You Know You Are Old When

[masseyrider]

Also, you may want to consider freshness, and not buy too far in advance.

and consider the runaway beer truck that might get you later today. Check for a return policy so your family can get the money back.
Because lets be realistic/sarcastic, who needs 10,000+ of whatever pill?

 

[newbury]

You do realize that you don't need to order enough to last the rest of your life all at once...

I'm the guy that did a big stock up on toilet paper, coincidentally just as Covid started, just ran out last year. Bought 50lbs of oatmeal a month later, ran out last year. If it don't go bad and I can get it on sale I stock up. Stocked up on wives 41 years ago. Seem like she will last another 30 years.
And she also goes through two Areds 2 a day.

 

[WinterDeere]

You do realize that you don't need to order enough to last the rest of your life all at once...

"I'm so old, I don't even buy eggs more than a half-dozen at a time, anymore." - my FIL, explaining he might not be around long enough to use a full dozen.

 

[CalG]

Invest heavily in "good wife" the dividends will carry you through the hard times!

 

[goeduck]

I'm the guy that did a big stock up on toilet paper, coincidentally just as Covid started, just ran out last year. Bought 50lbs of oatmeal a month later, ran out last year.

So you are the one. Some of my trees are just growing their leaves back now, took a few years to recover.

 

[goeduck]

Looking forward to the next 5 pages of every regular member posting their waist size.

Wait until we talk about old man's flat butt and needing suspenders because belts have nothing to hold onto.

 

[masseyrider]

Wait until we talk about old man's flat butt and needing suspenders because belts have nothing to hold onto.

Hey! Hey, hey, hey, hey! Leave me out of this.

 

[tallyho8]

I'm the guy that did a big stock up on toilet paper, coincidentally just as Covid started, just ran out last year. Bought 50lbs of oatmeal a month later, ran out last year. If it don't go bad and I can get it on sale I stock up. Stocked up on wives 41 years ago. Seem like she will last another 30 years.
And she also goes through two Areds 2 a day.

The bugs in old oatmeal take some of the nutrition from the oatmeal but the protein from the bugs makes it up.

 

[domin]

when you don't need to work anymore. Also you have enough time to watch tv. gamechanger has really lived up to its name when it comes to youth sports. I started using it to keep up with my nephew’s baseball games, and it completely changed how we stay connected to the action. Even if I can’t be there in person, I can follow live stats, updates, and even replays. It’s super helpful for parents, coaches, and anyone who wants to stay involved without being in the stands every game.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

when you don't need to work anymore

When will that happen! Every day my wife & I are working and it seems more work than ever after retirement!!!
This place is constant work, then 98 yo Mom's place is more work and usually step one is finding then repairing the tools or finding what's needed to fix what's broken.
My garage first aid kit I have to keep getting larger boxes and probably the few that contains an eye patch. The house medicine cabinet puts CVS to shame and if salve doesn't work it's on to linament and finally ointment. At least the 3"×4" bandages work...for now!

 

[thepumpguysc]

^^^ lol.!!!
I know whatcha mean..
Every day I walk in the house there’s a new stream of blood somewhere on my body.!! Lol
Took me many years but I finally learned to put on those dam “safety glasses” BEFORE turning on the grinder.!! Lol

 

[QRTRHRS]

After being out in the heat mowing and trimming yesterday, I threw my clothes into the washer. Later, I went for my phone. Finally found it, all cleaned up! It was a Motorola that I bought when I switched carriers last spring. I did not much like that phone anyway....

 

[Oaktree]

When will that happen! Every day my wife & I are working and it seems more work than ever after retirement!!!

I hear ya! Don't know how I ever got anything done when I was still working fulltime.

After being out in the heat mowing and trimming yesterday, I threw my clothes into the washer. Later, I went for my phone. Finally found it, all cleaned up! It was a Motorola that I bought when I switched carriers last spring. I did not much like that phone anyway....

My wife is always leaving a kleenex or two in a pocket then putting it in the wash.

 

[LouNY]

I hear ya! Don't know how I ever got anything done when I was still working fulltime.

My wife is always leaving a kleenex or two in a pocket then putting it in the wash.

As far as getting anything done, it always seems to take a lot longer now a days

It's usually not my wife leaving anything in the pockets, I'll have to admit it's me, my, I and usually a wadded up blue paper towel.

 

[masscity]

I left a blue paper towel in my pants pocket that went into the wash, it came out in perfect shape.

 

[Runner]

The cell phone discussion in another thread reminds me that you may be old if you had a phone number with the exchange in it. I still remember my parents' number from when I was little (rotary dial phone, of course): FL6-3390. The FL exchange was for "Flemming".

 

[Alan46]

The cell phone discussion in another thread reminds me that you may be old if you had a phone number with the exchange in it. I still remember my parents' number from when I was little (rotary dial phone, of course): FL6-3390. The FL exchange was for "Flemming".

I remember our exchange JE, for Jerome in the Bronx in the forties!…….so long ago

 

[LouNY]

MY for Myrtle, MY2-2664 later 692-2664 .
No idea who it goes to now.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

^^^ lol.!!!
I know whatcha mean..
Every day I walk in the house there’s a new stream of blood somewhere on my body.!! Lol
Took me many years but I finally learned to put on those dam “safety glasses” BEFORE turning on the grinder.!! Lol

The grinder I use almost every day is like this, except without the tool rests, shields anywhere and larger motor mounted below with a big clutch spring on it for more belt tension. I've never bogged it down. Never.
Yesterday my 40 something neighbor stops by for me to sharpen his mower blades, so I hoist his mower up like a tuna with an overhead electric winch and use an impact gun.
When I turn on the grinder the shop lights dim as he heads for the door terrified watching me in a shower of sparks.
After checking their balance I zip the blades on, as I let the mower down he asks "didn't all those sparks hurt?". "No but the last wheel did when it split in two, I never did find the other half".
Young people think old people are crazy, but we have to get an adrenaline rush somehow.

 

[masseyrider]

We had 7 digit numbers. As a kid it always made me wonder on tv shows when they asked the operator to get them a number it would be like Mayberry 555.
What my parents had until the 80s was a partyline.
Pain as a teen getting calls and having to keep them brief. Or trying to make a call and the line was busy.
One of the gossips liked to listen in. You could always tell because she had a large clock in her kitchen that you could hear ticking in the background.
My buddy and I would bait her, starting to hint about drugs and one of the neighbor girls being free with her wares and stuff like that.
I had the worst reputation in the hood because of that.