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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsOffical signs you are now an old fart:
Looking all over for the glasses on top of your head.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)And not caring if anyone sees you in the drugstore buying denture adhesive, laxative, jock itch cream, and $9.99 plastic reading glasses.
All at the same time.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)Wearing Crocs everywhere and not caring who sees you.
Having to pee pretty much all the time, except when you're peeing.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)blueamy66
(6,795 posts)nt
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)that with the cataract surgery I had yesterday, I won't have to use reading glasses anymore. I had surgery on one eye and will have surgery on the other on March 4. It will be wonderful to see clearly again.
blueamy66
(6,795 posts)I'm stuck.
I wear contacts and readers.
:sigh"
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)Boomerproud
(7,964 posts)My eyesight was terrible and now I'm 20/30 and can read the computer better with my glasses off.
Be sure to wear your patch as long as you can and don't forget those eye drops.
Best of luck to you!
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)blueamy66
(6,795 posts)it's getting ridiculous
sarge43
(28,945 posts)In other room, can't remember why you came in here.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)840high
(17,196 posts)Moondog
(4,833 posts)"Big boy" pants are the exception, and not the rule. I live in Florida, but still....
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)I do what I want and I do not give a damn.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)which means I now officially have no need to dress up, ever!
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)Getting old has its benefits.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)texanwitch
(18,705 posts)I have two dress up tshirts.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)ALL FUCKING DAY.. just in case you may need them.
DebJ
(7,699 posts)Fortunately I have a lot of pairs:
1 good pair
1 older pair with a few scratches and ALMOST strong enough
3 pairs of readers
Usually I can find at least one pair, and use them to find the ones I am looking for.
I need readers for the computer because my bifocals don't work with my computer screen.
Drives me nuts. I'm always leaving my good glasses at the computer then trying to watch TV
with the readers on, or vice versa.
DebJ
(7,699 posts)Glasses, teeth, hearing aides, whatever, it mounts up over time.
Walker...........wheelchair.............
edbermac
(15,947 posts)hedgehog
(36,286 posts)riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)chknltl
(10,558 posts)...in order not to lose track of it.
frwrfpos
(517 posts)and making noises at ever bend and stretch.
progressoid
(49,999 posts)No Vested Interest
(5,167 posts)And I don't care that people think I'm too old and large to be in swimming pool.
Archae
(46,345 posts)I have them.
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)Looking for the glasses that are already ON your face. I do that more often than I care to admit.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)that aren't on your face!
sarge43
(28,945 posts)It leaves the places where you want it and settles in places where you don't.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Forgetting where I put the small package of hearing aid batteries that I bought a few weeks ago.
idendoit
(505 posts)Been there, done that can't remember.
BarbaRosa
(2,685 posts)sarge43
(28,945 posts)An appointment with your health care providers is the high point of your social calendar
You're on a first name basis at your local pharmacy
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)sarge43
(28,945 posts)On the other, starting at contact list, trying to remember who you were going to call
raccoon
(31,119 posts)mysuzuki2
(3,521 posts)and wondering why the Meathead doesn't STFU and get a job!
steve2470
(37,457 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)From the tops of the bottles of juice that now seem welded on, to the tops of aspirin bottles or vitamins, it seems to me that they've been designed to only be removable with cutting tools. Any device wrapped in plastic or other types of packaging now just thwarts my efforts to open it and I didn't notice that of packaging in the old days. It must be me.
pink-o
(4,056 posts)Only to realize you'd already picked them up, and they're in your hand.
Did I win?
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)Believe it or not, I might be happier now than I was decades ago. Retired, small but reliable check, more full of sass than ever. Though they say it's a sure sign of advanced age when the cheeks you want to pinch are on either side of a nose.