<p>^^I think we handle it better than the guys do, though. The old guys, I mean.</p>
<p>The mid-life crisis of guys…too true, too true. </p>
<p>I can still read the phone book and the credit card but have another 10 months until 50.</p>
<p>I did take a long plane ride with an ultra-hot famous young male actor this week. Nice as could be–and looked at me like I was his daft old mother. I’m okay with that, actually. I don’t want to go back to 25 year old guys.</p>
<p>I too can still read phone book & credit card, but splinter extraction now requires drugstore glasses.</p>
<p>Oh Cheers, don’t leave us in suspense. Let us live vicariously through your lucky experience. Was this one of the actors from down under?</p>
<p>My luck-- the only famous people I flew with (and the plane had to make an emergency landing in Philly) were James Brown and the then Secty of Defense Harold Brown. They were not easy on the eyeballs. C’mon-- share…</p>
<p>Why read a phone book when there’s Google? And the handy-dandy font size tool:).</p>
<p>Credit cards unfortunately have a user interface with minimal interactivity. </p>
<p>Kind of like 25-year old guys. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Making my own self laugh. Another trait of the sixth decade…</p>
<p>Let’s just rip those splinters out with our teeth. Why not?</p>
<p>I flew with William Schattner and he was so obnoxious he bought the entire row and the one behind him. He is old and flabby looking in person. I felt incredibly young and sexy compared to him :)</p>
<p>somemom: thanks for the suggestion; I saw some really cute black/white with fushia rhinestones…Do you think the chain around the neck is too much???</p>
<p>Dear 50 year olds,</p>
<p>I will be blissfully enjoying that fine river in Egypt for another FOUR years, although I did not survive my birthday Monday without some emotional bruising.</p>
<p>Before we bash the heavily outnumbered men here for their midlife crises, I would like to point out its the W in this relationship that drives a convertible and colors her hair.</p>
<p>Salt and peppery yours,</p>
<p>MSD </p>
<p>(AKA George Clooney/Michael J Fox/Kenny Loggins/Scott Baio/Davey Jones)</p>
<p>I have been told, at one time or another, that I look like the men mentioned above (with the possible exception of the Clooney guy).</p>
<p>Under full disclosure, I failed to mention that I have also been told that I look KEITH RICHARDS!! and BILLY BOB THORNTON!!!</p>
<p>m&sdad, may I introduce you to TheDad, who claims (over and over again) that he has been told at one time or another that he looks like Johnny Depp?</p>
<p>I needn’t bring up here that we over-50 females do not harbor such delusions, as it has been well-documented on that classic CC thread re look-alikes.
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<p>I live for my glasses chains…buy them at the drugstore for $12.00. Unfortunately, they break a lot:(. Last year for my mother’s birthday I went to a bead store and MADE her some. With precious stones and all.</p>
<p>I must let you know that I have zero small motor coordination and plus I can’t see any more (see above). By the end of the couple of hours it took me to string those @#$% things I was ready to shriek and pull my fingers off my hands and throw them in the trash compactor. It was an act either of hubris or of love. Or both.</p>
<p>When I bought my ultra-expensive (non-prescription) sunglasses several years ago (it was a mistake! don’t ask), I vowed then and there that I would never lose them. Hence, I have been joined at the hip (neck?) with my eyeglass “chain” from that moment forward. However, mine is the ultra-youthful corded athletic type - no gold links, no beads, no rhinestones.</p>
<p>And oh, by the way, although I am undoubtedly the oldest denizen of SA at the moment (passed the 50 milestone lo these many years ago), I can still read without specs. Go figure.</p>
<p>jmmom-
Still have a good set of eyeballs? Lucky you! I too passed the big 5-0 “several” (ahem) years ago, but my vision went south long before that. I think the optometrist starts planning to buy a bigger house and a boat when he sees me coming through the door! I’ve tried the progressive contact lenses. I can’t deal with mono vision, so was told I had to choose between having crisp distance vision (ie can read street signs) or being able to read small print. Phooey. Thats like making me choose between eating and breathing. So for now I mostly wear glasses. When I wear my contacts I carry an itty bitty lite on my keyring so I can read the menu in dark restaurants. Sigh… Oh-- and I wont let anyone cut on my eyeballs. I have several opthamologist friends-- they all wear glasses, and for a reason.</p>
<p>“Yeah, none of the women are claiming to look like Kim Basinger”</p>
<p>Paging our own “Galaxy Quest” era Sigourney Weaver??</p>
<p>BluCroo: Big clunky chain, red lipstick,and a beehive hairdoo, I am thinking of Lily Tomlin as the telephone operator! Snorts optional, of course!</p>
<p>I look like Kim Basinger.</p>
<p>Not.</p>
<p>PS Keith Richard is a COMPLIMENT!</p>
<p>jym, progressives were not for me! Permanent sensation of foggy vertigo. And although the notion of mono-vision seemed lunatic to me, I went for it. One contact in the right eye for distance, and nothing in the left due to the aforementioned uncanny ability to read without crutches. Works for me.</p>
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I don’t look anything like Kim Basinger, but I do have that Sigourney thing going. Please don’t hate me, I was invited here after my health scare.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/trailers-screenplay-E13006-10-2[/url]”>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/trailers-screenplay-E13006-10-2</a></p>
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Now you’ve gone and done it.:)</p>
<p>On a side note - do you guys ever go and read the back pages of this thread. I swear, when I do?, it’s all I can do to keep from rolling on the floor laughing all over again. I am sitting here right now with my lips pressed together looking like a disapproving librarian but really trying not to snort laughter. </p>
<p>BTW, Driver, I think I wish I had your ■■■■■■■, given that I am unlikely to grow to 5’9" at this stage of my life.</p>
<p>And I have absolutely no idea of any movie star I could realistically say I look anything like.</p>
<p>5’-11-3/4" barefoot, but who’s counting?</p>