I'm at that stage in life....

[Ken Fitzgerald]

My biggest fear is I will appear as a headline in the local paper "Man loses his life in house fire when he goes back in for his eyes, ears and teeth". ;):rolleyes::D

[Mel Fulks]

Ken , I take this stuff seriously. I would add “ Ken was trying to save all all of his old girl friends pics and and his collection of of old
Route 66 episodes .

[Dave Zellers]

Ken , I take this stuff seriously. I would add “ Ken was trying to save all all of his old girl friends pics and and his collection of of old
Route 66 episodes .

RIP George Maharis.

[Bruce Wrenn]

I have an allergy to the Happy Birthday song. Every time it's sung to me, something new hurts, or doesn't work. Getting old isn't for sissies!

[Dave Zellers]

My biggest fear is I will appear as a headline in the local paper "Man loses his life in house fire when he goes back in for his eyes, ears and teeth". ;):rolleyes::D

IOW, you won't be around to enjoy your 15 minutes. :D

[Ken Fitzgerald]

In all seriousness, I have a lot of the normal aches & pains that people in their 70's have and yet, I am enjoying myself. My father died 6 weeks before this 48th birthday. To have lived to see my kids grow up, the older bunch of grandkids become adults and parents giving us great-grandkids. We have a 27 year span in our grandkids so we still have 3 grandkids 13 and under. We have great-grandkids driving my wife's old Honda Accord. I have friends who are a whole lot worse off than I. I feel blessed! Old folks can have fun!

[Tom M King]

An old man told me one time that he'd gotten to the stage in life where Christmas came twice a year. I thought he was just a crazy old man. Now I'm the crazy old man.

[Dave Zellers]

In all seriousness, I have a lot of the normal aches & pains that people in their 70's have and yet, I am enjoying myself. My father died 6 weeks before this 48th birthday. To have lived to see my kids grow up, the older bunch of grandkids become adults and parents giving us great-grandkids. I have friends who are a whole lot worse off than I. I feel blessed! Old folks can have fun!

Absolutely! I'm 72, two grandboys. 12 and 8 year old brothers. Raised so beautifully by our daughter and son-in-law, they are such a joy. Right now, gardening is all consuming- I always raise too many veggies and flowers from seed, and it's a chore to get them all planted. But we will- we always do.

Right now the Black Locusts are heavy with flowers and the air smells like the finest perfume.

Then after all my plants are in the ground, I get to spend time in the shop again.

Ahhhhhhh...... retirement. :cool:

[Ken Fitzgerald]

An old man told me one time that he'd gotten to the stage in life where Christmas came twice a year. I thought he was just a crazy old man. Now I'm the crazy old man.

Here's to all of us crazy old men!

[Mel Fulks]

I have an allergy to the Happy Birthday song. Every time it's sung to me, something new hurts, or doesn't work. Getting old isn't for sissies!

Ask your “subjects “ to sing “ God Save The King Guy”

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Ask your “subjects “ to sing “ God Save The King Guy”:eek::rolleyes::D:D:D:D:D:D:D

[Lee Schierer]

I enjoy every birthday, because I've made it another year. The aches and pains are annoying, but they generally don't stop me from doing what I want to do.

[Tom M King]

People ask me what I want for my birthday. I tell them I don’t want anything. As long as I keep having them, I’m good.

[Andrew Joiner]

In all seriousness, I have a lot of the normal aches & pains that people in their 70's have and yet, I am enjoying myself. My father died 6 weeks before this 48th birthday. To have lived to see my kids grow up, the older bunch of grandkids become adults and parents giving us great-grandkids. We have a 27 year span in our grandkids so we still have 3 grandkids 13 and under. We have great-grandkids driving my wife's old Honda Accord. I have friends who are a whole lot worse off than I. I feel blessed! Old folks can have fun!

I like your attitude Ken. Attitude is everything in my opinion.
I'm 72 years old and have a very challenging life lately. My wife was just diagnosed with cancer and we take care of three great-grand babies almost full-time. In the middle of all this stress today I got to take a walk with my one-and-a-half-year-old great-grandson Leo. He is fascinated with the new car wash down the street. As soon as I said car wash I get to see him take off running with all that joy in his eyes. So I said thank you God! In the midst of all our stress I get the pleasure of guiding a new life. I'm so grateful to have a wife that in the midst of all her scheduling of appointments and stress she arranges things so I can still windsurf in the summer! Bless my family I love them so much I'm so lucky.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Andrew, I am sorry to hear about your wife's health issue! My wife was diagnosed with a rare and deadly form of cancer 31 years ago. We took her to the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle for treatment. She elected to have a radical surgery procedure. A team of 5 surgeons worked on her for 7 hours led by a professor/MD from Iran. She's upstairs dressing for her women's church group meeting. I hope you are as blessed as well. I have enjoyed the Grandpa's gleam in the eye of seeing the newest generation of family members learning a new joy! Windsurf? At 72? You are DA Man who represents us old guys! You, Sir, are blessed with a loving wife!

