Getting older

UncleWillie

UncleWillie

Rarely serious.
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Have you ever forgotten something so stupid that it makes you question you sanity?

I listed a Ford pickup for sale. A guy said he wanted it So I started looking for the key. I looked, and looked. In the truck, in the house, in other cars, in the pockets of everything. Oh the place you will go, and the things that you will see. I called the guy and told him I lost the key. I searched for almost 2 hours. I tried every Ford key I could find. Then I sent Steph a text asking if she knew where it was. She didn't immediately respond since she is off with her family.

I decided to pull the steering wheel to see if I could change the cylinder. So I pulled it, and I couldn't figure out how to remove it without the key. On a GM of that vintage it is just a simple screw. As I messed with different things, I turned the part the key goes into to see if it would do anything. It turned. I went back to poking and prodding, and pulling, and turning. And turning. Turning. Turning the switch. T U R N I N G the switch. Turning T H E switch. Turning the S W I T C H. Switch. Key goes in the switch. The key is turning. Key. Switch. Turn>>>>>>>>>>>......DING! The truck didn't require a key, and didn't come with one. So I put it all back together, and as soon as I put the horn back on, I got a message from Steph that Heath said it didn't have a key. I wonder if I should look into a nursing home now.
 
Don't know your age, but whatever it is, it's downhill from here. If you are past 25, you'll never be as good as you are right now.

At 40, your metabolism stops working. You have to work harder to keep every cheeseburger and beer from going straight to belly fat.

At 50, everything else starts breaking. Joints, heart, hearing, etc.

At 60, well, you just don't want to know.
 
kaiser715 said:
Don't know your age, but whatever it is, it's downhill from here. If you are past 25, you'll never be as good as you are right now.

At 40, your metabolism stops working. You have to work harder to keep every cheeseburger and beer from going straight to belly fat.

At 50, everything else starts breaking. Joints, heart, hearing, etc.

At 60, well, you just don't want to know.
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This is a good synopsis

I will be 52 in June, I can hurt myself getting up to pee at night or checking the mail 😆
 
kaiser715 said:
Don't know your age, but whatever it is, it's downhill from here. If you are past 25, you'll never be as good as you are right now.

At 40, your metabolism stops working. You have to work harder to keep every cheeseburger and beer from going straight to belly fat.

At 50, everything else starts breaking. Joints, heart, hearing, etc.

At 60, well, you just don't want to know.
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My back,knuckles,elbows,shoulders,knees and feet hurt about every day. When I have a day off I usually take a nap or two on those days.
 
I'll be 60 next year. Everything takes longer to get done, everything hurts when I get finished. I feel everyone of these years that I have worked 75-80 hours a week.
But I can still get up most every day, hardly ever get sick and one or two people still like having me around so all in all I'm blessed.
 
Futbalfantic said:
Why are you getting up at night to get the mail?
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My mail lady is nocturnal.

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Dude, I am right there with you. About three years ago my wife asked me to mount a FAKE lantern light on the wall beside the front door of the house. This morning I was flipping all of the switches near the door trying to make it turn on. I went out on the front porch and was looking at it and didn't see a bulb inside. Sonofabitch! :dumbass::shaking:

I'm only 48.
 
For 6 months or more I've been waking up about 3/4 am and I can't get back to sleep. I'll finally get up and sit on the couch and watch tv and the web for about an hour or so and crawl back in the bed and sleep to it's time to get up and go to work. I've got a scrip for gabapentin for the arthritis in my hands and when I take it I sleep like a baby all night and feel rested . It does help w my hands and back but sometimes I get brain fog in the morning so I don't take it every night, just when my hands/back are killing me.
 
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mommucked said:
For 6 months or more I've been waking up about 3/4 am and I can't get back to sleep. I'll finally get up and sit on the couch and watch tv and the web for about an hour or so and crawl back in the bed and sleep to it's time to get up and go to work. I've got a scrip for gabapentin for the arthritis in my hands and when I take it I sleep like a baby all night and feel rested . It does help w my hands and back but sometimes I get brain fog in the morning when I take it so I don't take it every night, just when my hands/back are killing me.
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I take Gabapentin also, but for Nephropathy, helps "some" also have arthritis, doesn't help much at all. Have many issues I take meds for, but, seems the ones I "feel" it doesn't do too much. Warning, Gapapentin will keep your sticker from pecking out! I'll be 60 in a few weeks. Sleep has been an issue for a lont time, lately I get woke up with cramps in my ankles and calves. they are very bad,...Think the ankle scene in the movie "Misery" Doc prescribed lots of fluids, Do that, prescribed..... Ah hell, I can't remember the name. Also told me to do stretches, Stopped doing that because when I try to do it, it gives me the extreme cramps, so, so far I am lossing that battle.
 
fordwheelinman said:
Less than a month shy of 35. I find that I have lost all tolerance to excessive cursing. You don't really need to say F#@king and GD every three words.
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I may not say it out loud all the time but I feel like the older I get the more I "wtf" and cuss more.
 
upnover said:
I take Gabapentin also, but for Nephropathy, helps "some" also have arthritis, doesn't help much at all. Have many issues I take meds for, but, seems the ones I "feel" it doesn't do too much. Warning, Gapapentin will keep your sticker from pecking out! I'll be 60 in a few weeks. Sleep has been an issue for a lont time, lately I get woke up with cramps in my ankles and calves. they are very bad,...Think the ankle scene in the movie "Misery" Doc prescribed lots of fluids, Do that, prescribed..... Ah hell, I can't remember the name. Also told me to do stretches, Stopped doing that because when I try to do it, it gives me the extreme cramps, so, so far I am lossing that battle.
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I'll be 57 in October. I was a surveyor for 30 sum years. Boundaries, subdivisions, heavy construction staking, topo, landfills, wetlands etc. I quit about 12 yrs ago when I couldn't take the heat in the summer anymore. My elbows were about wore out from swinging a 4 lb. hammer pounding hubs and irons in the ground, swinging a machete and bush axe. I've had steroid shots in both elbows and 3 in the L-5 disc. many years ago and they did miracles. I'm still on my feet about 40 hrs a week but I can take a quick break anytime I need to sit down/stretch etc.
 
fordwheelinman said:
Less than a month shy of 35. I find that I have lost all tolerance to excessive cursing. You don't really need to say F#@king and GD every three words.
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Nothing on my Jeep would get fixed if I cut those out.
 
DonYukon said:
I may not say it out loud all the time but I feel like the older I get the more I "wtf" and cuss more.
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My wife has told more times then I care to remember....."your becoming a grouchy old man" more or less.

Between threatening me with a shock collar and electric fence to play in when I lose my mind we are in for a treat.
 
Thought of another one. When I was younger and working on cars and trucks, I never understood the big deal about having a lift in the garage. I was always fine on the floor with some tall jack stands and jack stand risers if necessary. My view on that has now changed. Physically I am still in good shape, but I think I have gotten a little stiffer, and well I wouldn't mind a lift now a days.
 
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