One day we'll all meet on a Florida beach with Hawaiian shirts, mismatched shorts pulled up to our chests and black socks with sandals and shake our canes at each other while leering at bikini clad girls playing volleyball.
I wonder if the Greasespt Cafe will offer wheelchairs and Geritol?
My AARP card came in handy when we went on vacation last year (10% discount on hotels) but, yeah. What's scarier: seeing my name on the card or looking in the mirror? Can't tell.
In racquetball tournaments there are "age brackets" that we can compete in (along with the "normal brackets, open, A,B,C,D,NOVICE). I can play in the 45+ bracket :blink: , if I don't want to compete with "kids" :unsure: .
I am now eligiable to compete in the "senior" racquetball tourneys :blink:
Lol my husband was deeply disturbed to recieve his invitation to join aarp.....almost as disturbing as it was to me to realize I was married to someone old enough to belong!!
Z ... I find it difficult that I have to compete in the *senior* division as well in karate.
Also disturbing ...my *baby* will be 18 this year ...MAN I cannot figure out when THAT happened....I still feel like I am a *new* mother :(
The last 18 yrs snuck up on me along with the extra 50 lbs I have some how aquired :(
I was talking to a 24 year old social worker the other day and I thought geez how can she possibly know anything?
so we all have age bias at times I think.
Im past middle age now BUT honestly I still live like I did when I was 22 .
look at who is in the congress and lets talk about who is an old fart !!
all of them are old I mean 70's and 80's.
so I try to keep a perspective.
it does take longer to feel pretty tho ESP when I see the older actresses on tv like Tina Turner who is in sixties . Goldie hawn etc.
to much of a standard for me really.
but we will all work longer now so it is good.
What I think is old is people who do not move on and try new things regardless of age.
I never guess ages anymore , I would be wrong I know many many people working well into their 70's and 80's. and some very successful people just out of the teen age so .. it is all good as long as I try to keep up.
One day we'll all meet on a Florida beach with Hawaiian shirts, mismatched shorts pulled up to our chests and black socks with sandals and shake our canes at each other while leering at bikini clad girls playing volleyball.
I wonder if the Greasespt Cafe will offer wheelchairs and Geritol?
66 Mustang? ...that was my third or fourth... my first was a 54 Ford Station Wagon that my dad said I could have if I got it running... yep... a 239 flathead V8... oh... and for stereo speakers? I just borrowed a couple from the drive in!
What's most disturbing to me is knowing in another 4 years (when I hit 55), I'll be eligible for senior citizen discounts at a lot of places. I don't feel so senior!
Of course, I plan on taking full advantage of it!
I took my dad shopping for Rockport shoes the last time I was in NY. The clerk said they gave a 25% discount to AARP members. I whipped out that membership card so fast I think I gave myself a paper cut.
I don't know how or why this happens, but several other women I work with, who also have had babies in the past year, are suddenly alerted by AARP that they have qualified for membership -- we think there's some screw up with the enrollment info and the hospital forms or something, as we're all 30-somethings.
So, it is true that having kids makes you old! I have proof from AARP!
In racquetball tournaments there are "age brackets" that we can compete in (along with the "normal brackets, open, A,B,C,D,NOVICE). I can play in the 45+ bracket :blink: , if I don't want to compete with "kids" :unsure: .
I am now eligible to compete in the "senior" racquetball tourneys :blink:
I don't remember getting older...
I hear ya Zshot. Fiddle contests have categories too, and I am
no longer eligible to compete in the *intermediate* division (ages 26 - 50).
The shock (and dismay) must have showed on my face,
when they first told me I had to compete as a *senior*.
The *up* side of that was, I didn't have to compete against the kids who had
nimble fingers, lots of time to practice, no job to work, and parents who could
drive them around to festivals all summer long to keep their *chops* up.
The *down* side of it is -- I was better than most seniors,
and usually ended up in the championship category, which was
filled with the best of the kids, the ones I thought I had escaped!
I don't know how or why this happens, but several other women I work with, who also have had babies in the past year, are suddenly alerted by AARP that they have qualified for membership -- we think there's some screw up with the enrollment info and the hospital forms or something, as we're all 30-somethings.
