Observations of Growing older

 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 pounds you wanted to lose is now 15 and you have a better chance of losing your keys than the 15 pounds.

 

~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 liver 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 closet ... 2 of which you will never wear.

 

~But old is good in some things: old songs, old movies,

And best of all, OLD FRIENDS!!