[Brian Deakin]

I'm at that stage in life.Where I probably will never buy another pencil

If you think about it after the age of 65 it is likely to be true

[Tom M King]

Andrew, what's your smallest sail and board? Old windsurfer here too.

[Jim Koepke]

Where I probably will never buy another pencil

I've got a few dozen #1 pencils squirreled away, just have to remember where.

jtk

[Andrew Joiner]

Andrew, what's your smallest sail and board? Old windsurfer here too.

Hi Tom thanks for asking. I'm lucky to get to sail on the Columbia River. My smallest sail is a 2.8. My main board is 66 liters. Mostly I'm on a 3.7 or 4.2 sail. For light wind days averaging 18 to 20 miles an hour I have a 4.7 and a 75 liter board.

[Andrew Joiner]

Andrew, I am sorry to hear about your wife's health issue! My wife was diagnosed with a rare and deadly form of cancer 31 years ago. We took her to the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle for treatment. She elected to have a radical surgery procedure. A team of 5 surgeons worked on her for 7 hours led by a professor/MD from Iran. She's upstairs dressing for her women's church group meeting. I hope you are as blessed as well. I have enjoyed the Grandpa's gleam in the eye of seeing the newest generation of family members learning a new joy! Windsurf? At 72? You are DA Man who represents us old guys! You, Sir, are blessed with a loving wife!
Thanks Ken for your support and compliments. Your wife's story gives us hope. Yes, I feel blessed.

[Ed Aumiller]

Lot older than 72... just had a fellow high school classmate complain about old age problems... responded with "Sure beats the alternative".

[Stan Calow]

What's frustrating to me, is getting out of bed in the morning and finding a new ache or pain. Like, did I just hurt myself sleeping?

[Tom M King]

Andrew, I hadn't noticed your location. That's a great backyard. My smallest sail here is a 3.5. It's maybe once every three years that I can use it here, and then only for a few hours. We're completely dependent on weather system wind here.

This is one of those rare days here. Blowing 28 that day and I don't remember the gusts. Completely dependent on cold fronts.

[mike calabrese]

progression of the male type................
When we are bore we are cute and cuddly everybody loves us

By the time we are two years old our parents are ready to trade us in

At four to six years we are inquisitive getting into everything driving mom and dad crazy

At eight to twelve years we kind of straighten out and the hope mom and dad thought was faded away starts co come back into their their minds.

Thirteen to about seventeen we start to discover girls and we have no clue what a mistake this is going to be . Real changes are going on in our life most of them are somehow connected to that tender trap we simply can't resist. We hope our faces will clear and our voices quit squeaking when we speak.

On to eighteen to twenty the world is our oyster we have collected all the knowledge of the universe and really think the rest of the world especially our parents are dumber than ditch water. We are invincible !

Twenty one to out later twenties we have mostly embarrassed our selves with the prime cause being alcohol and that tender trap thing but most of our friends don't really care because they are constantly sitting in the same boat.

By the time we are into our thirties the women we have selected to be "the one" some day will own both halves of out belongings. Most of them become Divorce Barbie you know the girl doll that comes with all of Ken's stuff.
This typically happens because the loves our life have have stopped trying to change us because they have realized THEY CAN'T FIX STUPID.

About the time we are in our forties our hair is starting to thin, that invincible attitude we once had turns into hope Rogaine really works. We start thinking of those glory days and all the great times we had with the girls that will not even give a second look now.
The sports car we buy and the excessive amount of cologne we wear is the smoke screen we apply to try and hide our middle age insecurities.

Ah the fifties we have fallen into that unavoidable disease called dunn-lapps disease you know the thing where our bellies dunn-lap to some degree over our belts

The sixties we are slowing down now because we have mostly given up on recovering those glory days that really only existed in our minds in the first place. We brag about our conquests to those same friends who are still stuck in the same sinking boat we are in.

The seventies , we come to the realization it is pretty much over. Half of all the money we recovered after divorce Barbie took her cut we blew on women and searching for the good time, the other half of our money we realize we just wasted.

Now in our eighties our belt line has risen to a place on our bodies somewhere above our belly and below our arm pits. we gripe about the economy and have lost all tolerance to handle the climate hot or cold. We think the world has gone to hell but fail to realize the world has simply moved on and we never got the memo.

It has been a long bumpy road by now as we fall asleep in our chair out on the porch our heads laying on one side of our shoulders as we drool on our shirts.

Damn IT HAS BEEN GOOD TO BE A GUY
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[Michael Weber]

I will be 77 in a couple of months. I noticed the other day my Primary Care Physician is now being referred to as my “Chronic Conditions Coordinator” on the hospitals online websites.

