You know you are getting old when:

[HudsonHawk]

Or..... when sitting in a restaurant minding your own business with your four year old next to you and a gentleman a decade older than you walks up and says: "I bet she keeps you smiling, Grampa". My wife and our oldest daughter and a friend of the family could barely keep from busting up laughing. The grampa comments haven't stopped since.

I know one older gentleman who was out with a very attractive young lady, and someone commented on him and his "granddaughter". He said "she's my wife". Now THAT is an awkward moment.

 

[Dan Allen]

Jim Bouton, noted baseball outcast and author, tells a funny story about his days trying to make a "comback" after being out of the game for a while. He was playing in an independent minor league, with a bunch of kids. He said one day, as he took the hill to face the first hitter, his young shortstop shouted "C'mon Mr. Bouton!" Bouton said he had to call time out and laugh. He was 37 at the time.

I think it was the quarterback Y. A. Tittle who said it was time to retire when one of his team mates ask him if he could date his daughter. Till that point he didn't realize how old he was.

 

[scarletgrenadine]

As someone who once lived near Palm Beach, I agree that the hands reveal age more than any other easily-visible body part. The combination of face-lifted features and aged hands can be disconcerting.

I do think genetics affect hand aging quite a bit too. I still have hands that look about the same as they did in my teens, and I'm thirty-seven. I didn't do anything to protect them, but I have very strong bones and apparently strong connective tissue.

 

[Stearmen]

[video=youtube;8r9er8I_Fqs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r9er8I_Fqs[/video]

 

[Zombie_61]

You know you're getting old when you repeat a post you made in this thread three months ago. :eusa_doh:

 

[Dragon Soldier]

If you really want to know someone's age, forget the face. Look at the hands. Nobody ever shoots Botox into their hands.

You want proof of that, try and get a ghanzi at Madonna's.

 

[HudsonHawk]

You want proof of that, try and get a ghanzi at Madonna's.

Madonna is far, far more attractive now at what...60...than she ever was at 20-something.

 

[Dragon Soldier]

Madonna is far, far more attractive now at what...60...than she ever was at 20-something.

Her hands (and elbows) ain't!

 

[LizzieMaine]

Madonna reminds me of one of those middle-aged women you see at the grocery store late Saturday night in too-tight jeans and a stained tank top, with bad tattoos, yellowed toenails, and overplucked eyebrows, exuding an overpowering aroma of drugstore cologne and nicotine. She reminded me of that in 1983, and she still does today.

 

[HudsonHawk]

I never really thought much of her at all, I'm just saying I think she's a better looking 60 year old than she was a 20 year old. Not that she's a fine wine, just she's no longer Boone's Farm.

 

[Dragon Soldier]

I had to Google that!

 

[HudsonHawk]

I had to Google that!

Boone's Farm is what you buy when you have just a handful of pocket change you scraped together from digging underneath coin-operated washing machines at 2 am.

 

[Dragon Soldier]

Sounds a bit like Buckfast in these parts.

 

[jamespowers]

I never really thought much of her at all, I'm just saying I think she's a better looking 60 year old than she was a 20 year old. Not that she's a fine wine, just she's no longer Boone's Farm.

No, she is more like Thunderbird now.

 

[jamespowers]

Madonna reminds me of one of those middle-aged women you see at the grocery store late Saturday night in too-tight jeans and a stained tank top, with bad tattoos, yellowed toenails, and overplucked eyebrows, exuding an overpowering aroma of drugstore cologne and nicotine. She reminded me of that in 1983, and she still does today.

Man, that is an excellent description of it.

 

[GHT]

As someone who once lived near Palm Beach, I agree that the hands reveal age more than any other easily-visible body part. The combination of face-lifted features and aged hands can be disconcerting.

That made me think of an expression that we use in London. The severe, swept back hair, that's tied into a bun or ponytail, we call: "The Croydon Facelift." You need an understanding of London's districts to apprciate the humour. Similarly, the more affluent area of Chelsea has the most top of the range SUV's like the Range Rover, the BMW X5, the Porshe Cayenne. Those four by fours never see a blade of grass, let alone a muddy field. In typical Brit sarcasm, they are dubbed: Chelsea Tractors.

 

[Zombie_61]

Madonna reminds me of one of those middle-aged women you see at the grocery store late Saturday night in too-tight jeans and a stained tank top, with bad tattoos, yellowed toenails, and overplucked eyebrows, exuding an overpowering aroma of drugstore cologne and nicotine. She reminded me of that in 1983, and she still does today.

ound: Spot on.

 

[Gregg Axley]

No, she is more like Thunderbird now.

Or Bartles and James, but not quite Zima. :eusa_doh:
What's wrong with her perfume?
Ponds and Febreeze not good enough for you?

 

[dh66]

Madonna reminds me of one of those middle-aged women you see at the grocery store late Saturday night in too-tight jeans and a stained tank top, with bad tattoos, yellowed toenails, and overplucked eyebrows, exuding an overpowering aroma of drugstore cologne and nicotine. She reminded me of that in 1983, and she still does today.

Maybe some of them were Madonna-wannabes back in the day.

Bless their hearts.

 

[Stearmen]

Madonna is far, far more attractive now at what...60...than she ever was at 20-something.

Is that sarcasm on your part? She was born August 16, 1958. So maybe she looks bad for 55?