You know you're getting old when

[Charles West]

Now that you are going to live. Any videos?

Not of anything that ugly.

 

[CCAAMO]

Were you a stunt man in your younger years?

 

[Charles West]

Were you a stunt man in your younger years?

And I have fallen out of a eucalyptus tree and crashed a motorcycle with not so much as a broken pinkie.

 

[TerryRohrer]

Not of anything that ugly.

Not laughing at you, but with you! I reached to open my pickup door a few years ago while standing gingerly on ice. A split second later, the back of my head was about where my feet had been. Looking at the sky, I was happy to be alive until I clenched my hands and both were numb. That passed, I found my phone and pen about five feet beyond my head (from my shirt pocket).

My wife insisted on dragging me to the ER and was delighted when the idiot doctor came out to announce the CAT scan results..."We didn't see anything!"

 

[Fernando]

And I have fallen out of a eucalyptus tree and crashed a motorcycle with not so much as a broken pinkie.

Are you sure? That could explain how you got MAGA syndrome.

 

[Charles West]

Not laughing at you, but with you! I reached to open my pickup door a few years ago while standing gingerly on ice. A split second later, the back of my head was about where my feet had been. Looking at the sky, I was happy to be alive until I clenched my hands, and both were numb. That passed, and I found my phone and pen about five feet beyond my head (from my shirt pocket).

My wife insisted on dragging me to the ER and was delighted when the idiot doctor came out to announce the CAT scan results..."We didn't see anything!"

I just stayed home and suffered. It happened in September '21 when COVID-19 was raging. I didn't go near a hospital for fear of bringing it home with me and infecting my wife. So I took it until it healed on its own.

 

[Tom D]

Hospitals are good when needed, but a bad place in terms of getting some bad infection.

Pretty much if bruised badly, immediate icing and rest is the only thing you can do. You know you are getting old when it take a while to recover.

 

[Charles West]

Are you sure? That could explain how you got MAGA syndrome.

Nah, I got MAGA from having a fondness for economics after college. It's that BS in Business Administration thing.

 

[Tom D]

You know you are getting old when you become a conservative libertarian, like me. It's kinda like 'leave me alone' says old grump me, you annoying everything.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Transistor Radio with earpiece to listen to world series in 4th grade.

Saved my spending allowance for months to buy a transistor radio. Would then save up for when we would go to Waltons (Sam Walton's first store in Bentonville) because they usually had a display of loose 9v batteries that were 5 cents each. I'd buy 3 or 4 out of a quarter and that'd last maybe a month if they were good batteries.