[Tom M King]

The last time I had my driver's license renewed, it was good for five years through my 72nd year without glasses. 73rd birthday this month. Now they won't renew it online without me coming in for an eye test. I hope I don't have to go in to get it renewed every year. I have never worn glasses, but wonder if I show up with some no correction lenses if it would be good for five years with glasses.

I know I really should go get a physical, but so far the one for the Vietnam draft has lasted me.

[Rod Sheridan]

I've got a few dozen #1 pencils squirreled away, just have to remember where.

jtk

Well Jim, the second thing to go is the mind……Regards, Rod

[Lee DeRaud]

I know I really should go get a physical, but so far the one for the Vietnam draft has lasted me.
Heh. Just had my annual "fly-by" at the doctor last week. She made her usual noises about various borderline lab numbers, I made my usual comment about coming into the world bald and fat and intending to leave the same way. The "nag factor" was lower than in past years though. She's either coming around to my point of view or I've "aged out" of some stuff that she was obsessive about 10 years ago.

[mike calabrese]

I don't go to lady doctors I get enough nagggggggging from my wife:eek:.
Seriously though it gets me how some doctors who spend maybe 30 minutes in your life once or twice a year can give you orders and charge you for the information about the healthy things that we know we should be doing anyway and choose to ignore even on the way to see the doctor.
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[Lee DeRaud]

I don't go to lady doctors I get enough nagggggggging from my wife:eek:.
Over the years, I haven't noticed that female docs nag any more or less than male docs.
But they do have smaller fingers. :)

[Jim Koepke]

I've got a few dozen #1 pencils squirreled away, just have to remember where.

jtk


Well Jim, the second thing to go is the mind……Regards, Rod

I think they are in a hidden drawer and I'm pretty sure where that is hid. :D

jtk

[Dave Zellers]

Over the years, I haven't noticed that female docs nag any more or less than male docs.
But they do have smaller fingers. :)

Quite possibly the funniest thing I've read on SMC. And that's saying something.

[Rich Engelhardt]

Ok - just to clarify it....

Being old sucks..
Getting old was a blast!

My wife retired from Summit Count Ohio Developmental Disabilities. Prior to being called Summit County DD they were called Summit County Mental Retardation and Disabilities.
Somebody in Columbus decided one day that the word "Retardation" was offensive - so - the name was changed.

The agency threw out tens of thousands of pencils with the old name. My wife rescued a few thousand only after she promised to scrape the old name off.

[Alan Lightstone]

I don't go to lady doctors I get enough nagggggggging from my wife:eek:.
Seriously though it gets me how some doctors who spend maybe 30 minutes in your life once or twice a year can give you orders and charge you for the information about the healthy things that we know we should be doing anyway and choose to ignore even on the way to see the doctor.
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I have a routine conversation with mine every six months when she obsesses about my calcium level being "High Normal". I always tell her, that where I went to medical school, they had another word for "High Normal". We call it NORMAL. :)

[mike calabrese]

Ok - just to clarify it....

Being old sucks..
Getting old was a blast!

My wife retired from Summit Count Ohio Developmental Disabilities. Prior to being called Summit County DD they were called Summit County Mental Retardation and Disabilities.
Somebody in Columbus decided one day that the word "Retardation" was offensive - so - the name was changed.

The agency threw out tens of thousands of pencils with the old name. My wife rescued a few thousand only after she promised to scrape the old name off.


George Carlin had this all figured out long ago and he nailed it !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o25I2fzFGoY
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[glenn bradley]

3259117 (tel:3259117)[/URL]]Ask your “subjects “ to sing “ God Save The King Guy”

Wait. . . Isn’t it God Save the Cyborg?

I still tell that story and laugh.

[Bill Carey]

I don't go to lady doctors I get enough nagggggggging from my wife:eek:.
Seriously though it gets me how some doctors who spend maybe 30 minutes in your life once or twice a year can give you orders and charge you for the information about the healthy things that we know we should be doing anyway and choose to ignore even on the way to see the doctor.
calabrese55

When I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer 3 years ago in Indiana I had a male Dr who was a complete moron: indifferent, impatient and always seemed like me having cancer was an inconvenience for him. When we moved to Illinois 6 months ago I found a female oncologist who is absolutely wonderful. Only drawback is that she is always late for the appointment because she is taking the time to talk to her other patients with the same concern and patience she is going to show to me. So I'm good with that. And I actually got her to admit - albeit grudgingly, and with a small laugh - that smoking cigars was probably not going to kill me.

[mike calabrese]

There are some great doctors out there but they are hard to find and even harder to see . I eventually found one locally 3 years ago but have yet to see him, never seem to past his PA's. I guess simply because he is very busy and so far, knock on wood, my ailments are pretty rudimentary.
I don't blame the doctors but highly suspect the insurance companies are changing the landscape.
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