Observations on Growing Older

 

 
  ~ Your kids are becoming you... and you don't like them... but your grandchildren are perfect! 

~ Going out is good... Coming home is better! 

~ When people say you look "Great"... they add "for your age!" 

~ When you needed the discount, you paid full price. Now you get discounts on everything... movies, hotels, flights, but you're too tired to use them. 

~ You forget names …. but it's OK because other people forgot they even knew you!!! 

~ The 5 kilos you wanted to lose  is now 10 and you have a better chance of losing your keys than the 10 kilos 

~ You realize you're never going to be really good at anything .... especially golf. 

~ Your spouse is counting on you to remember things you don't remember. 

~ The things you used to care to do, you no longer care to do, but you really do care that you don't care to do them anymore. 

~ Your husband sleeps better on a lounge chair  with the TV blaring than he does in bed.  It's called his "pre-sleep". 

~ Remember when your mother said... 
"Wear clean underwear in case you GET in an accident"? 
Now you bring clean underwear in case you HAVE an accident! 

~ You used to say, 
"I hope my kids GET married... 
Now, "I hope they STAY married!" 

~ You miss the days when everything worked  with just an "ON" and "OFF" switch. 

~ When GOOGLE, iPod, email, modem - were unheard of, and a mouse was something  that made you climb on a table. 

~ You used to use more 4 letter words … 
"what?"..."when?"... ??? 

~ Now that you can afford  expensive jewelry, it's not safe to wear it anywhere. 

~ Your husband has a night out with the guys, but he's home by 9:00 p.m. Next week it will be 8:30 p.m. 

~ You read 100 pages into a book before you realize you've read it. 

~ Notice everything they sell in stores is "sleeveless"?!!! 

~ What used to be freckles are now age spots. 

~ Everybody whispers.

~ Now that your husband has retired … you'd give anything if he'd find a job!

~ You have 3 sizes of clothes in your wardrobe … 2 of which you will never wear. 

~ But old is good in some things: 
old songs, 
old movies, 
And best of all, OLD FRIENDS!!