How can tell when you are getting old?

[rpp]

I have heard there are three important signs that show you are getting old.

When you hurt yourself in your sleep.

When you stop borrowing money from your parent and start lending it to your children.

I cannot for the life of me remember the third.

Any other observations?

[MaryD7]

I don't know the third one that you are speaking of but I do have my own observation:

I realized I was getting older when 20 years down the road doesn't seem to be that far away.

When I was 20, to be 40 years old was over the hill. Now that I'm in my 40's, my 60's feel like they are just around the corner.

[brotherhrolf]

Well at 55 (Lord, when did I get that old?!) I've fallen twice in the last two months. My right knee throbbed painfully all last night because a cold front came through. I fell again, on my face, pushing 200 lbs. of chicken feed out to the barn and pulled all the muscles in my left side and back. So I know I'm no spring chicken anymore. And although I have not hurt myself in my sleep, my sleep IS affected by the throbbing knee and the pulled back.

Not pleased with DS who finally graduated from college after 6 years. No job as yet and already the feds are calling regarding his student loans - not even one month after graduation.

Third thing - I've slowed down tremendously. We've slowed down tremendously. We haven't been to a movie in well over a year. It's too easy to wait for the DVD to come out. We celebrated our 28th anniversary by going out ot eat and then shopping at Whole Foods because both of us are good cooks.

The third thing has to be slowing down.

[geezerbob]

The snap, crackle, pop you hear in the morning isn't your Rice Krispies.

[Tantum ergo]

The two most important signs:
1. Forgetfulness.
2. Can't remember the other.

Seriously, my mother (at 77) refuses to even think about going down to the senior center because "it's full of old people" (most of whom are younger than she in chronological age anyway).

As she puts it, "old" is 20 years older than you are now; no matter what age you happen to be now. "Just right" is where you are, and "too young to understand" is anything 10 years or more younger than you are.

She'll never be old and she'll never get to be old.

I hope I'm just like her when I'm "just right".

[Karin]

perhaps it is when you realize you have turned into your mother (if female) or father (if male)

So you know you’re getting old when such things as listed below start to happen:
A fortune teller offers to read your face
The little old gray haired lady you help across the street… is your wife
You get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, “See if you can blow this out.” (Jerry Seinfeld)
You know all the answers, but nobody asks you the questions
You’re older than your dentist
Those issues of Reader’s Digest just can’t come fast enough
You feel like the night after, and you haven’t been anywhere
You stop to look at a new automobile and think, “Gee, that’s a nice looking car.” And it’s a Ford Taurus.
Your idea of a sexy babe is Kate O’Beirne.
You actually want socks for Christmas.
Your kids groan when you tell them stories about when you were a kid, too.
You go to bed before your kids.
You and your teeth don’t sleep together
A telephone rings on the TV and you think it’s yours
Everything hurts and what doesn’t hurt doesn’t work
Your idea of a night out is sitting on the patio.
You’re on vacation, and your energy runs out before your money does.
All you want for your birthday is to not be reminded of your age.
Your address book has mostly names that start with Dr.
You regret all those mistakes you made resisting temptation
You’re 17 around the neck, 42 around the waist, and 106 around the golf course
You’re asleep, but others worry that you’re dead
You quit trying to hold your stomach in, no matter who walks into the room
People call at 9:00 p.m. and ask, “Did I wake you?”
You send money to PBS
The end of your tie doesn’t come anywhere near the top of your pants.
You take a metal detector to the beach.
You know what the word “equity” means.
You can’t remember the last time you laid on the floor to watch television.
Your ears are hairier than your head.
You talk about “good grass” and you’re referring to someone’s lawn.
You got cable for The Weather Channel.
You can go bowling without drinking.
You have a party and the neighbors don’t even realize it.
You find yourself smiling at this list.
When you’re young, your dreams are wet and farts dry. You know that you’re old when the situation is opposite

[arewethereyet]

When you have to have prunes and cranberry juice for your nightly snack...
Karen

[maggieodae]

When you start reading the obits, before you get out of bed to make sure your not listed.

[ncjohn]

When your body starts making the same sounds as your coffee maker.

[st_ignatius110]

Well, I am not sure how you can tell you are GETTING old but I do know what exercises you can do when you get there!

Senior Exercise
================

A friend just shared this suggested exercise for seniors to build muscle
strength in the arms and shoulders. It's so easy, I thought I'd pass it on.

The article suggested doing it three times a week.

Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room at
each side. With a 5-pound potato sack in each hand, extend your arms
Straight out from your sides and hold them there as long as you can. Try to
reach a full minute, then relax.

Each day, you'll find that you can hold this position for just a bit longer.
After a couple of weeks, move up to 10-pound potato sacks. Then use
50-pound potato sacks, and eventually try to get to where you can lift a
100-pound potato sack in each hand and hold your arms straight for more than
a full minute.

After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each of the sacks.

[Zooey]

The thing I have noticed is that THEY keep moving the floors, & the ground farther & farther down!!!

[Lance]

You know you are old when your kids ask for and want your honest opinion.

[Lance]

Originally Posted by Zooey

The thing I have noticed is that THEY keep moving the floors, & the ground farther & farther down!!!

They're doing that in the Grand Duchy of Belalugosi too? I thought it was just a Northern Illinois phenomenon.

[asquared]

you can get down there but you can't get back up again

you and your SO order from the Senior Menu at Denny's--and share an entree

the men in who are most important in your life are Arthur Itis and Ben Gay

most of the numbers programmed into your cell phone are doctors

You remember the pre V2 church and can reel of the Latin Mass responses and Baltimore catechism answers

you stand when a priest or nun enters the room, and invariably answer their questions "Yes, Father" and "Yes, Sister"

everything in your kitchen is stored on the counter, in the top drawres, on the lowest shelf of the upper cabinets, or the top shelf of the lower cabinets, and on the middle two shelves of the refrigerator

[skuld]

. . . when you don't know who Zac Effron or Hannah Montana is.