You know you're old when...

[Esteban]

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[3.0L]

Originally Posted by Esteban

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Amen.

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by 3.0L

… if you didn’t have one of these.

...or one of these:





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[3798j]

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[RickFLM4]

Originally Posted by 3798j

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Touch some wet parsley or other produce to wet your fingers. That’s the trick.

[vreihen16]

<--- Can't even open ziploc bags any more.

[JJ 911SC]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

<--- Can't even open ziploc bags any more.

As the inventer got older and had the same problem, he updated the design with one side longer than the other one.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by RickFLM4

Touch some wet parsley or other produce to wet your fingers. That’s the trick.

I find their water sprayer and spray a drop or two of water on my fingers.

[3.0L]

Originally Posted by RickFLM4

Touch some wet parsley or other produce to wet your fingers. That’s the trick.

I use that trick. Do not lick your fingers.

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by JJ 911SC

As the inventer got older and had the same problem, he updated the design with one side longer than the other one.

I still can't get many of them to open.

Even worse is tamper seals these days. Picking on ALDI, they put a cardboard seal under the cap of their yummy orange juice with a semi-circle pull flap to tear it off. The glue holding the cardboard to the bottle is stronger than the glue holding the pull tab on, so I'll let you figure out how that works out. They also sell bottled iced tea that's pretty good, and comes in bottles with tamper snap rings on the cap. Why, in the name of all things holy do they find the need to also put a PLA (corn plastic) shrink seal over the cap with a pre-perforated tear stripe that is impossible to tear without a razor knife? I'm old and have hand tremors, and the last thing that I should be doing is cutting a curved surface with a razor knife!!!!!

[Esteban]

Remember going to the library? Remember the Dewey Decimal System?

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

I still can't get many of them to open.

Even worse is tamper seals these days. Picking on ALDI, they put a cardboard seal under the cap of their yummy orange juice with a semi-circle pull flap to tear it off. The glue holding the cardboard to the bottle is stronger than the glue holding the pull tab on, so I'll let you figure out how that works out. They also sell bottled iced tea that's pretty good, and comes in bottles with tamper snap rings on the cap. Why, in the name of all things holy do they find the need to also put a PLA (corn plastic) shrink seal over the cap with a pre-perforated tear stripe that is impossible to tear without a razor knife? I'm old and have hand tremors, and the last thing that I should be doing is cutting a curved surface with a razor knife!!!!!

The almond milk brand we use has plastic twist off caps that you need a pair of pliers to open. Not sure why this company can't get it right like every other company that uses similar caps.

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by Esteban

Remember going to the library? Remember the Dewey Decimal System?

Wifey still has the card file cabinet in her office. I'd love to have it in my garage for nuts and bolts and so on.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by M_Six

The almond milk brand we use has plastic twist off caps that you need a pair of pliers to open. Not sure why this company can't get it right like every other company that uses similar caps.

I drink sugar-free Gatorade and those caps are hard as hell to get off. Why? I guess they expect you're an athlete so you want the challenge.

[Boomer 2019]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

I'm so loopy on medications (and heart failure) that it frequently takes me at least five minutes to just sit upright without the room spinning when getting out of bed.

I had a vertigo attack late this afternoon, and felt lucky to flop into my recliner and not wind up on the floor atop a crushed end table like two weeks ago.....

My Lazy Boy is a rocking, swiveling, recliner on a tile floor. This is not the ideal piece of furniture for desperate grabs when the room is spinning. One hand on an arm of this chair, and more than just the room is spinning. I have had some spectacular crashes, once knocked the chair over. My cats seem to think I'm hilarious. They don't even run anymore. But I know better.. they are waiting to feast on my dead body.

[Boomer 2019]

Originally Posted by Esteban

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This is the most awful and frightening disease of all. I am sitting here with tears running down my face. I have lost family members, friends, and my wife to this Godawful disease. I just returned from visiting her grave, and now I'm crying all over again. It will never stop for me.

[Pauly Wauly]

Originally Posted by Boomer 2019

I have had some spectacular crashes, once knocked the chair over. My cats seem to think I'm hilarious. They don't even run anymore. But I know better.. they are waiting to feast on my dead body.

... Any pics of the lovable carnivores

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by Boomer 2019

This is the most awful and frightening disease of all. I am sitting here with tears running down my face. I have lost family members, friends, and my wife to this Godawful disease. I just returned from visiting her grave, and now I'm crying all over again. It will never stop for me.

Very sorry for your loss…

[Boomer 2019]

Meet Truffles (girl child with white markings), and her littermate Nudnik (Nudie). Nudie weighs 23lbs and Truffie 19lbs. This pic was taken some time ago as they turned 15 in June. They are pure bred Maine Coons, and my children. But they will still eat me.. I just know it.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by Boomer 2019

Meet Truffles (girl child with white markings), and her littermate Nudnik (Nudie). Nudie weighs 23lbs and Truffie 19lbs. This pic was taken some time ago as they turned 15 in June. They are pure bred Maine Coons, and my children. But they will still eat me.. I just know it.

Couple of beauties, there. For comparison, my cat weighs 9+ lbs. So I read Maine Coons can have extra digits. How about yours? I know this from reading about Ernest Hemingway‘s.

[Boomer 2019]

No extra digit on these guys. They don't need it. My wife and I used to refer to them as "the terrorists" when they were young. They were responsible for all new window and sliding glass door treatments throughout the house. We gave up on very expensive draperies, and went with industrial strength vertical blinds. As that eminent philosopher Tony Soprano would say.. "waddya gonna do"?

As for Hemingway cats. For my 6th birthday my mom and dad said I could have a cat. My dad needed to do a job in Key West, and my mom and I went along. While he was working she took me to see the Hemingway House. I had no interest in the house, but I couldn't keep my hands off the cats. There were lots of them running around. My mom tried to get me to leave them alone, and she apologized to the caretaker for my pain in the ass behavior. Can you imagine such a thing today? They struck up a conversation and "badda bing" the lady said I could take my pick. I named him Blackie (waddya want from a 6 year old), and he had 6 toes.

[Esteban]

^ Great story, and great way to start your life, being dominated by cats, like me.