Sheesh! I don't like this!

[LuckyCharms]

You reach a certain age, and everyday it's something else.

A new growth, a new minor surgery, crippling arthritis in a new spot, etc.

WTF.

Then you express your displeasure about getting old, and someone always chimes in...Well, growing old is better than the alternative! Get it? Better than the alternative! Heh heh heh heh.

Yeah I get it asshole, piss off.

[MFM008]

1. yup.

its one thing after another until it overwhelms you.
At 58 I see the same pattern.

[PJMcK]

3. This will make you feel old

I'm 59 and I assume you were born in 1959. There were only 48 stars on the flag when we were born.

Have a nice, if achy, day, MFM008!

[MFM008]

13. 1958

my birthday is next week.

[PJMcK]

15. Happy early birthday, old-timer!

(wink)

[MFM008]

30. Thanks

[LuckyCharms]

4. I'm just a bit older than you.

I think this stuff really started in the early 50's.

What is weird is that people tell me I don't look my age, but I abused my body pretty badly as a younger man and I'm paying the price...I feel like what I would imagine a normal 80 year old would feel like.

Also, here is something I talk to my friends about quite often...while I feel like age certainly brings wisdom, my group of friends agree that actual maturity stops way before you grow old. I act like an imbecile most of the time. Probably a good thing because it is the only bit of my youth I have left.

[Cracklin Charlie]

11. I'm 58.

My foot hurts.

[MFM008]

14. only your foot?

cooommmeee onnn.

[Doodley]

2. What would you have said when you were young and you were

listening to somebody complaining about getting old?

[PJMcK]

5. "I'll never get old" (n/t)

[LuckyCharms]

7. Well...

knowing what I know now, I probably would have emphasized much better than I did then. BTW...I am guilty of using the "better than the alternative" response in the past. I'm being tongue in check by making fun of the phrase.

[Doodley]

8. You seem to have a good attitude about getting old.

[LuckyCharms]

10. Well...

it's better than the alternative.

[Mediumsizedhand]

6. Lmao. I was sitting in the hospital lobby yesterday.

I watched four or five older people, 60's, walk out of a room. At least four were not walking normally. They were favoring a part of the leg, causing an odd gait. I was laughing because, walking from my car to the lobby, something popped in the upper part of my leg causing me to change my gait, lol. I was thinking just this, about getting older. If it is not one thing, it is another.

But ya, I do tell myself better than the alternative.

[LuckyCharms]

9. LOL

Hey, why I posted this...

I have this thing on my ass that I had to have surgery on a few months ago. So I have the surgery, and it was not extensive enough, so tomorrow, I have to go get a more extensive surgery. I am excellent with pain, but when they give you the local needles for anesthesia (about 5 needles), well, it freakin' hurts. So I need some time to psyche myself for it. I tell myself "people are getting horrific injuries every day and you're worried about needles. Buck up".

Don't worry about your gait. I walk like the hunchback of Notre Dame got in an industrial accident.

[Mediumsizedhand]

12. We are silly about needles, because afterward it is not such a big deal. Heal fast.

[LuckyCharms]

19. Thank you.

The needles don't hurt. It's the lidocaine push. Gotta click your heels together and think of puppies eating ice cream.

[Ernesto]

16. Ya git what ya git........ don't throw a fit!

[LuckyCharms]

21. GET OFF MY LAWN OR I'M CALLING YOUR FATHER AND HE'LL BEAT YOUR ASS!!!!

[Kaleva]

17. I'm 58, soon to be 59, and I've already outlived several of my party animal friends

I quit drinking back in my 30s but they didn't and they died.

[Kaleva]

18. And though I'm on SSDI, I feel that my best years are yet to come.

I often ache and hurt but I love the rapidly changing technology and helping the step kids, now adults, with projects and baby sitting the grandkids.

[LuckyCharms]

20. I quit a while back.

Have a very good friend a bit older than me. He won't quit. Nothing I say to him matters. It's killin' him.

[Kaleva]

22. Often there's nothing that can be said.

[LuckyCharms]

23. Agree. It's a shame though, I care for the guy.

He's feeling the health effects of his drinking. He's already had a bad bout of cancer. I have given up trying to steer him to help. I mainly just listen to him now. I figure at this age, he's going to do what he wants. My lecturing isn't going to change a thing.

[Wounded Bear]

24. I make it a point to tell millenials when I meet them...

Don't get old, it is highly over rated.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

25. When I get up in the morning I don't hop out of bed. I unfold myself.

Then while walking to the bathroom I manage to straighten myself up. I'm sort of like an old machine that has to be warmed up before it runs properly, or an old TV with tubes.

And now I have to go chase those damn kids off my lawn.

[HopeAgain]

26. I remember saying as a youngster, "live hard, die young and leave a good looking corpse."

I take that back now...

[Leith]

27. Mu Husband Is 8 Years Younger Than I Am

(not as good as it sounds). Whenever he complains about a new ache or pain, I smile and say "welcome to your 50s!"

Well, heck - he never had sympathy for me or my aches and pains!

[SwissTony]

28. I'm (almost) 67 and have 7 grandkids.

I live in The Netherlands and speak the local lingo. "Grandfather" translates to "opa", which is too Dutch for me (I'm Scottish/Australian). And, of course, the kids have Dutch grandparents - they're called "opa" and "oma". My wife is happy with the title "Granny". I didn't fancy "Grandad" or "Grampa". So, I got the kids to call me "Grumpy". Suits me to a T.

[Iggo]

29. It hurts.

But it's winning.