You know you're old when...

[sygazelle]

....when your most frequent answer when somebody asks you a question is..WHAT.

[sygazelle]

...when watching hummingbirds on the feeder that you can see while sitting on your La-z-boy is more entertaining that that crappy NFL game.

[sygazelle]

....when you look at your friends and think, "damn, they are getting old".

[3.0L]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

....when you look at your friends and think, "damn, they are getting old".

As you gaze around during a class reunion and you find yourself thinking, "I don't feel as old as you look."

[RelaxIN2]

Originally Posted by Dpc2u

We played "stoop ball" which I think is the same as step ball, but not wire ball. I think that involved throwing the ball over powerlines.

Can you imagine shoving kids now out the door to play and saying come back when the street lights come on? They would stand in the yard like lost puppies. :

Yup..Stoop ball, step ball, same game..!!

You were close, the object wasn't throw the ball over the wire, it was to HIT the wire. If you threw the ball and hit the first wire (closest to the ground) and the other guy didn't catch it before it hit the ground, you hit a single. if you hit the 2nd wire from the ground and he didn't catch it you hit a double. So forth and so on... the very top wire was the Home Run wire... If you hit that and he didn't catch it, it was a home run.

I just about threw my shoulder out playing that game..

Oh..and to your point, the darker it got, the higher the score would be and when the street light came on the game was over. Then it was time to go in, argue about getting a bath, put on my footies pajamas and start doing the homework that I told my mom I did already so I could go out and play...LOL...

[sygazelle]

...when your kids start getting gray hair.

[justion92]

when you are growing some hair on your tip of the nose

[MsGoGoMoto]

Originally Posted by 3.0L

As you gaze around during a class reunion and you find yourself thinking, "I don't feel as old as you look."

When you realize your classmates have kids that still live with them and your kids are grown and gone.. one with a doctorate in molecular biology.

[MsGoGoMoto]

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[rwheels]

Old school "Game Boy"

[M_Six]

When you keep thinking you have all summer to complete a project and then realize we're 12 days from Fall. Time is screaming by.

[shoei]

Originally Posted by MsGoGoMoto

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Zach Morris.

[JJ 911SC]

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[Littlebear]

Originally Posted by JJ 911SC

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"There's a holdup in the Bronx,
Brooklyn's broken out in fights;
There's a traffic jam in Harlem
That's backed up to Jackson Heights;
There's a Scout troop short a child,
Khrushchev's due at Idlewild;
Car 54, Where Are You?? "


Joe E. Ross as Officer Gunther Toody
Fred Gwynne as Officer Francis Muldoon

[Esteban]

I just signed up for Medicare. I'm now officially old, so all you youngsters gtf off my lawn.

[3.0L]

Originally Posted by MsGoGoMoto

When you realize your classmates have kids that still live with them and your kids are grown and gone.. one with a doctorate in molecular biology.

Failure to launch.

[Littlebear]

Originally Posted by Esteban

I just signed up for Medicare. I'm now officially old, so all you youngsters gtf off my lawn.

I'm just a couple of months in. What will they do to my body for free now?

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by Littlebear

I'm just a couple of months in. What will they do to my body for free now?

It's cheaper than regular medical insurance, and complicated at first. You'll have fun signing up.

[Littlebear]

Originally Posted by Esteban

It's cheaper than regular medical insurance, and complicated at first. You'll have fun signing up.

My wife signed me up, so I know nothing....

I want free!!

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by Littlebear

My wife signed me up, so I know nothing....

I want free!!

Ha, lucky you, with a helpful wife.

As you know, Murf, not much free in this world.

[Boomer 2019]

Originally Posted by Littlebear

My wife signed me up, so I know nothing....

I want free!!

You are not actually signing up. You are automaticly enrolled without any action on your part. Your only choice is between "Origional Medicare" or a "Medicare Advantage Plan". Either way the deduction from your Social Security payment also starts automaticly the instant you turn 65. Like Esteban said..not much free anymore.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by Boomer 2019

You are not actually signing up. You are automaticly enrolled without any action on your part. Your only choice is between "Origional Medicare" or a "Medicare Advantage Plan". Either way the deduction from your Social Security payment also starts automaticly the instant you turn 65. Like Esteban said..not much free anymore.

You may be automatically enrolled but you have to "activate" it. I started collecting Social Security almost 2 yeas ago but was still under my wife's medical insurance. Recently signed up to start using Medicare because my wife fully retired, and there were many choices to make. It can be complicated.