You know you are getting old when:

[LizzieMaine]

You know you're getting old when you get wise to all the stunts old folks pull to get what they want in a customer-service setting.

 

[Trenchfriend]

When you have to regard on more healthy, gentle footwear or otherwise you risk a bursitis.

 

[Fading Fast]

When you have to regard on more healthy, gentle footwear or otherwise you risk a bursitis.

About ten years ago, I had to start using Dr. Scholl's arch inserts to stop both the pain in my feet and back as, apparently, I had developed "flat feet." The good news, a $10 or so pair of arch inserts solved both areas of pain; the bad news, nothing makes you feel older than needing arch supports in your shoes (I felt like a grandmother at 40).

 

[Trenchfriend]

I'm 31 and until 2014, I prefered normal "low-shoes" http://www.bing.com/images/search?q...m=QBIR&pq=halbschuhe herren&sc=0-22&sp=-1&sk=, as universal shoes.

But since 2015, I prefer my 2008's "walking-boots", as universal shoes. These are no real walking-boots for hiking, but just look like and are very light and gentle, with that "supporting-system"-sole.
On wider distances, as a hobby-photographer, that's one of the best things, you can do for your feet, I think.
That's, what I mean:
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q...e558287e94742b68ae59ddc118e8e065o0&ajaxhist=0

 

[tonyb]

Actually, it's not my back, it is nice on the back, far better then the sit up and beg riding position. It's my hands when I am going slow, or in the mountains. Also, there is a muscle in the back of my upper arm, that must only be used when I am using the throttle. Excruciating after and hour!

Yeah, I can only imagine how uncomfortable "ape hangers" must be after a few miles.

I once rode from Seattle to New York and back (via Canada one way and the good old USA the other) two-up on an unfaired Moto Guzzi.

Never again, even if I had one of those two-wheeled Winnebagos under me.

A buddy, who passed away in '95, visited friends down in the California wine country with some regularity. He loaded his Harley into the back of his Ford pickup and offloaded it once he got there. He thereby spared himself the joy of hours on end riding through the reliably rainy Maritime Northwest and had the reward of getting around on his bike in the warm California sunshine.

 

[GHT]

You know you're getting old when you get wise to all the stunts old folks pull to get what they want in a customer-service setting.

Yep!

 

[Zombie_61]

You know you're getting old when you get wise to all the stunts old folks pull to get what they want in a customer-service setting.

Or get old enough to use them yourself on young and inexperienced clerks who don't know better.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

You know you're getting old when you start to take notice of the funeral arrangement commercials...

 

[LizzieMaine]

You know you're getting old when you're constantly thinking about "updating your will."

 

[2jakes]

You know you're getting old when you start to take notice of the funeral arrangement commercials...

Receive ads in the mail on a regular basis for funeral services & options.

 

[Zombie_61]

Receive ads in the mail on a regular basis for funeral services & options.

The precursor to that is junk mail from A.A.R.P..

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

When, before you go out for a walk you check to make sure you have your ID, so your body can be identified.

 

[2jakes]

The precursor to that is junk mail from A.A.R.P..

I can’t think of anyone that replies to “junk mail” or telemarketing sales over the phone
as far as buying their product.
I was curious as to what keeps them in business?
My guess is elderly folks who don’t know better & might be taken in.

I mostly carry my driver’s license, & proof of auto insurance.
When shopping, I take the bankcard. No cash.


Edit: Forgot to add:
My all leather "Roy Rogers" wallet with an all-around zipper
that came with an autograph photo of Roy & Trigger...
is the other thing I carry when I go out!

 

[HoosierDaddy]

'Happy trails to you'....

 

[sheeplady]

When, before you go out for a walk you check to make sure you have your ID, so your body can be identified.

And clean underwear for the coroner. (Or a fresh set of Depends.)

 

[Trenchfriend]

When you already bought the great "Aramis"-perfume (by Estée Lauder) in the year of it's market-launch.

 

[GHT]

You know that you are getting old when she says: "Let's go upstairs, and make love." and you think: "One or the other, I can't do both."

 

[2jakes]

When you fall down and wonder what else you can do while you’re down there,
and you use the word ‘thing’ all the time because you can no longer remember
what things are called.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

When you look at a pretty young woman & wonder what she will look like at your age.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Old age lasts so long that it's best not to start it too soon.