You know you're getting old when

[Mike Ault]

I didn' follow my walking rule and walking looking up at the house slipped on some mud and wenr down. Thank God is was grassy and not the concrete sidewalk. I also fell the way i have trained myself to fall. Palms out and knees been a little. Was a perfet 4 point ground landing.

The getting old part was forgeting the mud part while looking up.

I've fallen because I wasn't looking down where I was walking and I've fallen because I wasn't looking up to see what I was about to walk into at eye level. Some days you're just destined to fall. Happy to hear that you are a "self trained faller", though. I'll try and remember "the four-point stance" next time.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Anything important you should think about it more than 5 seconds. You know you're getting old when you don't remember where you put something 2 seconds ago without thinking about it.

Thank God is was grassy

Went to feed my birdies - snow was slick as snot - wrenched my knee. After 2 weeks I am still limping but not using the cane.

And speaking of "wrenched" -
Battery went out on my Kioti tractor and so, of course, being Korean, it needed metric wrenches...small metric wrenches. I only have perhaps 100 metric wrenches and probably 300 SAE wrenches. Hunted and hunted. Nope. No small metrics anywhere. I finally got the cables loose with a pair of pliers - went to town and bought a battery at Atwoods ($100- not too bad a price) and on to Harbor Freight where I spent $20 for a set of small metric wrenches and SAE wrenches all in one package (on sale.) Got the battery back in and it all works.
When I die, I want them to have a tool sale to pay for the funeral. I am sure I have $10,000 worth of tools, most of which I cannot lay my hands on at any given moment.

 

[TerryRohrer]

I am sure I have $10,000 worth of tools, most of which I cannot lay my hands on at any given moment.

Yeah, you know you have 6 of the one you need, but they don't show up til you get another.

The one that ticks me off is, when looking for something, I can recall as if it was 5 minutes ago thinking, "Now, I'm putting this here so I will be sure to remember where it is when I need it", only to be unable to remember where "there" is when the time comes. I think somebody switched a couple of fields in the database at some point.

 

[TC]

I didn' follow my walking rule and walking looking up at the house slipped on some mud and wenr down. Thank God is was grassy and not the concrete sidewalk. I also fell the way i have trained myself to fall. Palms out and knees been a little. Was a perfet 4 point ground landing.

The getting old part was forgeting the mud part while looking up.

Well, depending on your age, your PCP will ask if you've fallen lately. I always lie.

 

[Fernando]

I didn' follow my walking rule and walking looking up at the house slipped on some mud and wenr down. Thank God is was grassy and not the concrete sidewalk. I also fell the way i have trained myself to fall. Palms out and knees been a little. Was a perfet 4 point ground landing.

The getting old part was forgeting the mud part while looking up.

Sometimes on a straight trail, I like to close my eyes and continue walking.
But lately on my trail, I see spit on the ground. Disgusting.
Now I have to look down so not to dirty my shoes.

 

[Charles West]

Sometimes on a straight trail, I like to close my eyes and continue walking.
But lately on my trail, I see spit on the ground. Disgusting.
Now I have to look down so not to dirty my shoes.

It's probably spooge given your Milpitas location.

 

[Fernando]

It's probably spooge given your Milpitas location.

You are disgusting. You know that.
And you can't blame that for being an old *******.

 

[Mike Ault]

You are disgusting. You know that.
And you can't blame that for being an old *******.

What is "spooge"?

 

[Fernando]

What is "spooge"?

It's Charles' organic hand made Mousse. It's not much.

 

[Tom D]

You are disgusting. You know that.
And you can't blame that for being an old *******.

Your like the old guy yelling at the kids playing on the street. That is a sign of getting old.