Is it just me?

[jeepnik]

I'm 43 (20 years or more some you guys' junior) --- i have some of the same tendencies mainly because i am so distracted with everything else around me if i am trying to do something

Doing something simple to one of my motorcycles i dread, as my phone will ring 4 times during a transmission oil change and filter cleaning -- and i will invariably lose my 8mm T handle wrench, the copper washer for the oil drain plug , and my aerosol air filter oil sometime during the process

Then, i will set down my beer --- when i lose it, i will open another one, only to find the old one 3 hours later when it is hot and skunked out

Many many things are a darn hassle now .

I dont have kids, but i dont even have time to read the latest copy of Sports Illustrateds that arrive in my mailbox like clockwork every week and stack up --------- I used to keep up with a lot of reading -- and i would read a couple of books of some sort per month --- now i'm lucky if i can read a book every 3-4 months or so ------- Just too dang tired at the end of the day


Obviously piddling around on internet forums is much easier though

Shhh, don't tell, but I have a secret on how to avoid those annoying phone calls when I'm busy. But I'll share it with just you Street. Listen closely, here it is. TURN OFF THE darned PHONE! Works every time.

[jeepnik]

what a bunch of old fanny burbs.......
now....what were we talking about...

We were talking????

[jeepnik]

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Well.......... At least, now that we are all growed up - we know more words. .



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Problem is that we are starting to forget them.

[horsesoldier03]

I just turned 49 and still feel pretty good. However, my vision up close is going to hell. In the past year I have started having to adjust to wearing reading glasses. I can still do the mechanical and carpentry stuff about as good as I ever could, it does take me longer, but that is only because I cant remember where I laid my dang glasses!!!

[.45colt]

I had quite an "old age" shock yesterday, a local couple bought a house down the street and a Friend called My son as they had some fill dirt they would deliver free from some excavating they are doing. the Gentleman and His Wife are past 65 and both drive tractor trailer rig's for work.
He was down in a 6' deep hole building footer forms in the mud for a new dining room and His Wife was working in the house as they had completely gutted it. He told me they get up everyday and on the road at 2:00 am, then after a ten hour day they work on these houses to keep busy..... I told my Wife we need an attitude adjustment. maybe were not so old. .

[TedH]

I'm "only" 44, but I wake up every day with something hurting that didn't used to. I do not like going to doctors, but after several months of persistant nagging by my wife, I went for a pretty thorough check up after about a 12 year drought. I'm apparently in good health and the only recommendations my doc made was that I needed to get my heart rate up for 30 minutes a day. I told him about a dozen trips up and down the stairs ought to take care of that.

I've also noticed that my tolorance for stupidity has taken a nosedive lately, whether it's stupid drivers, rude shoppers at Walmart, or whatever, it really seems to bother me a lot more than it used to. We were in a crowded parking lot waiting paitiently in the drive lane for a family to get in their car and back out of a parking spot the other day, when some a-hole zipped around the corner past us and pushed his way in the parking spot right on the bumper of the exiting car. That was the proverbial straw on that particular day, and I jumped out of my car and went right up to his window and told him exactly what I thought of him. He rolled up his window and told me I better leave or he was going to call the police! I just laughed at him and told him what a great example he was setting for his young children that were in the back seat.

[.45colt]

The same thing happened to Me Ted this spring , only at a crowded restaurant. guy took the spot I was waiting for while a couple placed two kid's in car seats, and I had to park 40 yards further down. My Wife was inside already and didn't know what happened. I came in and confronted the jerk and He says like a smart a** "take it easy man it only a parking spot" I told Him I'd like to punch his stupid face in. My Wife was speechless as were the rest of the people in there. I haven't been mad like that in years.

[GonnePhishin]

octagon and RIMFIRE

Just reading about all you old fanny burbs is making me feel better!

Best be nice to all of us old fanny burbs son, 'cause you too will git thar' soon enough.

Blaine

His Cub Scout leader would read to them.

G: Good one. Your sense of humor just cracks me up, son. If yer ever up our way be sure to look us up.

