You Know You Are Old When

[Runner]

Come out to the desert where EVERYTHING has a thorn. We'll soon cure you of the flip-flop addition!

Two places I don't want to live: anywhere you are part of the food chain (gators, bears, mountain lions) and the desert, where you have to wear hip waders to keep from being bitten by a rattlesnake every time you step out the door.

 

[Eagle1]

Two places I don't want to live: anywhere you are part of the food chain (gators, bears, mountain lions) and the desert, where you have to wear hip waders to keep from being bitten by a rattlesnake every time you step out the door.

We have bears and big kitty here in the Ozarks of MO. Also have Timber rattlers up to 5' but the sheer number of ticks and spiders are impressive.

Personal sightings of all those on property here.....

Most likely to kill you is a deer ramming your car.

 

[not2old]

I go barefoot as much as I can, but for those times I can't I'll wear what my wife calls my swamp sneakers. A pair of sneakers or slip-on shoes that hasn't been presentable for a good 10 years but still kinda protects the bottom of my feet. Strictly around the property, she'd have a fit if I wore them in public.

I have a pair of Sketchers like that. The only difference is that I'd be embarrassed to wear them in public.

 

[newbury]

I have a pair of Sketchers like that. The only difference is that I'd be embarrassed to wear them in public.

I've a big toe I broke decades ago and gradually it formed a big bunion after I joined the Army. But after I joined and later was employed at the same place, the doctors all said it would be an operation that would lay me up for a few months. And my entire 37 year career I was on travel about 1 week a month, often international. So I just limped by. Extra wide shoes a size up (13) used to work for that foot and I could wear them for several hours. Now it takes an extra wide size 14.
The last 10 years I've been limited to Crocs or big boots until I took an old pair of sneakers and cut a hole out on the side of where the bunion is, and I can wear them all day. Don't wear them in public, but then I try not to be in public.

 

[WinterDeere]

I quit using tenders a while ago.

I've honestly always wondered about their merit. I found that keeping a solar tender on my trailer batteries seems to prevent early death, when they sit outside on 0°F nights through every winter. The mower is kept in an uninsulated and unheated shed, so I figured the same rules probably apply there, but I can't claim to have really noticed any difference in battery life with/without the tender.

However, it is nice to have the thing not run out of charge during that first cold-weather start each spring. My mower runs 15W-45 motor oil as the hydrostat oil, I don't know why (ask Deere!). It makes the thing a real bear to start on frozen Saturday mornings in late March or early April, when I start reversing my snow plowing gear for mowing gear, in the shed.

I haven't checked draw, but I suspect the mower battery is effectively disconnected when the key switch is off. It's a 2007 mower with no ECM or other electronics that would require constant power.

This is why I moved my henhouse. Free range chickens, lawns and barefeet were a poor combination.

Ewwww...

Most likely to kill you is a deer ramming your car.

There ain't a safe deer in all of southeastern PA, with my wife at the wheel. Did I tell you she once hit three of those F'ers in one week?!?

 

[WinterDeere]

The last 10 years I've been limited to Crocs...

Fuzzy-lined Crocs are my house slippers, and regular old-skool Crocs are my regular "run out to the garage" or "go check the pool skimmer" daily wear. I don't wear them out in public, but they're great for around the house, and I never understood all the hete-speak for them. Super comfortable, and they keep me from stubbing my toe on stupid stuff around the house.

The weirdo's are the guys who wear flip-flops out in public. Never understood that.

 

[Jstpssng]

The weirdo's are the guys who wear flip-flops out in public. Never understood that

I see guys doing that who wear boots all day. It gives their feet a chance to breath, on the way too and from work.

 

[WinterDeere]

I see guys doing that who wear boots all day. It gives their feet a chance to breath, on the way too and from work.

I don't want their feet breathing near me. Put your damn boots on, before coming into the store.

 

[deserteagle71]

I've honestly always wondered about their merit. I found that keeping a solar tender on my trailer batteries seems to prevent early death, when they sit outside on 0°F nights through every winter. The mower is kept in an uninsulated and unheated shed, so I figured the same rules probably apply there, but I can't claim to have really noticed any difference in battery life with/without the tender.

MY experience has been that they have on average doubled the life of my batteries, especially the smaller batteries like in my quad and dirt bike. So I bet I have about 15 of the darn things...EVERYTHING I own except for my daily driver is on a battery maintainer. So as far as I'm concerned they are worth every penny. Only one of mine is solar, the rest are all plug-in.

 

[Runner]

YKYAO when you forget how to tie a neck tie. Wore one every day for 35 years, but I think I've only worn one once in the last 9 years. I woke up in the middle of the night wondering if I could still tie one.