Wednesday, May 28, 2025

You Know You're Getting Old When....


  1. you can remember when the Dead Sea was only sick.


  1. happy hour” is a good nap.


  1. your cardiologist says, “Spit it out if it tastes good.”


  1. you are still “hot,” but it now comes only in flashes.


  1. you need longer arms to read the newspaper.


    6. each day, you check the newspaper's obituary section to see if you're in it.


  1. a hot meal trumps a hot date.


  1. an affair of the heart is a bypass.


  1. you personally remember many of the events described in your grandson's history book.


  1. young store clerks begin calling you “sweetie.”


  1. you describe your knees as “good” and “bad” instead of left and right.


  1. you have more hair in your ears than on your head.


  1. you attend more funerals than weddings.


  1. you need to wear your glasses in the shower to shave your legs.


  1. most of the names in your “little black book” are followed by “M.D.”


  1. your favorite songs are being played in elevators.


  1. your back goes out more than you do.


  1. instead of the police, your doctors tell you to slow down.


  1. the candles cost more than the birthday cake.


  1. you still “have it,” but no one wants to see it.


** Remember, age is just a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

4 comments:

  1. My wife said a sign of old age is repeating yourself. My wife said a sign of old age is repeating yourself. I don't believe her. I don't believe her. LOL ! LOL !

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  2. The fire marshal won't let me have a candle on my birthday cake for each year I've lived. He said it was a fire hazard.

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  3. I'm at the point in life when the candles cost more than the cake!

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