Observations on Growing Older
~ Your kids are becoming you…and you don’t like them …but your grandchildren are perfect!
~ Going out is good. Coming home is better!
~ When people say you look “Great”… they add “for your age!”
~ When you needed the discount you paid full price. Now you get discounts on everything …
movies, hotels,flights.
~ You forget names … but it’s OK because other people forgot they even knew you!!!
~ The 5 pounds you wanted to lose is now 15 and you have a better chance of losing your keys than the 15 pounds.
~ You realize you’re never going to be really good at anything …. especially golf.
~ Your husband is counting on you to remember things you don’t remember.
~ The things you cared to do, you don’t care to do, but you care that you don’t care to do them anymore.
~ Your husband sleeps better on a lounge chair with the TV blaring than he does in bed.
It’s called his “pre-sleep”.
~ Remember when your mother said, “Wear clean underwear in case you GET in an accident” Now you bring clean underwear in case you HAVE an accident!
~ You used to say, “I hope my kids GET married … Now, “I hope they STAY married!”
~ You miss the days when everything worked with just an “ON” and “OFF” switch.
~ When GOOGLE, I-pod, E-mail, Modem … were unheard of and a mouse was something that made you climb on a table.
~ You use more 4 letter words … “what?”…”when?” ???
~ Now that you can afford expensive jewelry, it’s not safe to wear it anywhere.
~ Your husband has a night out with the guy but he’s home by 9:00 P.M …next week it will be 8:30 P.M.
~ You read 100 pages into a book before you realize you’ve read it.
~ Notice everything they sell in stores is “sleeveless”?!!!
~ What used to be freckles are now liver spots.
~ Everybody whispers.
~ Now that your husband has retired … you’d give anything if he’d find a job!
~ You have 3 sizes of clothes in your closet …. 2 of which you will never wear.
~~~~ But old is good in some things: old songs, old movies
And best of all = OLD FRIENDS!!