I got my first pitch from them in my 30s, too. I was shocked at the time. Now that I know they exist mainly to sell life insurance, I'm not so surprised.
And speaking of getting old. I had to go to the DMV yesterday on my way to work. I was second in line so I got waited on right away, but the woman who was helping me was soooooooooooooo slow. I thought, "What a little old lady, poking along like that. She oughta retire!" Then I took a good look at her and realized she was probably about my age!
my first car was a '39 buick - - the first year Buick built an automatic transmission. I bought it in '61...straight 8 - - wood dashboard....flower holders in the rear.....great car....lasted 7 months and the transmission died. I didn't have the funds to repair it.
So my next car was a '49 ford....drove that thing from '62 - 81 when the doors would no longer stay closed!
Last year my balding brother (at that time a young 49 years old) was carded in the afternoon at the convenience store while buying some beer. He went out to eat that evening and the waitress asked, "Do you qualify for our Senior Citizen's discount?"
Imagine that....young and old...all in one day!!! :blink:
Mine was a '65 Pontiac Tempest: got it for $300 in '74. It had those hydralic jacks in back, which, thankfully, I never figured out how to use. It had starter problems: I used to have to get under and manually twist the starter into place to get it going. It took me all over California, then to Mississippi, then Illinois. We dressed it up as the "Mystery Wagon" for a parade, and then I totaled the poor thing in a rainstorm. Oh well-got a lot out of it for $300-lot of money for a struggling believer back then.
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Time to take your Centrum Silver, eh Garth?
One day we'll all meet on a Florida beach with Hawaiian shirts, mismatched shorts pulled up to our chests and black socks with sandals and shake our canes at each other while leering at bikini clad girls playing volleyball.
I wonder if the Greasespt Cafe will offer wheelchairs and Geritol?
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My AARP card came in handy when we went on vacation last year (10% discount on hotels) but, yeah. What's scarier: seeing my name on the card or looking in the mirror? Can't tell.
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In racquetball tournaments there are "age brackets" that we can compete in (along with the "normal brackets, open, A,B,C,D,NOVICE). I can play in the 45+ bracket :blink: , if I don't want to compete with "kids" :unsure: .
I am now eligiable to compete in the "senior" racquetball tourneys :blink:
I don't remember getting older...
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A store in the mall was having a sale and I was looking at a rack of dresses.
"These are all dresses a fifty year old woman would wear to church, " I complained.( Navy blue with flouncy neck ties etc).
My husband just laughed out loud.
I was 48.
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Lol my husband was deeply disturbed to recieve his invitation to join aarp.....almost as disturbing as it was to me to realize I was married to someone old enough to belong!!
Z ... I find it difficult that I have to compete in the *senior* division as well in karate.
Also disturbing ...my *baby* will be 18 this year ...MAN I cannot figure out when THAT happened....I still feel like I am a *new* mother :(
The last 18 yrs snuck up on me along with the extra 50 lbs I have some how aquired :(
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I was talking to a 24 year old social worker the other day and I thought geez how can she possibly know anything?
so we all have age bias at times I think.
Im past middle age now BUT honestly I still live like I did when I was 22 .
look at who is in the congress and lets talk about who is an old fart !!
all of them are old I mean 70's and 80's.
so I try to keep a perspective.
it does take longer to feel pretty tho ESP when I see the older actresses on tv like Tina Turner who is in sixties . Goldie hawn etc.
to much of a standard for me really.
but we will all work longer now so it is good.
What I think is old is people who do not move on and try new things regardless of age.
I never guess ages anymore , I would be wrong I know many many people working well into their 70's and 80's. and some very successful people just out of the teen age so .. it is all good as long as I try to keep up.
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ron
didn't we meet on the beach last year?!lol
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As long as we allow our bodies to keep up with our brain, I think this group is one that will keep trying new things-we have a lot to make up for!
This has probably been mentioned, but these are some of my signs that I had reached a certain age.
1. Haven't watched the Grammy's in years 'cause I don't recognize any of the artists.
2. Paying attention to the Centrum Silver commercials.
3. Ears perk up when I here "If you are between the ages of...."
4. Rejected by online surveys because I'm not in the age group they want.
5. Laminating my AARP card.
6. Finding things I own in an antique store.
7. Moving from the third floor to the first.
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My first car was a 66 Mustang.
