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usonian

(17,701 posts)
Thu Nov 10, 2022, 05:55 PM Nov 2022

You know you're getting old when:

You run "find my phone" more than three times a day.
You lost your eyeglasses. In your shirt pocket.
Have 10 hats to keep the sun out of your eyes and can't find one.
Moved the vacuum cleaner you stubbed your toe on.
--- Stubbed your toe on the same vacuum cleaner in its new location.
Forgot to feed the dog.
-- Remembered that you don't have a dog.
Forgot where you parked the car.
-- At home.
Lost your to-do list.
You're really glad to hear a pianist on the radio playing at about 2/3 the speed of young show-offs.
Can't get "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" out of your head.

Other stuff THAT I FORGOT.

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Diamond_Dog

(36,994 posts)
1. You have a pair of "cheater" glasses in every room
Thu Nov 10, 2022, 06:02 PM
Nov 2022

In addition to the pair on top of your head.

No Vested Interest

(5,242 posts)
12. and two "grabbers" - one by the front door to reach the morning newspaper
Fri Nov 11, 2022, 03:59 AM
Nov 2022

(and yes, still like reading a newspaper (with obits) at my own pace.)

 

Basic LA

(2,047 posts)
3. You don't feel good enough to go to the doctor.
Thu Nov 10, 2022, 06:24 PM
Nov 2022

And when you do feel good enough, why go?

Arkansas Granny

(32,022 posts)
5. I tell my kids that if I wake up in the morning and nothing aches,
Thu Nov 10, 2022, 06:44 PM
Nov 2022

I'll think I died in my sleep

 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
6. It it makes you feel any better, that last one was happening to me when I was like ... 6 years old
Thu Nov 10, 2022, 06:58 PM
Nov 2022

Around 1972

LakeArenal

(29,941 posts)
7. I was told I had entered the Wonder Years.
Thu Nov 10, 2022, 07:01 PM
Nov 2022

I wonder where my keys are
I wonder why I came in here
I wonder where glasses are
I wonder…. I forgot.

Wounded Bear

(61,969 posts)
8. I have a rack on my front door, with all my active hats on it...
Thu Nov 10, 2022, 07:15 PM
Nov 2022

and I still sometimes walk out without one on.

But I don't forget where they are.

SlimJimmy

(3,251 posts)
11. Walk into a room and forget why you are there.
Fri Nov 11, 2022, 01:06 AM
Nov 2022

Go back an hour later (after you remember) then realize it was the wrong room.

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