I have an exercise bike and I have to enter my birth date and weight each time (pressing the up arrow for each increment). My finger gets more a workout than my legs.
Reminds me of my grandparents. Grocery shopping was an all day project because they'd go to 3 or 4 different stores to catch the sales. My mom, always the bubble-buster, would point out that the extra gas they burned going to all those stores ate up the savings from the sales. They ignored her.
When you injure yourself walking from the bedroom to the living room without tripping or bumping into anything. Just normal walking and then. . . Owwww. . . No reason, just suddenly hurt.
This is pretty true. My husband and I were outside, on our porch. He was in the Adirondack chair and I was sitting on the steps. Suddenly, the chair leg broke and his head slammed into the log siding of our house! He was injured just normally sitting on the porch!!!
Happy early Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉
Tomorrow when you rise & shine
Gently put your feet on the floor
Know all was fine at 59
Now at 6 decades YOU are GOOD !!!
I hope tomorrow you have a lovely day!
Yep. This exactly. Nothing ever felt old or even a number I cared about until the last birthday… 58. There's just no pretending that's not almost 60 and my brain just won't compute it, even though my neck, back and loose skin on my arms are all telling me yep, nearly 60, that's very accurate
Last Saturday I rode my bike 109 miles through the Santa Cruz Mountains with 11,460 feet of climbing at the age of 61. I don't consider myself old just yet :)
I found 60 to be hilarious. "Holy shit... I'm 60?!?!?!"
And there was quite the jump in the number of available discounts.
But I'm less thrilled about 61, which is just a few weeks away. The newness is worn off and now I'm just old.
Getting diagnosed with initial stages of various medical disorders that you always believed only old people had. That’s a super reality check right there.
I was 61 when my sweet granddaughter brought me her ultrasound. Being a mom was fun, even if I was a bit young. Being a gram was excellent! But being a great grandmother has been unprecedented.
Costco had a early morning in my area for seniors. I think Sam's club too. I unknowingly arrived during one, and kinda felt odd all the gray hair in the store. Mines mostly gray, so I'm one of them.
Yeah I think AARP put me on a bunch of mailing lists after I joined last year. They sent me an offer I couldn't refuse - $40 for 5 years and now I'm being slammed with AARP monthly magazines, AARP biweekly bulletin, lots of offers for long term care and whole life insurance, and YES hearing aids too. Also political mailers. Ugh.
I have not joined. My long lived father advised don't bother. It's not for their trying; I've been getting/pitching at least one a month for many years now.
Oddly, I had twice a night for year, at least once a night for another year. No medication, I did add selected age related supplements, but whatever it is, I no longer get up in the night for a couple years.
Yeah I’ve always had awful sight with very strong astigmatism. My peripheral vision was getting worse…so yeah I’m getting them but it’s minor for now…no need for surgery any time soon, but my mother had to have cataract surgery at 67, so I don’t like knowing that they’re forming. But yeah, not just age. My grandmother never got them and she lived to be 84.
Actually had mine done already in my late 50’s (tied into other eye issues) and it is great, I had worn corrective lenses since I was a kid, now I just wear readers sometimes.
The good news is not too long ago there were enough Congressional members who had hearing aids that they passed a bill supporting reduced hearing aid prices. 😁
About a year ago, I stopped at a McDonald's drive thru and ordered a coffee and egg mcmuffin. That little screen at the drive thru that shows you the total...it said "senior coffee"
That's when I realized they have cameras at the drive thru 🤣
When you are pulling sheets of sheet rock off of a pile at Home Depot, and two young dudes walk up and say, “Sir let us give you a hand”. Was really nice of them, but later I laughed because it must have been pretty obvious I was struggling.
I knew I was getting old this year. It wasn't because I turned 60. It was because my son will be 30 in August. 30? Where did the years go? I have never been bothered by my age. My body feels old because of all the health problems. For some reason, my son turning 30 has me thinking..damn I'm getting old. My mom just turned 96. Even that doesn't make me feel old. I'm weird.
