So what are your plans for when you're 80 years old?

[graywarrior]

Do you think you'll be doing the same stuff you are now? Like riding a motorcycle, skiing, going to spinning class, hiking? When do you think it will all end and you be sitting in your Depends waiting for Nurse Nelly to change you? Will you be in a nursing home or will you be able to take care of yourself at home?

Personally, I'm thinking I'm gonna be in the same condition then as I am now. Total denial on my part, but hey, who wants to think about getting around with a walker and relying on prune juice to take a good crap?

And BTW, who would hire you if you needed to supplement your income? Would you resort to selling drugs like some old people have done?

See what happens with my mind? I solve one problem, I get relief and then I'm off looking for something else to worry about.

Anyhow, what are your plans for old age?

[rcrush]

1. To still be alive!

[jobycom]

2. Graywarrior--the anti-Prozac.

:rofl:

Yes, I think of things like that, but I don't come up with any answers. I just hope for a Playstation19 and enough funds to buy a game, I guess.

[graywarrior]

3. I'm a downer.

A walking, talking qualuud.

[LeftyMom]

4. I'm going to 90 tease year old flvegan about his advanced age.

I will embarrass my grandchildren regularly. Presumably I'll still be self-sufficient and able to drive, my grandparents were at that age. I will show people my tattoos, tell stories of trouble I got into when I was younger, and generally be me only wrinklier.

[flvegan]

9. "90 tease"? Is that some sort of code?

Jesus, granny, get with it. :eyes:

[graywarrior]

10. No shit. She already has dementia

[LeftyMom]

11. Apparently it's code for "LM should not type before lunch"

Should read "tease 90 year old flvegan about his advanced age"

You presumably will respond by chasing me around with a shoe again.

[graywarrior]

15. You two need to get a room before you hit 80

[LeftyMom]

25. Dude, we got a room years ago.

We posted SFW pictures and everything.

[graywarrior]

26. Why was I not informed of this?

[LeftyMom]

32. There was a thread. You must have had a life that day, and not checked the lounge.

We posted pictures.

[graywarrior]

41. I never have a life.

That's why 80 looks so ominous.

[Oeditpus Rex]

51. Still gonna change your socks 42 times per day?

:D

[LeftyMom]

58. Of course.

By then it might be for lack of anything else to do.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. I think I need to get crackin' on building my graveyard memorial.

[edbermac]

6. Chasing after teenage girls.

In my wheelchair, naturally. :7

[MilesColtrane]

7. Dirt nap

I don't think I'll ever be able to retire.

Probably just keel over on the bandstand one day, like a drummer of local fame.

JZ had just played an incredible, rousing solo to a packed, enthusiastic crowd when he simply collapsed behind the drum set.

The song the band was playing? "When the Saints Go Marching In"

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. My dear graywarrior!

Well, seeing as how 80 years old is only 15 years away for me, I'd better get busy thinking about this, lol!

I hope to be doing pretty much what I'm doing now...

Poetry, the occasional roll in the hay with my husband, cooking, reading, like that!

My parents (Mom is 90, Dad is 88) are still doing their thing, living independently and all that, so it gives me hope!

:hug:

[graywarrior]

12. My parents died young, so I have no idea what to look forward to

[Deja Q]

13. I'll let you know in 50 years.

:)

[graywarrior]

16. Oh yeah, rub it in why don't ya.

[JitterbugPerfume]

14. I am eating healthy stuff and exercising

so I can still function at 80,and it is getting closer by the day .I hope I will still be intellectually curious and able to do the things I love

If not, I have five kids that I brought into the world, and if they let me rot I will come back and haunt them :evilgrin:

actually they already drive me nuts trying to "take care of mom"


as for selling my drugs HELL no! I want the feel good myself!

[MorningGlow]

17. Carrying on, I suspect

My grandparents on my mother's side died at 96 and 94 (with all their faculties); my mom is still quite alive at 83 and acting like a 50-year-old. Her sister is 80 and just the same. Their brother died last July at 87 with serious respiratory problems that we suspect were more from his environment and history of pneumonia than anything genetic. So if I take after that side of the family, I should be good for another 40, 50 years!

[graywarrior]

20. I woder if you'll still be posting here?

[MorningGlow]

21. I'll still be a cranky liberal, so I'll be at DU as long as it'll have me!

:rofl:

Meh, by that time we'll all be uploading our thoughts into a subconscious collective or something, and the intertubes will be obsolete.

[graywarrior]

22. LOL

:rofl:

[rug]

18. i will be hoping indulgences are real.

