You Know You Are Old When

[CalG]

When your calendar is full, with doctor appointments, blood tests, and laboratory visits.

I told my primary care doctor I was not all in with allopathic medicine.

He nodded, said "no reason to chase numbers" and went on with the exam.
I've not had too many additional tests done since/

 

[WinterDeere]

I tell my neighbor that all the time.
He don't listen.
It takes too much time to get the tractor, hand cart, whatever.
He'll learn.
Youth is wasted on the stupid and indestructible.

For me, it was BMX cycling. Countless wipe outs, falls off ramps, broken bones, etc. Always heard, "you're gonna feel that when you're older", but those honestly aren't the injuries that bother me today.

 

[CalG]

 

[CalG]

I was trying to knock the rusted in trip pivot pins out of the snow blade today.

Using an 18 inch length of 1 inch rebar for a drift, it was all I could do the strike with a 3 pound hammer.

The pins wouldn't budge!

I must be getting old.

Just when I was going to call it in, The neighbor came by wanting assistance to bleed the non-functional brakes on his 1988 Polaris four wheeler.

With him holding the drift, and me switching to a 12 pound sledge, those pivot pins came out straight away!

Two old guys can get it done!

OH! The wheeler brakes have never been better!

 

[masseyrider]

For me, it was BMX cycling. Countless wipe outs, falls off ramps, broken bones, etc. Always heard, "you're gonna feel that when you're older", but those honestly aren't the injuries that bother me today.

Playing hockey I got a severe frontal sprain of my ankle.
Dr. said that when I got older I would wish I had broken it instead as the sprain would come back to haunt me.
He was right.
There are many morning I walk in circles when I get up until the ankle loosens up.
My house has 4 steps from the bedroom level to the main level.
I have to lean against the wall as I come down in the mornings.

 

[MossRoad]

You Know You Are Old When...

You buy your first 7-day pill organizer.

 

[Alan46]

You Know You Are Old When...

You buy your first 7-day pill organizer.

Does it still count if wal-mart gave them out for free?

 

[drssg]

I had a gate at the end our driveway that I installed about 20 years ago, and I finally had a more professional quality gate installed. I assumed that they would bring in some equipment to pull out the old posts, but they removed them by hand! Some of them were set in concrete.

Young muscles can do things that I can't.

 

[Mendonsy]

You Know You Are Old When...

You buy your first 7-day pill organizer.

Or buy the second one because the pills won't all fit in the first one.

 

[masseyrider]

Or buy the second one because the pills won't all fit in the first one.

Or the guys you hang with at the coffee shop have more pills on them than the pusher out on the corner.