You Know You’re Getting Old When
You go to another room and have to ask yourself why you’re there;
You go to the store and can’t remember what you urgently needed to purchase;
You get an excruciating urge to pee and when you get to a urinal, and stand there for 5 minutes, nothing happens;
You’re no longer able to rise AND shine simultaneously……
There’s more….I’ll recall and add them with updates and edits…
And, oh yes, my 76th birthday was a few days ago on the 18th…
You know you’re getting old when you suddenly remember why you are writing a post…
08/24/2022 @ 2:30 pm
Now I’ll never forget your birthday because it is the same birthday as my cousin Andrea who just turned 60 on the same day.
As for feeling old. I recently went back to the gym. This is the first time since the Covid restrictions of the past couple of years, and I hired a trainer to get me started for a few months. My trainer is a 23 year old woman who was a competitive diver in college. That’s fine. I have no problem with a woman trainer, or a 23 year old. She designs workouts that are extremely taxing. She knows her business. She was also an honors English major, and we discuss lots of literature between reps.
Last week, she mentioned that the other trainers all “admire” me. I asked what for? She said, “well, you had an active career, and usually people of your age just dont care anymore, and are not willing to go through this. But you…”. The rest doesn’t matter. Now, I am, “of your age…”. I told my wife when I got home, and she had to sit down to keep from falling down from laughter.
08/24/2022 @ 9:41 pm
Happy Birthday.
Try Flomax.
08/24/2022 @ 10:55 pm
Whoa, wait, hold on {…}
Rich and old, story seldom told …!
I think I’m half insane … m0m
The speaker say placenta and you’re thinking: Play Santa ….
You remain curious if Jeff Bezos has a better personal trainer than Bruce Springsteen.
You’re busted flat in Baton Rouge.
08/29/2022 @ 11:28 am
Happy Very Belated Birthday
I’ve experienced some of that. Actually, I experienced enough not being able to grab a name or a word that I knew damned well that I went and had a neurological workup and extensive psychological testing. No dementia, all age related stuff. But it’s still scary.
JP,
“Busted flat in Baton Rouge.” Funny you should say that. Yesterday I played a set out for the first time since COVID. (I’d played one song a few weeks ago when invited up by a band I know that I’d gone to see.) It was at a local music festival called Porchfest. And one of the singers in the collection of people I was playing with performed that song, so I backed it up – piano, then organ, then piano again was how I chose to build it.
08/30/2022 @ 7:59 am
Kosh,
“No dementia, all age related stuff. But it’s still scary.”
Glad to get reaffirmation that my experiences are “age related”.
08/30/2022 @ 8:15 pm
{///} COOL {///}
Kosh,
Utopian weather here in beer town {…}
As a survivor of the spring of 1968, and because I am, (yes we can) I am sending a yeoman’s donation to the Sandy Hook Promise Foundation in recognition of all parents, families and the brotherhood of man.
Like over the hill.
Never again.
Above us only sky …
09/01/2022 @ 1:32 pm
Ron,
“Doctor My Eyes!”
I was up all ‘dark sacred night’ painting my kite.
Always with that sense of urgency ever since
loved ones walked in with a single candle on
my red velvet birthday cake — hey! I’ll get down
to the sea somehow …! HEY {LO;) Best to you Bro!
12/26/2022 @ 10:00 am
It’s better to light just one little candle than to curse the darkness…
12/26/2022 @ 10:03 am
jpH,
It’s better to light just one little candle than to curse the darkness…
02/15/2024 @ 9:00 pm
I appreciate more than my share of bloggers’ wet towel snaps {really?!}
At 00:00 I’ll be 38,981,700 minutes old — story seldom told — maybe
John Fogerty in Coconut Creek in just about a week? Or was it just about a year ago …?