I had mentioned Leo is the first pope younger than me.
Another one I realized is when you have more doctors than close friends.
Saw a meme yesterday.
My mind thinks it is 29.
My humor is that of a 12 year old.
But my body realizes it survived the Civil War.
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Be optimistic: Spanish.
Caesar's civil war?
I think some would say that one is still going on.
Regard's the English Civil War. The family name did survive.
I do not think I have any direct connection to the Spanish Civil War.
It is all relative. About 40 years ago I was visiting my elderly parents. Walking round the estate of bungalows for the aged where they lived, my father pointed out one house where the occupant was "really old" as she was over 80. My father was in his early 90s at the time.
And it's scary to realise that I'm officially an old lady now! I'm about to move into an almshouse, and you have to be over 60 to qualify.
Middle young - twenties
Old young - thirties
Early middle age -forties
Middle middle age -fifties
Old middle age -sixties
Early old - seventies
Middle old - eighties
Old old - nineties
By this reckoning I have a few years of being "middle-aged" to go.
When I was 16 I thought 30 was really old.
For quite some time I had 70 as officially 'old'. But now that I'm 68 ...
Please don't. That's - younger than me.
Wife realized she was old when we went to a movie theater and the ticket attendant asked if she wanted the senior discount. Technically, she was 54 at the time. But I told her take the discount. And that was 20 some years ago.
“Turning fifty was fine,” she said. “It was only a number. The real shock was when my agent rang me about a performance of The Marriage of Figaro. I just assumed Susanna, I’ve played Susanna many times, and then she said they were offering me the Countess! I mean, the Countess is an excellent part. But it is an Older Woman and that was a real blow.”
Not a problem that had ever occurred to me…
Of course the way things are going, most millennials probably won't get their pensions until they're about 75...
We are not quite at that point but we do find ourselves saying to each other on a regular basis, "What did s/he say?"
It was me!!
We do. Mrs. Gramps is hard of hearing. Helps her understand what is going on.
While shopping in my lunch hour on my 55th birthday I was approached by a member of U3A looking for new members. I was horrified!
I'm not quite there yet but all four of mine have now turned 40 and I clearly remember my own 40th birthday with all of them at the celebration......
I am often told I don't look my age (71), but later this month I'm 72, which is the age at which my Mum died.
I feel a bit weird about that.
And that my children will be the same age as I was when my dad died.
And I will be the same age as when his dad died - another ten years to get to my dads age.
It is shocking when you realise that you really are a generation on from critical times.
I've been feeling old for about 22 years, I can date it pretty accurately from when Cheery son was ill. Every Registrar that came around for chats with paperwork to be completed seemed to be a teenager to me and I wasn't yet 40! Things have improved slightly since then as they have aged. Some of the Registrars are now full Consultants and working at the same hospital!!
You mean, to eat it?
Last night we went out to celebrate Mrs Gramp's 76. When we told the waitress that, she remarked, you don't look it. To which we assured her it will be coming for her faster than she thinks it will. She quickly left.
But to make you all feel young again, it was at the Anne Frank House, and the guide pointed out that Anne might have still been alive - late 90s, but still entirely possible.
I did "Wake me up when September ends" at an open mike recently and introduced it as a recent song. And by comparison with most of my covers it is. It's 21 years old.
Most of my covers are late 60s through to 80s. Some of them are older than me, to be fair.
Heavens to murgatroyd! ..... how did that happen?
We got lucky. Consider the alternative. I'm trying to keep that in mind as I get older.