[flvegan]

19. Still be skirt chasing, free basing - killing every village

drink and rob and rhyme and pillage

That's just what you do as even at 80 years old, and you are most ill and you're rhyming and stealing.

[graywarrior]

23. Hey, if Rocky Balboa can kick ass in the ring, we can too!

[Crazy Dave]

24. I just want to go to sleep and not wake up

By that time I'll feel like I've had a long enough life. But you never know...all that can change later when you start to feel your mortality getting closer everyday.

[graywarrior]

27. I fell like that once a week

[BrotherBuzz]

28. I'm going to ride my tricked out Bigwheel® down San Francisco's fabled Lombard Street

Woo-Hoo, in the dead of night, too, right after I close the bars!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWnff376PEI

[Mad_Dem_X]

29. To be breathing without assistance.

[Ptah]

30. Posting in your not-dead thread

[Blue_In_AK]

31. I plan to still be taking lots of photographs.

The psychics tell me I'll live to 93, so I'll still be in my prime. :)

[amitten]

33. I hope I'm dead by then because I don't think I can afford a long

retirement. Morbid but true.

[bikebloke]

34. Growing my own food.

And still riding a bike (I'll ease off around 120). *If I'm not working, I'll have to grow veggies and chooks to survive.

I picked up the longevity gene in my family line, so I'll be hoppin' and boppin' for a long while. Good thing. Coming from a toxic family, there are quite a few graves that will need pissing on.

[Deep13]

35. A successful bowel movement. nt

[azmouse]

36. Most people in my family have died very fast,

no long lingering deaths.
So if I'm alive at 80 I would expect to be in my own home doing what I do now... to the best extent possible.

[lunatica]

37. I'm going to be a millionaire artist and writer

hobnobbing with the rich and famous, jetsetting to the Moon and Mars and, occasionally visiting my private asteroid belt asteroid home for a much needed rest after the hard work of being constantly asked by this world's and other planets' leaders for my advice. I will use teleportation and holograms for most of the work, but occasionally I'll have to actually attend the formal functions as it'll still be protocol to show up in person at the oxygen breathing state performances. Especially when it entails accepting all those coveted prizes and awards for all my tireless work.

[graywarrior]

43. Holy moly.

[lunatica]

47. That's my bubble and I'm sticking to it.. n/t

[mnhtnbb]

38. I doubt I'll live to 80. Just a vibe. I was emptying the dishwasher

last Friday, thinking "I don't want to live in a retirement facility 10 years from now" (hubby will be 76 and I'll be 67) and my low back muscles went into spasm. Ouch. Vicodin all weekend.

Both my parents lived to 91. Both were in nursing homes needing 24 hour care for the last year and a half
of their lives. I won't do it. Think I'd book a cruise and take a jump before I'd move to a nursing home.

[Forkboy]

39. I don't even know what I'm doing this weekend yet.

:shrug:

[livetohike]

40. I will still be hiking - maybe not as far or not as fast

:-). If for some reason I can't make the old legs work, I will drag the canoe to the river and paddle.

[Inchworm]

42. Gettin my freak on with my laidee

We'll have to schedule these events, but we'll be able to laugh.

:rofl:

Happy New Year!

:hug:

[graywarrior]

44. D'ya ever see The Fastest Indian?

He travels from Australia to the USA to ride his Indian bike in a race and fucks up a storm while he's here. Guy was in his 60's or 70's.

[Inchworm]

59. Yea, I remember the basis of the movie

I don't remember the guy getting his freak on though, hehe. Seemed like some hot chick worked at the hotel?

:hi:

[graywarrior]

61. Transvestite worked at the hotel

He bopped Diane Ladd in Utah. She was about 65

[Inchworm]

65. Another advantage of my mis-spent youth...

I can watch movies over and over as new. My memory sucks :D

;)

[graywarrior]

75. I just watched a Rob Lowe/James Spader movie that came out in 1990

I saw it back then but I couldn't remember one god damn thing about it. It was like watching a new movie.

[BarenakedLady]

45. Sounds like a good plan.

:thumbsup:

:rofl:

[Inchworm]

60. hehe

maybe we'll have adjoining rooms in The Home. We can have "who scores" contests :D

:rofl:

[BarenakedLady]

62. Stop stealing my dentures Gomer!

:P

[Inchworm]

64. *ties your gown string to wheelchair*

I'd taking you hostage! We're making a break for it!

