You know you are getting old when:

[MROO]

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

And a large, steady dog willing to be used as a climbing post.

 

[MROO]

If you're going to pick it up it has to be heads up though!

Nope. I pick 'em all up. They're not being minted anymore.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Nope. I pick 'em all up. They're not being minted anymore.

I just bought $10 worth and have them in a box.

 

[sourland]

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.

Part one.

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

Part two.

 

[Bsmac]

When the staff at TSC asks if you need help loading feed into your truck.

I have had that happen!

 

[The Moonshiner]

Our farm store asks every time because they're polite like that.
Yesterday was the first time I took them up on it.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Bomgaar's never offers, I always have to ask, and then stand and wait while someone manages to find the time to come help me.

 

[Sally PB]

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

I have heard stories of how this has ruined families.

Brothers who found out they were half brothers; one confronted the mom who was by now in a nursing home, in failing health and had always hoped her secret would die with her.

A daughter, home from college on Christmas break, who had learned she had Native American DNA, and wondered aloud at Christmas dinner where that came from.

 

[sourland]

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

DNA tests can be a surprise. We all laughed at DNA when grandson was tested as part of a college course and came back low % Nigerian. Then we were given DNA test kits for Christmas. The Princess came back 2.3% Nigerian also 23% Ashkenazi Jew. Those Gypsies sure got around.