How you know when your getting old thread

[Floridaman999]

Wearing them right now.

You and me both.

 

[Floridaman999]

When your standing in front of the toilet, unzipping your pants, and your kidneys say "its go time"

And then your prostate says, "not so quick there buddy".

 

[low-key]

And then your prostate says, "not so quick there buddy".

lol, Im old and feel it so many way but I got the prostate of a 20 year old

 

[Floridaman999]

lol, Im old and feel it so many way but I got the prostate of a 20 year old

It just seemed to fit with the subject matter.

 

[low-key]

It just seemed to fit with the subject matter.

I just dont suffer from stage fright

 

[RedAngie]

What is this? How does it work?

A plastic mechanical adding device used to keep track of your purchases at the supermarket. It only went up to $19.99 so they were obsolete by the early to mid 1970's. There were three discs inside and gears and it worked on the same principle as an analog car odometer.

You manually clicked the buttons for dollars, dimes, and pennies. It an item was 89 cents, you had to hit the dimes button 8 times and the pennies button 9 times. Actually, I think you needed to enter in reverse order. $1.25 was entered as 5 clicks for pennies, two clicks for dimes, and then one click for dollars. There was a button somewhere to zero out the total to begin the next time.

 

[low-key]

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A plastic mechanical adding device used to keep track of your purchases at the supermarket. It only went up to $19.99 so they were obsolete by the early to mid 1970's. There were three discs inside and gears and it worked on the same principle as an analog car odometer.

You manually clicked the buttons for dollars, dimes, and pennies. It an item was 89 cents, you had to hit the dimes button 8 times and the pennies button 9 times. Actually, I think you needed to enter in reverse order. $1.25 was entered as 5 clicks for pennies, two clicks for dimes, and then one click for dollars. There was a button somewhere to zero out the total to begin the next time.

the better ones let you keep track of your green stamps

 

[AppleDumpling]

Forgetting where I left stuff around the house. Going into a room and forgetting why I went in there.

When someone actually asks my age, and I have to think about it for a minute. And sometimes I have to think about what year it is.

 

[ronandannette]

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A plastic mechanical adding device used to keep track of your purchases at the supermarket. It only went up to $19.99 so they were obsolete by the early to mid 1970's. There were three discs inside and gears and it worked on the same principle as an analog car odometer.

You manually clicked the buttons for dollars, dimes, and pennies. It an item was 89 cents, you had to hit the dimes button 8 times and the pennies button 9 times. Actually, I think you needed to enter in reverse order. $1.25 was entered as 5 clicks for pennies, two clicks for dimes, and then one click for dollars. There was a button somewhere to zero out the total to begin the next time.

I’d love one but $19.99 wouldn’t get me past the produce section on even a smallish grocery run. Can you imagine the joy of spending less 20 bucks and coming away with a bag or two of food?

 

[Simba's Mom]

Forgetting where I left stuff around the house. Going into a room and forgetting why I went in there.

This reminds me of one my DH always says-"When 'getting lucky' means going into a room to get something and remembering why you're there."

 

[Praying Colonel]

When you fall down, people ask if your alright instead of laughing
(it feels like someone started a thread like this recently, if so my apologies )

About 15 years ago, DW stopped saying "good luck" before I went out to play a sport and started saying "don't hurt yourself." Now she says it if I'm doing anything somewhat related to exerting myself.

If I wasn't there before, I am now.

 

[tcufrog]

When you can relate to most of the stuff mentioned in this thread.

 

[low-key]

When you can relate to most of the stuff mentioned in this thread.

ouch

 

[maxaroni]

When you constantly post about ancient things, like Doris Day endorsing a steamroller or old board games from the 1960's.

Here's another: whose mother used this device at the supermarket?

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My mom used this. I was telling my co-workers about this the other day. They were all born in the 70s so had no clue what I was talking about.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I grunt "Oomph" when getting up from any sort of chair or sofa. I forget where I put my reading glasses and they're on my face. I think I was just in high school and then I realize I graduated 34 years ago. I have stray hairs on my chin. I'm now a "ma'am" rather than a "miss."

Here's another: whose mother used this device at the supermarket?

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Forget my mother, I had one until just a few years ago. OMG, how I loved the clicking noise it made.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Everything hurts when you wake up. I still can't figure out how I can wake with my joints hurts, knee pain, random muscle aches/pains.

I am sorry to hear this is happening to you. However, it makes me feel better knowing that I am not the only one who feels this way in the morning

 

[PollyannaMom]

You take a book everywhere.

Then I've been old since I was 8.....

 

[Tinkerbell58]

When you have to get up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I'll use the phrase 'getting older' (due to my present age)--mine is when I sit there analyzing whether accepting an invite to something (be it an event, a low-key get together or whatever) based on the timing of it when that didn't used to be such an importance.

Exampe: "Let's get together at 6pm"--sounds a lot better than "Let's get together at 9pm" or "the game starts at 7:10pm which means we'll get back home after traffic and length of game sometime between 11:00 and 11:30pm..hmm do I really want to go?" (typically even longer if it's a football vs baseball game so long as the baseball game doesn't add extra innings)

 

[DeniseJH]

When you don't care what anyone thinks about your opinions. (Well, took me a long time to learn this one.) Also: when you start loving soup and Judge Judy.