You Know You’re Getting Old When…

Looked out my office window yesterday and saw a former student who now teaches on campus…walking with his daughter who is currently enrolled…(and he didn’t marry until a few years after graduating)

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Speaking for (of) my husband…

When you have to make a painful sound every time you get up from a piece of furniture! :roll_eyes:

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I teased H about making noises when he got up from a chair until I realized that I also did it at least half the time. :blush:

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When you can remember your 81-year-old great uncle when he was in college!

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accidental post

When a Medicare mailing arrives and you assume it has something to do with DH…and then after opening it find yourself staring at YOUR OWN brand new Medicare card.

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When you start getting mailings from Neptune Society and funeral homes. Meanwhile, my older husband gets a ton of glossy magazines from cruise companies.

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My co-worker just sent me this. This is SO me (and her)! Except I sit on my heating pad…

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When the guy bagging groceries asked me if I needed help loading the car.

WHAAAT? There were three measly bags in the cart. And I walk hilly miles, pedal, use hand weights and take a yoga class pretty much every day of the week. Do I look that frail?

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I remember getting mailings from such, and AARP, in my 20s and 30s.

When you get invitations to go to educational seminars on hearing aids.

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Oh -I got one of those last week!

Nope! I still have mine…

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I read this while sitting in my recliner with my heating pad :flushed::joy:

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When your choices regarding travel and outings are dictated by your knees and your back instead of your wallet.

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Yesterday I realized it was 39 years ago today when my husband proposed to me.

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Your husband has dreamy George Clooney eyes when he was young, too.

I think he was dazed, ha!

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You bump into an old crush, usually at a funeral, and he looks so old. Then you realize he’s thinking the same about you!

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So reminds me of Billy Crystal in City Slickers “Your fifties you have a minor surgery. You’ll call it a procedure, but it’s a surgery. Your sixties you have a major surgery, the music is still loud but it doesn’t matter because you can’t hear it anyway.”

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