I'm getting old, dammit!

[teach1st]

Fifteen minutes into a rainy afternoon nap today, I woke up with this disturbing thought pin-pricking my conciousness: At fifty-two, I'm old. Old, dammit.

Dang. I guess I'm not a teenager anymore. I think I missed middle-age completely. It never happened.

Should I stop wearing jeans? Do I have to be respectable now that I'm old? Should my house not resemble a grungy hybrid of a dorm room and a hippie crash pad? Should I start dating women my own age? Cut my hair? Turn down the music?

Old. This is quite a revelation. And I'm pissed that I had to wake up for it. Why didn't anybody tell me?

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Nap???? Time to worry about getting old????

Damnit to hell, I am 55 and I didn't have no nap today. Sat at my damn desk for damn nearly nine hours with my nose to the grindstone.

You definitely are getting old.

[teach1st]

3. Not an old man's nap, dammit!

;)

[LastKnight]

2. my god, youre like me...

cept youre old...

hey... do what you want... personally ive never minded somone 2 and 1/2 times my age acting like me...

oh - and never turn the music down. :headbang: till the end.

[jobycom]

5. Turn the music down?

he won't do that, then his old, deaf ears couldn't hear it!!:rofl:

[LastKnight]

7. you have a point... lol

[teach1st]

6. My daughters are embarrased...

..they're older than me now! (I did have a middle age when I was raising them.)

I'm cranking up the music now!

[LastKnight]

9. thats the way to get things done... nt

[jobycom]

4. You grow old, you grow old, you will wear your trousers rolled.

Or else you'll just grab a beer and slice of pizza and say what old Jack Burton always says at a time like this. "What the hell."

[evlbstrd]

8. Just make sure that the paramedics can't hear each other for the

volume of the Zappa or Hendrix solo, can't see for the thick haze of smoke you've left, and then get distracted by the cool black light posters.

[teach1st]

10. Zappa and Hendrix are in the mix...

..but no black light posters. They make my dentures shine.

[evlbstrd]

13. That'd creep 'em out good.

Keep one ready for the Doors' "The End."

[teach1st]

16. Or "When the Music's Over"...

..end of the night.

[evlbstrd]

17. Why did that time produce so many "death songs"?

[teach1st]

19. Hmmm....

..acid?

[evlbstrd]

21. uuuh...

Viet Nam?

Fixin' to Die Rag. Country Joe and the Fish.

[teach1st]

23. Also

Country Joe and the Fish also did "Death Sound Blues."

[evlbstrd]

26. Time to crank that shit up again and let your freak flag fly!

You're kids will be impressed. Mine have rediscovered that music. And they are astounded at the messages in it.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

11. I decided to go with an all-out midlife crisis

(I just turned fifty). My only problem is, I can't decide if it should involve a Ferrari Testarossa or a Harley Lowrider. Having been a biker in years gone by, I'm leaning toward the Harley.

And the music should definitely be CRANKED UP.

It's not the fifty years that have gone by-- it's the thirty five or so years still ahead.

[teach1st]

12. Harley, for sure!

If I lived where there were waves more than one each three months, I might take up surfing again.

Maybe I'll get a damn skimboard.

[evlbstrd]

14. Got a chin strap for the toupee?

I kid, I kid.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

18. I'll focus the glare from my extended forehead onto you!

The light will blind you in a second. That'll teach you... :evilgrin:

[evlbstrd]

22. That's the only way this transparent Irish skin is getting any color.

Or is that the high blood pressure?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

27. I have perfect blood pressure, thankyouverymuch.

It's one of the few good things I have going for me. :woohoo:

[evlbstrd]

28. Glad to hear that.

We need all the points we can get.
I'm eating a lot more fruit these days myself. And I still have most of my teeth.

[enigami]

15. Get a Harley Dude

I got one at 48. Love it love it love it

[caty]

20. Keep wearing your jeans.

Only be as respectable as you wanna be. Keep your house the way it feels comfortable for you. Yeh, date women who remember the times you remember. Don't cut your hair. Turn up the music. You are not old. Just experienced enough to do all the things you did in your 20's a lot better.:applause:

[teach1st]

24. That's what I wanted to hear!

Bless you, caty!

[swag]

25. At least you're in bad company.

Anyway, 52 is the new 16.

[EC]

29. I'm 55, still wear my jeans, listen to my music loud

still go to rock concerts, go dancing, play pool (although I can't see the other end of a regulation size table anymore) and to bars. I've come to realize, that being old doesn't mean being like my parents....They grew old staying the way they were when they were young...and so shall I, but when they were young, everybody ate at the kitchen table and dressed for dinner, they had clean orderly homes, using specific pieces of furniture for their intended use, listened to music at lower levels etc. , when I was young, I ate in the living room on the cocktail table in front of the TV, I still do, I use dressers in the living room and dining table in my bedroom, I put on my finest nightgown for dinner, and listen to loud music...so my conclusion, as you are in your late teens, early twenties, you'll remain.......