It is so
cold I am sitting with a hot water bottle on my lap as I type. There are several facets to growing older and
one for me is the coldness of my extremities. My hands and feet are like cold Icelandic fish
and refuse to warm up. A friend and I
were discussing this aging business and there are some beauties. Please feel free to add your own.
One was the
definition of getting older – various insights/comments were shared
1. Sitting on the
toilet you discover a watermelon seed in the folds of your stomach. The worrying thing is you cannot remember
when you last ate a watermelon.
2. You suddenly find
the need to sit when putting on socks
3. You suddenly
find the need to pee when laughing at jokes
4. All medical personnel
appear to have barely finished primary school to you
5. People in
authority ask you weird questions like who is the present prime minster
6. You think people
in authority are really weird and not necessarily on your side
7. When people ask
you how you are – you really want to tell them the dire truth, including all
the aches, pains and worries
8. As you get older
you don’t smell yourself, you don’t see the hair growing out of every orifice,
wrinkly skin feels just as smooth as usual and you don’t hear your own farts.
9. You learn to never
take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night
10. An
"all-nighter" means not getting up to pee!
11. You and your
teeth don't sleep together anymore
12. Your mind not
only wanders. Sometimes it leaves completely
13. Getting a little
action means I don't need fibre today
14. Getting
lucky means you find your car in the car parkhe
Delightful. Can fully identify. Don't have the discipline to seriously reflect on whether there's anything I could add.
ReplyDeleteIt is all true
ReplyDeleteCraig wrote: "An elderly couple had dinner at another couple's house and, after eating, the wives left the table and went into the kitchen.
ReplyDeleteThe two gentlemen were talking and one said, "Last night we went out to a new restaurant. It was really great, I would recommend it very highly."
The other man said, "What is the name of the restaurant?"
The first man thought and thought and finally said, "What is the name of that flower you give to someone you love? You know... The one that's red and has thorns."
"Do you mean a rose?"
"Yes, that's the one," replied the first man. He turned towards the kitchen and yelled, "Rose, what's the name of that restaurant we went to last night?""