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usonian

(14,298 posts) Thu Nov 10, 2022, 04:55 PM Nov 2022

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You know you're getting old when:

You run "find my phone" more than three times a day.
You lost your eyeglasses. In your shirt pocket.
Have 10 hats to keep the sun out of your eyes and can't find one.
Moved the vacuum cleaner you stubbed your toe on.
--- Stubbed your toe on the same vacuum cleaner in its new location.
Forgot to feed the dog.
-- Remembered that you don't have a dog.
Forgot where you parked the car.
-- At home.
Lost your to-do list.
You're really glad to hear a pianist on the radio playing at about 2/3 the speed of young show-offs.
Can't get "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" out of your head.

Other stuff THAT I FORGOT.

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You know you're getting old when: (Original Post) usonian Nov 2022 OP

You have a pair of "cheater" glasses in every room Diamond_Dog Nov 2022 #1

and two "grabbers" - one by the front door to reach the morning newspaper No Vested Interest Nov 2022 #12

Yer got up an' go... got up and went. 😛 sprinkleeninow Nov 2022 #2

You don't feel good enough to go to the doctor. Basic LA Nov 2022 #3

You remember staring at this on Saturday mornings waiting for cartoons to start: Gaugamela Nov 2022 #4

I tell my kids that if I wake up in the morning and nothing aches, Arkansas Granny Nov 2022 #5

It it makes you feel any better, that last one was happening to me when I was like ... 6 years old Hugh_Lebowski Nov 2022 #6

Whoever manages this group should card you! usonian Nov 2022 #9

I was told I had entered the Wonder Years. LakeArenal Nov 2022 #7

I have a rack on my front door, with all my active hats on it... Wounded Bear Nov 2022 #8

Deciding what to do next and then realizing an hour later you didn't do it. twodogsbarking Nov 2022 #10

Walk into a room and forget why you are there. SlimJimmy Nov 2022 #11

Diamond_Dog

(34,988 posts)

1. You have a pair of "cheater" glasses in every room

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Thu Nov 10, 2022, 05:02 PM

Nov 2022

In addition to the pair on top of your head.

No Vested Interest

(5,201 posts)

12. and two "grabbers" - one by the front door to reach the morning newspaper

Reply to Diamond_Dog (Reply #1)

Fri Nov 11, 2022, 02:59 AM

Nov 2022

(and yes, still like reading a newspaper (with obits) at my own pace.)

sprinkleeninow

(20,559 posts)

2. Yer got up an' go... got up and went. 😛

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Thu Nov 10, 2022, 05:16 PM

Nov 2022

Basic LA

(2,047 posts)

3. You don't feel good enough to go to the doctor.

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Thu Nov 10, 2022, 05:24 PM

Nov 2022

And when you do feel good enough, why go?

Gaugamela

(2,674 posts)

4. You remember staring at this on Saturday mornings waiting for cartoons to start:

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Thu Nov 10, 2022, 05:31 PM

Nov 2022

Arkansas Granny

(31,855 posts)

5. I tell my kids that if I wake up in the morning and nothing aches,

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Thu Nov 10, 2022, 05:44 PM

Nov 2022

I'll think I died in my sleep

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)

6. It it makes you feel any better, that last one was happening to me when I was like ... 6 years old

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Thu Nov 10, 2022, 05:58 PM

Nov 2022

Around 1972

usonian

(14,298 posts)

9. Whoever manages this group should card you!

Reply to Hugh_Lebowski (Reply #6)

Thu Nov 10, 2022, 06:29 PM

Nov 2022

MISTER PAPPAGIORGIO

LakeArenal

(29,842 posts)

7. I was told I had entered the Wonder Years.

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Thu Nov 10, 2022, 06:01 PM

Nov 2022

I wonder where my keys are
I wonder why I came in here
I wonder where glasses are
I wonder…. I forgot.

Wounded Bear

(60,761 posts)

8. I have a rack on my front door, with all my active hats on it...

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Thu Nov 10, 2022, 06:15 PM

Nov 2022

and I still sometimes walk out without one on.

But I don't forget where they are.

twodogsbarking

(12,230 posts)

10. Deciding what to do next and then realizing an hour later you didn't do it.

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Thu Nov 10, 2022, 07:39 PM

Nov 2022

SlimJimmy

(3,251 posts)

11. Walk into a room and forget why you are there.

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Fri Nov 11, 2022, 12:06 AM

Nov 2022

Go back an hour later (after you remember) then realize it was the wrong room.

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