OMG! I'm OLD!

fuzzybuddy

fuzzybuddy

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I remember when my parents, aunts, and uncles didn't know anything about the "Beatles". Talk about your living dinosaurs.
I'm 70 now, and I don't know who sings what. But I just did one of the signs that you're getting old. A guy cut me off in traffic. I got mad and yelled, "you 30 year old". Where in the hell did that come from. That's only one step away from calling him a "whippersnapper". I don't know how it happened, but I'm old.
 

Once I accidentally cut someone off that was in my blind spot. I yelled out my window " Sorry you were in my blind spot!" She whipped around beside me and yelled " I'm blind?!! I'm blind?!! " She looked like she was going to get out & kick my butt. lol ( we were at a stoplight then) I told her " No I said I'm sorry I didn't mean to you were in my blind SPOT." Then she calmed & said okay and drove off. When people cut me off or tailgate me ( I hate tailgating) I try to imagine they are someone from my family and how would I like someone to act were it someone from my family. It helps me keep my temper in check.
It is very funny though how the older you get the younger they seem :D Yes they are whippersnappers :D
 
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Except that I'm the little old driver...at 54, sheesh I'm a baby...that gets beeped off the road for driving too slow. But less and less patience for young bike riders and pedestrians. I was in front of the high school. These kids are supposed to cross at intersections, not in the middle of the frickin' road like defiant lemmings. GRRRR I wanted to get out of the car and hustle them out of the road.

The bike riders, I HATE bike riders. Little idiot cuts right in front of me, cars have right of way you ninny. I stopped just in time but I wanted to hunt him down and beep him off the road...heart palpitations ya know? Of course the kids in the car had a giggle fit when I basically called him somebody that likes to get frisky with their mom. Oy just slipped out there;)
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I remember when my parents, aunts, and uncles didn't know anything about the "Beatles". Talk about your living dinosaurs.
I'm 70 now, and I don't know who sings what. But I just did one of the signs that you're getting old. A guy cut me off in traffic. I got mad and yelled, "you 30 year old". Where in the hell did that come from. That's only one step away from calling him a "whippersnapper". I don't know how it happened, but I'm old.
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Oh,You told him allright ! Llol
 
fureverywhere said:
Except that I'm the little old driver...at 54, sheesh I'm a baby...that gets beeped off the road for driving too slow. But less and less patience for young bike riders and pedestrians. I was in front of the high school. These kids are supposed to cross at intersections, not in the middle of the frickin' road like defiant lemmings. GRRRR I wanted to get out of the car and hustle them out of the road.

The bike riders, I HATE bike riders. Little idiot cuts right in front of me, cars have right of way you ninny. I stopped just in time but I wanted to hunt him down and beep him off the road...heart palpitations ya know? Of course the kids in the car had a giggle fit when I basically called him somebody that likes to get frisky with their mom. Oy just slipped out there;)
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I'm a bicycle rider but also a driver so I can look at it both ways. Bicycles here have as much right on the roads as cars, but consideration for cars going much faster than you must be taken into account. When driving I always give bikes plenty of room and I never splash them!
 
That is so sad, to think that you are old.

Luckily it hasn't happened to me yet. At 78 I'll admit to having mature views, honed by experience, but old? Maybe I'll consider it in ten years or so.
 
Laurie said:
That is so sad, to think that you are old.

Luckily it hasn't happened to me yet. At 78 I'll admit to having mature views, honed by experience, but old? Maybe I'll consider it in ten years or so.
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I'm might rethink whether I'm old when I hit 80ish. Right now, I feel young.
 
Mommy Nature will inform you when you are old by denying you activities that you no longer can physically do. It just happens...
 
Ralphy1 said:
Mommy Nature will inform you when you are old by denying you activities that you no longer can physically do. It just happens...
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Well, I'm doing all I can to prevent that. When I can't lift weights or ride my bike or hike...then I'm old.
 
I'm 70. I don't feel any different now than I did when it was 65, 50, 40, and well when I was 10. I'm a slow learner. It's like gray hair. Somehow I have gray hair.
And somehow, these "oldisms" leak out. My neighbor has two little girls, 3-5. They were running around and ran onto my lawn. I was in the process of getting my shot gun, when their dad said, " keep off the old man's lawn". Aw, man, that hurt. OLD MAN.
 
Yup the turning point is when you become ma'am. I will play the age card however. If you get pulled over for something stupid and the cop is younger than your kids...you apologize all over the place and call him such a nice young man to be concerned about my safety;) But yeah I didn't get Ma'am until fifty and it smarted.
 
fureverywhere said:
Except that I'm the little old driver...at 54, sheesh I'm a baby...that gets beeped off the road for driving too slow. But less and less patience for young bike riders and pedestrians. I was in front of the high school. These kids are supposed to cross at intersections, not in the middle of the frickin' road like defiant lemmings. GRRRR I wanted to get out of the car and hustle them out of the road.

The bike riders, I HATE bike riders. Little idiot cuts right in front of me, cars have right of way you ninny. I stopped just in time but I wanted to hunt him down and beep him off the road...heart palpitations ya know? Of course the kids in the car had a giggle fit when I basically called him somebody that likes to get frisky with their mom. Oy just slipped out there;)
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I hope you had the car windows up when you suggested he had an improper relationship with his mother -- around here that could get you in big trouble.
 
I hope you had the car windows up when you suggested he had an improper relationship with his mother -- around here that could get you in big trouble.

It's sad, around here it's considered vulgar...but not something appalling, welcome to Joisey
 

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