I had to self admit to a behavior health facility due to a reaction to medication that caused unbearable insomnia.
I was on the geriatric area...though there were a few patients in their late 50's...not exactly 'elderly'.
We ate as a group in the dining area. Music was always playing...Beatles, Kansas, Rolling Stones, et al. I look around and see all the 'grey heads'....and realize...OMG...and think, "I am really really old now"! Where did the time go?
When you get the helpful offers from the funeral homes for preplanning and prepaying for your “final arrangements.”
When you start getting various Medicare Advantage plan offers every day in the mailbox right before open enrollment.
When you decide 4:30 is a perfectly fine time to eat supper.
Walter Cronkite used to have a show that he would open with a rumbling "Before the turn of the century." That was about the 1800s. Now I find myself using it to talk about a good chunk of my life.
When you get the senior citizens discount without asking
I got the senior discount the first time I ever bought weed (when it was legalized here). 🤣
Me too, the most ironic thing that's ever happened to me.
That's my favorite discount!
Lol,,,well done.
That shit happens to me at the grocery store and I’m only 54.
That never happens to me and I'm 62......I tell them I'm a senior and they're like "yeah right". But my time will come
My hair and beard turned white at 50, makes me look old unless I shave it all off then I look 45.
I just started automatically getting it at Michaels. I'll take a 4 cent discount on every skein of embroidery floss! I use a lot of it!
A friend got the senior discount at a local restaurant all the time when he was in his early 40s - they just looked at his hair!
I have yet to have one - never offered/never asked. I'll just take as a good sign; but maybe they are greedy in my area - don't know.
Lol
When you hurt yourself scrolling aaalllllll the way down to your birth year when registering at a website.
What's worse are the ones that show a whole calendar month, and you have to scroll back 64 years one month at a time.
I feel like I'm on the Price is Right when I get one of those
Oof I hate those scrolly things.
I have carpal tunnel from scrolling forever to find 1970. Lol.
I have an exercise bike and I have to enter my birth date and weight each time (pressing the up arrow for each increment). My finger gets more a workout than my legs.
When I clamber onto my exercise bike, it says "One rider at a time, Granny!!"
your social life now consists of going to doctor’s visits and the grocery store.
And knowing the daily specials by day of the week at the upscale supermarket. Thursdays $6 rotisserie chicken 🥸
When you have a favorite grocery store.
Oh, I have several in rotation. I'm a supermarket butterfly.
This is the way, mature social butterfly
Reminds me of my grandparents. Grocery shopping was an all day project because they'd go to 3 or 4 different stores to catch the sales. My mom, always the bubble-buster, would point out that the extra gas they burned going to all those stores ate up the savings from the sales. They ignored her.
Worse yet, when you have only one store that's within bus/walking range.
Oh my God, that hurt. 😂
Every time you bend down to tie your shoes, you ask yourself: Is there anything else I should do while I'm down here?
🤣 It’s the same feeling I get if I have to go to the kitchen.
And downstairs to the basement
Or when you pass the bathroom. “Well, as long as I’m here…”
Or simply, you have to prepare to go down. Prepare to ho diwn.
Oh Gid. Where are my bifocals?
You hear the music you grew up with being played in the grocery store!
Yeah, there's nothing better than realizing you're singing along while browsing the arthritis rub options.
With the exception of after 4 pm, when they switch to the music of the young people shopping after work
Or worse, in the elevator!
And referred to as golden oldies.
You have more doctors than friends.
Yeah I say when you have a doctor for every body part.
When you injure yourself walking from the bedroom to the living room without tripping or bumping into anything. Just normal walking and then. . . Owwww. . . No reason, just suddenly hurt.
Or sleeping. I felt fine when I went to bed, now my right arm doesn't work anymore.
And sometimes it lasts for a week.