[Streetstar]

I'm 43 (20 years or more some you guys' junior) --- i have some of the same tendencies mainly because i am so distracted with everything else around me if i am trying to do something

Doing something simple to one of my motorcycles i dread, as my phone will ring 4 times during a transmission oil change and filter cleaning -- and i will invariably lose my 8mm T handle wrench, the copper washer for the oil drain plug , and my aerosol air filter oil sometime during the process

Then, i will set down my beer --- when i lose it, i will open another one, only to find the old one 3 hours later when it is hot and skunked out

Many many things are a darn hassle now .

I dont have kids, but i dont even have time to read the latest copy of Sports Illustrateds that arrive in my mailbox like clockwork every week and stack up --------- I used to keep up with a lot of reading -- and i would read a couple of books of some sort per month --- now i'm lucky if i can read a book every 3-4 months or so ------- Just too dang tired at the end of the day


Obviously piddling around on internet forums is much easier though

Shhh, don't tell, but I have a secret on how to avoid those annoying phone calls when I'm busy. But I'll share it with just you Street. Listen closely, here it is. TURN OFF THE darned PHONE! Works every time.

Im cursed (blessed?) with being a small business owner who depends on that wretched thing for livelihood 8 days a week it seems

My idea of a great vacation is to go anywhere, as long as i can leave the phone at home for a few days

[jeepnik]

I'm 43 (20 years or more some you guys' junior) --- i have some of the same tendencies mainly because i am so distracted with everything else around me if i am trying to do something

Doing something simple to one of my motorcycles i dread, as my phone will ring 4 times during a transmission oil change and filter cleaning -- and i will invariably lose my 8mm T handle wrench, the copper washer for the oil drain plug , and my aerosol air filter oil sometime during the process

Then, i will set down my beer --- when i lose it, i will open another one, only to find the old one 3 hours later when it is hot and skunked out

Many many things are a darn hassle now .

I dont have kids, but i dont even have time to read the latest copy of Sports Illustrateds that arrive in my mailbox like clockwork every week and stack up --------- I used to keep up with a lot of reading -- and i would read a couple of books of some sort per month --- now i'm lucky if i can read a book every 3-4 months or so ------- Just too dang tired at the end of the day


Obviously piddling around on internet forums is much easier though

Shhh, don't tell, but I have a secret on how to avoid those annoying phone calls when I'm busy. But I'll share it with just you Street. Listen closely, here it is. TURN OFF THE darned PHONE! Works every time.

Im cursed (blessed?) with being a small business owner who depends on that wretched thing for livelihood 8 days a week it seems

My idea of a great vacation is to go anywhere, as long as i can leave the phone at home for a few days

So am I, but there just comes a time when you have to turn it off, if for nothing else than the sake of you sanity.

[Sixgun]

To all you younguns, let me explain something to you.......the ago group from 55 on is the last of the Americans who have truly experienced what America is all about.

I hope I'm dead by then but there are a few things you can bet your azz on......

It's just a matter of time before the ragheads drop some kind of a bomb on us.

Women will run Washington with most of them being darkies, just look at First Lady Sasquatch .

The middle class will be a thing of the past as will single family homes, pick up trucks, boats, most guns, and schools that contain kids trying to learn, changing to all mixed up with the offspring of degenerates.

Tax rate with be 75%

Disease will be rampant .......that's already started...nothing good never did come out of Africa.

I'm glad I was born when I was.------6

[2X22]

We were in a crowded parking lot waiting paitiently in the drive lane for a family to get in their car and back out of a parking spot the other day, when some a-hole zipped around the corner past us and pushed his way in the parking spot right on the bumper of the exiting car. That was the proverbial straw on that particular day, and I jumped out of my car and went right up to his window and told him exactly what I thought of him. He rolled up his window and told me I better leave or he was going to call the police! I just laughed at him and told him what a great example he was setting for his young children that were in the back seat.

I have a way of not having problems with that sort of thing. I find the furthest parking place away and park there. For years my wife complained but I notice now, she does the same thing! Funny thing is, I can park out way away and walk into the store quicker than the chubby gal who waited 5 minutes to park next to the store can. Usually, she's stopped to rest during her 50' hike inside the door!

[rossim92]

still going strong at 51 yoa. I have a steady schedule every morning. I poop at five, pee at six and then I wake up at seven!!!!!!!!

[2X22]

I poop at five, pee at six and then I wake up at seven!!!!!!!!