Gettin’ Old

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Gary W. Graley

Gary W. Graley

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The older you get the more you’ll appreciate this..

1. I used to be able to do cartwheels. Now I tip over putting on my underwear.

2. Hate it when I see an old person and then realize we went to high school together.

3. I told my wife she should embrace her mistakes... so she hugged me.

4. My wife says I have only two faults: I don't listen and ... something else.

5. At my funeral, take the bouquet off my coffin and throw it into the crowd to see who is next.

6. I thought growing old would take longer.

7. I came, I saw, I forgot what I was doing. Retraced my steps, got lost on the way back, now I have no idea what's going on.

8. The officer said, "You drinking?" I said, "You buying?" We just laughed and laughed. I need bail money.

9. Life is too short to waste time matching socks.

10. Wi-Fi went down for five minutes, so I had to talk to my family. They seem like nice people.

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G2
 
Thanks guys my brother shared it with me as he’s hitting 60 this year and I’m just a year shy of 70 so about all of those hit home for me too
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G2

Edited to add this old poem

Monday’s child is fair of face,

Tuesday’s child is full of grace,

Wednesday’s child is full of woe,

Thursdays child has far to go,

Fridays child is loving and giving,

Saturday’s child works hard for his living,

And the child that is born on the Sabbath day
Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay;

I am a Sunday child and interestingly I was also born on the same month and day as my mother so I was her birthday present 😇
 
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For most of my life I looked upon the fathers on tv sitcoms as "the old guy", and they were typically portrayed as such. Then one day I was watching an episode of Happy Days, and Howard, the father, was depressed because it was his birthday, he was turning 45. I was 51 at the time.

Realizing that I was now older than the father on Happy Days made me feel old, and a bit depressed. I would have been thrilled to be 45 again.

Then not long after, the same exact thing happened with the show the Goldbergs. The dad was depressed because it was his birthday, and I was older than he was.

You know you're getting old when you're older than the "old man" fathers on tv sitcoms.
 
Have any of you ever been shocked to look up "the old guy" from a movie or TV show on IMDB and find you are significantly older? People 50 or 60 years ago looked much older to me than people of that same age today. I think it's a combination of hard living and the old fashioned hair and clothes styles.
 
Gary W. Graley said:
The older you get the more you’ll appreciate this..

1. I used to be able to do cartwheels. Now I tip over putting on my underwear.

2. Hate it when I see an old person and then realize we went to high school together.

3. I told my wife she should embrace her mistakes... so she hugged me.

4. My wife says I have only two faults: I don't listen and ... something else.

5. At my funeral, take the bouquet off my coffin and throw it into the crowd to see who is next.

6. I thought growing old would take longer.

7. I came, I saw, I forgot what I was doing. Retraced my steps, got lost on the way back, now I have no idea what's going on.

8. The officer said, "You drinking?" I said, "You buying?" We just laughed and laughed. I need bail money.

9. Life is too short to waste time matching socks.

10. Wi-Fi went down for five minutes, so I had to talk to my family. They seem like nice people.

😂
G2
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You remind me of Pastor Jay. He writes his sermons..with me in mind too.
I realized I was getting up there, when we were in a museum and I saw tools I still use.
I also realized it as I was talking to a rather YOUNG lady, and she told me she was retiring in 3 months.
 
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