Palmerin Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 I told my mother about the death of Mickey Rooney. She replied: Yes, I loved that muchacho=boy. Rooney was born on 23 Sept 1920; Francisca Roldan was born on 30 Nov 1929. Like many old people, my mother is not good at judging people's ages. She described the handyman who is painting her bedroom as a young man; that young man has a 29 y/o son. At what age do men and women stop being young people? Compared to Francisca I am young, but that does not detract from the fact that a man of 59 and a half years of age no longer qualifies as a boy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 At what age do men and women stop being young people? Your aching joints and lost of stamina tells one they are not as young. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Sometimes, I'm just glad I'm not as old as I feel! Age is always a relavent thing. Some would say, "It's just a number". Some would say you're only as old as you think, which is to say if you think old, you'll feel old. I go along with the latter to a degree. My Grandmother used to belong to the "senior center" in my city, and would often complain in amusement about the "kids" at the center griping about their aches and pains. These "kids" were in their mid 60s. At the time, Grandma was 77! That same year, the family( at that time. I'm talking pre-divorce)was gathered at one of those "Chuckie Cheese's" type places for my older daughter's 10th birthday. Feeling in a generous mood, I slapped a fistful of tokens down on the table in front of my then Mother-in-law and told her to "go out there and have a ball!" She just laughed and dismissively said, "Oh, I'm too old for any of that stuff!" I diverted her attention towards my Grandmother, who was furiously engaged in playing "Centipede", and asked, "WHO'S too old for WHAT?" My Mother-in-law was only 53 at the time. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 I told my mother about the death of Mickey Rooney. She replied: Yes, I loved that muchacho=boy. Rooney was born on 23 Sept 1920; Francisca Roldan was born on 30 Nov 1929. Like many old people, my mother is not good at judging people's ages. She described the handyman who is painting her bedroom as a young man; that young man has a 29 y/o son. At what age do men and women stop being young people? Compared to Francisca I am young, but that does not detract from the fact that a man of 59 and a half years of age no longer qualifies as a boy. I am 65 going on 25, and I am completely serious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palmerin Posted April 17, 2014 Author Share Posted April 17, 2014 My childhood was not as idyllic as it should have been, so I'm trying to make up for that by doing now everything that I did not do when I was a chronological, as opposed to an spiritual, youngster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 This is weird. Just last evening I was thinking of posting something along these lines and got to wondering about a (now missing) thread we had called "You know you're getting old when.." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 You know, if it wasn't for the white hair in my beard, the extra chin, the wattle on my neck, the "popping" of my joints while getting out of bed, the stiffness in my legs and the bags under my eyes, I wouldn't look or feel as old as I really am! Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 The only daily reminder I get is from a broken ankle I had about 5 years ago. After 3 months in an external fixator all healed well but I never regained full motion and it stiffens up when I sit idle for more than 20 minutes. I am fortunate. You know you're getting old when.. as you are walking through your house, you stop every two or three steps to pick a piece of lint or thread off the floor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 I am 65 going on 25.... So finance ol' buddy, how's your singing voice? (...'cause I hear they're casting for the geriatric edition of "The Sound of Music" at the Cherry Hill Retirement Center just across the river from ya next Tuesday!) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 So finance ol' buddy, how's your singing voice? (...'cause I hear they're casting for the geriatric edition of "The Sound of Music" at the Cherry Hill Retirement Center just across the river from ya next Tuesday!) Dargo, BEST laugh of the day LOL (very clever, 'ol buddy!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Thanks lavender, but I just figured this COULD be finance's big break, THAT'S all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Thanks lavender, but I just figured this COULD be finance's big break, THAT'S all! LOL and he'll put a DOO W-O-P **** spin on the song ( they bleeped out W-O-P ! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 The only daily reminder I get is from a broken ankle I had about 5 years ago. After 3 months in an external fixator all healed well but I never regained full motion and it stiffens up when I sit idle for more than 20 minutes. I am fortunate. You know you're getting old when.. as you are walking through your house, you stop every two or three steps to pick a piece of lint or thread off the floor. One thing many people don't understand is that most physical therapy isn't to ensure mobility or lack of pain in the near term but in the long, long terms. e.g. 20 years after the injury. Many people stop PT as soon as they feel better. Ok that makes sense in the short term but 10 or more years later they may wish they completed all the PT assigned to them. By than it is too late for PT to have much of an impact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 One thing many people don't understand is that most physical therapy isn't to ensure mobility or lack of pain in the near term but in the long, long terms. e.g. 20 years after the injury. Many people stop PT as soon as they feel better. Ok that makes sense in the short term but 10 or more years later they may wish they completed all the PT assigned to them. By than it is too late for PT to have much of an impact. I followed through with all of my PT and my muscles are doing great because of it. The resetting of the bones resulted in a loss of flexibility in the ankle. I can walk fine.. just can't point my toes - as if to put on my western boots. I miss those boots <sniff!> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Kid_Dabb, a bunch of us came up one day with a list of how you can tell when you reached "middle age". Some of the better ones: ....When you wake up feeling like it's "the morning after", and there was no "night before". ...When you think someone's making popcorn for breakfast only to realize that sound is your bones as you get out of bed. ...When you say "good morning" to your Dad, then discover you're just looking in the mirror. ...When you wake up in the morning, and it's your back that's s t i f f.. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Kid_Dabb, a bunch of us came up one day with a list of how you can tell when you reached "middle age". Some of the better ones: ....When you wake up feeling like it's "the morning after", and there was no "night before". ...When you think someone's making popcorn for breakfast only to realize that sound is your bones as you get out of bed. ...When you say "good morning" to your Dad, then discover you're just looking in the mirror. ...When you wake up in the morning, and it's your back that's s t i f f.. Sepiatone ROFL...! All great! I hadn't heard any of those before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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