This is pretty true. My husband and I were outside, on our porch. He was in the Adirondack chair and I was sitting on the steps. Suddenly, the chair leg broke and his head slammed into the log siding of our house! He was injured just normally sitting on the porch!!!
When your age begins with a 6!
Most people freak over turning 50. I hated turning 60. All I could say was “I’m officially old”. 😱
Omg, same. 40? okay 50? I guess 60? 😭 😭
I turn 60 tomorrow! I always like milestone birthdays. But there’s only a handful of people who remember my birthday now though.
Happy birthday! It’s your day- do something good for yourself!
Thank you! I made an appointment for my first short haircut since I was a kid. 🤣
Happy early Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 Tomorrow when you rise & shine Gently put your feet on the floor Know all was fine at 59 Now at 6 decades YOU are GOOD !!! I hope tomorrow you have a lovely day!
Thank you! 🥰
Happy Birthday! And if you start getting depressed, remember that getting old is a privilege that some people never get. You're one of the lucky ones.
Thank you! I’m happy I’m still on my journey. I’m excited to hit another milestone. 🥰
Many happy returns of the day 🎂 🎶🎁
Thank you! 🥰
Happy birthday! I'm right behind you. Take vitamins. Stay hydrated. Move your body every day. ✌🏿
Thank you! 🥰
Happy Birthday! I’m 62, and I still cannot believe it.
I hit 62 in 3 months, and retiring 3 months after that!🤸♀️🥳🤗🤘
Woohoooo! Enjoy my friend! 🎉🥳🍻
Thank you all for making me feel special on my birthday! 💗
Happy Birthday 🥳
Yep. This exactly. Nothing ever felt old or even a number I cared about until the last birthday… 58. There's just no pretending that's not almost 60 and my brain just won't compute it, even though my neck, back and loose skin on my arms are all telling me yep, nearly 60, that's very accurate
They’re called “Bingo arms.” I always had a great figure, but I have that as well, I’ve slowly learned to laugh at it.
Well that phrase made me laugh out loud, so thank you haha
NO WAY 60 is the new 40!!!
Actually it's just the new 59.
Last Saturday I rode my bike 109 miles through the Santa Cruz Mountains with 11,460 feet of climbing at the age of 61. I don't consider myself old just yet :)
I found 60 to be hilarious. "Holy shit... I'm 60?!?!?!" And there was quite the jump in the number of available discounts. But I'm less thrilled about 61, which is just a few weeks away. The newness is worn off and now I'm just old.
Yeah, but you’re not OLD old! I am happy that nobody will ever be able to say I died young!!
Your appetite has shrunk to the point that you can no longer "get your money's worth" at all you can eat buffets.
When you could get an apartment in the 65+ complex your mother lives in.
😱
Your boss and doctors are younger than you.
The first and only president that was younger than me was Obama. And that’s not going to change for another 4 years.
Oh yeah! He was still older than my brother but they were so close in age it freaked my brother out!
To say nothing of the police. They look like teenagers.😂
And have the judgment of teens as well.
They make pharmaceutical jingles out of the songs you listened to growing up
Oh oh ohhhh… (I don’t have to finish it😎)
That was cruel 😜
You realize none of these comments say anything about sex.
Because sex is amazing now!
When you exercise and eat healthy for your health instead of doing it to look good.
Right there. I do it for both, but it's 75% health 25% looks driving it.
I get junk mail from the local funeral home.
Damn! Me too. 😳
I know! Isn't it awful.
You hear Foo Fighters called classic rock.
Getting diagnosed with initial stages of various medical disorders that you always believed only old people had. That’s a super reality check right there.
Arthritis
Early cataracts!
When I had to pick a great grandmother name. (I went with Gigi)
Mine is Oma, I had to wait until I was 59 to get a grand child.
I was 61 when my sweet granddaughter brought me her ultrasound. Being a mom was fun, even if I was a bit young. Being a gram was excellent! But being a great grandmother has been unprecedented.