:rofl:

[BarenakedLady]

72. Dude, I plan on living a long time

My Nana just died at 102. Think you are up for it?

:rofl:

[Inchworm]

77. Oh, I'm up for it

What a perfect time to see this :rofl:

:*

[sarge43]

46. Keep moving so they don't catch up with me.

If I follow the family pattern I'll be fine until mid-eighties, then I'll fall apart.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

48. Being shocked that I'm still alive.

[Taverner]

49. Be alive

Of course if I ever find out I have an incurable disease that will end painfully, I'm getting addicted to heroin.

What's it gonna do? Kill me?

[Nikia]

50. I hope to have found something useful to do in retirement

I don't think that my life will be quite the same, but there is a big difference between being 30 and 80. I hope that my child(ren) will want to see me sometimes and perhaps grandchildren. If nothing catastrophic (like a stroke) happens, I still should be at home if I am average or better for my family lineage.

[Drunken Irishman]

52. I expect to be hooking up with 20 year old girls just like now.

Hopefully I don't forget my dentures at their place, though!

[NJmaverick]

53. 80 years was what I thought was a reasonable time to live

so I have made no plans, to be perfectly honest.

[Oeditpus Rex]

54. I figure I'll have my '60 Duntov Corvette by then

And I'll still be cruisin' South Main. :D

[harmonicon]

55. I doubt that I'll live to 80

of course I didn't think I'd live to be 30, so....

I assume that my life will be a lot like it is now, but who knows really.... I assume that I'll still spend most hours of the day sitting behind a desk, wasting time, and making music.

[liberaltrucker]

56. Hmm, let's see........

Given my lifestyle and bad habits, on March 11, 2034-my 80th birthday, I
most likely will have be worm food the last 10 or so years. Like George Burns
said-"If I'd known I would live this long, Id have taken better care of myself".
So very true.

[pitohui]

57. when you're 84!

well there are two paths in my family, because some have lived well and been active into their 90s and early 100s, others have lived equally long but succumbed to alzheimer's or another form of dementia, and the risk is greatly elevated past age 80

i already know that i'm going to be paranoid and be wanting to get a doctor i can TRUST to test my mental state each year, if i am losing my marbles, rather than being kept alive as a vegetable to drain my money and leave my younger husband w. nothing for his own old age, i would prefer the dr. k. option

however if my marbles are still in working order -- and i see old people who are still sharp at that age at the poker and gaming tables quite frequently -- then i expect to be doing much the same as i'm doing now, only much much more slowly :-) -- example my dad's over 80 and he still hikes, he just goes slower, go to japan and 80somethings are hiking up hills all the time for a hobby, they just take their time

when you're 80 there's no point in being in a hurry, is there?

no one will hire me now, so i don't have to worry about that, i'll just have to keep outsmarting them on the playing tables, heh heh

[RoyGBiv]

63. Being dead mostly ...

If I make it to 60, I'll be shocked. If I make it to 80, I'll just be pissed off.

[MichiganVote]

66. My plan is to tell everyone I know exactly what I think when I think it.

[graywarrior]

73. You don' do that already?

[MichiganVote]

79. :) I like to think I'm 2/3 of the way there.

[texanwitch]

67. I hope to be a farmer like my Aunt who is 84 and is still going strong.

I can't think of anything else I would be doing.

People have to eat.

[Haole Girl]

68. No plans...

there is no way in hell this abused body of mine will make it to 80! lol

[femmocrat]

69. I want to get up every morning and walk on the beach.

I want to be a crazy old lady with lots of hats who still paints. I want to still be living off of my retirement and not eating government cheese and powdered milk.

But... if being 80 means being sick and dependent, I would rather be pushing up daisies.

[bluedigger]

70. Well, at the rate we are going,

I expect I will be working for minimum wage as a Walmart (to be known as "The Store") greeter, and counting down the years 'til I can collect social security.:rofl:

I can't wait!

Faster, time, faster!

[graywarrior]

74. Imagine looking forward to being a Walmart greeter

[leftyclimber]

71. Professor emerita

Hiking the backcountry and still crankin' hard.

And mebbe a little sports car to get to the trailhead. :evilgrin:

Realistically? No clue. My life has taken so many weird turns so far that there's no way of saying what I'll be doing then.

[Jamastiene]

76. Sleep, lots of it.

And food if I'm still alive. Otherwise, just sleep. I love sleep.

[Whoa_Nelly]

78. Plan on talking to you about duct tape, gray!

By then you should have duct tape down to an art ;)

[graywarrior]

80. La la la la la

:rofl: