You know you are getting old when:

[5Australorpasaures]

Or you know it has to get picked up so you call a grandchild to come get it, because you know if you bend over to pick it up, there's a better than even chance you won't be able to get back up ... and you don't have your phone on you to call 911.

I particularly like it when it takes three tries because the floor gets lower and you just can't seem to get it on the first two.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

But you decide you have to retrieve it. And while down there, wonder what else you can do to make it worth the effort to bend over and then get back up.

And you have to have a plan to get back up.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

And you have to have a plan to get back up.

It helps to have furniture handy you can climb back up on.

 

[Kiki]

You know you're getting old when you start wearing reading glasses....regularly.

 

[Redbrush]

You know you're getting old when your morning routine includes glasses, teeth, hearing aids, and a handful of pills.

 

[The Moonshiner]

You know you're getting old when you start wearing reading glasses....regularly.

✔

 

[MROO]

How does that work exactly?

How about - you have a nephew you're not allowed to acknowledge because he doesn't know that his pseudo-uncle is really his bio-dad. "Nephew" just married and none of us except his "uncle" were invited, of course. They won't wait long to start a family ... and it will break my Mom's heart to not be able to see or hold her GG. Affairs SUCK!

 

[MROO]

... when the kids at the store think "this song they're playing is pretty cool." And you tell them what year it came out, and that you remember when it was "new."

When your steps come home from school raving about this awesome new album they just discovered ... and you pull out the original on vinyl. One got really excited. The other visibly deflated.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

How about - you have a nephew you're not allowed to acknowledge because he doesn't know that his pseudo-uncle is really his bio-dad. "Nephew" just married and none of us except his "uncle" were invited, of course. They won't wait long to start a family ... and it will break my Mom's heart to not be able to see or hold her GG. Affairs SUCK!

Won't he be surprised when he does a Ancestry.com DNA test for Christmas ...

 

[MROO]

Won't he be surprised when he does a Ancestry.com DNA test for Christmas ...

And won't others be surprised to find out who suggested he do one? I love DB, but he'd better hope the opportunity never arises!