,she wanted me to try a split.Guess what? I fell going down steps of my back porch several days ago and the ground seemed to be a lot harder that it used to be.I was sore for 3 days. And I am only 46

[GeneV]

I'm having trouble remembering simple words like------

I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.

I'm sure they are making adults much younger these days, and when did they let kids become policemen?

I'm wondering, if you're only as old as you feel, how could I be alive at 150?

Yes, I'm a Senior Citizen and I think I am having the time of my life!java script:emoticon('', 'smid_18')

Now why was I here again? Oh yeah something about my friend Methuselah....darn it I forgot his birthday again - Oh well send him a card next...........why am I here again

[SueZQ]

I just came across this "Senility Prayer"

God, grant me the senility

To forget the people

I never liked anyway,

The good fortune

To run into the ones I do,

And the eyesight

To tell the difference.

LOL

[PBob]

NOW WHY DID I COME IN HERE? WAS I GOING UP THE STAIRS OR DOWN?

[Guest pixy]

This is all very, very funny...

But... pretty scary...

[eric]

Just read all that thread and enjoyed a good chuckle. Haven't laughed so much since I saw the first Charlie Chaplain movie. Even my back is too old to go out. haaah. All jokes aside, I'll be 84 this year, and you may laugh at this, but I reckon I'll still be around when old Gabe blows that last trumpet. Aging ai'nt bad if you have positive thoughts and you know that God cares for you. When you put your hand to the plow, don't look back and you will cut a straight furrow.

[sweetycakes]

An elderly gentleman was telling his friend about a new restaurant he and his wife recently visited.

"The food and service were great!" he said.

His friend asked, "What's the name of the place?"

"Gee, I don't remember," he said, "What do you call the long stemmed flower people give on special occasions?"

"You mean a rose?" asked his friend.

"That's it!" he exclaimed and turning to his wife, asked, "Rose, what's the name of that restaurant we went to the other day?"

[sweetycakes]

And another:

While working for an organization that delivers lunches to elderly shut-ins, I used to take my four-year-old daughter on my afternoon rounds. She was unfailingly intrigued by the various appliances of old age, particularly the canes, walkers, and wheelchairs.

One day, I found her staring at a pair of false teeth soaking in a glass. As I braced myself for the inevitable barrage of questions, she merely turned and whispered, "The tooth fairy will never believe this!"

[Guest pixy]

And another:

While working for an organization that delivers lunches to elderly shut-ins, I used to take my four-year-old daughter on my afternoon rounds. She was unfailingly intrigued by the various appliances of old age, particularly the canes, walkers, and wheelchairs.

One day, I found her staring at a pair of false teeth soaking in a glass. As I braced myself for the inevitable barrage of questions, she merely turned and whispered, "The tooth fairy will never believe this!"

sooo cute!