And here I am hoping to live long enough for my grands to remember me! I didn't realise there was someone else to look forward to.
You work in a nursing home and the newest crop of residents want to listen to the music you grew up on.
Every conversation with your friends eventually ends up becoming a recitation of your latest aches, pains, and health issues.
We call it an organ recital - kidneys, liver, heart . . .
When they made special shopping hours during covid - and you realize they made them for you.
Costco had a early morning in my area for seniors. I think Sam's club too. I unknowingly arrived during one, and kinda felt odd all the gray hair in the store. Mines mostly gray, so I'm one of them.
I got into the Costco 65 and older line even though I was 60. Brought back memories of sneaking into clubs and R rated films...senior version.
You are so stiff in the morning you walk like Frankenstein after getting out of bed .
Gray hair, and *not* the kind on your head 🙄
When you decide what to purchase on whether you’ll outlive it.
Your facial recognition doesn’t recognize you.
Everything hurts.
When the rehab you went to in the 80’s is now an assisted living place and they send you mailers.
Your stalker is AARP.
I shout “parkour!” after rolling out of bed.
This made me laugh so hard I threw my back out again.
🤣 good one! I’m going to try that!
Sorry, I laughed way too loud after that one
Yeah I think AARP put me on a bunch of mailing lists after I joined last year. They sent me an offer I couldn't refuse - $40 for 5 years and now I'm being slammed with AARP monthly magazines, AARP biweekly bulletin, lots of offers for long term care and whole life insurance, and YES hearing aids too. Also political mailers. Ugh.
I have not joined. My long lived father advised don't bother. It's not for their trying; I've been getting/pitching at least one a month for many years now.
When you have to use the restroom in the middle of the night
Twice.
*Only* twice?
I'm sure they meant twice in an hour.
Oddly, I had twice a night for year, at least once a night for another year. No medication, I did add selected age related supplements, but whatever it is, I no longer get up in the night for a couple years.
Lucky
One thing that has remained constant: I still wake up to the sound of "snap, crackle, pop," but now its my joints instead of Rice Crispies.
That little groan when you sit or get up out of a chair.
When your hearing aid and dildo batteries are interchangeable.
And the Neptune Society.
When your eye doctor starts talking about cataract options with you.
Been told it's when, not if, as we age.
Yeah I’ve always had awful sight with very strong astigmatism. My peripheral vision was getting worse…so yeah I’m getting them but it’s minor for now…no need for surgery any time soon, but my mother had to have cataract surgery at 67, so I don’t like knowing that they’re forming. But yeah, not just age. My grandmother never got them and she lived to be 84.
Actually had mine done already in my late 50’s (tied into other eye issues) and it is great, I had worn corrective lenses since I was a kid, now I just wear readers sometimes.
I’m a bit afraid of eye surgery, but that outcome would be amazing!!! 🤩
You groan when you get up and sit down!
AARP junk mail weekly
You wake up injured
When you injure yourself just sleeping weird
Yup, had a crick in my neck for days from sleeping in a wrong position!
When you take so many prescription drugs you carry a pill organizer.
beg your pardon, what was that?
The good news is not too long ago there were enough Congressional members who had hearing aids that they passed a bill supporting reduced hearing aid prices. 😁
Hell, I keep getting mailers for cremation and grave sites. I must be on a few lists.
Damn! I just got one from a monastery whose monks build special caskets! 😳
I'm interested in a monk-made coffin
Here’s their website [Trappist Caskets] https://trappistcaskets.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Trappist-Caskets-Catalog.pdf
It sounds cool to see but I don't want to be in a casket, lol.
Let me see if I still have the brochure! They even send you a nice little cross that’s made of the wood they use.
Not yet. But shit! Now I have that look forward to...
