25 thoughts on being 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”…and 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 husband 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, ipad, 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 than “what?” or “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 pm…next week it will be 8:30 pm.

~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