I saw one the other day and it had Antique plates on it
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66 Mustang? ...that was my third or fourth... my first was a 54 Ford Station Wagon that my dad said I could have if I got it running... yep... a 239 flathead V8... oh... and for stereo speakers? I just borrowed a couple from the drive in!
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What's most disturbing to me is knowing in another 4 years (when I hit 55), I'll be eligible for senior citizen discounts at a lot of places. I don't feel so senior!
Of course, I plan on taking full advantage of it!
I took my dad shopping for Rockport shoes the last time I was in NY. The clerk said they gave a 25% discount to AARP members. I whipped out that membership card so fast I think I gave myself a paper cut.
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Ron G.
My first car was a 1958 Dodge Texan Custom Edition.
Now THAT was a CAR!!
GAWD, I miss that car :(
Pic is from eBay since my scanner quit. Mine was gold and white.
GAWD, I miss that car :(
*sniff*
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yep Ron... look at those fins! ...and a trunk big enough to camp in!
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The AARP thing....
I don't know how or why this happens, but several other women I work with, who also have had babies in the past year, are suddenly alerted by AARP that they have qualified for membership -- we think there's some screw up with the enrollment info and the hospital forms or something, as we're all 30-somethings.
So, it is true that having kids makes you old! I have proof from AARP!
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I hear ya Zshot. Fiddle contests have categories too, and I am
no longer eligible to compete in the *intermediate* division (ages 26 - 50).
The shock (and dismay) must have showed on my face,
when they first told me I had to compete as a *senior*.
The *up* side of that was, I didn't have to compete against the kids who had
nimble fingers, lots of time to practice, no job to work, and parents who could
drive them around to festivals all summer long to keep their *chops* up.
The *down* side of it is -- I was better than most seniors,
and usually ended up in the championship category, which was
filled with the best of the kids, the ones I thought I had escaped!
I don't remember getting old either.
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Chas said:
I got my first pitch from them in my 30s, too. I was shocked at the time. Now that I know they exist mainly to sell life insurance, I'm not so surprised.
And speaking of getting old. I had to go to the DMV yesterday on my way to work. I was second in line so I got waited on right away, but the woman who was helping me was soooooooooooooo slow. I thought, "What a little old lady, poking along like that. She oughta retire!" Then I took a good look at her and realized she was probably about my age!
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my first car was a '39 buick - - the first year Buick built an automatic transmission. I bought it in '61...straight 8 - - wood dashboard....flower holders in the rear.....great car....lasted 7 months and the transmission died. I didn't have the funds to repair it.
So my next car was a '49 ford....drove that thing from '62 - 81 when the doors would no longer stay closed!
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GarthP2000
Well, ... now that I have everybody reliving their 2nd childhoods, .....
(By the way, where's the old age smiley when ya need him??)
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Last year my balding brother (at that time a young 49 years old) was carded in the afternoon at the convenience store while buying some beer. He went out to eat that evening and the waitress asked, "Do you qualify for our Senior Citizen's discount?"
Imagine that....young and old...all in one day!!! :blink:
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tonto
This is me and my first car...a 66 Mustang.
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George Aar
Oooo, I'm am getting dated,
my first car was a 1952 Chevy twodoor sedan.
Aching bones, BP meds, and now Wilford Brimley has taken up residence in my bathroom mirror!
Getting old sucks.
I wish there was a reasonable alternative...
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GarthP2000
Now, now Dave, that's Yet Another THE Smiley. :)
Speaking of things getting old ......
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Tonto-I'm very jealous. I always wanted that car!
Mine was a '65 Pontiac Tempest: got it for $300 in '74. It had those hydralic jacks in back, which, thankfully, I never figured out how to use. It had starter problems: I used to have to get under and manually twist the starter into place to get it going. It took me all over California, then to Mississippi, then Illinois. We dressed it up as the "Mystery Wagon" for a parade, and then I totaled the poor thing in a rainstorm. Oh well-got a lot out of it for $300-lot of money for a struggling believer back then.
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