You know you are getting old when:

[scottyrocks]

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Wassamatta? You don't like snacks?

 

[HanauMan]

Apropos the Betty Davis photo a few entries back......

One sign that I'm getting older is shuffling along in my house in old worn out slippers just like Jane Hudson, only I'm no longer doing it in an ironic way to annoy my wife but because I like shuffling around in old slippers.

 

[OldStrummer]

...people start referring to you as "sir" (or "ma'am"). For no reason.

 

[scottyrocks]

You know you're getting old when you see kids crawling around on their hands and knees and it hurts just watching.

 

[LizzieMaine]

You know you're getting old when you can't even see your knees.

 

[2jakes]

You know you're getting old when you see kids crawling around on their hands and knees and it hurts just watching.

Wassamatta? You don't like playing horsey?

 

[scottyrocks]

Wassamatta? You don't like playing horsey?

Yes, I do. But with real horsies.

 

[GHT]

You know you're getting old when you can't even see your knees.

Or tie your shoe laces, or reach the bottom shelf at the supermarket.

 

[scottyrocks]

Or tie your shoe laces, or reach the bottom shelf at the supermarket.

I'm there on the second one.

 

[Zombie_61]

Or tie your shoe laces, or reach the bottom shelf at the supermarket.

Reaching the bottom shelf is easy. Standing up again without popping, cracking, or aching joints, not so much.

 

[scottyrocks]

Reaching the bottom shelf is easy. Standing up again without popping, cracking, or aching joints, not so much.

And they make those little unit price labels on shelf-front so small that nothing short of hands-and-knees is needed to make them out, and with my readers on. I have become that old guy with the hat and overcoat. haha

 

[Zombie_61]

And they make those little unit price labels on shelf-front so small that nothing short of hands-and-knees is needed to make them out, and with my readers on. I have become that old guy with the hat and overcoat. haha

Reading glasses, check. Hat, check. Overcoat, not so much.

 

[2jakes]

You know you're getting old when...
this is the text size that is easiest to read.

 

[Fading Fast]

And they make those little unit price labels on shelf-front so small that nothing short of hands-and-knees is needed to make them out, and with my readers on. I have become that old guy with the hat and overcoat. haha

I'm the old guy with the progressive lenses tilting his head up and down as he moves along so as to get the reading part of his glasses aligned with the different shelf-height labels .

 

[scottyrocks]

Reading glasses, check. Hat, check. Overcoat, not so much.

Well, if you actually had some weather, it might be different.

 

[dnjan]

I'm the old guy with the progressive lenses tilting his head up and down as he moves along so as to get the reading part of his glasses aligned with the different shelf-height labels .

I figure I'm just exercising my neck muscles.

 

[Fading Fast]

I figure I'm just exercising my neck muscles.

I'm sure someone looking at me thinks I'm nuts as my head keeps tilted up and down depending on what item I'm looking at on which shelf. I've gotten better at it over the years, but when I first got them, I'd get a bit dizzy / nauseous from them in stores like we are discussing.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I have always worn glasses with cable-type earpieces -- it's easy to stretch them out as you pull your glasses down your nose to focus, and they stay in place without slipping off. The only problem is that my nose is no longer long enough to reach the correct focal point.

 

[tonyb]

I have always worn glasses with cable-type earpieces -- it's easy to stretch them out as you pull your glasses down your nose to focus, and they stay in place without slipping off. The only problem is that my nose is no longer long enough to reach the correct focal point.

Better get with the Pinocchio program. Run for public office or something.

 

[scottyrocks]

I have always worn glasses with cable-type earpieces --

I tried those. It felt like my ears were being mugged.