You Know You Are Old When

[MossRoad]

I don't think I've worn a tie in 40-odd years, and have no intentions of wearing one ever again. I will dress presentably if the need arises, but it won't include a tie.

I have strict instructions to be put in comfortable jeans, footie socks, and a nice warm sweatshirt for open casket funeral.... then cremated.

I want them all to say "He looks so good." even though I'll be dead, covered in makeup, and under a pink light.

 

[ultrarunner]

I was recently "made" to select a tie that would compliment my wife's new dress.
Youngest son is getting hitched next week end out south of Lake Tahoe, My wife wants to have the photographs worth keeping. ;-)

Pictures of nuptials lakeside?

A few years ago I was walking on Regan Beach and saw a ceremony in progress and I was giving a wide path and the bride called out to me… turns out it was the medical assistant of a doctor leasing space at my work…

They were dressed to the nines and she insisted on having me in a couple of shots with jeans and t-shirt.

My first response is sorry I’m late… she started laughing and the rest of the wedding party was dumbfounded…

 

[Oaktree]

Early years I had a few times it was necessary I wear a tie for work and a few times I did for funerals but usually not since people who know me know how much I hate em'. Always hated it since I do not like anything tight around my neck, not even turtle neck sweaters. Always feels like they are choking me, I think SWMBO finally disposed of the few ties I had years ago.

Same here.
When my father died, my BIL (who is as allergic to ties as I am) basically said that if I wore a tie to his funeral he would too. I didn't, but he did. Maybe my sister insisted, but she's not exactly a sharp dresser either...

I have strict instructions to be put in comfortable jeans, footie socks, and a nice warm sweatshirt for open casket funeral.... then cremated.

When I go, no viewing, no funeral, just cremation as soon as they can get me in. Ashes to be scattered in the woods among the other oak trees.

 

[John0829]

When my father died, my BIL (who is as allergic to ties as I am) basically said that if I wore a tie to his funeral he would too. I didn't, but he did. Maybe my sister insisted, but she's not exactly a sharp dresser either...

DO NOT get me started on what my sister and BIL wore to dads funeral... Or the BS she pulled.

 

[scootr]

When I go, I'm gone. No fuss. Get over it. You're next. Now go out and enjoy the day

..I think I just wrote my obituary

 

[Jstpssng]

I don't really give two shakes what happens after I'm gone. It'll just be an empty carcass, and I' m doing my best to make sure it's well worn out by then. For my mother's sake I let her think I will be buried in the family plot, but I likely will have somebody spread my ashes where my dogs are buried.
Comes down to it I'd like to think that when I can't care for myself I'll go out some cold rainy night, sit under those same trees I've planted on pup's graves and let nature take it's course.

 

[airbiscuit]

My dad was a coroner for a small county in NW WI. An older fellow died in a duck blind, and he had way over his limit in ducks. It must have been a glorious day for him. The local Game Warden was also there, and he kept trying to hide the over limit ducks, out of respect for the old hunter. The problem was, that the dog kept bringing the ducks back to the blind! It was a good way to go.

 

[airbiscuit]

in a similar story, I had a friend who was hunting ducks in the Horicon Marsh. They were all flying high, so no bueno. Across the way, a hunter was shooting at the distant ducks, and bringing them down! My friend left his blind and paddled over there to see what gives. He saw an elderly hunter who invited my friend to sit with him.

He had a 10 gauge double barrel shotgun. He said he could only shoot once due to his age. He was using brass shell casings, and he would reload them (with dippers) in the blind, in between shots. His old lab had plenty of gray in him, and dutifully retrieved the ducks.

After that, whenever my friend saw that hunter in his blind, he would abandon his own blind, because it was more fun to sit with the old hunter. After a few years though, he quit showing up.

 

[part-time-Farmer-NC]

I'm going green... Told the wife when I go to make it as simple and "green" as possible. No chemicals (embalming). Then have a red apple tree planted on top of me. Invite anyone and everyone over for apples every year. We have a family graveyard so I can get away with it.

 

[WinterDeere]

I want them all to say "He looks so good." even though I'll be dead, covered in makeup, and under a pink light.

If they're not saying, "what the F happened to him?!?", or even more likely afraid to have an open-casket funeral, then you didn't do it right!

I suspect they're more likely to say, "well, he never did anything half way", at my funeral.