Aging gracefully

[nosox]

Lately I've often found myself wondering if I've forgotten TO do something or if I've forgotten THAT I did it

 

[Davita]

Lately I've often found myself wondering if I've forgotten TO do something or if I've forgotten THAT I did it

Yep! those are the first signs of....wait...I'm thinking....shit.... I forgot what those are the first signs of...can you repeat the question please?..

 

[Anglian]

Oh tell me about it, mm, what was it again I forgot

 

[Vanhelsing]

Aging gracefully? Once a week I sing a set with a local blues/rock band which finds me the oldest person in the room by about fifteen years. My commitment to the performance sees me moving on stage in a manner most certainly placing me in the category of "aging disgracefully", with nary a care in the world I might ad.

It's only rock'n roll....

 

[Puspawarna]

Denial is my favorite technique for dealing with aging. I assure you that although I am 59, I look like I'm around 44. REALLY.

The sad part is that I actually think 44 is young.

 

[harryopal1]

Denial is my favorite technique for dealing with aging. I assure you that although I am 59

Fifty nine? Ohh to be so young again.

 

[gab-rob]

it might be a sign of oxygen deficiency......

 

[waarmstrong]

My spouse fills in for my diminishing competence.

 

[steveandpenny]

I' sure my younger wife is srewing with me when she tells me "we already talked about this !"

 

[Bad_azz]

I'm with pusp- denial.
& I don't use mirrors

however the thing bugging me after being myopic for a fair few decades is since I had the laser eye surgery, I need fkn reading glasses, which I only ever use at my desk , at home in Bdg. I refuse to carry them about. So words & small shit be blurry

I don't forget anything- ever.
In the spirit of the Shaggy song- it wasn't me:
It wasn't me who left my card in the atm... It wasn't me who got all the way to the bus depot (heading for a week in JKT) to find I had left my phone at home (essential for work- doh!)
It wasn't me who forgot my Jakarta keys & ended up being locked out...
It wasn't me who can't find my passport
etc.

 

[steveandpenny]

I'm with pusp- denial.
& I don't use mirrors

however the thing bugging me after being myopic for a fair few decades is since I had the laser eye surgery, I need fkn reading glasses, which I only ever use at my desk , at home in Bdg. I refuse to carry them about. So words & small shit be blurry

I don't forget anything- ever.
In the spirit of the Shaggy song- it wasn't me:
It wasn't me who left my card in the atm... It wasn't me who got all the way to the bus depot (heading for a week in JKT) to find I had left my phone at home (essential for work- doh!)
It wasn't me who forgot my Jakarta keys & ended up being locked out...
It wasn't me who can't find my passport
etc.

I' sure it' those fnking kids doing it. Those whipper-snappers. Their music sucks too!

 

[waarmstrong]

Absolutely sucks; always a discussion regarding the appropriate radio channel when driving my daughter to school.

 

[Anglian]

Well 80 today, does it mean more down hill and aches and pains

 

[steveandpenny]

Well 80 today, does it mean more down hill and aches and pains

At 80 if you don' have aches and pains , go to the doctor cause it' a good chance you are dead.

 

[Anglian]

Funny thing I don’t have any aches and pains, I do have osteoporosis in my ankles but I’m told self inflicted when younger, when I was born I was given a week to live so my mum took me home and looked after me, I had to go back to hospital to find out why I didn’t, lots of other mishaps falling down a well at 3, Mum again fished me out gave me the kiss of life, only to get pneumonia and nearly snuff it again, survived plane crashes, car and motor bike accidents, a German bomb on our house, still going strong, but a really strange thing last night, I’m reading a Jack Reacher book in bed, I suddenly realised I wasn’t wearing my reading specs, my wife who cuts my hair says my small bald patch is filling up with hair again, I can quite happily swim for an hour, so perhaps things aren’t so bad after all, My wife said would I like a party tonight, I said ok, went to Grand Lucky got some beer, thought about inviting some old workmates only to discover an Indonesian party isn’t like a Brit birthday party, she has invited 45 of our neighbours round to pray for me, so the beer is on hold at the moment, I’m not really the praying type, but she is quite excited about being married to an old fart, so your not 80 every day and it will make her happy, she says I should write a book about my life, as the Frenchman said who witnessed my car mishap, Someone up there likes you

 

[nosox]

Happy birthday sir

 

[Davita]

Happy birthday my friend...you are now officially an OCTOGenerian. Other synonyms and names for your condition are.....

• a ripe old-aged bugger
• aged
• buffer
• nearly centenarian
• codger
• crock
• decline
• in dotage
• dotard
• elder
• gaffer
• geriatric
• gerontologist
• infirmity
• nonagenarian
• old
• old age
• old age pensioner
• old boy
• old girl
• old people
• old-timer
• oldie
• pensioner
• rest in piece
• ripe
• second childhood
• senile
• senior citizen
• the gray dollar
• the grey market
• the grey pound
• twilight
• wrinkly

 

[vocalneal]

& I don't use mirrors

Yep.

Their music sucks too!

Mostly it is not music just poetry and rhythm.

Attitude is important. Keep busy, have a routine and keep thinking. My dad didn't get "old" until about 90 but it is different for everyone.

 

[Anglian]

Happy birthday my friend...you are now officially an OCTOGenerian. Other synonyms and names for your condition are.....

• a ripe old-aged bugger
• aged
• buffer
• nearly centenarian
• codger
• crock
• decline
• in dotage
• dotard
• elder
• gaffer
• geriatric
• gerontologist
• infirmity
• nonagenarian
• old
• old age
• old age pensioner
• old boy
• old girl
• old people
• old-timer
• oldie
• pensioner
• rest in piece
• ripe
• second childhood
• senile
• senior citizen
• the gray dollar
• the grey market
• the grey pound
• twilight
• wrinkly

Yep I recognise some of those

 

[Davita]

Yep I recognise some of those

Be prepared...there are some cruel people. A guy in the pub recently asked me.... in front of many "Heh! you're over eighty so can you still get the old pecker up?" there was a deathly silence so I answered "Sure...but it isn't the same 9 inches it used to be...it shrunk to about 8.75!!!"
Hi 5's all round and we continued drinking.....