When did you realize you were old?
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When I romanticize about driving my 1967 VW Bug in the mountains……. Or when I had my second boy at 50.
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I'm 60 and cutting grass keeps my strength up pretty good. It's not easy work and the equipment is heavy.
I will be 79 in April and my sister just turner 80 in an assisted living place. I discovered my age when I try to work on my vehicles. The thrill is not there like before when I accomplish a big repair.. Coming up is a pressure plate and throw out bearing replacement on my 65 VW bug and ball joints and bushings on the A arms of my 87 VW Cabriolet. Then there is acylinder head replacement on my 1990 Ford Ranger XLT with the 2.9 v6. I think I need a nap from just thinking about it. Then there is the bathroom remodel at our retirement home.
I used to ride my bike in the negatives.. ice snow you name it. It really seems to be more terrible every year and I’m only 45. The bike accident with the concussions in 2020 is really aging me faster.
I got my endorsement about 15 years ago.i rode 6.5 miles 1 way to work for about 6 weeks
I saw the writing on the wall and sold the bike soon after.
Once you do, auto maintenance becomes no more challenging than perusing the latest BITOG threads.
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I'll tell you guys how you'll know you're old. You've been working all day and you take the drive home.
You pull into your driveway and you go to get out of your car. ZOW! Every joint in your skeleton hurts!
You pull into your driveway and you go to get out of your car. ZOW! Every joint in your skeleton hurts!
2017 on the runway to the end
A couple of years ago when I was 75 my family took me to England, Scotland and Wales. Being a Landscape Architect, City Planner and history buff I was in heaven. We walked and walked. I made them stop at every castle, medieval church, and picture perfect village. I was proud I was keeping up with my boys and my DIL. The last day of our trip we were in London. We put in just over 9 miles of walking per the phone GPS that day. I began to drag big time. I could not keep up and had to stop and sit every mile or so for a brief rest. That night I was so exhausted I had to pass on going to what would have been my first ever Michelin star restaurant. I was in bed by 8:00 while my family stuffed themselves. I slept until 8 the following morning. I had crashed big time. I felt for the first time and officially became, old.
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I'm 66 and get asked often at work when I'm going to retire. I missed out on our pension because they closed it to new hires a year or too before I hired on. I tell them I can't retire because I have no pension I can just quit. Pensioners vs non-pensioners is an aggravating bone of contention at work. First time I felt old was when I was 59 and volunteered at work to open hopper doors for overtime at the grain drier after my 8 hours was up at our building. I hurt my back the first day. I persevered by stretching between trucks and finished the harvest but I realized I had aged out of that job.
I'm 62, I'm well into the physically old category. Tried to run the other day and simply couldn't. I did not try to run around the block, just sprint from the door to the car. No way, I'm way too stiff. It's weird to think I can't do it.
Yes I have health issues. I do try to exercise, bicycle and use the gym. But father time is winning, big time. Having knee stabilization issues now and stairs are getting dangerous. Joint x-rays OK, but hip and leg muscles are unable to provide normal knee function.
I guess the answer is I started to really feel old about the time I hit 60.
Yes I have health issues. I do try to exercise, bicycle and use the gym. But father time is winning, big time. Having knee stabilization issues now and stairs are getting dangerous. Joint x-rays OK, but hip and leg muscles are unable to provide normal knee function.
I guess the answer is I started to really feel old about the time I hit 60.
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I don't get no pension either. I will be working until I drop dead.
I'm now referred to as Unc/an elder at work
Punk kids
They ain't gonna let me live down turning 30
Soon I'll be old and irrelevant, @AutoMechanic will have to be our resident young person
6 7 I guess
Apparently when you're birth year starts with a 19, you might as well be George Washington
Punk kids
They ain't gonna let me live down turning 30
Soon I'll be old and irrelevant, @AutoMechanic will have to be our resident young person
6 7 I guess
Apparently when you're birth year starts with a 19, you might as well be George Washington
Retirement, what's that?
I've heard the word, doubt I'll ever find out what it means
Retirement hit hard, but now everyday is Saturday without the traffic! Please be ready for retirement, and I mean financially. I see far too many who struggle.
But when did it start? When I realized I wasn't bench pressing TH400 transmissions into my FireChicken anymore. Gotta pick my battles at 72.
But when did it start? When I realized I wasn't bench pressing TH400 transmissions into my FireChicken anymore. Gotta pick my battles at 72.
I'm having difficulty believing that I am old because I don't feel old. When I look at myself in the mirror, I look fine. However when I see myself in pictures, especially next to those who are younger, I see that I've aged.
Yeah, I can't do as much as I used to do even though I still do those things but I am never fatigued!
It's more along the lines that, I just don't want to do certain things any longer, even though I still do them(often).
I recently shoveled/wheelbarrow'd 4 yards of mixed stone at my daughter's house over 3 days and spread it all-round her landscape. Did I need a nap each day? You bet!
When I have my annual physical and my doctor asks me, "how do you feel? I tell the doctor, "I feel GREAT!
I feel somewhere between ages 11-48 because I don't really know what I am supposed to feel like in my 70's".
I still do things around my home, yard, vehicles and work on my own things(around the house/garage). I still cut my lawn with a push mower and snow blow or shovel my driveway in the winter, help neighbors/others. I still ride my bike 20 miles/day in good weather and less in colder temps. And I/we still go to the gym often(varies).
We now have to watch more closely what we eat & how much(quantity) along with how much sleep we get. And I've started to take a nap if I think that I need one. The busier I am, the less sleep I seem to need.
Yeah, I can't do as much as I used to do even though I still do those things but I am never fatigued!
It's more along the lines that, I just don't want to do certain things any longer, even though I still do them(often).
I recently shoveled/wheelbarrow'd 4 yards of mixed stone at my daughter's house over 3 days and spread it all-round her landscape. Did I need a nap each day? You bet!
When I have my annual physical and my doctor asks me, "how do you feel? I tell the doctor, "I feel GREAT!
I feel somewhere between ages 11-48 because I don't really know what I am supposed to feel like in my 70's".
I still do things around my home, yard, vehicles and work on my own things(around the house/garage). I still cut my lawn with a push mower and snow blow or shovel my driveway in the winter, help neighbors/others. I still ride my bike 20 miles/day in good weather and less in colder temps. And I/we still go to the gym often(varies).
We now have to watch more closely what we eat & how much(quantity) along with how much sleep we get. And I've started to take a nap if I think that I need one. The busier I am, the less sleep I seem to need.
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