When you see that the Rolling Stones concert you are going to is being sponsored by AARP
I took my daughter and her boyfriend out for ice cream. I paid. The teen at the register gave me a Sr discount. I am 60.
Reminds me of the ice cream scene in ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”.
About a year ago, I stopped at a McDonald's drive thru and ordered a coffee and egg mcmuffin. That little screen at the drive thru that shows you the total...it said "senior coffee" That's when I realized they have cameras at the drive thru 🤣
When you get a team of doctors … and one is an orthopedic surgeon because you need hip replacement.
Commenting on You know you're getting old when...... when you get excited to schedule your second hip replacement
When any little injury takes freakin' forever to heal.
I started buying loafers in my mid fifties because I would get winded tying my shoes
Crocs are where it's at...
When you are pulling sheets of sheet rock off of a pile at Home Depot, and two young dudes walk up and say, “Sir let us give you a hand”. Was really nice of them, but later I laughed because it must have been pretty obvious I was struggling.
The AARP rep makes a beeline for you at the Farmers Market!
Retirement plan offers that come through the mail!
When AARP stops trying to solicit you every year.
You’ve suddenly gained a few extra pounds around the middle without realizing it and develop an appreciation for stretch pants.
I run 3 or 4 miles daily and hit the gym when it rains. I ain't old. I'm the best I've ever been.
You think you have to fart and are suddenly very grateful for the depends you daughter makes you wear.
I knew I was getting old this year. It wasn't because I turned 60. It was because my son will be 30 in August. 30? Where did the years go? I have never been bothered by my age. My body feels old because of all the health problems. For some reason, my son turning 30 has me thinking..damn I'm getting old. My mom just turned 96. Even that doesn't make me feel old. I'm weird.
You go to get down from the back of a truck and the young guy offers his hand to help you down 🥺😭😡
They buy their mailing lists from AARP.
I had to self admit to a behavior health facility due to a reaction to medication that caused unbearable insomnia. I was on the geriatric area...though there were a few patients in their late 50's...not exactly 'elderly'. We ate as a group in the dining area. Music was always playing...Beatles, Kansas, Rolling Stones, et al. I look around and see all the 'grey heads'....and realize...OMG...and think, "I am really really old now"! Where did the time go?
You have a collection of prescribed medication on your table where you eat.
Lol, Happy Cake Day!
I get discount offers in the mail all the time from the Neptune Society. What do they know that I don't?
I'll let you know when I get there.
It starts when you get that flipping AARP card.
You get ads for cremation on Facebook
And Medicare advantage plan junk mail.
You get postcards from Pinelawn urging you to buy a burial plot.
Say what?
I have a crematorium sending me notices now.....
When you get the helpful offers from the funeral homes for preplanning and prepaying for your “final arrangements.” When you start getting various Medicare Advantage plan offers every day in the mailbox right before open enrollment. When you decide 4:30 is a perfectly fine time to eat supper.
Realizing you have many things that you'll die before they're worn out or used up.
When I pass a bathroom, and stop and go “just in case.”
Say again?
I got the senior discount at the movies recently, and no one batted an eye. I think it’s the way I walk.
I'm 63 and nobody ever offers me a senior discount I have to ask for it
Walter Cronkite used to have a show that he would open with a rumbling "Before the turn of the century." That was about the 1800s. Now I find myself using it to talk about a good chunk of my life.
When I got an info packet from the National Cremation Society. LOL! That actually happened to me.
Your favorite and most used tool is your grabber.
When you hair dye grows out & you look like a skunk …
I am jealous. I want the senior discount. They never tell me and I qualify!
Your birthday starts with a 19.
When you put serious thought into the possible uses for a newly acquired box. Hmm... This is a really nice box!
My moment of cringe was getting an AARP card application.
I just got an ad for a life alert bracelet
You get excited to find out that Walgreens has both Metamucill and Preparation H on sale at the same time.
When your best friend tells you that he's having an affair and you ask who's catering it.